The Myka ION is powered by an Intel Atom 1.6GHz processor,equipped with 2GB RAM and 160GB HDD. The nettop also offers an optional Blu-ray drive, supports wireless connectivity and equipped with VGA, DVI and HDMI ports to suit different types of displays.

The OS of this nettop is Ubuntu Linux, comes complete with the Boxee and XBMC media center software and supports standard-def Adobe Flash and Hulu’s online streaming service. The nettop starts at a highly affordable price of $380. If you want a budget home theater system, this should be a great one to go for.

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There are a number of shorts, such as it’s not bus-powered, it needs external power supplied via a power adapter that connects to the hub by a mini-USB type input plug. Other than that, it also takes up pretty much desk space, considering those sticking-out cables, it’d likely take up about 12 inches of desk space. The octopus-like shape will also present your desk with a little mess.

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Luckily now we have a much simpler solution to simulate the great V8 engine sounds in your overly silent car. By plugging the Sound Racer FM transmitter into your car’s cigarette lighter socket. The Sound Racer will then produce the sports car engine sounds that will get you to feel that you’re in a big race.

The Sound racer does not simply blast some non-sense engine sounds, it does go accordingly to your car engine RPM. It’s been designed to be able to sense and calculate the car engine RPM and produce the sounds of a powerful Super Sports Car engine. The sound changes as you drive and SoundRacer even increases the speed of the engine sound even you drive at a normal speed to get you the exciting engine sounds.

The device is simply an FM transmitter which transmits the engine sounds to your car stereo. While you’re not in the mood of hearing any engine sounds, you can use it as a standard FM transmitter for MP3 players, which you can hook up an iPod or iPhone through its line-in input for sending tunes to the car stereo. Unfortunately, it does not have a USB input or memory card slot for playing tunes on a USB drive or memory card.

Buy online, USD $49.95, LatestBuy

But rumors seem to tell that Apple would plan to have updates for their OS X Snow Leopard operating system, which the next release would not come with the support of Intel Atom processors. So if you’d proceed for an update of the Mac OS X on your netbook, the consequence could be your Hackintosh’d stop running.

Apple is about to release the updates for two versions of its Snow Leopard OSes, which are the 10.6.2 and 10.5.9. If you own a Hackintosh network, you’d better beware or not to proceed for an update. The OS X 10.6.2 is currently only available as a developer release, but testers have claimed that it’s not compatible with atom processors at all.

Apple’s attempt to kill Hackintosh netbooks could be true, and some more Apple iTablet could be on its way soon and need Apple to build a smooth path for it. Read more at Snow Leopard Updates will kill Hackintosh netbooks.

The Motorola Droid is available from Verizon for $199.99 for 2-year contract and includes a mail-in $100 rebate. There is also a 12-month contract available which will cost you $269.99.

Other than that the HTC Droid Eris has also been made available today from Verizon costs $99.99 with a mail 2-year contract after a $100 mail-in rebate. The HTC Droid Eris features a 3.2-inch capacitive touch display, a 5 megapixel camera, a microSD card slot, headphone jack, digital compass, voice dialing, GPS, full browser with Flash Lite, WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity, plus lots of Google services.

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The stand is sticky, you can simply stick an iPhone, MP3 player, iPod, GPS on it. And you can easily detach it without needing you to unmount or unscrew. You can also use the stand on your work desk, having your cellphone sticking on it to prevent someone mistakenly swipe it away. The stand can be easily adjusted to suit your viewing angles.

Buy online, $13, USBFever

No details about the features of the phone. The phone comes packaged with a Jackson live performance live DVD, which could be counterfeit. But MJ fans should love it.

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The Super Talent USB 3.0 flash drive is expected to be available in 32GB, 64GB and 128GB. And of course you will need to have a computer that comes with the USB 3.0 ports to enjoy the high speeds of up to 200MB/sec. If you want the top speed 320MB/sec on USB 3.0 port, you need a separate UAS Protocol driver to achieve that.

The drive can also work on USB 2.0 port but operates at slower speeds. Anyway, no word for the price and release date.

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Gadgets shaped like a gold bar may be able to boost your energy for your work, thus induce wealth. The Gold bar paperweight measures (L)16.5 x (H)4.5 x (W)7.5 cm, which is actually the real size of a 999.9 Gold Bar. Unfortunately, it’s not made out of real gold. If you want one, you can get it from Brando for $30.

Buy online, $30, Brando

Apptizr is still in its Aplha version, and we’ve been invited to have a preview for the Alpha version of the Apptizr. To use Apptizr to locate the best iPhone applications for you, you must have an account with it. Once you’ve signed into your account, it first prompts you to fill up your interests and the application categories that you’re interested in such as games, utilities, music, social networking, communications etc.

Once you’ve done that, you’ll then be presented with a list of applications that match your interests. You can get the application directly from Apple App Store by clicking the Get It button or you can thumb it up for later consideration of purchase at the “My Apps” tab. And it also tracks those applications that you’ve purchased from Apple App store via Apptizr in the My Apps section, so you won’t mistakenly buy the same app again.

For TechChee readers: As mentioned you need an account to use Apptizr, CEO of Apptizr, Dave is kind enough to have given us an invite code TechCheeXX, which allows the first 50 people to sign up for an account at Apptizr.com. So, hurry up!

Find out more: Apptizr.com

Although it looks like a piece of cheap plastic, but it costs a mere $4.70, which is worth a try. It features flexible goose neck allows you to adjust the illuminating angle you desire.

Buy online, Uxsight, $4.70

The Asus 17.3-inch G72GX hasn’t got its details revealed. But the 15.6-inch G51J3D has got some details which it’ll come with NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX160M graphics card, with 1G dedicated DDR3 video RAM. The laptop relies on the active-shutter specs to achieve the 3D effect, allowing up to 15 people sitting around the laptop and watching 3D film without any viewing angle problems.

The 15.6-inch G51J3D will be launched next month, while the 17.3-inch G72GX needs you to wait until Q2 2010.

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The eStarling photo frame comes with lots features for social networking, such as the support of photos from Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, a built-in Twitter client and it can also receive video clips shot over by your cellphone and other Internet-connected devices.

The device also has a GMail account which lets others send photos to that GMail account, which those photos will then fetched and displayed on the photo frame. The device also has weather updates, but it does not offer more interactive apps such as browser, calendar apps etc. But the company promises will further improve it through the firmware updates. One of these will cost you $250.

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The Litl Webbook has a more flexible hinge, which can be bended backwards to stand like a TV-like device with an optional remote control and a TV-style knob. The device has a 12-inch LCD display, capable of providing up to 178-degree viewing angle with better color resolution, which is comfortable enough for those around you to watch and share videos on it. The GPU of the Litl is capable of decoding H.264 video at 720p resolution

The Litl webbook is stuffed with an Intel Atom 1.6GHz processor, 1GB of RAM, 2GB of flash storage, and the mentioned GPU. It also includes a number of connectivity including WiFi, headphone port, USB 2.0, HDMI for bigger display. The Litl has no hard drive, interesting enough that it makes use of the “cloud computing” concept which pulls,shares and stores data on the Internet.

Software loaded including the Flickr and Shutterfly online gallery compatibility, easy link sharing for browser, streaming internet TV and a Facebook widget. It’s available now for a price of $699 and the optional remote costs you another $19.

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The SCH-W920 DMB phone has address book that allows you to store up to 3,000 contacts. And it supports search of contact using consonants, voice and direct hot key. Other goodies include video calling capability, media player, Bluetooth and an interesting language learning function which includes full-fledged English dictionary that will get you back to school preparing for the TOEIC and TOEFL tests.

And of course, the Samsung SCH-W920 allows you to tune into satellite DMB signals which you watch lots of interesting satellite movies on it. The phone has an antenna that makes the satellite DMB reception better. The SCH-W920 will be available in black and white for 500,000 korean won or $425.

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The Zinc Air battery simply sucks the oxygen from room air to generate current. Air and zinc are the electrodes, making zinc air safer than lithium-ion batteries as no volatile materials contained within that could possibly catch fire.

Zinc Air was developed by Norway firm, SINTEF and being marketed by ReVolt. The prototype been designed to fit smaller form factor and power-hungry mobile gadgets. It’d also be made for automobile industries in the form of rechargeable battery packs for electric vehicles.

The two companies are still striving to improve the recharging cycle counts of the battery before getting it to the next step. ReVolt is hoping the Zinc could reach at least 500 recharging cycles to be more solid to kick Lithium Ion battery away.

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The SE Kurara is a smartphone that is based on the 5th edition of Symbian S60 and should be included in the SE’s Entertainment Unlimited line-up which is what the Aino and Satio belong to.

The photos of the SE Kurara obviously shows that it will come with a 3.5-inch AMOLED touchscreen display, 8.1 megapixel camera, and the word HD at the back should tell that the smart phone is capable of recording video HD.

The Kurara should be announced in the first half of 2010. The Kurara is currently the internal code name, no official name has been given yet so it’d most likely be released under a different name next year.

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Using hand gestures to control the TV set eliminates the need of remote control. This of course provides more handiness to the users which waving of hands only allows you to operate the TV. No more fighting for remote control among couple and family members. And also no more misplace of TV remote control.

The two mentioned companies that work with Hitachi, have their own roles in bringing the gesture-controlled TV sets to reality. GestureTek is basically focused on software that is able to recognize hand gestures and defines which gestures control which TV functions.

Canesta is responsible for the hardware that captures 3D image of the hand of the audience, so the system can differentiate between your hand and a picture of your hand.

The Hitachi gesture-controlled TV would allow each user to have their own setting of hand commands stored in it. It’s always wise for a user to set some simple enough gestures for switching channels or jumping to your favorite channels. So you can always be ahead of your partner for doing so. Watch the demo in the video below.

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If you’re into playing harmonicas, the little gadget is suitable to bring along anywhere you go, which you can have a quick practice anytime you feel like. There is a 10-minute QuickTime video harmonica lesson loaded on the harmonica USB flash drive. Despite the tiny size, it shall play as good as a full-sized harmonica does.

Buy online, from $45, Backyardbrand

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If you tweet a lot but you do not own a smartphone that comes with a Twitter app, you can now make use of a little portable device called TwitterPeek to keep you tweeting on Twitter while on the run.

The TwitterPeek will run you $99 for 6 months of service ($7.95/month thereafter) and $199 with a lifetime of the device service. It allows you to have always-connected view of Twitter over a nationwide of cellular network.

Even though you’ve got a smart phone with Twitter app, you could also make use of TweetPeak, just to lessen the load of your mobile phone, making it more dedicated to calls and texts. And having TwitterPeek dedicated to keep you tweeting on Twitter.

The device is much simpler than using a mobile phone or computer, it has only a full QWERTY, color screen and click scroll wheel. A great gift for your granny so she can be kept busy on Twitter without needing to turn on and use a computer for tweeting. The device is available exclusively on Amazon.com and TwitterPeek.com from Nov 3, 2009.

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