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• ASUS Ebook Reader Official – March 3, 2010
• Three New Asus Eee PCs Coming Our Way – March 3, 2010
• LG Unveil First Win7 Touch Screen Laptop – February 24, 2010
• New Rechargeable Battery Lasts for 20 Years! – February 10, 2010
• LG Go Classic With Their New Korean CRT – January 26, 2010

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The EBook Market is hotting-up very rapidly with every man and his dog looking to make a quick buck (pun intended) on this new way of reading. Amazon revolutionised eReaders but now ASUS have announced their DR-900 EReader at CeBIT today.

ASUS, who are rapidly making a name for themselves with low-end electronics such as netbooks, may well be the perfect candidate to bring EReaders down to an affordable level. This new model will have a huge touch screen (1024 x 768 pixels), WiFi with a 3G option, 4GB of internal memory and a great interface from the screenshots I’ve seen.

It will support numerous popular file formats such as PDF, TXT, ePUB and Mp3 (there is also a 3.5mm headphone jack). I think this will be a great device. We’re still waiting to hear exact prices and launch dates from ASUS. I would be surprised if it wasn’t out by late summer.

• Graphite Kindle DX – Yet Another Release – July 4, 2010
• Barnes and Nobles Releases Nook Reader iPad App – May 28, 2010
• Three New Asus Eee PCs Coming Our Way – March 3, 2010
• New Rechargeable Battery Lasts for 20 Years! – February 10, 2010
• LG Go Classic With Their New Korean CRT – January 26, 2010

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News is spreading that the most popular netbook creator, Asus, will be launching three new Eee PC netbooks at CeBIT next week in Germany. The three new machines are said to be 10 inch screen models and have some exciting features.

For one thing, 14 hours is rumoured to be the battery life of one of the business models and will have an aluminium chassis with a brushed effect as seen above. Another model will have some premium features such as a fingerprint reader for increased security and will be the thinnest netbook Asus has ever created. USB 3.0 will also be standard on the netbooks.

Finally, matt displays and wider touchpads are the order of the day over at Asus.

I for one am becoming more and more fond of netbooks. They fill the gap between smart phone and laptop to keep us happy on the train or just act as a backup. What OS these new machines will be running is sill to be announced. More next week when we get some more information from CeBIT.

• New Rechargeable Battery Lasts for 20 Years! – February 10, 2010
• LG Go Classic With Their New Korean CRT – January 26, 2010
• ASUS Ebook Reader Official – March 3, 2010
• ASUS New Netbook with Multi-Touch Screen – February 17, 2010
• Asimo Robot Can Now Dance and Sing! – January 26, 2010

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Today, LG have unveiled their first ever laptop which is also the first ever laptop to get the official Windows 7 touch screen seal-of-approval sticker from Micrsoft. This is different to other touch screen laptops out there which use primitive overlay touch screen technology found on many budget touch screen phones. By using an inbuilt screen technology which leaves the screen firm and doesn’t reduce picture quality and responsiveness, LG are sure to have success with this model.

Undoubtedly, Samsung will be unveiling a competitor to this new product in the coming weeks and months, perhaps a little disgruntled having been bet to the post. Perhaps these touch screen laptops will be the new ‘iPad’ seeing as that doesn’t have enough computing power for most of us.

The LG model will go into mass production in the second half of this year although I’m sure some review units will be floating around. For now, we have this video from LG.

• LG Go Classic With Their New Korean CRT – January 26, 2010
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It’s really been a given for the past century. Batteries waste. Sure the Duracell bunnies would have us believe otherwise but they do. Even rechargeable batteries which can be found in everything from cameras to electric scooters can die due to being worn out. However, that’s all about to change. A new type of lithium-ion rechargeable battery has been introduced which is said to last over twenty years (around 10,000 charges). Now that’s value for money.

A Japanese company by the name of Eamex have cured the cause (<– link requires a subscription to read) of batteries burning out. With normal rechargeable batteries, the negative electrode deteriorates over use. This new design aims to coat the negative terminal in a special protective film (tin coated resin) which will protect it. This will last a regular user over twenty years.

So in theory, you could have five or six digital cameras but only one pair of batteries! Pretty cool. Expect to see these new batteries later this year.

• Three New Asus Eee PCs Coming Our Way – March 3, 2010
• LG Go Classic With Their New Korean CRT – January 26, 2010
• ASUS Ebook Reader Official – March 3, 2010
• Asimo Robot Can Now Dance and Sing! – January 26, 2010
• Google interested in Russian Dominated IM Service, ICQ – December 20, 2009

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There’s something about 60’s styling which has never really died. It think it’s the funkiness. Eye-catching colour and god-awful shapes make something marvellous. Groovy, man.

Now, LG are jumping aboard the ‘groovy’ band wagon (or VW van, whichever you prefer) with their new CRT TV which just launched for the Korean market.

It’s available in either black or bright red. It has a period styling with a pair of bunny ears antenna, twisty dials and four telescopic legs. Yet it’s fully compatible with all our modern electronics such as DVD players and games consoles.

I think we’ll be seeing quite a few of these up on Ebay destined for the US and Europe. Although I guess it’s understandable why LG won’t launch it as a product in the Western market.

• Three New Asus Eee PCs Coming Our Way – March 3, 2010
• New Rechargeable Battery Lasts for 20 Years! – February 10, 2010
• ASUS Ebook Reader Official – March 3, 2010
• LG Unveil First Win7 Touch Screen Laptop – February 24, 2010
• Asimo Robot Can Now Dance and Sing! – January 26, 2010

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Not really, because at the end of the day it’s just like the normal flu and 99% of those infected can’t tell the difference and can simply ride it out in bed for a week or so.

However, a new UV germ killing wand has been released and claims it can massacre any H1N1 germs living on a surface. Well, 98% of them anyway. When it’s held a few inches over countertops and other surfaces it kills pretty much any germ living on there or renders them incapable of multiplying. It costs $70 from Hammacher and Schlemmer. Here’s what they said on the product page:

“Also capable of killing MRSA, mold, and dust mites, the UV-C light penetrates viral and bacterial membranes and destroys their DNA, rendering the microorganisms incapable of reproduction and survival. Unlike liquid disinfectants, UV-C light can sanitize keyboards, upholstered furniture, cell phones, or any delicate surface that harbors germs.”

Some may say this is exploiting the fears of millions – but then they’ll probably buy the thing.

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Then Reverb iPhone solar charger stands at a whopping 3 feet and is over a foot wide as well. Your iPhone/iPod is perched in the upper right-hand corner of the monster where it can take 40 hours to charge indoors, and twenty hours outdoors. Seriously? So it’s three-feet tall and take almost two days to charge your device and it’s never going to look good perched on your windowsill. But do you want to know the main reason they’re not going to sell? Here’s why: $2,229 !!!

They’re due to launch in April next year.

• FreeLoader Solar Charger Rocks – January 14, 2010
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• iPhone 4: Retro Yet Futuristic Wooden iPhone Case – November 20, 2011

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However, I have found a product that will stop this glare on ANY laptop and it’s called the Laptop UNV which is available here. Basically, It’s a thin contraption that is fixed to the lid of your laptop. It fits all 10” to 17” laptops. You can open it up to form a protective shield from the sun as shown.

Yes you may look a little daft sitting on a park bench with your hands dipped into a mysterious black box but at least you’ll be able to read up on the latest happenings at Crenk!

• Space Invader Playing Cards – September 27, 2011
• ASUS Ebook Reader Official – March 3, 2010
• Three New Asus Eee PCs Coming Our Way – March 3, 2010
• LG Unveil First Win7 Touch Screen Laptop – February 24, 2010
• New Rechargeable Battery Lasts for 20 Years! – February 10, 2010

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Basically, it’s a constantly updated database of laptops currently available to me and you. You go through its interactive list ticking off requirements for your new pride and joy such as operating system, memory, screen size and other jargon.

Then, after less than five minutes of putting in your needs and desires for a new laptop the system returns a list of laptops with prices defines to what you want. It also allows you to “check prices”. This feature, when used lets you compare prices between top retailers where the computer is available both online and offline such as Amazon.

So for example, as a work laptop I put in medium needs with less of an emphasis on performance as I won’t exactly be streaming HD films from the net. I got a few good models with the pick of the litter being a HP Compaq Business Laptop. A great laptop for a good price of $694 at the California Computer Store. Spot on.

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