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At 67 US Dollars you can buy the redesigned umbrella which can withstand 63 mile per hour winds. The Senz umbrella is the World’s first aerodynamic umbrella, this allows the Senz umbrella to cut trough high velocity winds easily decreasing wind resistance. It is not yet available in the Philippines and can only be ordered through the internet.

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Add fun on your desktop, get these adorable dirty doggies that literally ‘hump’ the USB port. You can choose from any of the five doggies which includes the Buddy the Boxer, Duke the Doberman, Harley the Husky, Breeder the Beagle and Shiloh the Shiba.  These horny dogs are approximately 2.25 inches in height and will instantly get in the mood when the USB power is turned on. They would hump all they long as long as the USB connector is plugged on your PC.

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UCLA developed a method of producing graphene-carbon nanotubes or G-CNT that could be used as transparent conductor in solar cells and consumer electronics. G-CNTs offer lower cost compared to the industry standard transparent conductor Indium Tin Oxide (ITO). Yang Yang, a professor of materials science and engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Richard Kaner, a UCLA professor of chemistry outlined their new processing methods on the reasearch publication Nano Letters.

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South Koreans are designing a road that has contactless power strips designed to recharge electric vehicles on the move. The plan calls for 20 cm (8 inches) to 90 cm (35 inches) wide and perhaps several hundred meters long power strips built into the top of roads. The power strips are contactless and uses magnetic induction which makes it safe to touch. The idea is similar to a recharging station used in waterproof electric toothbrush. The cost of installation cost of the system is estimated at 400 million won ($318,000) per kilometer of road.

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The USB Aromatherapy Oil Burner is exactly what it appears and sounds like. This gadget is an aromatherapy burner in the form of a USB device. Simply plug this device into your computer and remove your stress by soothing yourself with the sweet smelling aromatherapy oil.  The USB oil burner is ver easy to use, just place the aromatherapy oil in the designated place of the this gadget and plug it into your PC.  

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Project Pink is the codename for Microsoft’s own version of iPhone. Some people call the Pink Phone as the Zune Phone. It is reported that Microsoft would not actually build the hardware of the phone but it would be built by another electronics company. Some sources say that Project Pink is Zune software and services running on mobile phones.

Microsoft’s pink phone specifications would be:

WM7 Chassis 1 Specification

Core requirements:
Processor: ARM v6+, L2 Cache, VFP, Open GL ES 2.0 graphics HW (QCOM 8k, Nvidia AP15/16* and TI 3430 all meet spec)
Memory: 256MB+ DRAM, 1G+ Flash (at least 512MB fast flash – 5MB/s unbuffered read @4K block size)
Display: WVGA (800×480) or FWVGA (854×480) 3.5” or greater diagonal
Touch: Multi-touch required
Battery: Sufficient to meet Days of Use LTK requirements.
Controls: Start, Back, Send and End are required (soft controls allowed as long as they are always present).

Peripherals:
Camera: 3MP+, flash optional, 2nd camera optional (VGA resolution sufficient)
GPS: aGPS required
Sensors required: Light Sensor, Compass (3 axis, 5 degrees, 100 Hz sample rate), Accelerometer (3 axis, 2mg resolution, 100 Hz sample rate)
USB: High speed required, 20 MB/s transfer rate.
BlueTooth: BT2.1 required, must run MSFT BT stack, CSR BlueCore6 or later recommended.
Wi-Fi: 802.11B/G required, must run MSFT Native Wi-Fi stack, Atheros 6002 or Broadcomm 4325 recommended.
Connectors: Micro USB and 3.5mm Audio required.

Options:
FM tuner: If tuner HW is present it will be detected and supported by the Media application.
Haptics
SD Card (Micro SD recommended)
DPAD, qwerty or 12/20 key keyboards all optional

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Are you a computer addict who frequently gets sleepy? Now here is a gadget for you and for those persons who accidentally sleeps on the keyboard. Introducing the Laptop Pillow, it is made up of soft fibrous materials that will give yourself a more comfortable sleep.

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Solid State Disks have been around for quite some time. Their advantage being smaller, lighter and shock proof. SSDs have been very popular on UMPCs specially with the Asus Eee PC. Currently, SSDs have lower data capacity compared to traditional hard drives and is more expensive per Gigabyte of disk space. If you want to upgrade to an SSD, Imation offers their products for tech savvy persons.

The price for the Imations SSDs themselves starts at $189.99 for the M-class with 32GB, 64GB, and 128GB capacities available. The S-class starts at $659.99 with 64GB or 128GB versions available.

The upgrade kits for Desktop PCs 2.5-inch drives start at $299.99 for the M-class and $1,299.99 for the S-class in 64GB or 128GB capacities. The upgrade kits include the needed cables for transferring data and software from the old HDD to the new SSD.

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Due to the high demands in electric power consumption, South Korea is expanding its transmission line system using superconductors instead of copper or aluminum cables.  South Korea already ordered 50 miles of Superconducting cables from American Semiconductors http://www.amsc.com/ which would carry 50 MW of power.

Korea Electric Power Corp CEO Kim Ssang-Su:
“As is the case in many countries around the world, Korea has been experiencing sharp increases in electricity demand and is relying more and more on renewable energy sources to meet that demand. With the ability to carry vast amounts of power in a small pathway, we see great promise for superconductor cable technology and look forward to energizing this system first.”