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Teddy Bear USB Drive

Juniper Foo | Jul 20, 2006

Wanna frighten that pesky little kid who's been screeching his/her head off for the last hour? Just go up, whip out this cuddly teddy bear, and with a little Freddy Krueger slice-and-dice glee, rip its head right off. Well, okay, it's not a nice thing to do, but you've got to admit that whoever came up with this USB device has given it a rather morbid twist, since it has to lose its cranium in order to access the internal USB drive. Rather appropriate we'd say to quote the Queen of Hearts from Alice In Wonderland here: "Off with his head!"

More pictures by Flickr user Bruno Del Frate here.

Via Engadget

Price: N.A.
Availability: N.A.
Device: USB thumb drive
Basic specs: N.A.

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Alpha pricing out at last

Damian Koh | Jul 19, 2006

We swear late afternoon lunches do wonders (recommended when your boss is also out doing late lunch). For instance, an email arrived in the inbox right after, miraculously bearing news that we wanted to hear--the local price of the Sony Alpha 100.

According to Sony Singapore, the Alpha 100 with the 18-70mm kit lens will cost S$1,799 (US$1,322.79).

We've also just been informed that the bundle with the 18-70mm and 75-300mm kit lenses has been adjusted downwards to S$2,099 (US$1,543.38) instead of the S$2,149 (US$1,580.15) we were told barely an hour past.

If it's just the body you want, that'll now be S$1,499 (US$1,102.21) after a price revision from S$1,599 (US$1,175.74), thank you very much.

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Let your fingers do the… talking

Damian Koh | Jul 19, 2006

The folks at Microsoft's research labs could either be closet fans of Tom Cruise in Minority Report or they are really ingenious to come up with TouchLight--a technology that allows people to navigate computer images using their hands.

Ah yes, this is something which could make even Chief John Anderton (played by Cruise) turn green with envy (and at the same time, technologically impaired). People using TouchLight don't have to make use of special gloves, glasses or a headset, wrote News.com Ina Fried.

According to the report, Microsoft is licensing TouchLight to Eon Reality which would use this technology in its existing interactive products for the commercial, auto, aerospace and defense industries.

Though it could still be two to three years before this technology will be available to mainstream consumers, it's still good to know our fingers can do something other than type on our keyboards.

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64GB flash drive

Juniper Foo | Jul 19, 2006

Yes, that's gigabyte. And no, we aren't prepared to slap down US$5,000 just to flash around 64GB worth of solid state memory stuffed into a USB keychain drive. Still, if that's too rich, rival Kanguru has a similar version which retails for a mere US$2,799.95.

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Via Engadget

Price: US$5,000
Availability: Apparently at the Buslink e-store although you might have better luck locating it than us
Device: Large-capacity flash drive
Basic specs: USB 2.0, USB extension cable, software, user's guide, max. read speed of 20MBps, write speed of 15MBps

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