When Microsoft sells some stuff, many complained about it. But when they don’t sell some, others rant over how they should mass produce it. Well this is one of the limited stuff that only a few students will get their hands on, unluckily for you and me. The few lucky students participating in this year’s UIST Student Innovation Contest will be given free rein to do whatever they like with the keyboard, and possibly be rewarded with some few grand for their hard work and effort.

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Thermaltake might be famous for their funky CPU coolers, but their ‘eSPORTS’ sibling is also making a name in the professional gaming gear world. Now they’ve yet announced a new product for professional gamers worldwide. At Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, Tt eSPORTS unveiled their latest gaming keyboard, the MEKA G1 mechanical keyboard. With the term ‘mechanical’ you’re sure to know that this is no ordinary Razer-like keyboard with fancy blings and macros. Read more…

Remember the Dell Streak, Dell’s 5-inch tablet which runs on Android? Well this miniature tablet is finally hitting retail this month. Americans can get the Streak through AT&T, while UK peeps are getting it from O2 since June. Prices are $299.99 with a two-year AT&T contract, or $549.99 without a contract.

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It’s been awhile since I heard about iRiver. Now this Mp3-player company is joining the growing e-Book Reader market with their Story Touch Edition. Measuring at 126mm x 162.8mm x 9.5mm, the upcoming e-book reader will feature a 6-inch e-ink touchscreen display. Not fancy, but enough to give you a good reading experience. The size is just nice for big pockets. The internal 2GB of memory should be sufficient for some light reading materials, but if they aren’t you can always expand the storage via an SDHC memory card.

The Story Touch Edition support ePub, PDF, TXT, FB2, DJVU, and CBZ format e-books. In addition it also supports DOC, PPT, XLS and HWP Office files. No .docx for you though. There’s a microphone built-in if you need voice recording functions, or decided to record your own singing while you read, and listen back to your ‘aw so sweet’ voice as the e-Book Reader supports MP3, WMA, and OGG files too! Sadly there’s no pricing at this moment.

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Huawei, the famous name when it comes to 3G USB modems, is releasing a new mobile hotspot device, named the E583c. Available in both silver and black colour scheme, the device sports a 1-inch OLED display panel that shows you status information about the network. This E583c Mobile Hotspot can support up to 3.5G HSPA connection, with up to five devices linked over Wi-Fi and a sixth via a direct USB connection if you needed that many. It’s compatible with nearly every platform out there, Microsoft’s Windows, Apple’s Mac OSX, and Linux. Additional features include a microSD card slot with support up to 32GB. The Huawei E583c will be available in Hong Kong later this month for HK$1,380 (US$177).

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Buffalo has had a long list of products when it comes to external hard drives. Their new entry however, would easily sell itself as an Eco-Friendly product. Measuring 39mm x 123mm x 189mm and weighing 1kg, the HD-LBU2 is the latest addition to Buffalo’s extensive external hard drive line-up. This new 3.5-inch drive has a USB 2.0 interface and can be installed horizontally or vertically. The important feature is that, the drive also comes bundled with the Eco Manager software for reducing power consumption by lowering the rotary speed of the platters when idle. The HD-LBU2 will go on sale in mid-August in four different storage capacities including 500GB ($133), 1TB ($169), 1.5TB ($219) and 2TB ($269).

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In a world where everyone’s starting to pick up digital reading frenzy, Asus will join in the fun for the ‘lulz’ with their new 8-inch e-Book Reader. Asustek Computer will release a new e-book reader with an 8-inch 64-grayscale TFT-LCD screen without backlight in October 2010 (ouch, you’ll need a torchlight when it’s dark). The LCD panel of Asustek’s e-book reader is provided by Chimei Innolux (CMI), which makes it with a special process to improve reflection, but is still no match for e-paper in terms of contrast ratio and reflective performance. The display also supports a fast response time. The Asus 8-inch e-Reader will retail at below $599. Asustek is also facing a difficult fight as it currently has no content support for its e-book reader and the price is much higher than the US$100-200 for current mainstream e-book readers. Sadly that’s the only spec given, so stay tuned for more.

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ASUS has finally announced the Eee Box EB1501P price for the US market. This nettop PC is scheduled to hit US in the next few weeks for a starting price of around $500. To refresh your memory, this HTPC-wannabe offers a dual-core 1.8GHz Intel Atom D525 processor, a GeForce ION2 GT218 graphics card, 2GB of memory, a 250GB or 320GB setup hard drive, a slot-loading DVD-RW drive, multi-card reader, Wi-Fi 802.11n connection, 6 USB ports, eSATA, Gigabit Ethernet, an HDMI port and runs on Windows 7 Home Premium OS. A very good looking HTPC if you ask me. Just wait for a few weeks and you’ll have this baby in your living room.

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Ever since they introduce their Revo-series linup, Acer has been eyeing as your best partner in your living room. Their tiny nettop Revo has been very successful, as a silent operating HTPC that can be hooked up behind your LCD TV. Now they’re ready to introduce more stuff into your living room. Dude, it’s getting crowded here!

Acer’s new HD media player ‘RevoView’ will hit Germany soon, by the end of August for a starting price of €149, or about $199 for the 320GB flavor. There are actually three flavors for your HD-video craze: 320GB, 1TB, and 2TB models.

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Yes there are plenty of apps right now to control your house appliances with your Android or iPhone. But you will have to open up the app or click on a bookmark in order to load the control scheme. Takes about a couple of minutes to and fro. But what if you’re in a rush to get in bed, or leaving the house? That’s when this Control4 Home Screen comes in handy. Read more…