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A Japanese company called Minebea has announced [press release in English] a series of input devices, namely a keyboard, remote control and calculator, that have three things in common: They are stylish (with a mirror look), offer no physical buttons and are really flat. Based on a “next generation” input system Minebea has dubbed COOL LEAF, the designers did away with all key tops. Instead, users will type or press “non-physical” buttons or characters on a shiny, flat mirror panel that has a light guide plate-type backlight

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COOL LEAF: Mirror-like, button-less, flat input devices

Looking for a decent web-browsing machine? Sellout.Woot! is selling the 18.4-inch Averatec all-in-one with Atom CPU and Windows XP for $300 today.

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CrunchDeals: Refurbished Averatec 18.4-inch all-in-one for $300

For those of you who have sworn off energy drinks because of their syrupy, cough-medicine-y, sugary taste, these new “Fein Energy Crystals” might be more up your alley.

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Fein Energy Crystals turn any drink into an energy drink without altering the taste

Archos is gunning for the more budget-sensitive crowd with the 7-inch “Archos 7 Home Tablet” running Android atop a 600MHz ARM9 CPU due in April for around $179. The lower-powered CPU ought to be good for some nice, long battery life and the tablet is capable of basic web browsing and 720p video playback across a wide variety of codecs. You can check out 8:35 of pure ebullience from one of Archos’ biggest fans, Charbax : The tablet will be available in capacities of 2GB and 8GB, priced at 149 Euro and 179 Euro, respectively.

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Budget 7- and 8-inch Android tablets coming from Archos

First PRMac, and now NBC Universal. I think I’m just going to give up now. There’s no shaming this industry into normal human behavior. I mean, who actually thinks it’s ok to email an entire database with a test message? At least they thanked me at the end.

From: PressRelease@nbcuni.com
Date: February 26, 2010 11:38:47 AM PST
To: [EVERYONE AT TECHCRUNCH, TWICE]
Subject: Please Disregard This Email

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:

Press Release
818-840-7705
PressRelease@nbcuni.com

Please Disregard This Email

Please disregard this email as we perform a test of our email systems. Thank You

In March last year , Pentax unveiled the X70, a 12MP “hybrid” digital camera with 24x optical zoom that currently sells on Amazon for $380. And today Pentax in Tokyo announced [press release in English] the successor, the X90. As to be expected, the new model has been upgraded in some areas

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X90: Pentax updates its X70 digital camera

SMASH: Electric guitar made just to get destroyed, then recycled Moosshiqk electric motorcycle goes fast, looks silly Electrical vehicle concepts running rampant Researchers trying to find out why baby cries “Magic Flute” audiophile speakers look like jet engines, probably sound amazing

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Daily Crunch: Smashing Movement Edition

Okay, what’s going on here? This is the headline of Kingston’s latest press release : Kingston Digital Ships First 256GB USB Flash Drive in the U.S. Right

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Kingston introduces first second first 256GB thumbdrive to U.S.

VUDU apps is going to start being a lot more available with the announcement today that Zoran, “the U.S. market share leader in flat panel televisions according to DisplaySearch,” is integrating VUDU apps and VUDU Movies into its SupraHD processor

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Zoran SupraHD TV processor to include VUDU apps

The OpenTablet 7 from OpenPeak looks like a pretty decent little piece of hardware. I don’t see any specs in the release, but it’s based on Intel’s Moorestown platform, has a 7″ screen, and probably is respectable in the areas of RAM and so on

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OpenTablet 7: sure it looks nice, but all Flash? I don’t know about that