LG Electronics plans to unveil its Shine phone to consumers in Europe and the United States at the world’s largest International Consumer Electronics Show to be held in Las Vegas on Jan. 8. LG will set up a booth made entirely of stainless steel to promote the new handset, which is made of the same material. Shine phone is the successor of LG’s popular Chocolate phone. The company began to sell the CDMA version in South Korea last month. The Shine phone got its name from its stainless steel casing. It features a mirror-like front screen, a 2-megapixel camera, Bluetooth wireless connectivity and an MP3 player. It also has a scroll wheel on the front, which is designed to make navigating easier. The GSM version will be first released Europe in the first quarter of the year, and then in Asia and in the United States later.

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Let your kids start saving their pocket money with this realistic ATM machine at your home. This toy machine works like a real ATM which accepts real coin- and currency-deposits and gives up-to-date account information on its LCD screen. Coin deposits are automatically counted while currency deposits are done by entering bill amounts separately. This way kids can learn the operations of an ATM machine as well can see their saving growing. This toy ATM machine comes complete with realistic-looking security camera and sound effects.

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David Beckham joined Motorola, Inc in Tokyo on 29 December 2006 to formally kick off sales of Motorola's trend-setting MOTORAZR-M702iS handset with DoCoMo in Japan. Sporting the hot new device, the football icon popped up at ersatz appearances around Tokyo, with Japan's most stylish mobile device, MOTORAZR. Appearing with leading Japanese sportscaster Tomoaki Ogura on Best Moments in Sports 2006, Fuji-TV's highly rated year end sports program, Beckham showed the MOTORAZR in each of its three colors.

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Samsung Electronics on Tuesday unveiled a desktop PC with a next generation CPU, Intel's Core 2 Quad. With Core 2 Quad, the Magic Station BP 60 has as many as four built-in cores, which dramatically expands its multitasking ability, the firm says The Samsung Magic Station BP 60 PC comes with a 1GB DDR2 667MHz memory, 320 GB SATA2 hard disk and NVIDIA GeForce 7650 512MB graphic card. Samsung Electronics said that Quad Core CPU with four cores had previously been used for servers or some desktop PCs for professional use.

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Remember Kamen Rider from your childhood? It has been 35 years since the debut of the action superhero and to celebrate the 35th anniversary, Zippo has made a collection of eight lighters with designs of the seven Kamen Riders on them. Zippo only manufactured 100 of them, so they are certain to become a collectible item in times to come. Kamen Rider translated as Masked Rider, was a popular and seminal sci-fi story conceived by renowned Japanese comic book creator Shotaro Ishinomori .It debuted as a tokusatsu television series on April 3, 1971.

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Logitech NuLOOQ navigator won one of the 2007 PC World 20 Most Innovative Products Award. The NuLOOQ navigator is an innovative stationary control device that -used in conjunction with a mouse and a keyboard - streamlines repetitive tasks for people who work with graphics and multimedia files. The 2007 PC World 20 Most Innovative Products Awards recognize both benchmark and breakthrough products that set the standard for innovation with unique qualities that distinguish them from the pack. PC World’s editors compared hundreds of products before narrowing the field to 20 winners. Approximately half the size and shape of a tennis ball, the Logitech NuLOOQ navigator features a moveable rubber-like ring and a touch-sensitive circular disk. With the multi-dimensional navring, people can easily navigate images and documents while enjoying simultaneous 360 degree pan and zoom. The tool tuner helps give people precision control when adjusting brush size in Adobe Photoshop, text attributes in Adobe InDesign, or timelines in video or audio editing. The NuLOOQ navigator works with a wide range of programs.

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The ultra portable speaker system NV-PS612 is 3cm thick, 11cm in length and weighs 65 Gms. Just connect the ultra mini system to a MP3 player, mobile phone etc and enjoy digital sound.The speaker system comes with three speakers and a built in display also.

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Samsung Electronics launched the Ultra Edition SGH-Z720 - the thinnest HSDPA slide-up mobile with a slim 13.8mm profile. The new mobile offers the latest multimedia features and the best of mobility in a fast and slender design. Powered by High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) for data transmission speeds at 1.8 Mbps - up to six times faster than 3G UMTS technology – the Ultra Edition 13.8 Samsung Z720 enables mobile users to access more files and provides greater fidelity for streaming video content. The Ultra Edition 13.8 -Z720 weighs only 80 grams, extremely light for a HSDPA handset and comes packed with a 3 megapixel camera with auto focus for taking photos anytime and anyplace. The wide dimension of 104.5x51.3mm allows for a generous 2.1” QVGA display and also WAP 2.0 and HTML browsing capabilities are supported. In order to fully enjoy all of the 3G benefits, the Ultra Edition 13.8 (Z720) also includes a second camera for video telephony. For convenience, the Ultra Edition 13.8 supports microSD external memory and is equipped with Bluetooth and USB connectivity. The Samsung Ultra Edition 13.8 Z720 also supports Samsung's newest uGo and uTrack interfaces. The uGo interface automatically responds to the user's environment and displays a city landmark of where you are located, adjusts the picture to represent day or night, and adjusts the time to reflect user's location automatically.

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Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, is set to launch an internet search engine with amazon.com that he hopes will become a rival to Google and Yahoo! Mr. Wales has begun working on a search engine that exploits the same user-based technology as his open-access encyclopedia, which was launched in 2003. The project has been dubbed Wikiasari — a combination of wiki, the Hawaiian word for quick, and asari, which is Japanese for “rummaging search”. Google searches are conducted using an algorithm that calculates how many other websites are linked to a certain site, which in turn gives the material found by the search a ranking.

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Mazda Motor Corporation has given its micro-mini vehicle Carol, a fresh new look. The Mazda Carol has been a popular model with Japanese women due to its charming design and practicality. The upgraded Carol features a modified front end, seats and door trim design, together with improved fuel economy and eco-friendliness. The remodeled Carol comes with redesigned front bumper with integrated grille, separated headlights and turn indicators and tea-colored material used for seat upholstery and door trim. Two new body colors Antique Rose Metallic and Lime Green Metallic bring the full range of available body colors up to eight.

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The super thin MPrint Series MW-260 printer from Brother, Japan for the first time comes equipped with Bluetooth and uses A6 size paper for printing. Besides Bluetooth support, the Brother printer MW-260 also features a technologically advanced InfraRed (IrDA) interface for wireless communication with Smart Phones and PDA’s. The 3 different USB interfaces provide direct links with tablets and notebooks etc.Wireless printing up to 10 meters is possible. The light 18.5mm thick Brother Printer MW-260 weighs 550g only.

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Plug the super-compact, lightweight AudioTechnica - ONTO stereo headphones into your computer or home stereo system for outstanding audio quality. Equipped with cushioned ear pads, adjustable headband, and Hi-ENERGY neodymium magnets, these mid-size dynamic headphones deliver Audio-Technica quality at an extremely attractive price. The dynamic AudioTechnica - ONTO stereo headphones with 30mm driver diameter, maximum 100mW input power and 12Hz - 23 kHz frequency response weighs 38g .

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Elpida Memory, Inc. Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), announced today that it has begun mass production of the DRAM industry's first 1-Gigabit and 512-Megabit DDR2 SDRAMs using 70-nanometer process technology. Elpida 1-Gigabit and 512-Megabit DDR2 SDRAM using 70nm process technology can be used in many applications, including high-end servers that need to process large amounts of data, high-performance mobile equipment, high definition digital TVs, next-generation DVD recorders, digital single-lens reflex cameras and other digital consumer equipment that must have advanced image processing capabilities.

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The 2.4GHz wireless mouse BOMU-W24A/BL from Buffalo Corporation with 10m range with RF technology, no line of sight, digital security signature - 800 channel radio - works on the desk and in the air. The multi purpose 800 dpi mouse can be used for a variety of functions such as for presentation, gaming etc.The Buffalo 2.4GHz wireless Optical Air Mouse uses an advanced gyro sensor from Gyration Corporation USA. The miniature gyro sensor with its unique tri-axial vibratory structure offers high reliability, greatly decreasing drift and improved shock resistance.

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Paris Hilton joined a celebrity-studded party in Tokyo last night to help Motorola, Inc. launch the record-setting Motoraze handset with DoCoMo in Japan. In an evening overflowing with entertainment, fun, and more than a few surprises, Motorola's guests partied the night away in a massive transparent pink tent, perched in the heart of Tokyo with a backdrop of historic Tsukiji Hongwanji Temple, designed to capture the essence of Motoraze in its now-trademark Hot Pink color.As the festivities began, guests sipped pink Motorazer cocktails created especially for the occasion, while enjoying buskers, stilt walkers, and other interactive artists that set the whimsical tone for the evening. Motorazer, available for barely a week in Japan, flew off the shelves in DoCoMo and retail stores around Japan

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