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Okay, it’s friday so let’s bring forth stuff you didn’t know you’d ever need, like the Canon LS-100TKM, a 1000dpi optical USB mouse with built-in calculator (with 10-digit LCD screen) as well as a numeric keypad. Flipping that lid open might seem more of a hassle than just hitting win-r and typing “calc”, but that’s just me…

Available in Japan by June 12th for about $32 in black and white models.

Canon Japan: Canon LS-100TKM (Google Translate)

(Via Gizmodo)

The people over at Mimoco just sent me three Mimobots to pass on to you readers. Now, these are the 1GB models (there’s 8GB models available now) but if you’re like me and 1) value appearance over storage capacity (well… sometimes) and 2) like free stuff in general then keep on reading.

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Considering how appealing glass touch-screen interfaces are these days (think iPhone) there ought to be a market for the No-Key Keyboard, a completely non-tactile keyboard concept designed by Kong Fanwen. The idea behind this is that a built-in camera uses motion capture to record the keystrokes instead of by you actually pushing the buttons.

I wonder how my fingertips would feel after a long days hammering on solid glass though…

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Mimoco has decided to up the max storage on their Mimobot USB flash drives. All the models (including the return of Darth Vader) are now available in 8GB, but with the hefty price tag of $139.95.

Mimoco.com: Mimobots ($39.95 - $139.99)

Another nice video watch here, this one sports 2 GB of storage, a crisp and bright OLED screen with 128×128 resolution, video and image playback as well as audio (mp3/wma), earphone jack, equalizer with six modes and a built-in microphone for voice memos.

The battery allows 7 hours of audio playback and 4 hours for video and you recharge it through USB.

ThinkGeek: Video Watch with OLED Screen ($79.99)

Just when people stopped drooling over the LED-key Optimus Maximus keyboard Art. Lebedev Studio hits us with yet another progressive keyboard, a concept (hopefully-soon-to-become-reality) dubbed Optimus Tactus.

This time they’ve removed the keys all together. This keyboard is just one, big touch-screen (a “one sensor display”) allowing you (and the software you use) to customize, resize and rearrange they keys however you want to, including showing videos. This way you could have it to show selected tool icons along with a color selector while running Photoshop, just media buttons while watching movies and so on.

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This is Zyrus Bandi, a brand new flip-up USB flash drive designed to be worn as a pendant. It’s all metallic and sports a glowing LED ring, a cord for easy wearing, password protection, 18MB/sec reading speed and 4.5MB/sec writing speed.

It looks like it’s only available on the Korean market at the moment though.

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Anyone who’s ever lived with someone in a compact apartment knows how easy it is to annoy your partner with mouse clicks while he/she desperately tries to sleep. The Buffalo Silent Mouse is designed to eliminate those click sounds, helping to make your computer session a whole lot less noisy (granted that you don’t have a keyboard with tactile keys).

Besides the ultra-silent click feature it’s a pretty basic and straight-forward optical mouse with 800dpi and USB 2.0 connectivity, available in black and silver.

AudioCubes: Buffalo USB Silent Mouse ($39.99)

LaCie sure does release different and stylish storage devices from time to time (you’ve seen the 500GB Golden Disk, right?). Here’s Hard Disk, a mirror-polished black external hard drive with blue LED ambient lights benath.

It’s powered by USB 2.0 and available in sizes from 320GB to 1TB. Design by Neil Poulton.

LaCie.com: Hard Disk by Neil Poulton ($119.00 to $399.00)

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Mimoco’s Star Wars Mimobot USB Flash drives got plenty of attention a year ago or so and now they’ve extended the series with Princess Leia, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Boba Fett. The Chewie and Stormtrooper models still rule in my Mimobot world though.

The Mimobots comes in three different models; 1GB for $49.95, 2GB for $69.95 and 4GB for $109.95. The new models will start shipping in January/February.

Mimoco: Star Wars Mimobots
Amazon.com: Mimoco Mimobots (from $69.95)

(Via Slipperybrick)