When i go to buy a mouse, i always have the shape problem. I never find one to have the shape i want, so my hand can sit comfortable. And because i spend more than eight hours in front of the PC, this is very important. Now my problem seem to have been solved by Lite-On, that unveiled the Moldable Mouse.

This mouse is build of a modeling lightweight clay, covered with nylon and polyurethane fabric cover, that allows you to give it whatever shape you want. The possibilities are unlimited, especially that you can put the touch-sensitive scroll pad and radio controlled stick-on mouse buttons wherever you want on it. I can’t wait to see it in stores, but price or availability haven’t been disclosed, so we don’t even know if it will ever be released and especially at what price.

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Dell has upgraded it’s XPM M1730 high-end laptop with a new graphic card, that according to 3D Mark 06 increases performances with 49%. The graphic card we are talking about is Nvidia 8800M GTX, but they haven’t added only one, but two. Unfortunately, it won’t ship until February 20th with the new graphic card in, so you have to wait a bit, if you order it. The upgrade also adds $700 more to it’s current price, but it makes it really powerful.

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KDDI R&D Laboratories prove that infrared is not yet dead, by upgrading the technology, so we can forget about the horrible transfer rates, high number of transfer failures and all the stress it caused to us.

They managed to increase the transfer rate to a whopping 1Gbps, from the maximum of 4Mbps we got used with, so they make us think it might get useful. If we add that they made it stable and it won’t disconnect like the old technology, it really sounds good.

The LED used in the old IR technology has been replaced by a semiconductor that blinks much more faster and increases the speed with up to 250 times. KDDI is planning to put the technology in use especially in cell phones, but also in PCs and laptops. We have no idea of price or availability yet.

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Yesterday, Nikon released the CoolPix L18 digital camera. The compact camera features  8-megapixels, 3x Zoom-Nikkor lenses, a 3.0-inch LCD screen, anti-shake AE for great quality and automati red-eye correction. The L18 is equipped with Easy Auto Mode which automatically adjusts the settings and controls when shooting.

Also, the buyers can enjoy the TV-quality movie recording which can be stored on 32MB of internal memory, but the camera also supports SD micro slot and SDHC memory card.

The shipping is scheduled for March 2008 and the price should be around $140.

Researchers have managed to create a nano explosive combustible, from mixed nanomaterials that act as oxidizer and fuel. The combustible can generate shock waves that reach up to Mach 3. This nano smart bomb will be used to destroy cancer cells, without harming healthy cells.

The team is composed of researchers from the U.S Army and the University of Missouri-Columbia (UMC) and they use nanothermite composites, made of inorganic oxidizer and metallic fuel, because of it’s good combustion characteristics. They managed to get a large contact area between the oxidizer and fuel, using a low-density composite of copper oxide nanorods and nanoparticles of aluminum. All those can lead to a combustion that can propagate fast.

From their tests, it resulted that the combustion waves of the nano composites can reach velocities of up to 2300 m/s. Now they are planning to put the explosives in a needle and administer it to treat cancer and HIV. With a hand-held device they aim the tumor and destroy the tumor cells.

Until now, it seems to work on animals, but they haven’t tried yet on humans. Still, we won’t see it in use in less than two to five years.

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