Coca-Cola Corporation is said to be working on a new kind of bottle which is designed to maintain the temperature of the beverage inside of it after the bottle is opened. This ’self-cooling’ bottle is said to keep the drink inside cold for a longer time compared to the ordinary bottles that are being used today.

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It is a common trend nowadays for gadgets such as mobile phones to always be smaller in size as opposed to its predecessor. From the bulky square-like appearance to the slimmer and more compact form, mobile phones continue to diminish in size but is only restricted by one important factor, the mobile phone’s display screen.

As much as people crave more compact and mobile designs, they also want their screens to be bigger in dimension, a dilemma that many mobile phone designers struggled with over the years.

Then came the Brix Mobile Phone.

Brix is a modular mobile phone designed by Seokwon Hong, with a screen spanning the whole width and length of the front-face panel of the unit. It makes use of a touch screen technology for input and has a design that rivals the sleekness and simplicity of the IPhone.

But it isn’t the full-screen feature that makes the Brix Mobile Phone revolutionary. For if you would take another Brix unit and connect them to another one, they would form a much bigger output screen.

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Ooo… What’s that he’s typing on? Is that what I think it is?

After being first featured on Slashdot last July of 2005, the tech-savvy masses had been eagerly waiting for the coming of the Optimus Maximus Keyboards. After 2 years of waiting, the first Optimus Keyboard is already out of the production lines and is now ready to be shipped to those who pre-ordered the said product.

An Optimus Maximus Keyboard is an ingeniously designed keyboard by the people over at ArtLebedev Studios. The main feature of the Optimus Keyboard is its OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) display on the face of the keys which changes dynamically depending on a pre-defined keyboard layout or to show the function of the keys.

For instance, when you press the shift key on the Optimus Maximus, the letters on the whole keyboard will turn to all-caps. Also, if you would turn on the Num Lock feature on your keyboard, the numbers on the numerical keypad would change to directional keys. Cool, isn’t it?

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Out of the seemingly endless number of topics that a blogger can discuss on their blogs, the subject of technology seems to be one of the hottest and talked about topic of them all. People love technology and companies love to profit from them. As a result, we end up having millions of tech blogs. They are now too overcrowded to the point that one could expect a very stiff competition and a whole lot of work in order to be noticed under the blanket of other well-established tech blogs.

In spite of all of this, I never did hesitate in accepting the job as a co-blogger for DarnSlick.com. Why? Let us just say that I strongly believe that Andrew (The original author of this blog) and I would make a great team, two darn guys with entirely different personalities that, with luck and utter slickness, could break the monotony of technology blogging.

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During my recent trip to Manila, I decided to reward myself with a hip black Crumpler laptop bag (AUS$140). I realized that my old laptop bag was getting too crowded. Besides my laptop, I carry my Google notebook and a Moleskine that I haven’t used yet. I also bring a bunch of printouts that I need for work, two pens, a USB drive and some extra cash. The cool folks at the Crumpler store even threw in a deck of playing cards and a sticker with my purchase! Not only does my Crumpler have ample storage space, it looks much hipper than my retired square computer bag.
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