At the moment mobile phones either feature a keypad or a touchscreen, although some of the newer models are now featuring both. A company called Pelikon has developed a new type of keypad, designed for mobile phones that combines both these functions into one, the Morphpad.

As you can see from the video below the Morphpad looks like a standard QWERTY keypad that is features on many of the mobile phones today, but it can also be used as a touchpad and it features LED backlighting which can be programmed to display a number of different functions on the keypad.

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An article from All Things Digital is reporting Twitter is gearing up to lauch its new Twitter Advertising model which will allow it to server adverts on its search results.

The Twitter advertising scheme will be launched in the first half of this year together with a few new updates to the Twitter system. The updates will apparently make desktop Twitter tools such as Tweetdeck or Seesmic redundant.

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Mio, who make satellite navigation systems  has launched a new tablet device, the Mio Moov V780 Tablet. The Mio Moov V780 features built in GPS navigation and a 7 inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 800 x 480.

The Mio Moov V780 features a built in web browser, support for adobe flash, and also support for exchange email, plus built in music and photo browsers and a YouTube feature.

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In an aid to help relatives and friends help find each other in aftermath of the Chile earthquake, Google has set-up and dedicated person finder website for families and friends. The site is easy to use and is available in both the English and Spanish.

The Google Person Finder: Chile Earthquake website allows you to help by making donations or embedding the tool on your website.

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The eviGrouop has just released details of its new Windows 7 tablet the eviGroup Paddle. This multitouch tablet is powered by a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 processor and will be available in a range of storage capacities : 160GB, 250GB or 320GB.

There will also be a solid state drive version with either 16GB or 32GB depending on your needs. Check out the video after the break to see it custom user interface in action.

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HP has added another tablet to their line up with the launch of the HP EliteBook 2740p. The HP Elitebook 2740p features a 12.1 inch multi touch LED display, and this convertible tablet has been designed with the business user in mind.

The HP EliteBook 2740p comes with a choice on Intel Core i5 and Intel Core i7 processors, and it comes with a six cell battery as standard that is designed to work for up to five hours.

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Archos has added a couple of new tablets to its range with the launch of the Archos 7 Home Tablet and the Archos 8 Home Tablet. Both of these new devices run Google Android.

The Archos 7 Home Tablet features a 7 inch touchscreen display, and it comes with either 2GB or 8GB of built in storage, there is also WiFi, a USB port and it comes with a battery that is designed to give you up to forty four hours of audio playback and up to seven hours of video playback.

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A copy of the rare NES game Stadium Events that was released in Europe during 1988 and in the US in 1997 has been sold for a whooping $41,300 or £27,102 on eBay. The copy was still in its original shrink wrapping and saw bidding climb from an starting bid of $6.16 to its final price.

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Sony is continuing to experience problems with its PlayStation network after a weekend of errors including, logging users out of the service and preventing them from playing online games, game trophies being deleted from consoles and previously downloaded games cannot be played offline. These problems have even effected their latest release Heavy Rain which could not be played offline.

Sony says it is aware of the problems and is trying to find a fix as soon as possible releasing an update this morning to try and eradicate the errors. But not stating why these problems on PSN have occurred in the first place.

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Remember the JooJoo Tablet, which was due to ship at the end of last month? Well it looks like the former CrunchPad is now delayed until the 25th of March 2010, which would put its release date at a similar time to the new Apple iPad.

According to Fusion Garage, the delay in the JooJoo Tablet has been caused by a manufacturing issue, as there were problems with the 12.1 inch touchscreen display.

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Intel has officially announced their latest processor in their Atom range, which is designed to be used in netbooks and nettop PCs, the Intel Atom N470.

The Intel Atom N460 is faster than the popular N450 processor, with a clock speed of 1.83GHz and it comes with 512KB of L2 Cache, it also supports DDR2 667 RAM.

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Google’s [GOOG] first smartphone has been available in the US for some time now, it looks like it is now headed over the pond to the UK, and it will be available on the UK mobile phone network Vodafone.

The Vodafone Nexus One will be sold exclusively from Google’s website at Google.com/phone, and it looks like it will be available sometime in April 2010.

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