Bio-gadgets, always-on audio, smartwatches, and candy bars are all part of this week's best tech photos.
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Camera phone or phone camera? The Sony Cyber-shot QX100 and QX10 are no ordinary cameras. Sony fit the entire camera into a lens-shaped body that snaps onto your smartphone. Once you snap a photo with the camera, it shows up on your phone's screen, where you can edit it, save it, and share it over text, e-mail, or to your social networks immediately.
Samsung unveiled its smartwatch at the IFA show in Berlin Germany this week. Samsung Galaxy Gear will be released around the world on September 25 at the same time as the new Samsung Galaxy Note 3 -- except for customers in the US and Japan, who will need to wait until October.
Green project Phyto Kinetic aims to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide emissions in the air -- while adding a little color to concrete jungles.
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A flu just for you
Scientists develop an influenza vaccine delivered by a microneedle patch that patients could easily and painlessly self-administer.
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Listen to the last 60 seconds
Kapture, a new hardware project launched Tuesday on Kickstarter, is just waiting for you to tell it when to save the last 60 seconds of whatever was said. Scary? Cool? Maybe both.
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Next Android called 'KitKat'
The next version of Android will be called KitKat, as in the Nestle chocolate wafers, and comes with a contest to win Android and Google Play swag.
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A statue of RoboCop
A statue of RoboCop, the cyborg protagonist of the 1987 Paul Verhoeven film, which began as a Kickstarter project in 2011, has finally arrived in Detroit where it will be unveiled next year when a remake of the film will hit theaters.
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Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1
The Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 for 2014 was unveiled alongside the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy Gear smartwatch at technology trade show IFA in Berlin this week. Like the Note 3, the Note 10.1 sports a svelte new leather-effect rear casing edged with stitching -- perhaps a riposte to the criticism drawn by the glossy plastic back of previous Notes and the Galaxy S4.
