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Dell has just announced their new AIO computer system, the Optiplex 3011.

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Motorola‘s big vision for mobile isn’t just the Moto X smartphone: the company also has wearable, tattoo-embedded, and even swallowable gadgets in the pipeline. Motorola’s Advanced Technology and Projects Group chief Regina Dugan – former DARPA chief – showed up at D11 sporting an electronic tattoo that could be worn on the skin for a week at a time, and used to cut through the numerous authentication processes we go through every day.

The tattoos rely on a new, stretchable electronics system that can keep working even as it flexes on the wearer’s arm. As Dugan says, while criticisms of wearables like smartwatches include suggestions that young people won’t want to wear them – something Tim Cook commented on – it’s much more likely that the demographic would want to use a digital tattoo.

It’s not the only high-tech security system Motorola’s group is looking at. “I take a vitamin every morning: what if I could take an authentication vitamin?” Dugan asked, before whipping out a Proteus smart-pill.

That pill contains a “switch” and an “inside-out potato battery”, Dugan explained, which creates electricity from the chemical processes in the body when swallowed. The result is the switch toggling on and off, and creating an 18-bit ECG-like signal.

“Essentially your entire body becomes an authentication token,” Dugan concluded, before laughing off suggestions by AllThingsD’s Walt Mossberg that Google – which owns Motorola – might insist on employees swallowing one of the pills every day. The technology itself still needs work, she admitted, but the pills are safe for human consumption: you could take multiple each day for the rest of your life, she argued.

Unsurprisingly, none of the projects Dugan and her team are working on will necessarily arrive any time soon. First up, in fact, is the new Motorola “Moto X” smartphone, which the company chief Dennis Woodside said is due to hit the market in 2013, and will include various sensors that will trigger automatic responses depending on how the user is treating their phone.

The full Motorola appearance at D11 – including Dugan’s discussion on wearable and implantable tech – is available in the video below.

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With its quad-core ARM processor, the Drobo 5N is capable of much more than just storing files, and you can now grab a Plex app to help it live up to that potential. Once installed, it’ll turn the NAS into a full blown media server to distribute up to 16TB of protected media to any of your Plex– or DLNA-supported SmartTVs, handheld devices, Mac or PC computers, set top boxes and gaming consoles. Plex said that the Drobo, while not capable of performing real-time video transcoding, will be able to demux multiple video and audio streams and transcode multi-channel audio to stereo AAC in real-time. If you already shelled out $600 for one of the speedy boxes — on top of the drives to populate it — the free cost of the app is probably a relief. You can grab it from your Drobo Dashboard.

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Do you think that students today are a whole lot more pampered compared to the students of yesteryears? Perhaps, but each generation always has their fair share of challenges and issues to contend with and work through. For instance, students of yore had to settle for heavy textbooks that could break one’s back if you were not careful, not to mention having to lug all of these along with their paper notebooks (mention notebooks these days and chances are folks will think that you are talking about a MacBook) to their respective classes. Well, schools these days have taken steps to jump aboard the paperless revolution – at least according to what their budget allows, that is, and some higher education institutes have started to purchase tablets like the Apple iPad for use in the classroom. These iPads certainly come in handy, where it takes testing, studying and note taking to a totally new level. The thing is, there are always two sides to a coin – where wireless keyboards for the iPad in a classroom would require teachers to simultaneously pair multiple iPads with multiple wireless Bluetooth keyboards. Good to know then that Swiss peripherals manufacturer have got your back with the Logitech Wired Keyboard for iPad.

The Logitech Wired Keyboard for iPad was specially designed to handle hassle-free plug-and-play connectivity, where it boasts of an integrated Lightning Connector or 30-pin Connector, allowing you as the student to just plug in the iPad and start to type right away. Sure, it might not have the kind of freedom as that of a wireless connection, but there is something reassuring about wired connectivity that ensures every single keystroke is registered without any exception.

The Logitech Wired Keyboard for iPad comes with full-size keys and has a spill-resistant design, ensuring it is able to live a long life, while boasting of a key lifespan of more than five million strokes. Expect the Logitech Wired Keyboard for iPad to arrive in the US later this summer.

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