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We do know that in Japan, that is where one is able to find some weird and quirky USB-powered gizmos and toys. However, these toys can sometimes be purchased online, such as the $19.99 Muscle Wire USB Powered Moving Butterfly. The name of this particular gizmo gives itself away, where it will be powered by your USB port and flap its wings slowly, as though a butterfly is flitting in a stationary position right there and then on your desk. If you want to mesmerize new job applicants in your office, then this would be better than some of those kinetic sculptures. Available in three beautiful species, I guess you can also say that this is some form of stress relief device worth having.

The three species that you can choose from would be available in monarch, blue morpho, or swallowtail, and it flaps its wings not at a preset speed, but rather, deliver realistic random patterns and speeds so that it is as lifelike as possible. The movements are made possible courtesy of the application of electrical current to a Flexinol actuator wire. Do you think that this is worth a purchase if your desk looks pretty bare?
[ Muscle Wire USB Powered Moving Butterfly does not sting your wallet like a bee copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]

It’s anyone’s guess how the HTC One will fare in the West. After all, quality doesn’t guarantee success. If we look across to Asia, though, we can see that the One’s counterpart in that hemisphere, the Butterfly, has already gained some traction. Supply has failed to meet demand in its Taiwanese homeland and, according to Focus Taiwan, the phone has enjoyed “brisk sales” in Japan too — at one point toppling the iPhone 5 to become KDDI‘s bestselling handset. There’s been sufficient interest, in fact, that HTC’s marketing boss Ben Ho has been quoted as promising a successor to the Butterfly, which will carry the same brand name. He didn’t say when a Butterfly II might arrive, or what new “innovations” it might deliver, but it’s an encouraging sign nonetheless.

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Via: Android Beat

Source: Focus Taiwan

HTC isn’t going to let Nokia keep the Chinese limelight for long: the phone maker has just launched three variants of its late 2012 flagship phones for China’s mainland, all of which should reach local stores by mid-December. Those looking for sheer brawn will want the Butterfly. While it’s ultimately a slight variant on the J Butterfly (Droid DNA to Americans) that should reach China Unicom, the 1080p smartphone should come to the country in rarer brown and white hues alongside the black we’ve already seen in the US. Localized models of the Windows Phone 8X and 8S are similarly inbound, but their aces in the hole should be sheer ubiquity — variants are on the way for WCDMA (China Unicom), CDMA2000 (China Telecom) and TD-SCDMA (China Mobile) networks. We don’t immediately have pricing for the two Windows Phone 8 handsets, but the Butterfly should cost a suitably large ¥4,799 ($771) contract-free.

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Via: Engadget Chinese (translated)

Source: HTC (translated), Sina Weibo (translated)