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Here comes the Power A universal remote case for the iPhone, which turns your iPhone into a universal remote to control your home theater, TV and other entertainment equipments. The Power A iPhone case has a free application that can be downloaded from iTunes, which you need to install on your iPhone. With the case on and the app installed, your iPhone will become a universal remote that can virtually control anything that works with IR remote.

The Zentral is basically a little box equipped with Bluetooth receiver and IR transmitter that is powerful enough to bounce the IR signals off walls and ceilings. So, there is no problem at all how the Zentral is placed, it can just sit on top of any of your home entertainment equipment (As shown in the picture).

Currently, the Zentral comes with a universal remote control app for the iPhone, so you can use the iPhone to control various of your home entertainment and automation gadgets via the Zentral. There is also an application for the BlackBerry which allows the control of garage door opener.

The system plus the accessories all come in affordable prices such as the AV controller costs $80 and garage door opener costs only $50. More home automation gadgets will be included later such as lighting and thermostat. They will hit the stores in spring.

Mophie, primarily known for their juice/battery packs or cases, has now taken a leap, planning to produce a credit card scanner for the iPhone. The picture above shows that the Mophie iPhone credit card reader will likely come in the form of a case which its bottom has a reader for you to swipe your customer’s credit card for accepting payment on the go.

The Mophie’s credit card scanner is a combo of hardware and their own software solution. The Mophie Credit card scanner is simply handy for small business owners, which you can use it on your iPhone to swipe the credit cards of your customers for collecting payments.

It’s unclear whether Mophie is getting into transaction business or they simply act as a middle man. But I guess the latter shall be the better choice for them as transaction business is not their cup of tea. More details shall emerge at CES.

AirStash is a smart wireless device comes in the form of an oversized flash drive which can be kept in your pocket to increase the storage capacity of your iPhone or iPod Touch wirelessly. If you’ve got an older version of iPhone or iPod Touch that restricts you with the mere 8GB storage, you can simply make use of AirStash to boost the storage.

The picture shows a charging plate which users must place the mobiles on it for charging them wirelessly. Similar to electric toothbrushes, inductive power sends current obtained from a wall adapter through a coil in a charging unit. As current flows through the coil, it generates a magnetic field, which in turn induces a current to flow to the receiving coil in the toothbrush handle.

MWG will produce Windows mobile phones or PDAs that can be charged wirelessly by magnetic induction. And they target to ship the wirelessly chargeable devices by mid 08. Fundamentally, the technology used is similar to the two used in portable toothbrushes, provided by U.K.-based Splashpower.

Splashpower says its inductive charger can deliver up to 850mA of current, at up to 8.5 Volts. It’s got capability to detect the legitimate devices to keep away from misuse. And most importantly, it ain’t affect or erase any magnetic media, interfere with any equipments such as pacemakers. The inductive charger allows multiple devices to be charged on it at three times and gives short charging period.

Although your smartphone, PDA or UMPC comes with a QWERTY keyboard, but I don’t think they can provide you as much productivity as the full-sized PC QWERTY that your’re used to. This is basically because of your fingers are large to type quickly on the excessively tiny QWERTY of your PDA or smartphone. Due to the tiny size of the QWERTY of your smartphone or PDA, you tend to not to use it for typing long email messages, memos or surfing the net. Even though it comes with all the functionalities that you get on your laptop/PC. The ANYCOM Stowaway Keyboard is the wireless Bluetooth-enabled full-sized PC keyboard that works with any PDA, smartphone, tablet etc, to enable you to gain as much productivity as using the full-sized PC QWERTY keyboard.

The ANYCOM Stowaway Keyboard is similar to any full-sized PC keyboard, which is having 18mm spacing, 4 key rows, foldable and works well with any Bluetooth-enabled gadgets. It’s got long battery life, which can operate up to 60 hours and stand by up to 7,000 hours seven time fully charged. For frequent business traveler, now you can leave your laptop at home and bring along the new combination, i.e PDA or smartphone or UMPC and the Stowaway keyboard, whenever you travel. And this new combination should be much not as hard for you to take care and transport than your laptop and you won’t lose any of your productivity. Anyway, this keyboard seems to be popular, as it’s run out of stock on the online store.