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You’ve got your Steampunk shoes, cane, and even the Steampunk gas mask, so why not complete the look by getting yourself a Steampunk watch? Casio’s G-Shock line of timepieces is wildly popular for its funky modern styling, but the new G8100A-5 uses bronze-colored aluminum and rubber to create a blend between high-tech and retro that’s bound to be irresistible to Steampunk fanatics.

Like all G-Shock watches, the G8100A-5 is packed with features. It has a countdown clock, multifunction alarm, worldwide timekeeping, and my favorite G-Shock feature, an automatic backlight that turns on with a flick of the wrist. Casio’s Steampunk watch is on sale at their web site for $99.

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Casio has announced its’ newest addition to the Exilim family of high pixel point-and-shoot digital cameras with the EX-Z1050. This 10.1MP has a few distinguishing differences between itself and the previous EX-Z1000 model.

The first thing you might notice about the Z1050 is the smaller size. It’s a scant .95″ thick, with a width of 3.85″ and a length of 2.25″. For a camera with such a high MP count, that is a impressively small size.

Another addition to the new Exilim is the use of Exilim Engine 2.0 processing which allows the camera to shoot 7 frames per second. A 2.6″ LCD display rounds it all off.

Not only are the tech specs advanced, but the new model has a selection of four skin colors to choose from. Outfit your camera in blue, pink, black, or silver. Suggested retail price is only $299.99, which seems very reasonable for a 10.1MP pointer. — Andrew Dobrow

Press Release [via Productdose]

Japan’s second largest operator AU KDDI announced 10 new EV-DO phones this morning for the Spring 2007 line-up. Including the W51SH which we showed you the picture way before announcement. To our surprise, the Pantech W51PT which was also leaked earlier has not been announced yet. The 10 phones include one from the AU Design Project- the Media Skin, 2 from Toshiba, and 1 from all Casio, Panasonic, Hitachi, Kyocera, Sanyo, SonyEricsson and Sharp. Out of these 10 phones, 6 of them will support the DMB One-Seg service. Take note that these phones are jointly developed beteen AU KDDI and the manufacturers, they will not be sold outside Japan and neither will they be unlockable. More details on each of these phones after the jump.

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What are the 2 things that come into mind with the word Casio? Anorexic cameras and G-shock watches. If you are a Verizon user, you must have hard the G’zOne phone, which was sold under the brand of UTStarcom, and you would probably be aware that the G’zOne phone is the G-shock phone, developed by Casio in Japan and later adopted to Verizon. The G’zOne phone is actually a whole series of phones in Japan, and it has been really popular too. Impress Japan had an interesting interview with the G-shock phone designers lately, and we thought it might be worthwhile to talk about it here. After all there is still a chance for Verizon to carry a second G’zOne phone in the future. The latest addition to the line-up is the E03CA, which is actually targeted to business market. Just for a recap, the specifications aren’t weak either, it retains all the shock/water/dust proof functionality of earlier G-shock phones, the camera is upgraded to 2 Megapixels and the screen widened to 2.4″ diagonally. The difference between the E03CA business model is mainly the battery (1200mAh in the biz model), the firmware (with the Business IM that supports conversation with up to 20 people simultaneously) and an even sturdier hinge. The whole idea was to develop a non-smartphone for young business users, and that it’s okay to look sporty when you are serious. Take a look at what the company is capable of doing, do give Verizon some pressure if you wish them to migrate this. — Sam Chan

Interview with the E03CA developers [Impress]

Korea just got blessed by Casio with the release of the XJ-S30/S35 projector, which is super slim and super sleek compared to its predecessors. This new projector fits into places you never thought possible and consumes less energy than its over-sized competitors. The XJ-S30/S35 projector is perfect for that home entertainment system you wanted to buy, except now you don’t have to sacrifice you child to get one of the new 50� plasmas; this will do the trick with its 2x wide-angle zoom and 2000 ANSI lumens brightness. The coolest part about this new Casio is that it is WLAN capable and has a USB port, meaning you can take your pirated movies directly from Bittorrent to your projector in your room.  Casio could make this beautiful device so small with water-cooling and heat-pipe technologies, along with a few others. As of now, there is no word on pricing, but with all the capabilities of Casio’s XJ-S30/S35 Projector, everyone in Korea should go and pick one up when they come out.

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Fuel cells seem to be the rage these days, what with LG showing off a concept laptop powered by one, and now Casio has developed this tiny wonder. Measuring just 27.2 x 46 x 2.8mm, Casio’s new fuel cell converts methanol to hydrogen gas. DigitalCameraInfo claims the device can remain ‘autonomous and continuous’, though it’s unlikely they mean that literally, which would make this a perpetual motion machine. In any case, this tiny chemical engine could be driving a camera or laptop near you soon, as Casio plans to release it early next year. — Mike Payne

[via DigitalCameraInfo]