Cool leaf, an innovation of remote-controlling world from Minebea, in cooperation with Kazuo Kawasaki, now presents to answer the user needs for an easy-maintained device.

Frequent problem faced by the remote-controller user is when facing a fact that a typical keyboard can be a pain to keep clean. Wiping a cloth over and in-between the keys will get rid of a lot of the dirt and dust, but then users often have to deal with dirt that falls underneath the keys, while ignoring it would never end the problem.

This Minebea’s Cool Leaf is indeed a single sheet of acrylic which make absolutely no gaps for crumbs to fall through and lay underneath, and a very easy-to-clean surface.

Cool Leaf, consists of a keyboard, calculator, and remote control. Minebea created each device by combining a single piece of transparent acrylic, a mirror-type film, a light guide plate, and a capacitive touch panel.

The users then find it looks like a high-end range of devices, very futuristic, a modern device that are very easy to clean (or even need not to be cleaned). Another nice feature is the fact the surface just looks like a mirror when it is switched off, and only displays the key inputs when the device is turned on or plugged in. Incredible experience of remote-controlling has come.

Steve Jobs’ announcement on the stage at the launching of iPad has brought up the euphoria of inevitable product line-up of tablet, tablet, and many more tablets in this year’s Computex expo in Taipei. If there’s a competitive vendor trying to counter the popular iPad with its own modified product, Asus, Taiwan’s largest netbook manufacturers is absolutely the first one who do it. Asus has been passionately promoting their own Eee tablet netbook for months. Now they’re coming thorugh this new market layer of tablets with two different products: the Asus EeePad and the Asus Eee Tablet.

The EeePad comes in two types: the 12-inch EP21 and the tinier 10-inch EP101-TC. The EP121 features a CULV Intel Core 2 Duo processor, a webcam, USB port, Windows 7 and an iPad-caliber battery life of up to 10 hours. The retail prices are predicted somewhere between $399 and $499, but this is still a concept-product that still needs more time to hit the market: Asus doesn’t expect it to ship until the first quarter of the next year. Clearly, Apple has got the upper hand in selecting the earlier launching time.

Then here comes Eee Tablet. Strangely, it’s not a tablet per se, but an e-reader (raising an interesting question for Asus: why not just call it Eee Reader?) Sporting a 64-level gray scale LCD (not e-ink) display capable of a resolution of 1024×768 and 2450 dpi input sensitivity, it’s an ideal device for taking notes or making doodles. The Eee Tablet…