Sony’s Google TV controller has been leaked ahead of schedule, showing up on an episode of NBC Nightline. The controller looks like it combines a full QWERTY keyboard with two directional pads, your usual volume/channel controls for the TV, and a variety of playback buttons. The large layout leaves room for extra button rows with numbers and shortcuts for other functions. It looks pretty good.

Google TV-enabled devices are scheduled to arrive on the market next week. Sony will introduce its Bravia GT1 TV, while Logitech is readying its Revue set-top box. We aren’t sure if Sony will introduce the controller alongside the TV or not.

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This week at CEATEC, Fujitsu demonstrated two portable tablets running on Windows 7. The pair are prototypes for the moment, so sadly no specs were revealed. The company also showed off a Design Concept flip phone, which sported dual touchscreens that can rotate to offer a landscape view.

The handset was preloaded with Fujitsu’s proprietary OS, which could hold it back big time if or when it’s launched since the apps market isn’t likely to be capable of competing with the Android Market or iTunes store.

Acer has introduced the Acer C20 pico projector that is the size of a smartphone, measuring only 118 x 60.8 x 18.6mm. The new Acer C20 projects images 1,280 x 800 with a 2,000:1 contrast ratio and weighs in at just 166g.

The Acer C20 has a LED bulb that has a lifetime of up to 20,000 hours, and can easily be connected to a laptop, mobile phone or camcorder using the built-in USB and HDMI ports.

Computer keyboards can contain up to five times the amount of bacteria as toilet seats, or so we’ve heard. Germs are having a filthy and nasty party all over the keyboard. If you want to be healthy you better crash that party.

Germ Genie can help. The device is placed over your keyboard and shines a UV light on the keypad to wipe out those filthy buggers. If you could see them with your naked eye, it would look like a bloody massacre of little germ bodies.

The Motorola Flipout Android handset is finally debuting on AT&T in the U.S. The handset isn’t available yet, but users can sign up to get notified about when it will be offered at att.com/flipout. The Flipout features a 90-degree screen spin and an orange back battery cover, along with a 5-row QWERTY keyboard.

The Flipout runs Android 2.1, and has MOTOBLUR 1.5. There’s also a 2.8-inch QVGA touchscreen, a 600 MHz TI OMAP 34100 processor, and support for HSDPA and EDGE bands on AT&T’s network.

Well, here’s a first. We’ve never seen a round laptop before. It comes from Revo Round, so maybe it isn’t so surprising. Yep, this is a round laptop that comes with a round display, a round case and a curved keyboard.

It’s called the Roundtop. This has to be how aliens use the internet in their UFOs. This concept model would take some getting used to. Revo Round hopes that their Roundtop technology will see action as billboards and other displays one day. Good thing too, because this laptop is just too weird.

AT&T will also be getting a higher-end Motorola Android smartphone in its lineup. The Motorola Bravo. This one will feature a 3.7-inch FWVGA touchscreen display. The Bravo will be a tablet oriented smartphone without a sliding hardware keyboard.

It will launch with Android 2.1 with MOTOBLUR 1.5, with 2 GB of internal storage, which can be augmented with a memory card. We don’t have any additional specs for CPU, camera, or video resolution yet though. We do know that it will have an FM tuner and supports the carrier’s HSDPA 7.2 Mbps and HSUPA 2.0 Mbps protocols.

AT&T has announced the Motorola Flipside, an Android smartphone. The Flipside has a sliding keyboard form factor, with a front trackpad. It sports a 3.1-inch HVGA screen and Motorola’s CrystalTalk technology for noise cancellation.

Some other features include MOTOBLUR, Android 2.1, and a TI OMAP 3410 processor with HSDPA 7.2 Mbps support. There is 512 MB/256 MB ROM/RAM and a 2 GB microSD card in the box. Bluetooth, WiFi b/g, and GPS are standard.

Android’s huge growth has now been illustrated by Nielsen’s statisticians in the above chart of recent US smartphone purchases. It shows very clearly that over the six months leading up to August 2010, 32 percent of American new phone buyers have bought a device with Google’s OS on board.

Android is comfortably ahead of RIM at 26 percent and Apple at 25 percent. These results seem to confirm NPD’s figures, which have Android at 33 percent of new US purchases. Android is indeed dominating.

Netflix had already added video out support to its iPad app a few months back, and it’s now it is adding the same functionality to your iPhone and iPod touch as well.

That doesn’t include all iPhone and iPod touch users, however. The app will only support video out on the iPhone 4 and fourth generation iPod touch. If you’re cool with that, and we know you are, you can get the updated app for free right now.

Android users have been waiting for this for a long time and now Skype is finally offering Skype for a wide range of Android phones. Android users just need to go to skype.com/m and follow the instructions there.

You can make Skype-to-Skype calls of course, and users will be able to send and receive IMs as, one-to-one, or in a group chat. You can also call phones using Skype Credit over Wi-Fi or 3G. If you are already a Skype user, you’ll see your full contact list when you sign into your account on your Android phone.

Somewhere right now Tron guy just jizzed in his pants. UD Replicas has unveiled its latest replica motorcycle suits and this time they feature designs from the new Tron flick set to launch soon. The guy’s suit is based on the Sam Flynn suit in the movie and the ladies suit looks similar.

The suit features CE approved body armor, form molded leather detailing, light reflective accents, and heavy duty stretch spandex. The suit has a silicone hexagon print and a form molded leather disk. The suit comes in four different pieces.

Acer has been in the netbook business for years now. Sales of netbooks are slumping as tablets and full notebooks are doing better now that the worst of the economic slump is behinds us. Acer has announced the addition of a new netbook to its line.

The new machine is called the Aspire One AOD255. Acer will offer the machine with either an Atom N450 single-core CPU or a N550 dual-core CPU inside. The machines will both support DDR3 and get 1GB of memory standard. Storage for the machine is to a 250GB HDD.

Over the years, I have laid eyes on some strange casemods and have seen more than one machine that was submerged in oil. A new casemod has surfaced that has a Bioshock theme. The builder uses an aquarium to put his new HTPC under four gallons of mineral oil.

The mineral oil is normally used as a laxative for horses apparently. The mainboard and PSU are mounted to a clear plastic sheet and placed into the aquarium. The only hardware part not under the oil is the HDD. The maker rounded the design out with a bubble filter, gravel and a few other things.

Hitachi has unveiled a new family of HDDs that are aimed at use in mobile devices like netbooks and notebooks. The new drives have 750GB capacity and they will be offered in 5400-rpm and 7200-rpm versions. Each of the versions has the same platters inside.

Those new platters have 375GB per platter and allow the high capacity HDDs to fit into a standard 9.5mm form factor. The drives are also resistant to shock that mobile devices will encounter. The new drives are also the first from Hitachi to use Advanced Format with larger physical sector sizes to help use the storage area more efficiently.