Get A Custom Paint Job For Earbuds At A Nail Salon, Type On A Baguette, Thenbuild A Fountain For Your Pc
Computex Taiwan’s Computex conference sprawls across four exhibition halls in which almost 1,500 exhibitors jostle for attention.
The Register found time to walk the halls and spotted some intriguing products we think deserve your attention.
Keybread – that’s not a typo!
China’s Shenzhen Yinchen Company runs two mechanical keyboard brands. One, MonsGeek, makes serious fare for gamers and businesses.
The other, “Akko”, goes cute with keyboards that feature licensed characters like Hello Kitty or – as with the “Bun Wonderland” model below – go in very odd directions indeed by making every letter and number key look like a little bun and using baking-related motifs on other keys.
Akko’s ‘Bun Wonderland’ keyboard – Click to enlarge
We suggested to an Akko rep that the company considers teenage girls the market for such devices. She replied that a few boys might like this sort of thing, too.
Underneath all that weirdness are garden-variety mechanical keyboard switches, which is why Akko also sells Bun Wonderland keycaps as a standalone item you can find at Amazon.
Sadly, making the keys resemble buns makes them very hard to type on.
Customize your earbuds at the nail salon
Chinese company Biosong displayed an interesting take on earbuds with its B7 model that includes a slot to house a small sliver of the material used for acrylic fingernail extensions.
The company thinks owners will paint those panels – or take them to a nail salon to have them painted – so their buds look unique. LEDs under the slot housing the acrylic slivers mean designs will also sparkle.
Biosong B7 customisable earbud panels – Click to enlarge
When I visited Biosong’s stand I met a product buyer who told me this is not a bonkers product, because the accessories market for earbuds is mostly limited to cases and nail salons could become a new venue at which to sell consumer tech products. He liked the idea that Biosong could generate ongoing revenue from its buds by selling extra packs of blank acrylic slivers – which the company plans to do in ten-packs.
Chinese media report Biosong launched the B7 in May and showed off charms and gems to fit in the ornamentation slot.
Jensen everywhere and ready-to-wear
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang might be the rare tech exec who really does have rock star status.
Demand to attend his keynote was so strong it was moved from Taipei’s exhibition center to the nearby Music Center and its 5,000-seat auditorium. He strode on stage to rapturous applause and whooping, then stole the show during guest appearances at keynotes by Foxconn and MediaTek.
Nvidia even set up a merch store for Computex and the GTC conference it ran alongside the event, and the hot item was a party shirt covered in small cartoonish images of Huang’s head.
Jensen Huang Party Shirt from Computex 2025 – Click to enlarge
The shirts cost NT$1100 ($37). Your correspondent doesn’t look good in black and can’t imagine an appropriate occasion on which to leave the house wearing the garment.
If you can think of a reason to add it to your wardrobe, a word of advice: Nvidia handed out t-shirts to media at Huang’s keynote and the XL-sized item given to The Register would be rated medium-sized outside Taiwan.
Liquid cooling and liquid decoration
Extreme PC case mods are a regular feature at Computex, and this year there were plenty of outrageous items on display.
The one we liked best uses liquid to cool its parts and make it pretty with a little waterfall.
ASUS saves your arms
Furniture to protect gamers’ bodies the long hours they spend at play is another Computex staple. This year ASUS introduced the “Destrier Core” that we’re told “includes an adjustable headrest, lumbar support, and luxuriously padded armrests, with a special elevation mode just for mobile gaming, ensuring comfort for long hours of play.”
ASUS also debuted the XG Station 3 external graphics dock, a device that can house and cool NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 or AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series GPUs, and connect them to a laptop or Tablet computer over Thunderbolt 5.
ASUS XG Station 3 (Thunderbolt 5) external graphics dock – Click to enlarge
We saw a few Computex stands on which vendors suggested similar setups as a fine way to turn a laptop into an AI or graphics workstations. ®
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