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Cowon S9 Curve

admin — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 02:25:40 +0000

The Cowon S9 Curve which was first revealed back in August is all set to hit the stores of US market.

The Cowon S9 Curve is a audio/video player with a 3.3-inch screen boasting an incredible resolution of 480×272 with the display type being AMOLED. The player has BBE technology, known to deliver superior audio quality. No official word on the price or the exact date of availability, but the Cowon’s website indicates a mid-December release.

MahjongDisk Flash Drive

admin — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:35:40 +0000

Mahjong is a popular and addictive gambling game originated in China. The myth is that the game had been developed in about 500 BC. Okay, enough of the history. Now, MahjongDisk is one-of-a-kind handcrafted USB flash drive made from some fine wood material such as Lan-Xue and Li-Shui.

You have to pay a whopping $400 for a lower end drive made of Li-Shui wood. You can choose the wood material, drive capacity and the engravings. The Lan-Xue costs $100 more than the Li-Shui variety. The transfer speed of the drive is pretty decent at 18MB/s reads and 15MB/s writes.

Price:

Lan-Xue based drive costs 490$ for 80GB and $550 for 16GB

Li-Shui based drive costs $390 for 8GB and $450 for 16GB

Sony’s new S, E and B Series Walkman Players announced

admin — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 04:06:52 +0000

Do you think iPod and Zune are a passé? Well, it’s time for you to consider the Sony Walkman series. Sony announced all new DAP’s in S,E, and B Series.

The S-Series:

The super-light S-Series is the slimmest of all the series which is just 7.5 mm thin. It comes with a 2-inch QVGA LCD Screen with quick response times for playback at up to 30 frames/sec. The interface can be customized with 10 pre-installed wallpapers or you upload your favorite photo.

The battery life is up to 40hr for video playback(30hr with noise-cancellation enabled) and 10hr for video playback.

The E-Series:

The E-Series is meant for high-quality video and audio playback. The E-Series models are format-friendly, they can play the ripped tracks, music store downloads and rights-managed video clips. Non-DRM files can be dragged and dropped from the online music services to the Walkman players directly. The battery life is up to 45 hr for audio playback and 8 hr for video playback.

Both S and E-Series supports Open Platform, means more choices for the file types.

The B-Series:

The entry-level B-Series Walkman players is meant for only audio playback with high-quality sound of course, The players can be able to play mp3 and wma formats.

Battery life is up to 30hr.

Pricing:

The S-series of Walkman noise canceling video MP3 players come in two different storage capacities in black:
* The NWZ-S736F has approximately 4GB of internal storage and will cost about $150.
* The NWZ-S738F has approximately 8GB of internal storage and will cost about $180.
The E-series of Walkman video MP3 players will be available in the following configurations:
* The NWZ-E436F comes in black, red, pink, blue, has approximately 4GB of internal storage and costs about $100.
* The NWZ-E438F comes in black, red, pink, has approximately 8GB of internal storage, and costs about $140.
The B-series of Walkman MP3 players come in two different capacities and four colors:
* The NWZ-B133F player has approximately 1GB of internal storage; comes in black, red and blue and will cost about $45.
* The NWZ-B135F player has approximately 2GB of internal storage; comes in black, red and pink and will cost about $60.

Teddy Bear USB Drive

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:15:24 +0000

By the looks, its just an ordinary teddy bear, bur if you rip off its head, this Cutie turns into a handy 1 GB USB drive.

Features:

- Hi-Speed USB 2.0 certified, backward compatible with USB 1.1

- Plug and Play, Hot-Swapped capability

- Mass Storage Device class compatible.

- Support: Windows Vista, XP, 2000 and Mac OS

- Dimensions: 8cm x 9.5cm tall (approx.)

- Weight: 20g

Grab one at USBGeek

Price: 17$

Samsung’s MP3 Bluetooth Speaker

admin — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:51:34 +0000

Samsung unveiled its new 5.1 Bluetooth wireless speaker(YA-SBR510) today, which can be used with TV, PC or a MP3 Player. You can also connect these speakers to any ordinary audio devices through the regular cable.

There is a smaller version of the speakers, the YA-SD210 model for Samsung DAP’s (S2, T10 and P2)

Price: 220$

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Micron’s RealSSD – real-fast, low-cost SSD Drives

admin — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:05:15 +0000

Micron, the Intel’s partner in developing ultra-fast SSD’s just announced an update to its RealSSD line-up. The new P200 series, 2.5-inch(up to 250GB storage) and C200 series, 1.8-inch(up to 128GB) ultra-portable storage slabs offer an incredible 3Gbps SATA interface which is capable of reading 250 MB of data per second and writing 100MB of data per second. Now, that’s insanely fast. Unfortunately there is no word on the price, but Micron promised the cost to be lower.

Hot and Cold USB Coaster

admin — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:07:17 +0000

Cool down yourself with a cool drink, or warm yourself with a hot drink. Hot and Cold USB Coaster aka USB-TOY42 from SANWA Japan lets you do just that. The gadget can keep any drink cool to 15 degree Celsius or hot up to 40 degree Celsius. Price: $42

[via: GeekStuff4U]

[CeBIT 2008] Asus MS71 – A USB Drive cum Wireless Mouse

admin — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 14:48:25 +0000

Asus unveiled a device that looks like a large USB drive, but it is much more than that, it doubles up as a wireless laser mouse, it also has a scroll wheel. The mouse or USB drive, whatever, comes with magnetic locking mechanism which attaches a transmitter for charging.

Btw, How to browse something on the usb drive with the mouse ?

No word on the pricing and Tech Specs.

Zune 2 to debut tomorrow ?

admin — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:41:24 +0000

The rumor is that Bill Gates is going to officially announce the next version of Zune Player tomorrow. Zune 2 is a complete Flash based player. Design is not going to change but the player will be thinner.

Also the player is rumored to include Wi-Fi and higher storage than the its competitor iPod.

Kenwood’s new Media Keg Players

admin — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 02:09:55 +0000

Kenwood added two new Portable players to the already popular Media Keg Series. They come with internal memory of 1 and 2 GB’s. Design wise nothing changed. The new players also comes with a monochrome screen. But the big-one is the playback time. The device has an incredible playback time of 21 Hours.

The form factor of the device is very good with dimensions of about 38 x 92.5 x 12.5, and weighs about 38 grams.

The player comes with 6 Equalizer modes and USB 2.O compatible.

No official news on the Pricing and availability yet.