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Sony Releases Ultra-compact Notebook PC in Japan

Sony will release its VAIO VGN-P50 ultra-compact entry-level laptop in the Japanese market on June 6th, 2009. This Windows XP-powered laptop measures 245mm x 120mm x 19.8mm and weighing at 626grams. It has an 8-inch ultra wide LCD screen with a 1.33GHz Intel Atom Z520 processor, a 1GB RAM, a 80GB HDD, and Intel’s US15W chipset. Other features include a couple of USB 2.0 slots, IEEE 802.11 b/g/n wireless LAN, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, multi-card reader and four hours of battery life. The Sony VAIO VGN-P50 is priced at around 85,000 Yen ($890).

Onkyo’s Latest 21.5-inch Full HD LCD Monitor

The Sotec LA21TW-01S is Onkyo’s latest 21.5-inch Full HD (1920 x 1080) LCD monitor. The HD LCD screen provides a HDMI and DVI-D port, a 1000:1 contrast ratio, a brightness level of 300cd/m2, and an integrated 1.6Watts x 2ch speaker. You can buy the Sotec LA21TW-01S for around 34,800 Yen ($364).

Alienware All Powerful M17X Gaming Laptop Revealed Early

Ah, the sweet smell of a broken embargo. Alienware’s All Powerful M17x gaming notebook thought it had a few days of tease left in it, but the 17-inch 1920 x 1200 Core 2 Extreme quad-core behemoth has been set free by PCWorld. Under the carefully creased hood there’s up to 8GB of 1,333MHz DDR3 RAM and a choice of up to 1TB 7,200rpm hard-drive or 512GB SSD. Graphics are courtesy of two 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M GPUs.

There’s also a dual-layer Blu-ray drive, nine-cell battery, GeForce 9400M G1 GPU with HybridPower (in case you want to save some battery runtime) and more ports and connectivity than you can shake a brace of cables at. WiFi draft-n is joined by FireWire, four USB 2.0, eSATA, HDMI, DisplayPort and an ExpressCard slot.

Still, when you’ve got an 11.68lb anodized aluminum laptop measuring 15.98 x 12.65 x 2.11 inches there’s more than enough room to funnel in the superlatives. Admittedly, a lot of these headline-grabbers are optional, hence the starting price of $1,799 when it “officially” arrives.

Nokia 6730 Classic Coming To Vodafone

Vodafone is set to launch another candybar phone from Nokia namely the Nokia 6730 classic starting June. This new handset will be available exclusively across Vodafone’s global footprint, meaning in many European markets, as well as some African and Asian ones. Running on Symbian S60, the 6730 boasts a 2.2-inch QVGA display with 16 million colors, a 3.2MP camera with autofocus and LED flash, GPS, Nokia Maps, personal & business email, Mobile Internet support, Vodafone Music Client, a 1GB microSD card, Bluetooth and supports both quad band GSM connectivity (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) as well as dual band HSDPA connectivity (900/2100 MHz). Pricing info is still unknown at the moment.

Garmin 310XT Waterproof GPS Watch

The Garmin 310XT from Garmin is the sport watch that I have been looking for, it is waterproof and has long battery life. Available in a sleek design with orange strip, the 310XT allows you to wear it to a depth of 50 meters underwater. This GPS watch is also able to track speed, distance and location accurately and effortlessly. If you are interested, you can buy the Garmin 310XT for $349.99 a pop.

ViewSonic TrueView Digital Photo Frames Revealed

ViewSonic has added three new digital photo frames to its TrueView line in the form of the 7-inch VFD720, 8-inch VFD820 and 10.4-inch VFD1020. All three photo frames are equipped with a 4:3 aspect ratio, calendar and clock functions, a slideshow feature with various display speeds and transition effects, a 2GB of internal memory, a memory card slot, a USB port and a wireless remote. The main difference is that the 7-inch and 8-inch only come with a 800 x 600 resolution, meanwhile, the 10.4-inch offers a 1,024 x 768 resolution. All three photo frames will be available by the end of next month with prices ranging from $80 to $130.

Digital-CowBoy Acrylic Cowboy ACPC5

The Digital-CowBoy Acrylic Cowboy ACPC5 PC case is enough to hold ATX or Micro ATX motherboard, a power supply, and a HDD. This Acrylic PC Case is currently available in blue or white at GeekStuff4U for 13,900 Yen ($145). - Source

Verbatim TuneBoard Keyboard and Mouse

Verbatim just rolled out a new keyboard with incorporated speakers and two new wireless mouse. The Verbatim TuneBoard keyboard comes with iTunes control keys, switchable backlighting and bass boost, in addition to providing headphone and microphone connections and a built-in microphone. The Verbatim Laser Mouse connects to a computer via Bluetooth, meanwhile the Verbatim Desktop Wireless Laser Mouse uses a non-standard 2.4GHz connection so it requires a USB dongle. The TuneBoard retails for $70 and the Bluetooth mouse is priced at $40 and the desktop mouse at $30.

Sony Ericsson’s Phone That Can Access Your Sony PlayStation 3

Sony Ericsson's Aino isn't the PSP phone, but maybe it's the next best thing—it's the first phone with Remote Play, so you can remotely control your PS3 and watch videos from it over Wi-Fi or anywhere through the internet. Why the hell didn't Sony do this before?

It also has a new feature called Media Go that'll automatically pull media off your PC over Wi-Fi whenever you plop it in the charging stand—obviously it requires a client on your PC, but whatever.

Oh yeah, it's a 3G GSM phone too. It's got a 3-inch screen, 8-megapixel camera with geo-tagging, light photo editing and video recording, built-in Facebook, YouTube, and Google apps like Search and Maps. It'll be out at the end of the year, likely for an ungodly sum given all the features packed into it.

Kingston 12GB Triple Channel HyperX Memory Kit

Kingston comes back with their new 12GB triple channel DDR3 HyperX memory kit that was specially built just for the Intel Core i7 platform. The kit consists of three 4GB RAM modules running at 1600MHz, and have been optimized for XMP. There are also HyperX kits in 3GB and 6GB options. The 12GB kit is priced at a hefty $1,400.

Creative ZEN Mozaic EZ300 PMP

Creative ZEN Mozaic EZ300 is the company’s latest PMP for the Japanese market that features a 1.8-inch LCD display, a built-in speaker and microphone, an 8GB of storage and supports up to 32 hours of music playback as well as 5 hours of video playback. The device runs on both Windows XP and Vista OS. You’ll be able to get your hands on this new PMP starting the end of May for a retail price of 7,980 Yen ($83).

General Mobile DSTL1 Dual-SIM Android Phone For The US, Turkey

General Mobile is set to launch their latest dual-sim Android phone namely the DSTL1 starting June. According to Android Authority, the phone will be first released in the US and Turkey, with Russia and Germany to follow. As for the specs itself, you’ll get a 3-inch TFT resistive touchscreen display with 240 x 400 resolution, a 624MHz Marvell PXA 310 processor, a 5MP autofocus camera with flash, an Android 1.5 Cupcake, dual SIM card slots, a 4GB microSDHC card, music and video players, Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR, A2DP and supports Tri-band GSM connectivity (900/1800/1900MHz). However, there’s no 3G support. The phone should be priced between $550 and $750.

Panasonic DMP-B15 - World’s First Portable Blu-ray Player

Panasonic announced at the CES 2009 the DMP-B15, which is the world’s first portable Blu-ray Disc player. The Panasonic DMP-B15 features a 8.9-inch WSVGA LCD display and supports BD-Live and VIERA CAST internet accessibility.

Panasonic’s DMP-B15 plays Blu-ray as well as DVD discs. It comes with the PHL Reference Chroma Processor Plus, a high quality image-processing technology. It has a SD card slot that allows users to view their digital photos or HD videos. The DMP-B15 has HDMI output.

With the VIERA CAST, the portable Blu-ray player can access internet contents like Amazon Video-on-Demand, YouTube; Google Picasa Web Album; Bloomberg and a weather channel. The Panasonic DMP-B15 will be available in May. -Source

LG To Release LG-GD900 Crystal in 40 Countries

LG has plan to release its LG-GD900 Crystal in 40 countries across the world. The cell phone is claimed to be the first mobile phone with transparent keyboard in the world. The cell phone comes with a “Gesture Shortcut” on its keyboard that allows you to access different functions. The LG-GD900 Crystal has an 8MP shooter, a 3-inch WVGA LCD, a 32GB of internal memory, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and LG latest S-Class next generation 3D User Interface.

MSI Wind X340 Now Available In The US For $800

MSI has announced the availability of its ultra-slim MSI Wind X340 netbook for the US market. The X340 was first introduced back in April, in case you missed it, here’s a brief reminder; measuring only 0.78 inches thick, the X340 is packed with a 13.4-inch display with 1366 x 768 resolution, an Intel ULV SU3500 processor, an Intel GMA 4500MHD graphics, a 1.3 megapixel camera, a 2GB of RAM, a 320GB hard drive, an SD/MMC card reader, 2 USB ports, VGA and HDMI outputs, WiFi, Bluetooth, Windows Vista Home Premium OS and an optional 4 cell or 8 cell battery. The MSI Wind X340 netbook is priced at $799.99 upwards.

Samsung S5050 Slider Phone

Samsung S5050 is the company’s latest slider phone that looks quite similar to the S5200 that was announced in Russia yesterday. Though they’re quite similar in both design and features, the S5050 is packed with an AMOLED QVGA screen, meanwhile, the S5200 offers a TFT QVGA screen. So here are the rest of the specs: a Quad-band GSM/EDGE connectivity, a 3.2MP autofocus camera with LED flash, an FM radio with RDS, a 40MB of internal memory, a microSDHC card slot, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP connectivity and a 800 mAh battery. The phone is expected to hit the market starting this summer for a retail price around $235.

Sony DVP-FX930 Portable DVD Player

The DVP-FX930 is Sony’s latest portable DVD player that comes with a 9-inch LCD with a 800×480 resolution. Its battery provides up to 6-hours of DVD playback time. The player also supports MP3 or JPEG files stored on a USB thumb drive. The Sony DVP-FX930 will be released next month in Japan for around 35000 Yen ($361).

JVC Releases New 120Hz 1080p LCD TV

If you are bored with your old LCD TV, then you can now purchase the latest 42-inch 120Hz 1080p LCD TV from JVC, which is dubbed as the Xiview LT-42WX70. It has the ability to display expanded color space capacity encompassing 100 percent of HDTV broadcasting’s color space alongside a coverage rate of 96% for Adobe RGB. The LT-42WX70 also features 52 picture-quality adjustment properties that allows for tweaking of both still and video images source-by-source to the exact colors and tones, according to your preference. The JVC LT-42WX70 is now available for around $2,399.95each.

Ninja 2G USB Shuriken

GeekStuff4U starts selling the new Shuriken-shaped USB thumb drive that will allow you to get all data through the USB memory hidden in the Shuriken. The drives comes with a 2GB of storage capacity. You can buy it via online for 10500 Yen.

Two Cyber-shot Digital Cameras from Sony

Sony just introduced two new Cyber-shot cameras in Europe. The 10.1MP Cybershot W180 and 12.1MP Cybershot W190 feature Sony’s smile shutter technology, 3x zoom stabilized with SteadyShot, 2.7-inch LCD, ISO 3200 sensitivity, and 7 automatic scene selection modes. Pricing info is still unavailable.

Sanwa 32GB USB Flash Drive With An eSATA Connector

Sanwa has rolled out a 32GB USB flash drive that features an eSATA connector on the other end, providing you with a transfer speed of up to 75MB/sec when used in eSATA. Sadly, it’s only available in Japan at the moment for unannounced price yet.

Jobo Plano 8 Digital Picture Frame

The Jobo Plano 8 digital picture frame has an 8-inch (800 x 600) LCD screen with a 400:1 contrast ratio, a multi-card reader, and a USB port for data transfer. Unfortunately, this gadget only supports JPEG files. The Jobo Plano 8 will be available later in June with an AC adapter, remote control, and manual at an MSRP of $129. The 7- and 10.4-inch models will be available for $99 and $179, respectively.

New Sony’s High-end Mini-sound System Leaked

Sony’s new CMT-Z100iR has been unveiled. This high-end stylish iPod/iPhone/iTouch micro component system boasts audio in, CD playback capability, and a USB port so you can connect your USB-equipped portable music player for additional playback/recording options. Other features include a USB port, two 20W speakers, touch panel controls, a 3.5mm audio-in jack, bass/treble adjustments, an integrated AM/FM radio and a remote control. The price ranges from $150 to $250.

Microsoft's Zune HD Coming this Fall

Microsoft has officially announced that the Zune HD will be released this Fall 2009. Microsoft will officially unveil more details of the Zune HD at the upcoming E3 next week. Chris Stephenson, general manager of global marketing for Microsoft Zune, has also confirmed the Zune HD will be a straight rival to the iPod Touch. The Zune HD comes with a 3.3-inch (480 x 272) OLED capacitive touchscreen display, a built-in HD Radio receiver, and an HD output. We will keep you posted.

Thinkware Low-end Navigation Gadget

Thinkware just released its low-end navigation device in South Korea. Known as the iNAVI ES300, the gadget adopts metallic keypads with blue/red LED lights on the both sides. The iNAVI ES300 also features “ECO Drive” function, DMB support, “LCD Off” function, and a built-in 900mAh battery. The 2GB, 4GB, and 8GB models are priced at 329,000 Won($259), 379,000 Won($298), and 429,000 Won($337), respectively.

Samsung Gloss u440 Released In The US

Samsung’s latest clamshell phone ‘Gloss U440′ or also known as the Samsung Cleo in the Canada is now available for purchase in the US via U.S. Cellular. This fashionable handset offers a 2.2-inch TFT internal display, an external display, a 1.3MP camera, a full QWERTY keyboard, a music player, easyedge Service, a microSDHC card slot and Stereo Bluetooth connectivity. The phone is available in two color versions: charcoal and pink for unannounced price yet.

Unlocked Touch Pro2 Launched

The unlocked version of HTC Touch Pro2 is now available in the States. The phone comes with a sliding QWERTY keyboard, a 3.2MP digicam with auto-focus, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, a microSD (HC) card slot, an FM radio with RDS and a 528Mhz Qualcomm CPU. You can also get the speakerphone system called “HTC Straight Talk” for conference calls.

LG LH55 Series LCD HDTV

LG’s latest LH55 series have been released this week. These LCD HDTVs feature an advanced 240Hz technology with unique scanning backlight technology that increases motion picture response time, allowing your eyes to enjoy a smoother, more natural picture. Other features includes a 80,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, four HDMI inputs, and ambient light sensors. The 37-inch, 42-inch, 47-inch and 55-inch models are priced at $1,399.95, $1,799.95, $2,099.95 and $3,899.95, respectively.

Elecom Scope Node wireless Mouse

The company has released the USB cable for this wireless USB dongle. As a reminder, the mouse has a 1600dpi resolution and is compatible with PC and Mac. Elecom’s Scope Node will be available in Japan in the middle of June. You can also pre-order this mouse via online for 13,100 Yen.

The SCOPE NODE incorporates a laser sensor capable of achieving a higher recognition rate in low-contrast situations than that of a conventional optical mouse. The sensor can pick up subtle movement of the mouse and accurately translate the movement into the cursor movement. The SCOPE NODE is also characterized by its laser sensor position aligned to that of the pen tip, so that the sensor's high-resolution performance (1,600 dpi) can be accurately represented on the screen. In short, you can use "a PC monitor and a mouse" just like "a piece of paper and a pen" because you can use the mouse just "like you're holding a pen!" for writing or drawing.
Lastly, this version is a Wireless Model working on 2.4 GHz Band

Additional Information
Maker / Model: Elecom / Scope Node Wireless Laser Mouse
Interface: USB Micro Receiver
Radiowave Frequency: 2.4 GHz
Laser Resolution: 1600 dpi
Laser Standard: Class 1: JIS C6802 / IEC60825-1
Size: 75 x 110 x 38 mm
Battery: Standard AAA Battery

Second Generaton of Thanko MP3 Clock DX Alarm Clock

Here is the second generation of the Thanko Classical MP3 Clock, the DX version. The alarm clock allows you to select different alarms, or alternatively you can add your favorite MP3 tunes or even a sounds that you have recorded yourself. The MP3 Clock DX is currently available at GeekStuff4U for 3,850Yen or equal to $40.

Nokia N900 Internet Tablet Leaked

The specs of the upcoming Nokia N900 internet tablet have been unveiled. Measuring 59.7mm x 111mm x 18.2mm and weighing at 180grams, the successor to the current N810 will be featured by a 3.5-inch 800×480 (WVGA) touchscreen, OMAP3430 500/600 Mhz processor, a 1GB total virtual runtime memory, a 32GB internal storage (expandable up to 48GB via external memory), a 5.0MP Carl Zeiss camera with dual-LED flash, auto-focus and sliding cover. Other features include Wi-Fi, HSPA, GPS, and accelerometer. However, there is no confirmation from Nokia so far. Stay tuned for more updates.

Sharp Solar Panel for Mobile Devices

Sharp Corporation has successfully developed the new LR0GC02 Solar Module for mobile devices that measures at only 0.8 mm thick. These solar cells are based on polycrystalline silicon and provide a maximum power of 300 mW. The Sharp LR0GC02 is now available for the global market, which means that we will see more solar-powered cell phones in the near future.

2GB Credit Card Size Dictaphone

The Serpent Speakers concept is designed by Ben Wahrich. It is able to bend and turn, sitting and playing dead if the situation calls for it. The speaker concept is flexible and is capable of remaining bent on your desk or table.