Sony is going to annouce new flash player, the NW-A 002 (512MB), 003 (1GB) and 005 (2GB) to replace the existing E100/E300 series (it will not replace the NW-A3000, nor NW-A1000). The NW-A price will be below the Apple iPod Nano in the related sizes in order to attract most consumers.
The Origami craze is everywhere nowadays. You may have noticed that Origami /UMPC (Ultra Mobile Personal Computer) news is everywhere. And here comes again a UMPC device from Korean company, Daewoo, named Lucoms. Daewoo Lucoms’ model is in fact based on a product from Founder. So just like the Samsung Origami, you get a 7-inch screen, 30 to 60GB of HDD, 512MB of RAM and a Pentium M900.
Olympus unveiled the Voice-Trek V-11 voice recorder that has 64MB of internal memory and offers between 4 hours 20 minutes and 27 hours of recording time, depending on the compression rate.
It has built-in monaural microphone to allow voice recording in WMA type. The device is powered by a single AAA battery and battery is detachable to turn it to a USB key function (look at the right picture).
Thomson introduced LYRA X3000 PMP featuring a 3.6-inch 320×240 screen, 20GB HDD, and forthcoming DirecTV 2 Go support. The Personal Media Recorder does the time-shift feature with real-time MPEG4 recording from any analog video source (they include a docking base to make it easier to record stuff), and can offload video from a DirecTV at 10x speed once DirecTV rolls out the functionality. Constant video playback is can last up to four. It includes a universal IR remote control for those times when handheld is too close. The unit weighs eight ounces and is 0.75-inches thick.
It’s weird, but actually a great idea to turn a damage floppy disks into brushes. This cute little anti-static nylon keyboard brush springs out of a 3-1/2 x 3-5/8 x 1/4 inch thick floppy-disk-styled plastic case. The brush itself has a 2-1/2 inch long row of narrow bristles. Its super-thin shape allows you to bring it wherever you like.
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