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Princeton Japan and its Jive Box for iPOD

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:23:00 GMT

Here your are another iPod friendly product, the Jive Box. Sold by Princeton in Japan the Jive Box is a simple 90W with Subwoofer cradle speaker for iPhone. Thanks to its ClassHD digital amplifier Princeton claim to provide a unique experience to any own daring using this product! On the “fun” side, some tiny LED placed on the body of this Jive Box will allow you to species things a little with some colors like, BLUE, RED and GREEN.
Finally the Jive Box also feature a USB connector letting...

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SyncMaster 2494HS, Now also in Japan

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:42:00 GMT

Samsung Japan juste announced the launch of their new SyncMaster 2494HS, a 23.6” LCD and its 1920x1080 resolution. Receiving Samsung’s dynamic contrast system, this LCD can achieve a contrast ratio up to 50000:1 with a brightness of 300cd/ms and a 5ms speed. The SyncMaster 2494HS also feature an HDMI, DVI (HDCP) and D-SUB port. If you are interested in this new LCD, you should expect 330€ sales price in Japan....

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The First EVER Hello Kitty Netbook!

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:22:00 GMT

Ladies and gentlemen, I am proud, very proud, to announce the first ever Hello Kitty Netbook! Onkyo Japan's Sotec will release a new Netbook based on their C1, the C101K3W, with a huge Hello Kitty reworked design!

Not only does it have a dedicated Hello Kitty wallpaper, but the lid design includes some Hello kitty flavor… A MUST for Hello Kitty fans!

As for specs, they're similar other Netbooks, an Atom N270 CPU, 1GB of RAM, an Intel 945GSE Express, 120...

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CAM-BABY Hands-on: Cute Baby Robots Ready to Conquer the Earth

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:13:00 GMT

Earlier this month in Japan Cube-Works introduced a cute little robot, the CAM-BABY, a little toy that reacts to a hand clap. Yep, there's nothing cuter than little walking robots that cry when they fall down.

Here's a short video for you, and a nice photo gallery. Useless indeed, but oh-so adorable (pet cats will really enjoy the CAM-BABY).

Available only in Japan or O...

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Cute Leaf Shaped Leather Key Ring with Integrated Speaker

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:27:00 GMT

Bird Electron, a Japanese store, released a leather, leaf shaped key ring (the EZ20YG). It includes a small speaker and audio jack, and can be used with ANY DAP.

Small, cute, and useless, but who knows? If you have an urgent need share your tunes, it may save your life one day.

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Marantz Releases a Wireless iPod Dock

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:14:00 GMT

Here's an interesting piece of news, a wireless iPod dock from Marantz. With Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR A2DP and Bluetooth AVRCP (Audio / Video Remote Control Profile), it lets iPod users with one or more home cradles (with charging features) in their home stream contents to any audio system (Marantz also provides a dedicated receivers).

If there are a few doubts concerning this systems audio streaming support. I, however, have some doubts about the iPod video streaming capa...

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Two New Full HD LCDs from Acer Japan

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:31:00 GMT

Introducing Acer Japan's H223HQbmid a 21.5” LCD, and H243Hbmid a 24” LCD, . Both with a very interesting screen resolution of 1920x1080. While many LCDs are 1920x1200, Acer chose to follow the HD trend for these two entry level LCDs starting from 250€ to 330€.

Specwise, the 21.5” has a 20000:1 contrast ratio and a brightness of 300cd/m2, while the 24” has a 40000:1 contrast ratio with the same brightness. Otherwise the view angle of our LDCs is 160/170 and a 72% color reproductio...

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Samsung Now Producing 256GB Solid State Drives

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:38:00 GMT

FYI, Samsung just started the mass production of their 256GB SSD, apparently with better performance than their previous SSDs, with a sequential read rate of 220MB/s (megabytes per second) and sequential write rate of 200MB/s.

If you're waiting to jump into the SSD world due to lack of performance, or simply because 128GB isn't enough for you, just wait a bit longer and Samsung will have exactly what you're waiting for!
Seoul, Korea – November 20, 2008: Samsung Electronics...

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New iPod Noise Cancellation Headphones from Maxell

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:15:00 GMT

Looking for a new set of noise cancellation headphones for your iPod? Here's Maxell's shiny new HP-NC20.IP that obliterate anything from 50-700Hz and up to 20dB.

The drawback of these headphones is they lack integrated batteries, meaning they get their juice directly from your iPOD, and by doing so, reduce your DAP battery lifespan.

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SD-P73SW, a New 7” Portable DVD Player from Toshiba

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:40:00 GMT

I still don't get the fact that people need a portable DVD player, unless they're 70 years old… as for the rest of us? Kids maybe? Well my daughter uses my iPhone in the car so…

If you're a portable DVD player (8mm thin) fan,　you'll be thrilled by the SD-P73SW, Toshiba's latest wonder. It features a 7” (480x234) LCD, and supports MP3, WMA, JPEG, and DivX files.

It will cost around 200€ in Japan....

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Get a New “Brain” from Sharp

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:16:00 GMT

Here's a new “Brain,” better known as the PW-TC980, Sharp's new compact digital dictionary. It features a nice 5” HVGA touchscreen (color), a 1Seg TV tuner, and “handwriting” PAD that allows you to write Kanji for definitions.

It contains 100 different publications (dictionaries, encyclopedias…), and internal data is updated via Internet (when connected to a PC).

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MSI Neton M16, M19, and M22: All-in-One Touchscreen PCs Unveiled

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:33:00 GMT

The Chinese version of Engadget attended the launch of a new batch of all in one MSI computers, the Neton M16 (15.6” 1366 x 768 ), M19 (18.5” 1366 x 768 ) and M22 (22” 1920 x 1080), a new breed of all in one PCs with integrated touchscreens. We don't have much information on specs, but they'll all be powered by an ATOM CPU (Ouch! Full HD and ATOM) and use XP Home OS.

They'll be released in early 2009, with prices ranging between $400 to $800 USD in Taiwan.

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Sony Adds Slacker Personal Radio to Bravia Internet Video Link Service

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:27:00 GMT

Only available for SONY USA, you'll be glad to learn that you can now access Slacker Personal Radio via Bravia Internet Video-link HDTV, allowing access to literally over a million songs available within 100 different programs.

More information below in the official press release.
SAN DIEGO, Nov. 19, 2008 – Slacker Personal Radio and Howcast Media have just become the latest Sony® BRAVIA® Internet Video Link content providers.

Slacker Personal Ra...

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The SR-G9001 Digital Dictionary, Your Computer's Best Friend

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:26:00 GMT

Here's an interesting Japanese compact dictionary, SII's SR-G9001. It's your typical black and white ( 5.2” VGA screen) dictionary with many different volumes (30 in total) ranging from standard, to language and technical.

Fairly normal so far, BUT there's a catch, it can be linked to a PC, and proprietary software allows access its data base and word search directly from a PC (PC only). I like the idea of a connected dictionary and would like to see other manufactu...

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Two New Wireless LAN Draft 2.0 11n Access Points from Buffalo

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:59:00 GMT

If you live/work in a large house/office and need decent wireless LAN coverage, Acces Point is your best friend. Here are two new APs from Buffalo, the WAPM-APG300N and WAPM-AG300N.

They provide 300Mbps (max), use the W56 band (5.6GHz) for outdoor use, and feature Multi-SSID, EE802.1X/EAP, AOSS, and WPS.

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