KDDI has just announced that their new waterproof Bravia Phone U1 together with the IIda model PRISMOID and the PRISMOID phone will receive a new case, the SIWA, which has been made from Japanese paper. Available as of December.

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This new video camera by UMAZONE has 53(W) × 65(H) × 112(D) mm, weighs 320 g (body only) and features a 3.0 inches wide TFT color LCD monitor. It is also equipped with 5 x optic zoom, 503-megapixel 1/ 2.5 type CMOS image sensor, 8G3P (8 layer Glass ; 3 layer plastic) lenses with F 3.3~3.7/ F=6.8~34 mm. It has max 20 (5x optic 4 x digital) zoom function, ½~1/4,000 sec shutter speed, Auto 800/1600 ISO sensitivity. Video recording size and max. frame rate ranges from Full HD (1080 p/30 fps) to QVGA (240 p/ 30fps) and it is possible to shoot videos of 100-150 minutes duration. It has 128 MB internal flash memory, can support SD Card (max. 2GB), SDHC card (max.32 GB), JPEG, MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 (AVI) formats and is compatible with Windows XP (SP3 and later) and Windows Vista(SP1 and later) operating systems with Core 2 Duo 2Ghz (or more)and 2GB of memory (or more). Finally its is equipped with Mini USb2.0, Digital TV (mini HDMI/Type C) and Analog TV(mini pin jack-RCA) output terminals...

Well, in short, seems like a nice toy for your leisure time....

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Bluedot latest DVD player, a.k.a BDP-1945, features a nice 9” Wide LCD with a 800x480 resolution, and support both MP3 and CD MP3, but the most important things of all here is the “slim” 29mm body of our player and its weight of 970g.

Finally our DVD player will be available in Japan within December and sold around 25000 Yen.

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Finally Century decided to offer a SATA and IDE Combo HDD Stage rack where you will be not only able to connect your SATA drive in it but also your old IDE one… Like I said to Century yesterday during our meeting, this product is awesome, but also awesomely too late on the market… Who still owns IDE HDDs nowadays?!?!!?

Anyway this product will be available in Japan starting next December in both eSATA/USB and USB only version and you can pre-order yours today via GeekStuff4U.com here just after the jump[/url].

A previous USB only model was introduced on the market just last week

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Sharp has just announced their four new information displays offering 60” (PN-E601), 52” (PN-E521), 47 “ (PN-E471) and 42” (PN-E421). The first two models (60 and 52 inches) are reported to have superior displays thanks to the advanced LCD technology, the so-called UV2A (Ultraviolet induced multi-domain Vertical Alignment) developed by the company, achieving high resolution images with low power consumption. All four models are fanless, thus not noisy, and promise to be capable of operating 24 hours. 60 inch and 52 inch displays come with 5000:1 contrast ratio and max. 500 cd/ m2 brightness, whereas 47 inch display has 1000:1 contrast ratio and max.700cd/m2 of brightness and finally 42 inch display features 3000:1 contrast ratio and 700cd/m2.　

Except the 60 inch display which is scheduled to be on the market on December 22, the rest will be on sale starting with December 25 this year. No price info.

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Diatec who usually offer some pretty heavy and gamer oriented keyboard, (Here for more information, decided today to give to its line-up of keyboard a more girly touch with its new Strawberry/pink colored Majestouch FKB108M/JP.

Not sure if this new FKB108M/JP will be a hot seller but still, I am sure that my daughter will appreciate this new addition.

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It is not the first time that Century propose a dual 2.5” HDD enclosure which can be fitted where you used to place your floppy drive if you ever used one in your life… (WOW did not use a floppy in years!)… But our newly announced contestant better known as CERS25R-BK, features a Silicon Image chipset allowing the support of hardware RAID 1 or 0, and plug the overall setting directly to your MB via SATA.
Not sure about your, but for me who happen to run a multi OS device (EFi-X) and in desperate need for more HDD (All my Antec P183 HDD slot are full), this new little CERS25R-BK with RAID support would be just ideal for installing a fast Raid 0 Windows 7 setting!

Only available in Japan so far, this CERS25R-BK can however be ordered online via GeekStuff4U.com via this link

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Not only ACER Gemstone AS8940G-BR101, is a quite elegant 18.4 Notebook, but it also a pretty impressive piece of technology. Under the hood, or should I say the keyboard our Gemstone is powered by an Intel Core i7-720QM (1.6GHz), has 4GB of RAM, 1TB of HDD, a GeForce GTS 250M with 1GB of VRAM, a Blu-Ray drive with DVD burner, HDMI Out… and a beautiful 18.4” Full HD monitor…

Our notebook, or rather should I call it, our notebook replacement, weight 4.6kg, has 3.5h of battery life, and will be sold in Japan starting next this December at around 199800 Yen.

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These phones look yummy...Still pondering what to get for a New Year gift? Looking for something sweet but also functional? Here may be the address you should visit (of course, if you live in Japan): NTT Docomo as they have Melty Bitter (Brown) and Melty Strawberry (Pink) clamshell phones (a.k.a SH04-B) coated from outside in a way to look like a three dimensional chocolate-bar in their winter-line up. The sweet fruit of the collaboration between
Q-Pot, Tokyo-based accessory brand founded by the designer Wakamatsu Tadaaki, and Sharp, they feature pre-installed chocolate themed wallpapers, photo frames and menus as well as having straps with complementary desserts and original chocolate box type package. The technical specs are nothing extraordinary, though: 3-inch WVGA ASV screen, 8MP CCD camera, waterproof, 1-seg digital TV tuner, Bluetooth etc. By the way, they are reported by Sharp to be limited to 13,000 production units.

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Announced last week in Japan, we finally had the chance to spend some quality time with NTT East new Andoird i-Frame concept in order to give more information on this new and interesting concept.

First of all, it is important to remember that this product is so far a concept and not final, meaning that both the actual design and name may change at its launch around March 2010.

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The most commonly mistake that we all made with the i-Frame is that in fact our product is not your average Digital Picture frame but rather a Hybrid between a web tablet and a mobile phone. Technically speaking, the i-Frame is very similar to many other Japanese handset, but features a nice 7” (800x480) touchscreen and look very similar to a MID or Webtablet (call it whatever you want). Specs also includes a USB 2.0 port, Wifi BG, support of JPEG, MP3 and Flash, as well as being 100% build on Google android OS.

With a mostly active females target in their 20 to 34, so despite running Android, this i-Frame is not intended to the geek in you, and to be more precise this i-Frame is intended to people who does not want the burden of a PC at home but want more than their Phone.

Also it is very important to keep in mind, that in Japan things are very different from the rest of the world, where in fact young generations are for the most past computer illiterate and does everything, from web surfing, email, purchasing goods and Mp3, watching Video to SNS on their phone, wherever they want and whenever they want.
With this in mind, NTT East came with the i-Frame where NTT will offer, unfortunately, a close experience with at the beginning a limited number of application targeted to this audience, ranging from the recipe app, News App, Photo and Mp3 player, Web browser and so on…
At the beginning, there will be not Office like suite or solution (and maybe never), or email client, everything will have to be done via the Web.

Granted this i-Frame is just a concept and many thing will change in the near future, so only time will tell us, but so far NTT will only provide a simplistic and close experience in order to make sure that its client target will not be too much lost when booting up the i-Frame.

Despite the fact that NTT decided to choose an Open platform, mainly in order to reduce both development time and cost, NTT will lock the i-Frame out of the Android market, not because the i-Frame is not capable technically speaking to support applications offered on the Android Marketplace, but rather than NTT has nothing to win by offering this service, indeed, NTT is thinking of providing its very own marketplace where all revenue stream will be taken care by NTT. So basically if you want to propose a software for the i-Frame you will have to contact first NTT who will decide whether or not to accept it on its i-Frame store and get most probably a certain fee from your work… Exactly like what Apple is doing witch its iTunes store.

Now this said, the i-Frame is still for me a very interesting product, and not opening the i-Frame to the Marketplace (I love the irony here of closing an Open OS), this product is dedicated to a very particular target, which has very different needs from ours and controlling the user experience here does not seems to me a bad idea at all.
NTT knows what is doing and they are clever enough to make sure that the product they will put on the market will perfectly fit the needs of their future clients in many aspects. Now for the rest of us we just hope to see something equivalent coming from either NTT or another company with a more appealing line-up and solution....

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Last October during CEATEC 09, we stumble upon Kohjinsha latest concept, a dual Screen notebook powered by an AMD Athlon… Back then we ask if this product will be available soon on the market, but Kohjinsha could not comment on this, however, today, they just sent us an early email to announce finally the launch of this concept as known now as Kohjinsha DZ Series or DZ6KHE16E.

So like you would have guess and like the pictures below, our notebook features two 10.1” LCDs with a 1024x600 resolution and LED backlight, for cost reduction Kohjinsha choose an Athlon Neo MV-40 at 1.6GHz, 1GB of RAM (Max 4GB), ATI Radeon HD 3200, 160GB of HDD (5400rpm), WiFi BGN, Gigabit Ethernet, 1.3Mpix Camera.
Finally Kohjinsha announce a 4.5h battery life (11.1V, 5200mAh) as well as a total weight of 1.84kg.

This new PC is available in Japan from Today onward and can be purchased on GeekStuff4U.com immediately!

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I never had any sympathy for video games companies in the past due to their lack of moral standards and too often outrageously expensive poorly designed games and today’s event won’t change my mind anytime soon.

Pastagames, which just recently released a nice Nintendo DS game called Maestro Jump in Music, a very original game that seems to be very popular now… However, they also realized that their game is now widely available on the Internet and can be download for free… Sad and disappointed by this, the company decided to write a nice little post on their blog about it : Pirates! and the winner is rom 4454!, complaining about Pirates and that this “poor” company development is somehow slowed by this problem…

If so far I have nothing against this company and their Story, I am quite surprise to see that they are just as bad as the Pirates they are complaining about… Why you may ask me? Well simply they stole one of AkihabraNews.com pitcutre of Pop-up the Pirate with your Logo on it and dit not EVEN bother linking us or acknowledging where this picture is coming from and who’s owns the copyright of this picture…

So really guys, before crying that someone is stilling your art, just make sure you are not doing the very same to others !

Update : It seems that our picture has been removed, but we are still waiting for a kind mail from their side about what happened...

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GAUDI Digital Photo Frame, the GHV-DF35CW, offers you 3 options to match the color of your mood or your photos. Available in white, mint blue and pastel pink frames, it is a W130×D20×H106 mm, 126 gr photo frame with a 3.5 inch 320 x 240 p resolution display. It has USB-mini and SD slots and supports JPEG format and Windows 7, Vista (SP2/32bit), XP (SP2and later/32bit, 2000 (SP4)

This plain yet gracious frame will be available starting with the first week of December. No price info....

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Keepon is a therapeutic robot developed by a US Based company (BeatBots), made to help children with developmental disorders such as autism, in order build up a 2 way interaction between both the kid and the robot. The main goal here as you may have understood is to help to break the barrier between an autistic kid and the rest of the world, by following the kid movement and displaying a video feed of all what Keepon is seeing.

Now the good news is that Keepon will finally be available in Japan starting spring 2010… Hope our little Keepon buddy will change the life of many kids in the future !

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Adding to the marvels of P6X58D, there we have 24GB of RAM, three PCI-Express 2.0 slots, two of 6Gb/s SATA interfaces, four USB 3.0 ports, Intel LGA1366 Platform & Intel X58/CH10R chipset and 3-Way SLI & Quad-GPU CrossFireX Support.

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