Sega Toys to Sell Media Player Wristwatch

ega Toys division plans on releasing a watch with media player built-in. The watch, called Digipod Trek, is capable of playing music and video, displaying pictures and recording voice notes.

Cowon Offers Price Cuts on Near Entire PMP Line

Cowon, in an attempt to entice prospective buyers to take the plunge, has lowered prices on just about every member of their PMP line. This goes for the F2, D2, I7, Q5W, A3 and U5 models.

Mintpass Releases their Touchscreen-enabled Digital Note Taker in South Korea

South Korean tech company Mintpass has released their Mintpad, a digitized note taker. The gadget allows you to take and share notes on the fly, using a fully-functional touchscreen.

Thompson Makes World’s Easiest-to-Lose Player in the A1

I’m sure other vendors would argue with Thomson that the A1 is the world’s smallest media player, but they’ve definitely gone small at 3 inches and 87 grams. Still the unit has can play MP3, WMA, WAV, and AVI, has a 16:9 display, comes in 4GB and 8GB flavors, and even sports an FM tuner. [...]

Media Players Allow Hacker Access

Media players in personal computers are the current vulnerable spot which can allow unauthorized access to your computer. So says David Thiel, senior security consultant with iSEC Partners, at a recent Black Hat hacker conference.

"The actual potential for attack is reasonably severe because nobody cares about actually playing videos from YouTube or playing music on [...]

World Listens While Argos iTeddy Defines World Peace

Okay, so Argos hasn’t really invented a teddy bear guru. Instead, it’s the iTeddy, an MP3 player with LCD, speakers, and 512MB of RAM (which seems a little light, given all the space available). The media player is detachable, and there’s an SD slot. Should be available soon for $123.

$230 Teac MP-600

Thinner than current iPods, Teac’s MP-600 is available now for $230 and sports 4GB of flash storage, MP3/WMA/DRM9 and JPG/AVI playback, FM tuner with recording function, built-in speaker, and up to 10-hours of audio (5.5-hours video) off battery — and can still be expanded via SD/MMC memory cards.

Bluetooth Pocket Messenger

Introducing the Voiis mini Pocket Messenger Phone, a class 1 Bluetooth device for your Skype and MSN Messenger calls.
It’s also an iTunes and Windows Media Player music within a 100-meter (max) radius of the included base station. The built-in mic allows you to connect to headphones.
Battery life is said to be 6 hours, [...]

E-PDA V16 a Good Substitute

If the $750 Nokia N95 is too much for your wallet, consider the latest Chinese knock-off E-PDA V16. It’s a bit larger, but sports a three-inch QVGA touchscreen, three-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, and a multimedia player. It also supports microSD memory cards.
For a third of the price, it looks good to me!
source:iTechnews

Epson P-3000 Portable Media Player

Epson is more famous for making printers than portable media players, but that did not stop them from unveiling the Epson P-3000. This hard drive-based portable media player comes with 40GB worth of storage space and plays H.264 format videos on its 4" display. While the P-3000 gets three hours of playback time for video, [...]