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Sega Toys to Sell Media Player Wristwatch

Nerd Grind — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:26:49 +0000

Japan’s Sega 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. It connects to your computer via USB and contains a speaker for sound with a headset jack on the side.

The toy will sell for $130.

Cowon Offers Price Cuts on Near Entire PMP Line

Nerd Grind — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:18:33 +0000

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. Only the O2 escaped a price cut. The cuts range from $10 to $70 off of MSRP. For a full list of new and old prices, click on the link.

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

Nerd Grind — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:27:57 +0000

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. In addition, the Mintpad has WiFi, a media player, 1.3-megapixel camera, microphone, built-in speaker and 4GB of memory with microSD expansion. The 320 x 240 touchscreen measures 2.9-inches of pure note-passing goodness.

Currently, the unit is only available in South Korea for about $156. No word on when it will legitimately reach these shores.

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

Nerd Grind — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 18:54:51 +0000

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. Pricing in China will be equivalent to $106 for 4GB and $120 for 8GB. No word yet on wheter Americans will ever get a chance to lose an A1.

Media Players Allow Hacker Access

Nerd Grind — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 19:57:23 +0000

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 Web pages – you can’t get music to stop playing at you," he said. "Because this stuff is launched automatically, I think the impact could be significant."
"This is the next logical place to attack," Moss said. "People know not to open strange documents, but they click on MP3s all day long."

The hope is now that these findings have been published, the companies will find the flaws in their players and patch them quickly.

World Listens While Argos iTeddy Defines World Peace

Nerd Grind — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 17:02:23 +0000

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

Nerd Grind — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:02:55 +0000

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

Nerd Grind — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:10:34 +0000

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, 72 hours on standby. Available now in Japan for an expected Â¥15,900 or $130.

E-PDA V16 a Good Substitute

Nerd Grind — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:21:28 +0000

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

Nerd Grind — Wed, 23 May 2007 18:43:59 +0000

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, it performs at double that time for audio, nothing impressive to be sure, as the disparity between video and audio playback time is usually much more than that. Forking out $499 for it seems pretty steep. I think most people would prefer to stick to their 80GB iPod Videos despite the smaller screen size.

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