The Jobo GIGA One Ultra offers portable storage for photos at transfer speeds of 1 GB of data in about three minutes, reaching up to 5.47 MB per second. The new GIGA one ultra is USB 2.0 compatible, features a large 2” LCD screen, a sturdy aluminium casing, and covered media card slots for protection against dust and dirt.

“The new easy-to-use JOBO GIGA one ultra is the perfect solution for today’s on-the-go digital photographer,” said Johannes Bockemuehl-Simon, JOBO’s CEO. “Not only is this new unit extremely fast when it comes to downloading all digital data for safe and reliable backup storage, this next generation GIGA one is available in various capacities and price points sure to please budget-minded photographers looking for the best their money can buy.”

This new unit accepts all popular media cards featuring slots for CompactFlash (CF) I/II, Microdrive, SecureDigital (SD), SDHC, (Memory Stick) MS, MS Pro, MS Duo, and MultiMediaCard (MMC). In addition, the GIGA one ultra can store digital data in popular file formats such as RAW, JPG, TIFF, MP3, doc, xls, ppt, etc.

Available at the end of October 2007, the GIGA one ultra will be offered with four different storage capacities – 40 GB, 80 GB and 120 GB and 200 GB and retail prices are expected to be € 149, € 199, € 229, € 329 respectively.

If you have a tyke that’s just got it goin’ on for Winnie the Pooh, the the Aigo MV5910 PMP may be just the ticket. As you can see, it sports the Disney logo (which of course added some to the cost) and the controller is all Winnie (which also added some to the cost). It’s a decent device, I suppose, with the following specs:

• 3.5-inch LCD
• AV output
• SD slot
• Image viewer
• 2GB internal storage
• Up to 16 hours of battery life
• Supports VOB, RM/RMVB, AVI, ASF, MPEG, and DAT (VCD)
• On the audio side, supports RealMedia, MP3, and WMA

In US currency, it’s $224, which is a bit pricey, but again, it’s Disney’s Winnie the Pooh we’re talking about. For some people, that’s worth real money.

Capitalizing on its return to (relative) fame, Commodore is expanding beyond computers with the Gravel C200 medial player. Beyond the strange name (Gravel?), it looks like a pretty mediocre device. First, it’s a little, well, not good looking, and has some unimpressive specs: 1.8 inch color screen, plays MP3, WAV, WMA, MPEG 2, MPEG 4, DivX, Xvid, and WMV (which is admittedly a nice long list), and is available with 512MB, 1GB, and 2GB models. Pricing and availability unavailable, but I’m not sure anyone’s going to be waiting that impatiently.

Four SATA bays is better than two, I’d say, and so the Lanner NS04-3100 already has something over the QNAP TS-209 reviewed earlier (and, they even share the same hokey naming schemes). And, it looks like it will compete fairly well on features, as well, with Wi-Fi, iTunes server, UPnP AV media server, DLNA, and support for all meaningful RAID configurations and JBOD. Looks like the NAS server market is becoming enticingly competitive. Pricing and availability information is pending.

If you’ve been waiting like the rest of us media hounds for Sling to release their SlingCatcher home media streamer, it’s like they say: misery loves company. Just kidding, although the word from Sling is that they tried for the summer, missed by a few months, and should have this baby out by the end of the year. So, just an update, don’t yah know.