Looking more like a remote control device, Motorola has unveiled its landline phones named MOTOLIVN. With location-free bases, these can be placed anywhere you have an electrical outlet.

The MOTOLIVN features:

* Location-free base enabling maximum flexibility in positioning the phone
* Special eco-mode operation
* The ability to store a minimum of one hundred phone numbers
* High-quality speakerphone for hands-free conversations
* Ten different polyphonic ringer melodies
* A multi-language setting
* Up to ten hours of talk time
* One hundred hours of standby time
* The D8 range features enhanced phonebook capacity, a SIM card reader to allow users to transfer contacts, headset socket, and high-definition sound, providing natural, high quality audio
* The D8 Skype product offers easy access to Skype services including buddy lists, SMS and Skype chat (IM)
* The D7 MOTOLIVN range, available in silver, features a blue backlit two-line mono display
* The D8 MOTOLIVN range, available in black/silver and also white/black offers consumers a 3.6cm full-color display

The D7 starts at €49.99 ($70), the D8 will be €69.99 ($97).

For only $506 per year, you can receive early editions of the French newspaper Les Echos. Specifically, you’ll have access to the next mornings 6:00am print version at 9:00pm the evening before. You have to provide your own e-reader, which can be an iRex iLiad, STARebook, or Amazon Kindle. If you’re French (or speak the language) and really like getting your news early and portable, this might be of interest.

Creative Labs recently unveiled their upcoming TravelSound i50, a portable speaker system made specifically and exclusively for the diminutive iPod shuffle. Aside from the USB port and carabiner clip, what I find most interesting about the unit is its size. It makes the shuffle about four times bigger than it really is, which negates one of the main advantages of the clip-like little player.

The i50’s built-in battery is good for 15 hours of audio playback and will be available next month in Japan for about $70

Not only are they thin, but they’re USB-powered, to boot. That’s important in this ever-portable world of ours. Two models are available, one with and without LighScribe, and both come in black and white versions. Pretty typical specs, except for the size: 6.14 X 6.5 X .84 inches and .84 pounds, which is mighty nice for carrying around. They support DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, and DVD-RAM, at 8X, but no HD. The GSA-E50N (non-LightScribe) will be $122, and the GSA-E50L (LightScribe) will be $136. Sounds reasonable to me.

Ageia launched the PhysX 100M processor for "high-performance" gaming laptops to operate, "with power dissipation of nearly 10W under gameplay conditions for the most intensely realistic gaming and entertainment experience to PC gamers". For high-end, almost un-portable laptops.