Posts from 'Multimedia' category

Why is it that many good products are only available in foreign counties and you have to get trough a lot of stress to get one? There are financial reasons, but let's not discuss them here, and concentrate on the latest Atree PMP, the UJ10. In fact what we have here is a mini PMP, one with a great design, that doesn't feel lost in front of iPod Video. Personally I think UJ10 looks a lot like a phone, but maybe I have see too much fashion products...

A couple of years ago, people used CRT TVs and they were so amazed when the plasma and the LCD TVs appeared. Nowadays, CRT demand has dropped drastically, being replaced by the newer generation gadgets. It is almost sure that the next generation TVs will use OLED technology.John wrote about the new OLED screen from Sony a couple of days ago. I am adding a nice clip about this product that i hope you'll enjoy. Check it out!Better screen qu...

The Jack in the Box MZK-NAS02 is a gadget used for storage, with some incredible capabilities: 1.5 TB of space and a built-in Bittorrent client. This Panex device can operate on its own, without needing a PC or a MAC connected, and is a fancy piece of technology that could come in handy for those people downloading a lot from clients.Of course, you should only download legal stuff and not the materials protected by copyright, cause you don'...

Geography learning has never been easier than now, when we have the Interactive Globe from Oregon Scientific, which is the first Internet - updateable multimedia globe. It offers geographical and cultural information for every location you touch on the globe, in English.You have a SmartPen that you use to point the desired location, and then you'll find everything you want to know about it. This globe offers something else: interactive lesson...

If you followed us from the beginning you might have read the news about Sony's OLED monitors, with 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio. Apparently they really want to produce them and made improvements in the three months that passed.As a result new prototypes were shown this week at Display Expo 2007, a Japanese show dedicated to displays.What's exciting, besides the million to one contrast ratio is their thickness, or should I say thinness. Th...

I just found a very cool set of products, related to the Walt Disney movie "Pirates of the Caribbeans". This block buster has been such a success all over the world, that many companies are trying to use its name to promote their own products.And what we have here, from Runat, is a collection of really wonderful devices. The TV/DVD and the compass remote control Runat is a Japanese company that used to make audio/video tools inspired fro...

It seems that the accessories for the Apple's iPod don't give any rest to the designers all over the world.From Smart Design comes this dock, called the Dragon I, that looks like a multi-headed dragon (Doh!), although i might say it resembles more with the Hydra...The Dragon I has entangled and Apple iBook And that's because this dock comes with 4 tentacles (or necks...) that have on their top a spherical support that houses a 5 W inde...

If you enjoyed playing with plastic ducks in the bathtub when you were young, you surely miss playing with still in water.That's why JVC thought of reviving this feeling, and managed to offer XA-AW33, a floating radio-DAP, which will accompany you everywhere you float.Why everybody tries to bond with iPod legacy when it comes to color? XA-AW33's shape resembles an UFO, but its size and weight (260 grams) will clean any doubt you might ha...

MP3 market is one of the most dynamic industry of all, and because of that it's no wonder that every designer fantasizes of creating the ultimate MP3 player.One of them is Nathan Davis, who imagined a Wrist MP3 player designer especially for runners.Design resembles milky Apple, but that's not necessarily a bad thing What's most important, the Wrist MP3 player has all the functions of regular players, minus the size, which is close to no...

I wrote a couple of months ago about the incoming Apple TV and about what is this device going to bring new on the living room entertainment segment, so please read that article if you want to know more. Now we finally reached the big day, when the Apple TV was released. It will be available in stores in just a couple of days.The Apple TV is not the first gadget capable of steaming data from a PC to your big screen TV, but it's definitely the...