Talking E-Book Reader to be released in 2008

I seriously fear for the human race. An Iranian inventor named Ramin Sedighi invented an e-book reader that can read out highlighted texts on an e-book. The device comes with a stylus which you use to highlight the word; the e-book reader then pronounces the word and defines it out loud. It [...]

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Samsung F300 Clone Uses iPod Click Wheel on One Face

China makes no bones about cloning just about every good hardware design in the market and the sleek dual-face design of the Samsung F300 and F500 multimedia phones has had to wait a little too long, we think a little undeservedly, for the ultimate flattery. Finally here comes the Shuang Mian Yi Ren V8, [...]

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China PMP has Good Design, not Much Else

The ID8620CC from Natural Sound Enterprise gets its design right, sporting a front free from buttons (which are located on the top or sides, no doubt). Hey, it may not be a touch-sensitive screen, but it does look kinda pretty. The device is more than a little stingy on features, though, playing only [...]

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Hannuri’s Nurian X10 E-Dictionary looks like a small laptop

I love how Hannuri’s latest e-dictionary looks nothing at all like the dull, gray gadget you’d expect e-dictionaries to be. Yes, that is an external LCD with playback controls that you see on the cover. Even features-wise, the Nurian X10 is anything but boring. In fact, everything else seems to overshadow the fact [...]

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PMPs, PNDs and Kindle Top Amazon Christmas Sellers

Amazon’s electronics category is dominated this holiday season by Apple PMPs. The silver 4GB Nano Phatty takes top spot while the 16GB iPod Touch, 80GB iPod Classic, the black 8GB iPod Nano (third-gen) are all in the top five. The Kindle, a standalone e-Book reader we kinda like, is number two. Even more relevant for the [...]

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It’s Christmas!

To the tech companies that give us such great gadgets to drool over (and write about); to the inventors and scientists that keep the technology fresh; to the fanboys and -girls who put their hearts on their laptop sleeves; of course, to all you old and faithful (and not so old and not so [...]

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SAFA’s New PMP Shows a Tight Design

  This is not the sleekest SAFA PMP we’ve seen this year. In fact, Safa’s new device is close to being the ugly duckling of the group, especially next to Casiopea. The screen is really small, so small, SAFA didn’t bother adding video support. It’s only MP3, WMA, WAV, AOE abd FLAC lossless audio as well [...]

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Apple Patents Automatic iPod Volume Lowering

It’s a slow news day on Christmas and there’s not much to report except that Apple apparently patented a software that automatically lowers the volume of your iPod. The patent application says that the software is designed to keep track of your volume levels and how long you’ve been listening to your music. Based [...]

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Non-iPod Sales Decline During Holiday Season

The NDP group reports that save for the Apple iPod, US sales of media players showed considerable decline between November 18 and December 9. Dollar sales of mp3 players during this period were down 16% (compared to the same period last year) while unit sales declined 9%. NPD believes that this is due [...]

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China PMP has Recycled-Parts Design

The MP901 from Shenzhen Link-Create Technology seems much more appropriate for Halloween than the Christmas season, with its seemingly Frankenstein-inspired design that incorporates what looks to be parts from a few other gadgets. It supports MPEG-4 video files (in AVI container), MP3, WMA, WAV and AAC audio files, and JPEG images. The device has a [...]

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