Toshiba’s new Gigabeat V30T plays music, displays photos, and shows video, and so qualifies as a PMP, or Personal Media Player, and as if that were not enough, the thing also receives and records TV. Unfortunately the V30T only works with digital TV, so it’s unlikely to make an appearance outside of Japan. Aside from [...]

The New York Times has a new review of the 2007 Mercedes-Benz S-Class. It’s safe to say that the reviewer liked most of the car - he called the S a pleasure to drive, with an impressive powertrain and thought highly of the Distronic Plus, which is a kind of cruise control that uses [...]

Nintendo keeps moving from success to success. Their Nintendo DS Lite game console just went on sale in Japan on March 2, 2006, and 690,000 units were sold in the month of April alone. When combined with the previous-gen Nintendo DS, which sold 138,000 , Nintendo has an astonishing 72% market share of game hardware [...]

Sony Ericsson has a new MP3 phone, model W42S, with a remarkable 30 hours of music playback. The W42S comes with 3 dedicated music buttons. The knurled knob at the bottom of the phone is the Music Shuttle button - it controls music playback features such as stop, play, rewind, fast-forward and track selection. There [...]

While many parts of China continue to industrialize at a rapid pace, a few parts have already begun to experience Deindustrialization.
Reports from Korea speak of the problems facing some 7000 Korean textile and shoe manufacturing companies who located across the Yellow Sea to Qingdao in the 1980’s in search of low labor costs. These labor-intensive [...]

Music player maker iRiver released the Clix MP3 player a week or 2 ago. We were all set to ignore it as being merely an incremental improvement to last year’s U10, until we saw that the Clix is now CNet’s top-rated MP3 player.
CNet gives the Clix a rating of 8.7, which makes it about [...]

Inventables has a new concept phone, dubbed the Origami Cell Phone … unrelated to the UMPC.
The OCP uses e-paper and a pop-out folding screen in order to provide a display that is much larger than that found in today’s cell phones. The company estimates that it may take about 2 years to convert this [...]

The quiet, efficient, but costly Samsung 32GB Solid State Disk, rolled out just 2 months ago, is finally being put to use. Samsung has introduced the Q30-SSD notebook computer, and the Q1-SSD UMPC, which are simply SSD-ized versions of 2 of their existing products. The Q30-SSD now has the distinction of being the world’s first [...]

ABI Research is predicting that the stand-alone MP3 player will go the way of the PDA, and end up being assimilated by the Borg of our generation, namely the cell phone. As evidence they cite the growing number of high-capacity phones with built-in music players. ABI suggests that the Samsung SGH-i310 is a good [...]

Dell recently refreshed it’s D600 series of notebook computers. The new D620 is fairly well spec’d, with a 14.1 inch wide-screen LCD, an Intel Core Duo processor, a fingerprint scanner and EVDO.
Trusted Reviews just had a look at the D620 and gave it a grade of 9 out of 10, a ‘Recommended’ stamp of approval [...]