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LG HB954TBW Blu-ray Home Theater Combo Includes A Pop-Out iPod Dock According to Akihabara News, LG Korea announced this new Blu-ray home theater combo this morning that includes a pop-out iPod dock on the player that will apparently accept all iPod models (I assume that means the iPhone too) allowing you to listen to music stored on the devices. There’s no word on whether or not it can access video content on the iPods, but details are a bit vague at the moment. What is known though is that the HB954TBW will be sold in Korea for just over $1,000.

D-RISE M600i CELL PHONE WATCH As the IT developed, it’s not only the functions that have been developed. Smart phone are not the only choice for users anymore. Smart phone is not always having big shape, heavy and not fashionable. The development of this kind of gadget (cell phone) has reached the style aspect. If you need a phone that can supported your style, has many features, smart, and off course, look expensive, this phone could answered the question. ##CONTINUE## The D-Rise M6001 Cell phone watch is stylish, elegance, sporty, and smart. Those factors are combined into one cell phone. You can use it not only as cell phone, but as your watch too. Wait a minute, don’t be so rush. Let me explain the technology inside, so you will not be disappointed when you decided to buy it. D-RISE M6001 Cell Phone Watch supported with Bluetooth, so you won’t have a problem to send or to receive a picture. Camera provided also. Touchscreen will show how gadget you are to your friends. Music? Not a...

USB Watches Looking for alternatives to last year’s Watch with Hidden 4GB USB Flash Drive? MAybe one of the products in this new line of flash memory timepieces will suit you. ##CONTINUE## Stylish Watch USB Flash Drive is fashionable and elegant for you to wear it wherever you go. Watch is always a kind of fashion, but now, it will become more useful. The USB Watches over at the Gadget4all.com website are available in three different models: Black ($28), White ($26) and Blue ($33).

Ultra Slim USB Mouse Can’t get enough of tiny computer accessories like the Super-Slim Bluetooth Keyboard and the Super-Tiny USB Card Reader? Here’s a new mouse to expend your collection. ##CONTINUE## The Super Slim USB Optical Mouse is compact, slim and light. It only has 14mm height. It’s easier for you to fit it in your travel pouch. With the latest optical technology, it provides 1800dpi for precise tracking on most surface. The Super Slim USB Optical Mouse is available over at the USB Brando website for $13. There are two colors to choose from: black and white.

Cyber DSi Game Grip - Another Portable Device Becomes Less So The Nintendo DS and DSi are great little consoles, but are there really that many titles that justify the use of this grip accessory? Has anyone ever had their DS fly out of their hands during a round of Mario Kart? Sure it’s convenient that you can stash an extra game cart and an SD card on the back, and there’s a built-in stand, but other than that, is this really necessary? From what I can tell it’s only available in Japan at the moment, and if anyone can dig up pricing info please feel free to leave it in the comments.

EME : Evolutional Mobile Entertainment The innovative EME designed by genius Shao Wei Huang makes the initiative approach by providing video, gaming and music in a mobile device. The dual screen set of connections can be used in tandem according to the best way to the functions is being used. Smartly the other sleeks out its underneath. It also displays the fundamental functions such as contacts, photos, SMS etc. The second screen let you access secondary data. But if you turn the whole device sideways it turns into a portable gaming gadget that gives you the advantage to mimic any control scheme through the touch screen facility.

Get Your Own Giant Inflatable Iceberg Every time I go swimming somewhere, I think to myself “wouldn’t this be more fun if I were just climbing out of the water, instead of swimming?” I mean, what’s the fun in swimming if you’re actually in the water most of the time? I’m totally not being sarcastic in the least. That’s why I have to get one of these Floating Iceberg Climbing Walls. Rock climbing walls are fun on land, so why not drop $5400 on getting one for the water? Sure, you have to worry less about falling and breaking your neck in the water, but aren’t there enough fun things to do while swimming? To paraphrase a young jedi in training “I could almost buy my own boat for that!” I do see two rather fun uses for this. One involves scaring the hell out of people boating in the middle of the night. The other would be sneaking over to someone’s house and inflating this sucker in someone’s pool.

Hawk WiFi robot is probably more fun to hang around with than your friends Hawk is a humanoid, autonomous, wireless, and handsome robot made by Canadian company Dr. Robot. He's got WiFi, a GPS navigation system, dual cameras in his moveable, animated head, and a host of other cameras and sensors that keep him trucking along. Designed with education in mind, Hawk's skill set is a bit limited, but his hands are pretty impressive. Hawk is on sale now, and while there's no price listed for the bot, base parts of the robot are in the range of $5,000. Video of Hawk beating the skins after the break: yes, we're aware of the fact that he's not exactly John Bonham but, then again -- neither are any of your friends, right?

Energy Sistem rolls out speaker-equipped 30xx series PMPs Energy Sistem usually keeps things as sparse as possible with its budget-minded PMPs, but the company looks to be trying out a few new tricks with its 30xx series of players, which pack a not-so-discreet speaker on the front and some decent enough specs all around. That includes a 1.8-inch LCD, up to 16GB of storage, an FM tuner, a built-in mic, dual headphone jacks, and support for all the basic audio / video formats, not to mention Microsoft's newfangled PlayFX sound enhancement thingamajig. No word on a release 'round here, as you might have guessed, but folks in at least some parts of Europe can apparently pick this one up now in their choice of a range of colors for €109, or about $149.

12-inch MSI U200 thin-and-light appears a day early? Well, well, look what we've got; a new CULV-based thin-and-light laptop from MSI. The image comes by way of Engadget Chinese whose trusted source lays out the following specs: a 12-inch, 1366 x 768 pixel LED-backlit display, with GMA 4500M integrated graphics, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, 2GB of DDR2 memory, and 250GB disk all wrapped up in a bigger-than-a-netbook but not-quite-a-laptop chassis weighing just 1.4-kgs (3-pounds) with paltry 3-cell battery. We expect pricing to be announced tomorrow but we'll bet dollars to doughnuts that it'll be about $700.

Mio Moov S501 and S401 navigators After Mio basically non-confirmed / confirmed these to us in April, letting us know the pricing was off, but saying nothing else about the leak, it was really just a matter of time until the two navigators broke into the realm of officialdom. The Moov S401 and S501 bring 4.3-inch and 4.7-inch displays, respectively, along with a new "Spirit" interface and some new functionality like Google Send-to-GPS, NavPix for pulling location from geo-tagged photos, text-to-speech for spoken street names and MioMore 2 PC software for calculating mileage and fuel economy. The S501 is Mio's thinnest PND ever at 0.64-inches, and includes 12 million POIs, while the S401 is inexplicably thicker at 0.71-inches, with 4 million POIs. They go for $200 and $180, respectively, and will go on sale in June.

Nokia E52 "Numeric keypad" and "industrial-strength email capabilities" may not be phrases that most folks associate with one another, but the Nokia E52 has a few things going for it: it's thin, it's sexy, it's got a battery that should last forever and a day, and hey -- let's not forget that some people can really burn rubber on T9. The recently-announced E51 successor (and E55 stablemate) has been caught doing its thing in the wild in a couple exciting colors, and we've got to say -- the phone's utterly malnourished appearance is killer, especially if your pockets are of the unstretching, unforgiving sort. Nokia's been consistently proving lately that it knows how to make world-class hardware, and we're hopeful from these early shots that the E52 won't be an exception.

Acer's DX900 and X960 WinMo smartphones now available They're no F1, but Acer's rolling out a whole slew of Windows Mobile- and Android-powered smartphones this year -- and another gruesome twosome of the bunch is now hitting store shelves around the world. First up we've got the WinMo 6.1-based DX900, which really isn't much of a looker but packs the powerful punch of twin SIMs underneath its homely shell. Most dual-SIM devices top out at EDGE, but the DX900 takes it to the next level with triband HSDPA on top of quadband EDGE; you've also got a 2.8-inch VGA display, WiFi, 3 megapixel AF camera, and GPS, so if you're a two-line kind of individual, look for this one now around Europe and Asia. Next, the X960 ups the ante with HSUPA and 7.2Mbps maximum on the downlink, a revised 3D user interface, and a 3.2 megapixel cam -- it too should be populating Europe and Asia as we speak. Neither unit is going to be blowing minds, granted, but if it's any consolat...

Music-equipped Nokia 5800 XpressMusic What a difference a year and a half makes, eh? It was August of 2007 when Orange first got all weird on Nokia over the then-wild concept of a manufacturer-owned and operated music store -- bear in mind the iPhone hadn't launched very widely at that time -- and look how far we've come. The two companies have just announced that the venerable Nokia 5800 XpressMusic will be available starting May 29 loaded up with Comes With Music, Nokia's all-you-can-eat service that brings endless downloadable tracks through its Music Store. In Orange's case, Comes With Music will be available on any of five special plans starting at £25 a month (about $38), meaning that you'll be able to nab music for the duration of your two-year contract. As long as DRM's in the mix, you're basically locked into your contract for as long as you want the definitive Bryan Adams collection that you've downloaded -- so we're hoping Nokia nixes that...

Sony develops "world's smallest" HD camera module The tiny HD hits keep coming today -- first we saw eASIC's $5 integrated H.264 codec chip, and now Sony's crowing about the new MCB1172 HD camera module it claims is the "world's smallest." There's some pretty impressive tech packed into that tiny package: you're looking at an 8.3 megapixel sensor that can shoot 720p/30 video with image stabilization, face detection, high-ISO mode, and 120fps slow motion. Not bad for a piece smaller than a quarter -- hopefully we'll see this thing pop up all over soon.

Jewel Bug USB Drive A new USB drive for you! It combines some jewel and a cockroach. I don't think they match each other well, but there must be someone who likes Non-mainstream, right? Details are as follows. ##CONTINUE## Details: Metal Housing with crystal Hi-Speed USB 2.0 certified Plug and Play, Hot-Swapped capability Support: Windows Vista, XP, 2000 and Mac OS Dimension: 55 x 28 x 14mm Weight: 25g Capacity: 2GB