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Watch the new Indiana Jones: Raiders of the lost brick (Lego Version)

km — Tue, 27 May 2008 05:32:34 +0000

A nice Lego trailer based on Indiana Jones topic.

Zune a Day Giveaway Contest – give away zune devices for free

km — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:23:03 +0000

Microsoft has announced Zune a Day Giveaway contest campaign to give away free 8GB zune devices everyday till March 31, 2008. The Zune a Day Giveway is easy to enter, all you need is login to your hotmail account via mobile devices, then send an email to WiNAZune@live.com with “Go Zune ” Subject line. Plus more, this contents is available for US resident only.

The ideal beind Zune a Day Giveaway contest campaign is mainly promote Windows Live Hotmail for Mobile services. However, you stand a chance to win a free 8GB Zune Devices.

Step to win a 8GB zune devices on Zune a Day Giveaway contest campaign:

Login to hotmail.com using mobile phone
sign in hotmail with existing passport or windows live ID
Send an email to WiNAZune@live.com with ” GO Zune ” Subject line

More details on entering the contest can be found on the contest page.

Visit: Zune a Day Giveaway Contest Page

Panasonic BM-ET200 Iris Scanner with Voice Activation Features

km — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 06:23:46 +0000

Panasonic BM-ET200 iris scanner, A new iris scanner model for Panasonic biometric security family. This iris scanner security system offers more accurate, faster, non-contact entry/exit control utilizing biometric technology for iris recognition, aiming to re-define the possibilities of biometric technology.

Panasonic BM-ET200 iris scanner features two embedded cameras that can be adjusted to accommodate and identify user as far as 20 inches away to identify a user iris within 0.3 seconds recognition time. Beside that, Another security measurement like voice activation features also includes which can be set in 3 different user settings and wide variety of languages including English, French, German, Japanese and Swedish. Plus more the iris scanner able to store over 10K user information.

Panasonic Iris Readers deliver fast and accurate system enrollment and authentication without the need for any physical contact,said Frank DeFina, President, Panasonic System Solutions Company (PSSA). No other non-invasive identification system is as precise, easy to use or as enduring as Panasonics Iris Readers.

The Panasonic BM-ET200 Eye Scanner is currently available in the US with the price tag of $2,500.

Zune 2 and Zune Flash

km — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 05:39:00 +0000

First images shot of Zune 2 and Zune Flash from Gizmodo. The images showing an 80GB version and 4GB and 8GB flash models. According Gizmodo, these photos came from a source who cites marketing materials, likely from the retail channel.

It’s seem like Microsoft is going to unveil generation 2 Zune player. From the images, the Zune 2 and Zune Flash has a interesting controller similar like Apple ipod navigation. Plus more Zune 2 and Zune Flash having sleek stylish design in three color : Pink , Red and Black. i not sure when it will be market. For sure, Microsoft going give some hard time to Apple.

So, Do you this zune 2 design ?

Via Gizmodo

Flexible 2.5 inch OLED Display from Sony

km — Sun, 27 May 2007 15:11:50 +0000

Sony has just unveiled the worlds first full-color and flexible TFT organic electroluminescent display (OLED). In future, Sony developer will try use OLEDs technology t0 form organic TFT on a plastic substrate, enabling them to create a thin, lightweight and flexible full-color display which perhaps will replace the current plasma TV plasma technology.

Above show a 2.5-inch prototype display supports 16.8 million colors at a 120 x 160 pixel resolution (80 ppi, .318-mm pixel pitch). The size is 0.3 mm thick and weighs 1.5 grams without the driver.

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LG MFFM37 Touch screen Multimedia Player

km — Sat, 19 May 2007 01:32:37 +0000

LG’s MFFM37, The latest LG PMP player added with 2.4-inch LCD Touchscreen display run with 320 X 240 pixel. Beside that, LG MFFM37 also comes with two option on the memory either 2GB or 4GB, and capable support favorite audio and video format like MP3, WMA, OGG, MPEG4 and WMV9 compatibility. The battery will power the device for 3 hours while watching video and up to 6 hours for audio playback. Meanwhile, Grunchgear say that

Picture quality is much better than other competitors thanks to the Mobile XD Engine from LG. The MFFM37 (these names need to stop) has 10 pre-set EQ settings and automatically picks the correct EQ setting according to each MP3â€™s ID3 tag.

The pricing of LG MFFM37 will be about $320 for the 4GB, and $250 for the 2GB. It will be coming out in June 2007.

Grohe Ondus – Stylish and Luxury Digital faucet

km — Thu, 17 May 2007 16:24:39 +0000

Grohe ( German company ) has been famous for their luxury bathroom equipment. This year, they have introduce Grohe Ondus faucet, i quite like the Grohe Ondues digital faucet design because its has a sleek and stylish shower head. Meanwhile, This digital faucet is equip with an icon-based user interface with emotional icons that ensure the digital control provides a positive affinity with water. So, the digital control of Grohe Ondues comes with two modes; Sleep and Awake. Preset functions let you save your personal settings like temperature and duration. A Pause button lets you kill the water without turning the shower off.

Creative Zen Stone Tiny 1GB Audio Player

km — Fri, 04 May 2007 07:31:57 +0000

Creative Zen Stone is a simple 1GB MP3 player like Apple Shuffle. However, the design of Creative Zen Stone is better than Apple Shuffle. Meanwhile, The Creative Zen Stone gives you same storage capacity for 25USD lesses compare to current Apple 1GB Shuffle. But based on size, The Apple’s still got the upper hand. Although thicker (0.41 vs 0.33 inches), the shuffle is shorter and less wide. The only thing, whether the Zen stone software is more user friendly compare to Apple iPhone.

iriver B20 Mini PMP with DMB/DAB Support

km — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:10:03 +0000

iRiver revealed their latest B20 mini DMB TV with the support of Adobe Flash Lite 2.1. iRiver is a Digital Audio Player with multiple functions such as Digital Media Broadcasting/Digital Audio Broadcasting (TV/Radio).

This mini iRiver B20’s features 4GB of flash memory, a 2.4-inch, 320 x 240 260k color display, miniSD, and voice recording. With the support of Adobe lite 2.1, You can play flash application like Flash lite games and Flashlite User create interface(flash UCI) on iRiver B10 DMB TV.

In addition, You can find FM radio featuers on iRiver B20 and it can supports plenty of media coder likes MP3, WMA, OGG, MPEG-4, WMV9, and JPG files and a battery which should muster up to 26/5/4-hours for MP3/video/DMB playback.

As i know, Iriver B20 will be available in France, UK, Sweden, Switzerland, Japan and others (7 countries) soon. But currently the device is available on Korea only. The 4GB version will sell on $267 USD and the 2GB for $213 USD on Korea.