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It is said, commenting, is rumoured. that there is a new iPod nano in preparation, something quite evident, but what the rumors echo is that this new version stop the current design, more square that all its previous versions, to return to a style that made him famous , Higher than wide and with a big screen that occupies half of the body.

The idea is not bad, the business Apple is gradually turns from music to video and when to cheaper Chinese player is capable of playing videos in widescreen and that the proclaimed king of players not… that hurts their users.

The Vortex Fountain design known as ‘Charybdis’ which is positioned in Seaham Hall, Sunderland absolutely catches eye, but Vortex Fountain design is oddly evocative of a giant see-through toilet Vortex Fountain design immediately been flushed. The Vortex Fountain design is his major vortex water figure to date, and Vortex Fountain design was fashioned by a great acrylic polymer cylinder which allows an air-core vortex to form as water is pumped in a circular motion. Not astonishingly fountain also be relies on a heavy-duty irrigate filtration system which is necessary to keep vortex clean and spinning properly.

[ William Pye's Charybdis Vortex Fountain ] VIA [ Night4Joy ]

The iPhone I like is not a secret, but there is something that no doubt I have found one of the improvements in the iPhone are your headphones. Well, the headphones themselves are a crap, the iPhone and those of all iPods, are quite annoying and headphones Senheisser have no competition, but if we look the other against other brands of headsets, simply wins.

The point is the microphone that includes the headset to make hands-free, as in the first version of the iPhone, is integrated into the lead from the right earpiece. It is a small microphone that can also be used to control the iPod, but the difference really are in the design and used to put in place, apart from size.

It’s small, little note on the wire, you do not have to tweezers in your clothes, it’s close enough to your mouth to be heard but the flames and you can control calls and music playback. Compared with other headphones, are wasted, although, again, the headphones are all very ugly, coarse and nothing comfortable.

The brand of Chinese origin Venus presented a new model of MP3 player and media in general by the name JXD311, which presents itself extremely well to contain graphic while recalling a mix of scocche competitors.

This portable media player, sintetizzabile as mini-PMP, is equipped with a touchscreen screen from 2.8 , a microphone and an FM tuner; compatibility is ensured by several formats in circulation (audio, video, pictures and texts): MP3 , WMA, WAV, AAC, AMR, AVI, 3GP, MP4, ASF, TXT, JPEG. The memory is not integrated, but requires the use of a microSD size of your choice.

The price has not yet been announced, but it should put in a low-medium segment, also saw the origin of manufactured goods (which certainly lowers the final expenditure), as well as the absence of an internal storage. Recently there have updates we mention.

Asus has just unveiled the Eee Monitor, or the expected all-in-one, and said that should be available in September at a price less than $ 500.

Following the philosophy Eee Asus has not looked to benefits, but to use a very generic PC, a good design and a very competitive price. Not yet know the specific, but you can see the speaker of integrated Denon, several USB ports, Ethernet and audio outputs.

According to some rumors the Eee Monitor could be equipped with the Intel Atom 1.6 GHz (one of the new Eee PC for instance), TV tuner and the screen would be 20. Asus will again colpaccio as in the field of ultraportatili?

Mitsubishi showed its new line of ultra-thin televisions dishes that complement the Integrated Sound Projector (iSP), a system capable of reproducing the fattezze a 5.1 audio system with one cashier.

Thanks to a precise calculation will be able to recreate a faithful sound as though coming from different points of the room, even without the encumbrance of different speaker, with a diagonal of 46 (which reaches 52 in the model higher), will ensure a ‘Excellent overview of images in high definition. It has four doors HDMI 1.3a, but also a USB port, through which you can connect external memories to activate-eg-photo slideshows (this is in the software management of the TV GalleryPlayer).

A technical level also has CableCard, to refresh 120Hz and some proprietary technologies that dramatically improve the performance visual (PerfectTint, SharpEdge, Deep Color, xvColor, DeepField Imager and a 6-color processor), the price will attest on $ 3299, about € 2100, for the Mitsubishi LT-46149 from 46 and come to $ 3699, about 2350 € for the Mitsubishi LT-52149 from 52.” The sale will start day.

What you see in photos is the Creative ZEN X-Fi, a player with skills even too hidden client instant messaging and streaming media, thanks to wi-fi connectivity.

In fact one of the most interesting gifts is precisely in the name X-Fi, which means a proprietary technology can improve the quality of MP3 files played well, owns loudspeakers built-in slot for a memory card format SD, a tuner for FM radio and headphones premium quality.

The battery mentions 36 hours of activity with regard to the audio, while stops in 5 hours when playing video; supports files in MP3, WMA, AAC, WAV and Audible, WMV, MPEG4-SP, DivX 4 / 5, Xvid and MJPEG. The screen is 2.5 and cuts of internal memory ranging from 8GB to 32GB, with an intermezzo from 16GB.

The prices, or the launch date, were made known, but this leak suggests that we are now close to un’ufficializzazione.

In the gallery is visible My Book Mirror Edition, a system of storage units with mirrored double 2TB.

Thanks to data protection based on RAID, the backup software automatically and the possibility of repair by the user, this product to become an automatic backup perfect for your irreplaceable data, those that normally we should never lose.

The interface used by the system has USB 2, a little ‘little for so much space (albeit niche, one FireWire 400 or 800 was certainly appreciated); second site producer, the space is quantified as 571,400 digital photos, 500,000 MP3 or 50,000 CDs, 150 hours of DV video, 880 hours of DVD-quality video and up to 240 HD video (although, as you rightly so, there is a forbita legend that explains what calculations is arrived at these figures).

Asus has recently presented Nova Lite, a computer Media Center very compact, which should enter the segment of entertainment pump magna.

Great only 9 “, about 23cm, is aesthetically attractive and cared for, as basic idea is to exploit it as a Media Center that, in view of its appearance, should not harm your living rooms. It runs to 24 dB, has an Intel Core Duo to 1.6GHz and 1GB of RAM, the hard disk is 80GB, but it can also operate in wireless streaming thanks to Wi-Fi integrated, has an ethernet port and four USB, DVD multidrive , DVI and HDMI.

It will be sold with fitted, at the choice, Linux, Windows XP or Windows Vista, from the end of July next year, at a price ranging between £ 320 and £ 400, which change with our currency becomes 400 € and 500 € . I leave you with an interesting photo gallery: how’ll have preferred to leave the marks Intel and Windows attacked at the shell, making it less “clean” the area. Too bad!

Digital cube announced the arrival on the Korean market for a new PND, Personal Navigation Device, called i-station U7, very graphically appealing. The allocations are classic for this product segment: a screen LCD-TFT 7 “and resolution of 800 x 480 pixels, a capacity disk 4GB flash memory through built-in, an integrated navigation system, thanks to a chip SIRF Star III , A tuner for digital TV DMB (clearly not compatible with the European standard) and ability to play files in various formats, including MP3, WMA, AC3, OGG, WAV, JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF, MPEG4, DivX, Xvid, WMV9, SMI.

The dimensions are particularly welcome: 191 x 114.2 x 19mm and weighing 454g, costs required is € 245. As mentioned before lead abroad and, more specifically, the market nostrano, should support some hardware changes (such as the introduction of the standard DVB-H), not to mention that all this would be only after demonstrating a degree of popularity as drive .