Pioneer Electronics has announced a new solution for mobile DJ's - the DJM-5000. The unit combines a mic effector, audio interface, MIDI controller, audio processor, and second zone mixer into a single device.
Bang & Olufsen, the Danish provider of high-end audio and video products, announces the launch of the spectacular BeoVision 4 103-inch plasma -- the ultimate flat screen television.
Kaleidescape, Inc., has introduced the 1080p Player and 1080p Mini Player - two Movie Players that produce stunning video quality from ordinary DVDs, providing a viewing experience that rivals Blu-ray.
Montegiro's Lusso is a super luxury vinyl player. Priced at 30,000€ , Lusso features three height adjustable connected cones made from alternate layers of aluminum and black acrylic, and a central inverted cone that supports the aluminum and acrylic platter.
Gadget4All offers this Digital clock with red LED which are embedded inside a transparent test tube. Its special design with a wooden stand could be a unique decor at your home or office.
Miele, new generation CVA 5000 series will be available to consumers early 2009 with innovative touch controls that take the guesswork out of making the perfect coffee, latté, cappuccino, espresso and more.
HP's Blackbird 002 will be available in an exclusive configuration at Amazon, NewEgg and select Best Buy, Circuit City, J&R and Micro Center locations, Engadget reports.
Orb Audio's Orb, is a beautiful line of handmade, affordable and décor-friendly audio products e
"We are more 'Made in the U.S.A.' as a product line than almost anyone else in the audio industry," said Ethan Siegel, co-founder and CEO of Orb Audio. "This is very important to us, and it is made possible by our internet-only, direct-to-consumer business model that cuts out the wholesaler, the retailer, and the resulting markups in between. Our big advantage is that we spend more money than our peers on custom, advanced components, and then we combine that with a labor-intensive manufacturing and finishing process that yields a better sounding, better looking speaker that also happens to cost less. This is what sets us apart from most of the other systems out there."
LG has announced the Scarlet Series line of LCDs . The new HD line is sleek and thin. The displays have a 15,000:1 contrast ratio, Full 1080p resolution, 24p Real cinema, 4 HDMI ports, and an "invisible" speaker system tuned by audio expert, Mark Levinson. $1,700-$3,800
Sony's Rolly entertainment player, a palm-sized, egg-shaped device that rolls and spins like it's dancing to the music, is now available at Sony Style retail stores nationwide.
Roku is set to launch the NetFlix Player priced at $99. NetFlix Player allows subscribers to "browse around the NetfFlix website on your TV with the player's remote to pick what you want to watch" -- nearly 10,000 titles.
Netflix is planning HD streaming and this box will support it. When Netflix gets HD streaming content, they'll update the box by firmware to support HD resolutions at higher bitrates of 4-6mbps, including 5.1 surround
GRO design and TIM model makers, both from Eindhoven, The Netherlands, have teamed up once more to present a self-initiated design project - a football table.
Meridian has announced their new 808.2 Signature Reference CD player. Features include a digital speaker connector and Median's Resolution Enhancement System, which upsamples 16-bit 44.1kHz CD quality sound to 176.4kHz in 24-bit clarity.
The Sungjut TangoX Nano is a new UMPC that comes with a wireless internal Skype/VoIP phone and 7-inch WVGA (800×480) touchscreen. Other features include a CPU C7-M ULV at 1.2GHz, 1GB of DDR2 RAM, 40 or 80GB of HDD, HD Audio, a 4-in-1 Card reader, Ethernet Port and WiFi ABG, USB 2.0 (2 port) and DVI.
Architect Chi-wing Lo has designed the "Stringless Pleasure" stereo system for the Creation 2707 project. The piece is a combination of home theatre equipment and furniture. It mixes a high-end stereo setup with shelving for holding your CDs etc
Netflix is taking action as rumors of Apple's video rentals over iTunes heat up. (Apple will charge $4 for a movie download that can be viewed within 24 hours.) Netflix will allow most of its users unlimited access to its streaming video service. This change is effective already.
Audiovox is set to launch Home Base , a new device with camera, microphone and a 7-inch LCD screen for notes.
Home Base can be mounted anywhere and features 512 MB of internal memory that can be upped via a USB thumb drive, or any flash memory card format sans Memory Stick.
La Crosse Technology has pretty LCD weather station. It sticks onto the door so you know what to expect before heading out the door. It features a large LCD digit display to show temperature reading. Shows minimum and maximum values with auto reset.
The LaCrosee LCD Window Thermometer is available for $15.
It's a yellow pod standing on four metal legs. Controls are simple and stylish too--a series of buttons lined up along the side turn it off and on, and tiny LED lights indicate status.
Logitech has announced the Z Cinema Advanced Surround Sound System touted to reproduce dialogue, symphonic film soundtracks, gaming audio and subtle ambient sound accurately.
The Logitech Z Cinema Advanced Surround Sound System is priced at $299.99.
Pinnacle Video Transfer is a portable device that records a video source directly into an MPEG4/H.264 format without a computer. According to ubergizmo Pinnacle Video Transfer is said to be compatible with mobile devices like the PSP or the iPod video. The device is able to record onto any USB 2.0 storage device, without the assistance of a computer.
HP has announced x280N, set-top box. The MediaSmart Receiver x280N has the ability to stream a wide variety of video (including MPEG-2, DivX, WMV, WMV-HD, and H.264/MP4 files), audio (MP3, WMA, WMA-Pro, WAV, AAC/m4a), and images (JPEG, BMP, GIF, and PNG photos) from networked PCs to your living room TV via its wired Ethernet or wireless 802.11a/b/g/n connections.
By creating a sequence of analog hours, minutes and seconds, the 'Just a Moment' clock allows us to focus on each chronometric subdivision and forces us to reconsider the familiar angular relationships and shapes of a concentric clock's hands. Wall-mountable. Requires 3 AA batteries, not included.
Passive technologies has announced the LifeStation HD , a new high-definition/high-fidelity digital entertainment box.
The lifeStation is a integrated, one-box solution which covers personal video recording, 1080p video and even the latest Dolby TrueHD surround sound playback reports Crave
SanDisk has announcedSansa TakeTV Video Player aimed at offering an easy way to enjoy downloaded video on a TV instead of your computer screen.
The new Sansa TakeTV video player gives you a smart, convenient, and affordable way to take video from the PC to the TV. It's as simple as using a USB flash drive: just drag files to your TakeTV player, slip it into the TV cradle, and press play on the included remote. No confusing WiFi set-ups, no waiting to burn DVDs. It really is that easy.
Designer Yuta Watanabe's Ceramic Remote is more a show piece.
The idea behind the Ceramic Remote is when something is delicate, we place more value on it. Obviously since a ceramic remote would easily shatter if tossed around like a plastic one, we would be more careful.
DV-DH500VH with digital and analog TV tuner, HDMI, 500GB, VHS and DVD.
DV-DH250VH with digital and analog TV tuner, HDMI, 250GB, VHS, and DVD.
DV-DH500H with digital and analog TV tuner, HDMI, 500GB and DVD
Meridian Audio, has unveiled a unique enabler for the Apple's iPod family of personal media devices.
The sleek Meridian iRIS Universal Dock for iPod accepts the full range of current iPod models and delivers battery charging and home audio-system integration and control. Additionally, the Meridian design features high-end video up-conversion processing (up to 1080p) that produces astonishing images with clarity and detail, delivering true big-screen performance from iPod Video.
Sanyo has announced the ECJ-V10, a new champagne gold rice cooker set for launch September 1, 2007.
The new IH pressure rice cooker adopts high thermal conductive copper for the kettle. The nickname of the cooker is "Takumi Jyundou Odoridaki (Maestro's Pure Cooker Dancing and Boiling).
The kettle is made by rolling pure 1.5-mm thick cooper (the degree of purity is 99.9%) put between stainless steel and aluminum alloy, enabling to heat quickly and enhancing heat-retaining property. Die-cast aluminum is used for the frame of the body for the first time in the industry, according to the company. The frame is a flat single piece, so it is more sturdy and easier to clean up than the resin used in the former products.
everlab has announced the 1 HOUR CIRCLE , a new one-handed time-telling device that draws circles on your wall.
Are you the sort of person who projects to those around you an affinity for temporal illustrations?
If so everlab's 1 HOUR CIRCLE is just the thing for you. Simply adhere to the wall, or set on a sheet of paper, and the 1 HOUR CIRCLE will be ready to fulfil its obligation.
ZMP 's Miuro Robot Speaker is a super cute gadget with iPod docking station. the 14-inch-long machine, which looks like a ball, also features two Kenwood speakers in its wheels.
Short for "music innovation based on utility robot technology" users lock their iPod into the top of the robot, which comes in white, black, yellow or red.
The unit responds to a handheld remote control and users can also opt to have music streamed to it wirelessly from a PC. $930
iSymphony has announced the V1BLUEe, new dock and stereo unit. The iSymphony comes with A2DP, technology for streaming high auality music without wires. The device can also play music from any Bluetooth device. Other features include ability to answer calls, playing your ringtone and displaying the caller number on its screen, Bluetooth iPod dock, a USB port for playing music from any USB device, a CD player, FM and AM radio and clock functions.
The iGrill has a 200 square inch nonstick grilling surface that is covered with George's Tough Nonstick Coating. The included 10 watt speaker system plays your favorite tunes from your iPod, MP3 or other USB music system.
Features
* Indoor/Outdoor Electric Barbeque Grill ipod ready
* 10 Watt speaker included
* 200 Sq Inches Cooking Surface
* George Tough Nonstick Coated Cooking Surface
* Adjustable Temperature Control Probe
* Model: GIPOD200
Takara Tomy has announced a set of earphones inspired by the Transformers. Dubbed the Music Label Frenzy & Rumble, the earphones boast a clip-on design coupled with a fold-out robot. ¥3,950 ($33).
Samsung's Bluetooth-equipped "PAVV Cannes" plasma TV
Samsung has announced the 50" SPD-50P91FHD, a new Bluetooth capable HD plasma TV.
Features include a True Black Panel for an improved full HD image, a Cinema Screen Mode that uses proprietary technologies like Ultra DayLight, Natural True Color, and Real motion studio. The SPD-50P91FHD is compatible with other Bluetooth devices such as headsets and photo printers. Samsung SPD-50P91FHD - $4,600.
S1Digital has announced plans to offer CableCARD (OCUR) enabled Media Centers and Servers in early May. Digital Cable Tuners allow customers to watch and record digital cable programming, including premium HDTV channels, directly from their S1Digital Media Center without the need for a set top box. Up to two Digital Cable Tuners can be installed on each Media Center.
When coupled with Media Center Extenders (such as the Xbox 360) you will be able to stream live TV, including HDTV, to other rooms around their home via a standard home network.
NTT-Neomeit has announced a new home automation system allowing you to carry out tasks in your home from your cellphone,
Using a web interface on your phone, commands are sent to a wireless router in your home which are relayed to either a remote control power switch, or an infrared transmitter. A beta trial starts May for about $4 a month.
Consumer electronics company Philips has filed a patent for a Furry TV.
Philips says a single pixel can be made out of a piece of fabric covered with hair-like strands, which could result in a TV that is soft to touch. The company hopes to build furry displays into outfits
Over the next 6 months BBC will roll out a trial, giving 20,000 viewers access to radio and TV programmes from the corporation's archives. The trial will make around 1,000 hours of content available to a closed group of 20,000 , with another 50 hours available to anyone to watch or listen to.
"The purposes of the trial... is to inform the BBC's future proposition for a public service on-demand archive service on bbc.co.uk, which will require approval from the BBC Trust , and to see where we should draw the line between a licence fee funded service and a commercial service," says Ashley Highfield, BBC director for Future Media and Technology.
Jamo's dipolar Reference R 909 has two 15-inch woofers, a 5.5-inch midrange, and a 1-inch tweeter. Jamo says this eliminates unwanted resonance and coloration, while improving the movement of the drivers writes sound and vision
AQUAVISION is a completely independent waterproof television that is built to the latest regulations in waterproofing and safety, designed to integrate into your bathroom or any other room. Sizes from 10.4” to 40” and available in 5 fabulous glass finishes.
1,750.00
What you see - and what you don't - is an architectural reinvention of outdoor grilling. No mountainous hoods. No lumbering curves. Just streamlined functionality that puts modern design on the front burner.
TechEBlog highlights this functional LEGO Pinball Machine from Anders'.
…besides keeping track of the score, also generates a high score list. If you are good and make it into the top three, you can enter your name using the buttons on the RCX.
Engadget has some spy shots of AT&T's Homezone. A mess of a media system thingee.
The 2Wire box features a 250GB drive for storage of live DISH, MovieLink, and Akimbo programming, dual TV outputs for simultaneous TV playback, HDMI, two QWERTY remotes, Ethernet, and three USB ports.