Competition in the smallest MP3 player market is fierce with the likes of the shuffle and the Mobiblu offerings, so how about the thinnest? That’s what you get with the Walletex MP3 player. It’s just slightly thicker than a credit card, has all the controls you need to play music and will be available in [...]

Apple has faced a fair amount of scrutiny in recent weeks concerning the Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology tied to its online music store, iTunes. It now appears that the company is in for a legal battle over its DRM practices as well. A lawsuit, filed back in July, is over Apple’s use of DRM [...]

China is beginning to standarize all mobile phones sold in its country to use a computer’s USB port for recharging its battery. This will simplify the way consumers recharge their cell phones without the need for specific AC adapters. The law has not been enforced yet by the Chinese government. But will this lead to [...]

This extension lens for your camera phone will give you quite a bit more zoomage, 6x zoom. For Nokia or Sony Ericsson, available for $20

Korean inventor Seok Hong Jeong unveiled his “dual LCD mobile phone” at the Seoul International Invention Fair 2006. The dual displays would make it much easier for browsing the web and working with other mobile applications. Jeong has already applied for a patent in the overseas markets. His aim was to develop a next generation [...]

Bluetooth headset and Bluetooth USB adapter to make VoIP calls to friends and family – Sony Ericsson announced its Bluetooth VoIP Kit HBV-100 to make calls using the Internet from your laptop or desktop. The kit comprises of a Bluetooth headset HBH-PV705 and Bluetooth USB Adapter (if you don’t have Bluetooth built-in) that plugs to [...]

Artemiy Lebedev, the chief of the Art Lebedev Design Studio, expects the Optimus keyboard to go for sale soon minus the color keys and will cost $1200 for early adopters. The studio said it will begin taking pre-orders of the keyboard on December 12. There will be a limited supply of 103 keyboards that is [...]

Sima Products on Wednesday introduced the Hitch, a $99 USB sharing accessory that lets users share content directly between iPods, digital cameras, USB flash drives and other devices without the need of a PC. The company said the device is compliant with all digital rights management copy-protection, and can be used to transfer music, video, [...]

Linutop is a Linux-based diskless computer. It offers a completely silent, low-power operation in an extremely small package. Its main purpose is to surf the Internet. It’s dimensions – 9,3 x 2,7 x 15 cm., it’s weight – 280 gram.

SAIT and Samsung take fuel cell miniaturization to a new level. SAIT and Samsung SDI have showcased the world’s smallest fuel cell mobile devices charger. The unit features an output level of 2W and has charging times that are just 1/5 that of its closest competitors. The mobile charging unit has already completed 200 successful [...]

Here is a mouse that actually floats and it costs only $74.99. The CrazyPC Hover Mouse(TM) is the world’s first 100% friction-less mouse. Utilizing advanced, patent-pending electromagnetic hovering technology, the Hover Mouse floats one centimeter above the mousing surface at all times. It is a well established fact, that friction results in wear to your [...]

The NPD Group, which tracks sales at most top retailers, says the Zune digital music device had a 9% market share in its first sales days Nov. 14-18, compared with 63% for Apple. The research firm hasn’t reported sales for the all-important Thanksgiving holiday selling weekend. SanDisk, which is usually in second place to Apple, [...]

You may have heard a rumor floating about the internet that the Zune would adopt an incentive-based distribution system. The idea, supposedly, is that each song sent to your Zune-toting buddy that he/she decided to buy at your recommendation would earn you a small reward (think Zune Marketplace Points) for promoting and sharing legal digital [...]

Current wireless headphones typically use infrared, radio spectrum, or Bluetooth, all of which are prone to casual disruption. Sony aims to change that with their body-wired headphone patent application. Their headphones would basically use your own body to carry the music up to the headphones, via a few millionths of an amp that turns you [...]

Portable audio players keep getting smaller (we’ll soon be able to have them implanted into our fingers). The latest contender for the “world’s smallest…” title is the Kenwood Media Keg HD10GB7, just launched in Japan. It features a 10GB disk drive, probably around 1.8 inches in size, along with a 1.5-inch screen. Total dimensions 62 [...]