Anime Banzai ! - アニメ万歳！- For Fans, By Fans

In Japan an iPod Nano [the older version] caused fire damage to bedrooms and explode across floors. I personally would like to see an exploding iPod, but for the Japan Trade and economy ministry has issued a strong warning to Apple for failing to report the incident when it occured.

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Source: Impress

Call it a monstrosity or whatever you like. The demon here in the picture is not the 4x Radeon cards in the casing but this monstrous sized cpu heatsink - Scythe Orochi.

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Source: Anandtech / Picture Source: Sony

Both the upcoming Sony models, the BDP-S350 and the BDP-550, support BonusView and BD-Live. Both also feature an external port for local storage, but only the BDP-S550 includes a 1GB storage device. The BDP-S550 also differentiates itself with dts-HD High Resolution Audio and dts-HD Master Audio decoding as well as 7.1 channel analog audio output.

Never mind about the funny terms. Bonusview means Picture-in-picture view (PIP) and BD-Live means it incorporates an Ethernet port for firmware updates and web content.

The price? The BDP-S350 will retail this summer for about $400 and BDP-S550 will be available this fall for about $500.

Source: ANN

Wal-Mart, the largest retail chain in the world, has announced that it “will offer only Blu-ray [Disc] movies and hardware machines, as well as standard definition movies and DVD players, and up converts.” It will begin phasing out HD DVD, Blu-ray’s high-definition disc format competitor, in less than 30 days and finish by June.

Refer to Podcast #1 for details here (link is not up yet)

Source: Phyxion.net

Earlier, Japanese broadcaster NHK broke the news that Toshiba decided to cancel the development of further HD DVD technologies, but to manufacture current HD DVD players for some time. A production plant in northern Japan is already confirmed to be shut down

HD-DVD defeated ? Is this the end?

into any shape u want ?

Made of nylon, lightweight moldable clay and polyurethane fabric , this moldable mouse by Lite-on allows you to shape its contours whatever u want (i am sure there is a limit) and the buttons, scroll wheel can be stick-on to anywhere u like and communicates with radio frequency. The in-house designers, if I am not wrong are from Singapore.

Now, I wonder if there will some company who can make ummm..something ecchi out of it. tsk

Source: Red-dot.sg

By solid alliance. the yummy strawberry cake usb hub. with strawberry usb drives

Glasses will be needed for such a monitor..and no, please don’t lie down on your bed.

[Hardware] - Source: Akihabara News & Toshiba
It is not a dream but a reality for a resolution of 3840×2400 to be on a 22″ LCD. Yes, I can imagine how small this blog will be on such a resolution.

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Hello Kitty for you?

[Hardware]
Source: http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news_details.php?id=15012

This interesting gadget you are looking at now is not a toy but a 5mp digital camera by Sanrio. The body is as what you see here - a hello kitty face.

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You will never be bored ever again when it rains.

There has been a lot of news about this umbrella. Created by 2 young graduate students: Matsumoto Takashi, 27, and Hashimoto Sho, 22, of Keio University’s Graduate School of Media and Governance. They created this umbrella to make it more funner as the rain pours.

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[Hardware]
TG Daily reported on a new hardware targeted at businesses who requires powerful and fast storage.
Extract:
IoDrive is a PCI Express card with a controller and NAND flash chips. This isn’t a controller for other drives, but rather a self-contained storage device that can be easily popped into an empty motherboard slot.
Source: http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/34065/135/

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