From the fellas that brought you Post-it Notes and Scotch Office Tape comes some pretty exciting 3D screen news, a glasses-free display panel.
Relying on backlighting control and a textured adhesive film that directs screen elements to different eyes, creating 3D video.
The 2.8 inch display which could spice up PMPs and cellphones has been developed alongside [...]

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If things go well for Toshiba’s new venture, on the go charging could see a big change.
The Dynario fuel-cell for USB portable electronics is a direct methanol fuel-cell (DMFC) with cartridges for refueling.
Available next Thursday (29th), the units cost $328 and $34 for five 50ml fuel cartridges.
The 14ml tank takes 20 seconds to fill and [...]

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The Chinese portable game systems/PMPs have always seemed like they were destined for something more but that’s been elusive until now…
They can be shuffled around and modded to fit in a NES cartridge!
Like all the players, this one has a NES emulator making it the pefect little retro gaming device.
If you’re looking for big-screen action [...]

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The Chukka “Kenetic Music Player” is a concept device that could see a future of gadgets charged by idle fiddling.
Flapping the Chukka about should see the energy transfered to an electromagnetic inducer and powering it up.
For more info, pics and a video click the link below.
Via MASC Design & Anythingbutipod
Discuss on the forum.

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At CEATEC 09 Live in Japan today Sony displayed their latest ideas including their Flex OLED panel display.
The concept items included a Notebook, a watch and an MP3 player and also on display was a fully finctional display playing GT videos whilst bending continously.
The highlight of the display was certainly the Sony Vaio concept machine [...]

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Well its the 25th today and we were awaiting the official announcement from RAmos on their new Andrioid based PMP. Well it was announced to be sure but what we were not expecting was the announcement of several other models as well
The Android will be known as the W7 and based on the Rockchip RK2808 [...]

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Tsinghua Tongfang have released a 7″ media player with focus being on eBook reading. Where the?PMC-1200 differs from other media players is that it claims to be able to read not only text files but PDF, Word documents, powerpoint and other formats

The player claims a 7″ LTPS?? screen with full media functionalities also, meaning video, [...]

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Can you bare it!! yet another uninspiring release from China, meet the C410HD from Teclast
Now, this one comes in nice fancy blue color .. oooooo .. i can see you are all excited
Anyway, its nothing special, its using the same chip as the C500HD (T2700 as teclast has called it, same as used [...]

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Well i love retro styled things, if done right they can look really good, but getting it right is a hard thing to do, to make something look retro but also up-to-date is a hard thing to achieve - unfortunately for the Baidu B829 they did not have the skills
Baidu, in the linked article, are [...]

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With 2009 seeing good quality 3D films hitting the big screen (broadening depth and aesthetics rather than a virtual bombardment of objects at your face like the 3D films of old) and 2010 being the year of Sony’s 3D TV and PS3 gaming, what  are the chances of having a 3D PMP?
As 3D film is [...]

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