Audio Technica has unveiled the AT-PL300USB turntable for well, restoring your old records to their full digital glory. Clad in black the unit connects to the PC via USB and record in WAV, MP3 and WMA formats. The rather stylish player supports 33 and 45 discs and has a aluminum die cast frame which controls rotary unevenness. The Audio Technica AT-PL300USB is available in the land of rising sun for 25,200 Yen ($ 275). [Audio Technica]...

Samsung Korea has launched the 460DRn-A a 46 inch display to be used for outdoor commercial uses. The panel has a brightness of 1,500 cd/m2 and is equipped with a PC and touchscreen. The all in one display is water, dust and moisture proof. [Aving]...

Instead of going for high end phones, Sprint and LG have teamed up to launch the LG Rumor 2 phone which essentially provides all the high end features of a smart phone at a budget. The LG Rumor 2 features a slider QWERTY design and other features from the first generation model like 1.3-megapixel camera, stereo Bluetooth, GPS and more. Sprint said that this new model would feature easy access to Microsoft Exchange Server and IBM Lotus Notes accounts...

Sirius XM Radio is now officially financially strapped of funds, it now plans to introduce a streaming application for the iPhone and iPod Touch by next quarter. Sirius XM hopes to give existing customers a new way to access their stations, but, more importantly, the move is designed to target new customers, which the company desperately needs. The problem is, though, iPhone and iPod Touch customers already have a number of free music choices. Why pay Sirius XM? The...

Ever since the first seat belt was developed automobile manufactures have been pursuing the ultimate in safety features. If it wasn’t for these safety features like seatbelt air bags and the sorts, who knows how many more lives could have been lost. Toyota has gone one step ahead in developing the worlds first rear-seat centre airbag system that aims to reduce the impact from side collisions. At this rate we may even get auto makers developing airbags to avoid...

Samsung Korea has released a pendant styled Bluetooth stereo headset for the Korean market. Targetted at music lovers it has a clip on the backside so the headset can be used during workouts, cycling etc.The SBH650 will be available in Korea for 89,100 Yen ($ 60). [Aving]...

A brand new pocket projector for the Japanese market, the CV-MP02 measures 50×115×23mm and weighs 160 grams. It supports a resolution of 640 x 480 pixels and can throw up an image upto 8 to 50 inches. A white LED delivers a brightness of 10 lumina and uses 3M's illumination technology. It lacks a speaker and the built in battery is good for 1 hour of continuous playback. The unit will be hitting stores in Japan later this month...

This is said to be a pioneering dining experience where the guests control the mood and order via interactive touchscreen dining tables. An overhead projector and a mouse track pad is said to turn your dining surface into a monitor where you can customize your own virtual tablecloth. You can also play video games with your companion while waiting for your order and even book a taxi home if you are not sober!...

Chipmaker AMD has shipped 50 million units of the Nintendo Wii’s custom ATI-developed graphics chip, codenamed as “Hollywood”. AMD has stated that the GPU is the most successful AMD game console chip to date in terms of unit sales. AMD-owned ATI is also responsible for the Xbox 360’s GPU and was behind the “Flipper” GPU for the GameCube. That is really good news especially at these times of recession and financial crunch where the only thing we hear is...

At the TV of the future conference, Spare is demonstrating the basics of what Canesta’s technology can enable. It includes videos provided by Canesta that shows various different implementations of gesture controls for TVs and for extended TVs that can serve as entire household environmental control and multimedia centers. Using a tiny camera that sits on top of a TV, one can control the entertainment center by simply waving one’s hand in various ways. It is built by Kicker...

The Nokia 5030 is an ideal economical radio phone for those buying their first phone and a perfect solution for remote parts of the world where radio still rules when it comes to entertainment and news. The phone features a “really loud” loudspeaker and boasts of a whole day of audio playback capability and up to 10 hours of talk time. When the device is placed sideways on the table, it looks like a tiny version of the large...

The Nokia 5330 XpressMusic offers users the chance to integrate music and social networking in a slider handset. It comes with a 3.2 megapixel camera, and a 2.4-inch QVGA screen with up to 16 million colors, using the S40 OS. The phone has dedicated touch-sensitive music keys on the side of the device, USB 2.0 support with a 3.5mm headphone jack offering to complement the Comes with Music service. There's also easy access to Facebook, MySpace and Ovi, Nokia's...

The Nokia 5730 XpressMusic is an S60 smartphone with 3.5G support, Wi-Fi, GPS and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. The phone looks plastickier in its finish but does feature a good stills camera, using Carl Zeiss optics, but the maximum video capture rate at 640 x 480 pixels is only 15 frames per second. The phone has access to Nokia's new "Music Store" and can share files on Ovi. It also supports Myspace, Flickr, YouTube, Facebook and N-Gage gaming. It...

Apple has always been associated with simplicity and style. The new Shuffle has its share of style but scores negative when it comes to simplicity. Firstly the use of proprietary headphones for using the voice over technology is frustrating. And if you’ve ever used any form of text-to-speech, you know that it’s one of those computer technologies that really haven’t been perfected and yet its included in the software. For a music player which claims to be the simplest...

Here’s one more reason why I wished to be born in Japan, apparently ten elementary schools in Osaka have decided to hand out Nintendo DS gaming devices to boost their brains before the drudgery of school life. A 20-minute burst of the 'brain training' exercises on Nintendo's DS console at the start of the day apparently improves performance in maths tests by as much as 10 per cent, according to a Scottish study. Now the common curse of gaming...