The Sony PS3 Taking Pre Orders in the UK!

We have found out that the Sony Playstation 3 (Sony PS3) are now available to pre order and delivery will start around November.

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The Sony PS3 is the most advanced system to be released to date and will vastly improve the gaming experience with it's very fast processor and nice clean rendered graphics. Just check out the technical specs below and check out some of the images that have been drawn up below. The Sony PS3 is seriously one awesome games machine as well as much more.

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Gran Turismo 5

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Tony Hawks

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*CPU: Cell Processor
*GPU: RSX
*Sound: Dolby 5.1ch, DTS, LPCM, etc. (Cell-based processing)
*Memory: 256MB XDR Main RAM, 256MB GDDR3 VRAM
*HDD: 2.5" Serial ATA (60GB)
*I/O: USB 2.0 (x4) – MemoryStick/SD/CompactFlash
*Communication: Ethernet (x1 / 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T) – IEEE 802.11 b/g – Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR)
*Wireless controller (Bluetooth)
*AV Output: Screen size 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p
*HDMI OUT – (x1 / HDMI NextGen)
*AV MULTI OUT (x1)
*DIGITAL OUT (OPTICAL) (x1)
*BD/DVD/CD Drive (Read Only): Maximum Read Speed BD 2x (BD-ROM), DVD 8x (DVD-ROM), CD 24x (CD-ROM)
*Super Audio CD 2x
*Dimensions: Approximately 325mm (W) x 98mm (H) x 274mm (D)
*Weight: Approximately 5 kg

iTan ITN-VR10

The iTan ITN-VR10 is a set of headphones which have a twist. Your normal ones that you have used since you were a young child played music… thats all really. However, these new headphones have built in vibration meaning you can also feal the noises in your ears.

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Sony Blu-Ray VAIO Laptop AR Model

Sony have launched a new laptop which includes a Blu-Ray drive. The small Sony monsters screen is 17″ and capable of 1,920 x 1,200 WUXGA+ on an XBrite Display. It includes 200Gb storage space, 2.0Ghz Duo Core processor and weighs just 8.4 pounds. The Blue-Ray drive is writeable at 1x speed which isnt exactly great, but this is the first in it’s class… so you cant really complain at that one! Unfortunatly the battery life is a mere 2 hours which isnt good at all. However, this laptop is a good step forwards and will open doors to others following.

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Nintendo DS 1-Seg TV Tuner

Nintendo have launched the DS 1-Seg TV Tuner (compatible on Japanese TV networks only!!!). This device is very small and fits in to the cartridge slot on the DS.

For those in Japan… this is a great deal at just $89 USD.

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Available from Lik-Sang

Sharp 905SH DMB Phone for Japan

Sharp have displayed the 905SH DMB phone for Japan. This is a 3G phone also integrates One Seg terrestrial TV broadcasts.

As seen in the picture the screen has the ability to rotate 90 degrees which allows you to view TV in widescreen format. The screen is a nice 2.6″ ASV LCD which is good for a wide viewing angle I guess to the family can sit around ;)… more then likely it will be better then the average LCD’s found in phones which tend to go dodgy when viewing from a slight angle.

More tech specs can be found at Slashphone

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Wixzer WXP350

Wixzer have launched the WXP350 PMP which has a built in 1.3M camera, 20 or 30Gb drive, comes with a 4 inch widescreen display and runs Windows CE 5.0. The device looks like another decent contender in the market and it will be insteresting seeing how this actually performs.

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Source: DapReview

Portable N64 with Instructions How to Build!

Someone (Marshall) has built an N64 named the L64 and has provided instructions on how he built the games machine. It’s rather bluky as it’s an N64 chopped up and put in a smaller case with a screen and battery. Still good fun to read through.

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Source: The L64

Odd-i N700D: 7-inch PVP

The Odd-i is a nice looking 7″ screen media player. It features no drive but allows for SD cards and other sources to be connected to it.

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Tech Specs at DAPReview

Acer MP-500

Acer have now made the MP-500 official on a German website according to Dapreview. The device is pretty much a standard PVP but comes with a detachable battery which is great news for consumers.

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*Video Format: DivX, Xvid, MPEG2/4, WMV(9)
*Audio Format: MP3, WMA
*Picture format: JPEG, BMP, GIF
*Records Audio & Video
*Voice recorder built-in
*Line-in/line-out
*TV-out
*3.5-inch TFT Display, 320 x 240 pixels
*User-replaceable Li-Ion battery, 3.7V, 1800mAh
*Plays videos for about 4 hours continuously, audio for about 8 hours continuously
*Picture Viewer
*1.8″ HDD (20GB)
*SD/MMC Slot
*Measures 126 x 82 x 24mm
*Weighs 220g with battery

More details at dapreview

Japan Re invent the Door

I couldnt let this one go with out adding something about it here.

Japan have created a new door which is very different to what you have seen before. The door does not open like an ordinary door but only opens the parts that you need to walk through. Confused? I was until I saw the video.

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Click Here to watch the video

Lexar Jump Drive

The Jump drive is a USB memory drive with a twist. It features an LCD b/w display showing the current memory usage on the stick. The display uses e ink to keep it active while the drive is not plugged in to the machine and also updated indipendantly from the system it is plugged in to. This means that no software is required on the computer to update the meter.

It’s a very handy little extra to be added on.

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The Lexar Jump Drive also includes Jump Drive Secure II which is their software used to create a secure encrypted area on the drive just incase the thing gets lost.

More details at EverythingUSB

Toshiba Tecra M7-117

Toshiba are launching the new Tecra M7-117 model which sports a dual core processor running at 1.83Ghz. The M7-117 is a tablet PC running Windows XP Tablet Edition 2005. The standard RAM is 512Mb which is upgradable to 4Gb (DDR2 533Mhz) and has an 80Gb drive.

The tablet comes with all the standard features such as Wifi, bluetooth and a lot more.

Other new Tecra M7 products can be pre ordered through the link below.
TECRA M7-S7331 T2400 1.83G 1024MB 100GB DVDRW 3YR XPT

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Full specs can be found at toshiba.com