Some might think that a HTPC would be too big for your living room, and spoils the look. Or perhaps the Zbox’s hard disk capacity is too small. Need something big? Well Toshiba’s new StorE TV+ is prepared to quietly retain up to 2TB of media until called upon, when it can play them back via HDMI, no connected PC required.

It can also connect to PCs or other DLNA devices (like Toshiba’s new HDTVs) networked via Ethernet and the included Wi-Fi dongle or load files directly from memory cards and USB drives. Even with all that, a lack of access to internet video sources makes the £199 MSRP a tough sell even with 2TB of space at the ready, but if it works its way into a TV bundle then there may be buyers willing to bite when it ships next month, while an eSATA hard drive only StorE.D10 model will follow later this year for an unknown price. Read more…

Seiko, their brand name will always give me a glimpse of their manly watches, and the handsome Asian ambassador Ekin Cheng. But their new concept seemed more ‘geeky’, even though there’s some retro cues. Even the name is very geeky. It’s called the “active matrix” E Ink watch, and it’s going to hit your nearest CityChain store in Christmas.

The company’s had a thing for E Ink timepieces for a while now, but what sets this new one apart is the supposed 180-degree viewing angle it affords – and, of course, those retro good looks do it no harm either. Then there’s also the radio-controlled movement, which receives its time from the nearest atomic clock, and the solar cells framing that electrophoretic display. All very nice and neat, but the best news is that it might (might!) not cost you your limb, your thigh, and your right eye.

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The SD Card Association has a new spec in the works of concept that will most likely triple the speed of its SDHC and SDXC cards, as they hope. The specification, which should be complete in Q1 next year, will achieve 300MB per second by adding a second row of electrical contacts on the bottom face of the card, and will be backward compatible with older, slower devices. Although being referred to internally as SD 4.0, brand names for the technology are still being considered — with UHS-II (the successor to UHS-I ultra-high speed bus cards) as one possibility. How this turn out to be backward compatible, is really sceptical. But since they said ‘ye’, I guess it’s really ‘ye’. Fast and furious cards coming! Make way please!

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The tablet fever has been gaining momentum, and obvious when more and more manufacturers joining in this orgy to cash in on this goldmine. You may never have heard of auto electronics provider Rydeen Mobile, but they do know your desire for a tablet to not being left out of the fun, and has thus created an 7-inch Android tablet that integrates the dedicated map functionality of its GPS machines. Read more…

I’ve to be honest, that many nerds and gamers are fat slobs that had no backbones. But Razer, the famous ‘leading’ gaming gears manufacturer, is about to ‘force’ us to exercise while we’re having fun gaming. This reminds me of another sport activity that can burn fats while having fun. Never mind that.

Razer told the IDF 2010 crowd that their Sixense motion-sensing sticks it showed off at CES will hit retailers ‘early next year’. What’s more, the company’s been hard at work miniaturizing the one-to-one motion control tech into an exercise band, and while we’ve no specific word on when that’s actually going to hit the stores other than ‘after Christmas holiday season’, or how much this exercise machine in front of the TV might actually cost us, much like having fun with a ‘private doctor’, you can have a look at it in the video below. That should give you some good imagination. Looks like Kinect-ism is going to be big soon. Check out the video after the jump! Read more…

I’ve to admit that Panasonic’s Toughbook has never been that appealing to me, thought we can’t at all blame it to not win the beauty pageant, when it’s made to be in the war zone. Panasonic’s gone on a real tear here, releasing two new Toughbook models at once. While you grapple with the implications of such a thing, let’s get down to details. Read more…

Nokia has shown to the rest of the world their latest software called Espoo, which integrates NFC payments with instant digital receipt uploaded to your phone, instead of a printed copy. Sound very ‘green’ indeed. They also ‘promised’ that their entire smartphone line starting next year will embrace this technology.

Perhaps even cooler, though, the system reads the receipt once it’s back on your phone and makes a note of the product’s return period so that it can remind you when time’s running out, perfect for getting maximum usage out of that N8 before flipping it back from whence it came. If we had to guess, this might be unveiled in full at Nokia World, which just happens to kick off tomorrow. Excited? Well, digital wallet is somewhat very 2008 thought. Hope Nokia can include a Bluetooth-enabled compact receipt printer as an optional accessory.

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The new Xbox 360 dashboard has been leaked into YouTube, and being demoed. Thought this is not actually new, as some had already seen it in the Kinect Beta program, but now the whole world would be able to have a look at this new refreshing interface.

As you can see in the pair of videos below, the new Dashboard is decidedly squarer than the current one, and contains few elements that haven’t gone untouched. You can also now even try out the new Dashboard yourself relatively easily, though you may run into a bit of trouble if you actually want to do thing like play games online. Read more…

Samsung’s i8700 handset has been seen around in a video, with Windows Phone 7 being flirt with in the video. Check it out.

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