Mio Knight Rider GPS, a Knight Rider-themed portable navigation device (PND), is a product of GPS manufacturer partnered with Universal Studios. It uses actual voice of William Daniels for audible directions.

It is an easy-to-use and solid entry-level PND that comes with a pretty reasonable price tag of $269.

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Sony introduced their 3rd generation electronic book reader PRS-700 that will become available in the market in November and will cost US$400, $100 more than the PRS-505 model that currently on sale.

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Sony has a latest prototype of latest OLED (organic light emitting diode) television which is less than a millimeter thin. This latest model is one third the thickness of its current OLED television XEL-1 and a tenth of its thinnest LCD set.

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It’s like the sports car and the saloon competing in terms of engine power. But this is about nanotechnology, not cars. Sanyo Electric has beaten Sony and other rivals to develop an improved blue laser diode for faster and more efficient Blu-ray systems. The technology by Sanyo has produced a laser which can emit a 450-miliwatt strong beam, twice the capacity of existing laser systems. This diode is a giant in laser technology with capability to write and read data of up to four layers at a speed of 12x, as compared to existing leading laser discs’ burning of two layers of data at a rate of 8x.

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The world leader in mobility, Nokia has announced its new touchscreen-enabled mobile phone for music that brings innovative new features to the mass market, named as Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, aiming to deliver great music experience.

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As an innovative leader in green storage technology, Western Digital has announced second generation of its highly popular and environmentally friendly WD Caviar Green desktop hard drives. The Green desktop hard drive is featured with the company GreenPower technology to significantly reduce the power consumption as compared with standard hard drives.

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Wicked Lasers is a Chinese based company that is known for making high-powered lasers that can melt plastic, burn paper, and light matches. So what would you expect when I told you they made a flashlight called the TORCH?

The Torch, according to Wicked Lasers is the “world’s brightest and most powerful flashlight” and has “4100 Lumens with an adjustable high efficiency reflector.” A typical flashlight is 100 Lumens. So what can you do with 4100 Lumens? How about fry an egg or toast a marshmallow.

Why you would want to cook an omelette with a flashlight is beyond me, but its nice to know you could. The Torch sells for about $300. The biggest drawback to the Torch is the battery life is a low 15 minutes.

Methodshop did a full review of the TORCH with several demonstrational videos of stuff being burned to a crisp.

Toshiba has unveiled a new Cell TV prototype that is powered by powerful Cell processor during the CEATEC event held in Japan recently. During the event, Toshiba demonstrated faster channel switching capability whereby the multi-core cell processor is capable of processing 48 videos that were read from hard disk and display directly on digital TV screen simultaneously.

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