I was not aware of this fact, but it seems that in the Netherlands you can buy MP3 players preloaded with songs in shops. The Dutch company Disky is selling four different players with two hours of music in each for 19.90 Euros. Of course with this cheap price tag there had to be a catch: The tracks cannot be removed or replaced, which in my opinion takes all the fun out of the equation.
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As cameras keep pushing for great resolution and high capacity secure digital cards reach to provide larger and larger storage capacity, a new milestone has been reached by Microdia … 16GB. Building on the 32GB capacity of their compact flash cards, their 16 gig SDHC card comes with a Class 6 speed of 160x.

Not a lot of details are out yet, but here’s hoping that they’ve improved on the 8 GB SDHC model they are currently offering which uses SD™ Specifications Version 2.00 standard, but is still chained to the FAT32 File format.
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Now this is just going to be the best thing that has ever been invented for the garden, forget fancy mowers, easy fill swimming pools and even trampolines, this entertainment system is for the adults and kids alike, who like to spend a bit of spare time in the garden, get a few friends round, chill the beer or other drinks and watch the live game or movie on the giant screen TV. What on earth could possibly ever be better than that?
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If you’re a huge buff of solar powered items, then the Soltronix Headphone Radio is just the thing for you. You don’t need to leave it basking under the sun for an entire day before being able to enjoy listening in to your favorite radio stations at night - no siree, the Soltronix Headphone Radio comes with its own solar film technology that is embedded across the top of the headphone and charges the internal Ni-MH AAA battery which is located within one of the ear pieces. With summer coming up really soon, the Soltronix Headphone Radio will definitely be a great outdoor device to tote around.

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If you’re fed up with misplacing your remote try this out for size the BIG button remote control.

The big button is a universal remote control that measures a stupidly large foot in length, ideal for giants or people with exceedingly fat thumbs. The remote is available from Red 5 for £20 (~$40).

SDI Technologies proudly presents the new i-Home iH8, yet another iPod dock with an alarm clock. The iH8 is the new updated version of the i-Home iH5, and is compatible with your iPod, iPod mini, iPod Photo and iPod nano. The new version has a new design that’s very similar to the , and a LCD screen that’s large enough to tell what time it is, or which song is playing.
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TTOOL is a PMP that runs Windows CE 5.0 on a Samsung 400 MHz processor with 64 MB of ROM and 64 MB of SDRAM. This PMP has a 7” TFT LCD touchscreen (also by Samsung) with a resolution of 480 x 234 pixels, and can be used for navigation thanks to the SiRF III chip and antenna.
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Creative Throws a Stone at the iPod Shuffle

Creative has set its sites square on the flash driven MP3 market with the Zen Stone - a 1 GB MP3 player for $40 that comes in six different colors: black, white, red, blue, pink and green.

Using the 1GB capacity as a starting point, the Stone will be able to play up to 250 songs in either a random “shuffling” or by blindly navigating from from folder to folder to concentrate on one artist or playlist specifically.

The Stone offers 10 hours of playback on a full charge, uses a basic USB connection, and supports MP3, WMA and WAV files. It will also play books by Audible.

With a price point so low, it does make sense to have a backup mp3 player when you don’t want to carry a higher capacity one like the ZenVision 30 GB model. And it’s so small, it can fit in your pocket.

Down the road, accessories like the Creative TravelSound™ ZEN Stone, player will come on line which will act as a docking player for the Stone. It’ll be a portable speaker system (think tiny boombox) which will give twice the playing time on two AAA alkaline batteries. It’ll list for US$39.99 which means you can have the complete system for less than an iPod Shuffle.

That’s Zen.