Every once in a while, some company will improve on something that you wouldn’t think needed any improvement at all. Take the grand piano, for instance. Its sleek blank ebony framework and perfect ivory keys are a symbol of pure music.

And yet, Yamaha has made the grand piano even more perfect with the recently unveiled Disklavier Mark IV, a piano that can “play itself, teach you to play, and perform in sync with your favorite CDs”.

It is also one of the first pianos to have a Wifi connection with 802.11b specification. As far as I know, the Disklavier is also the only piano with a remote control. This PDA-type pocket remote controller has buttons and a full-color LCD touchscreen, and some models include a tablet-PC remove with 10.4 inch touchscreen.

I have recently upgraded myself to smartphones. I have the Samsung SCH-i760 and my wife has the LG Voyager, but this HDPC from MIU could beat them all. After all, it has more features than you can shake a regular dumb-phone at.

For starters, it has a 4-inch, 800 x 400 touchscreen display which is revealed when opened, as well as a QWERTY thumbpad and mouse. The user also will find stereo speakers, a docking port, as well as two USBs.

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The folks over at Ality have upgraded their popular PIXXA Digital Photo Frame with what looks like an enticing number of features. Users can connect to Flickr, Picasa or your computer by WiFi. You can also use a memory card too. It also syncs with Google calendar to remind you of an appointment or display your wedding photos on your wedding anniversary or photos of a family member on their birthday. Pretty cool.

You can pick up one for yourself when it debuts in the first half of 2008 for $299. However, digital photo frames still have a long way to go in terms of size, smartness and affordability before they become standard fixtures in people’s homes.

Full feature set and product specifications after the jump.

Thomas Miller has come up with the IEye concept that was submitted as an entry to the “Create the Future Contest”, and this concept touches on extending the life of personal media players by featuring the added functionalities of both a digital video still camera and a microphone. Granted, consumer electronics move at such a fast pace that the only “new” thing you have is always in the pipeline and never in your hands. Once you purchase something from a shop, it is already obsolete as there is always another faster, slimmer, and possesses better functions right ahead.