ASUS is diving head first into the HD media streamer game? Based on images and details acquired by Hardware, we’d say chances are looking pretty good.
Reportedly, Asus will showcase its very own media player at Computex next week in Taiwan, and our expectations are already fairly lofty. The O!Play (codename HDP-R1) is said to be a fair bit quicker than competing models, and the file compatibility list is also worthy of laud. Port wise, this one’s packing eSATA, USB, HDMI, stereo audio jacks, optical digital audio, Ethernet and an AC port.
If all goes well, we could see this little bugger in European stores by July, with a price tag pegged at €119 ($168). Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem as if that price nets you an internal HDD, but we’ll find out for sure soon enough.
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There have been a range of functional but quirky USB keys released lately, some are built for pure function, others pure;y amusing!
Check them out here:
The Cat Tail flash drive. It’s for those who want their laptop to look like it just swallowed the cat.
The CowCow USB Hub. It great if you have more than one USB and not enough slots, but really does it have to Moo when you connect to it?
Whether you plan on having a heavy or a light data flow, this tampon drive should have you covered.
Elcoms Netbook USB, only reason its not smaller, is they had to put the USB connector on.
And Last but not Least the yummiest of them all. Hersheys have cooked up a line of non-edible but very tempting computer accessories.
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Hi-Den Vision based in Hong Kong have created the worlds first HDMI 1080p digital photo viewer dubbed the HD-0310. This gadget hooks up to your 1080p HDTV and allows images to be displayed from a memory card direct to your HDTV.
The HD-0310 1080p photo viewer is pretty compact and will use USB storgae device and a range of Compact Flash Types It also sports video playback through the USB port. The 1080p photo viewer will also give you 16 transitional effects as well as random playback of images. If you like, you’ll be able to skip through images with the remote control
The HDMI 1080p photo viewer will cost around $60 when launched.
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