New Gadgets

Portable Cowon A3 media players have come to replace outdated A2. It differs from its predecessor with design and high specifications.
The new device has an installed 4-inch TFT LCD display with a resolution of 800×480, showing 16 700 000 colors, it has a built-in radiorecorder, FM-radio and voice recorder.

Cowon A3 supports a large number of formats, including: the formats AVI, XviD, DivX, ASF, MP4, MKV, VOB, WMV 7, OGM, MPEG, H.264, DAT, audio MP3, FLAC, WMA, OGG FLAC, OGG Vorbis, Apple Lossless, AAC / AAC +, AC3, True Audio, MusePack, Monkey’s Audio, WavPack, G.726, PCM; image formats JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIF, RAW. Video, the device plays at a speed of 30fps and a maximum resolution of 1280×720, and record it with a resolution of 720×480. Also supports many sub-formats. Cowon A3 PVP will be produced with hard disk sizes 30 and 60 gigabytes. The player will appear in stores in early December and cost $349 or $399, depending on the size of internal memory.

Everyone who likes working with digital photos, altering photographs and collecting all of his/her “photo masterpieces” probably will like a new gadget Picture Porter 35. This is a capacious device that allows you to store digital images.

Its internal memory is 160 GB, LCD – 3.5 inches.

Of course, the device has a fast USB-connector that allows you to use it as an external hard drive. You can directly connect any device with a USB-port to the Picture Porter 35.

There is also a card reader. And it can be used not only as an album for your photos, but also as media – it «reads» MP3, WMA, AAC, and MPEG-1, MPEG-4 and Motion JPEG.

The software allows creating your slide show and see IPTC metadata for the corresponding images.

The price of this gadget is still unknown.

Company Digital Foci is the manufacturer of Picture Porter 35. The new photo album will be presented at the Consumer Electronics, CES 2009.

Today, our attention is attracted by a very practical device, that the company Brando offers. It is a  USB-adapter with which a computer hard drive can be turned into HDD-Player.

This adapter is universal: it can also be used as a powerful means of transferring data at up to 480 megabits per second. It supports 2.5 inches and 3.5 inches size hard disks. In addition, the device can connect to a memory card of SD (HC) format or any USB drive.

But still the main feature attracting the attention is the ability to play multimedia files on a TV without connecting to a computer. The adapter supports video formats MPG, MPEG, VOB, AVI, MP4, DIVX and audio formats MP3, WAV, AAC, MPA, WMA, AC3. In addition, it can view images in the JPG format.

The device is managed by remote control, as well as through a button located on his case. The size of the adapter is 110 × 33×44 mm and weight – about 100 grams. The price of the device is also very attractive, just 69 dollars.