Xbox-friendly Urge Concept car

Nissan has certainly been busy. Barely after announcing a self-healing paint for car scratches, the Japanese carmaker has taken the wraps off a new sports car that has got to be the ultimate dream machine for gamers. That's because the six-speed manual, rear-wheel drive will come with a built-in Xbox gaming system and driver-integrated cockpit. Talk about immersive gameplay. Details, though, are sketchy right now as to whether it's on the Xbox 360 platform or how it works. What's definite is that if the Urge ever gets the urge to make a play for the Asian market, we can expect some serious sticker shock.

Via CNET News.com

Price: N.A.
Availability: Still in concept stage
Device: Car with gameplay
Basic specs: N.A.

3-in-1 speaker dock for Walkman phones

It was just a matter of time before manfacturers offered speaker docks for Walkman phones, just like the ones available for iPods. What we didn’t expect, though, was to find one that looked so good. We're betting most people will want to lay their hands on one.

Spotted at Mobile.brando.com.hk, the globe-shaped dock can be used with the W800i, K750i, W550i, and possibly the recently released W900i. It serves primarily as a stereo speaker system for music playback from the phone. As with most speaker docks, it can also be used for charging and syncing the phone to the PC. A 3.5mm line-in connector is provided to allow users to hook up other music players to the speaker.

For now, it looks like the dock will be available only online and comes in just one color—-the signature Walkman white-orange. Onboard controls include a power button and volume controls. The device is powered by AC power and comes bundled with USB and 3.5mm jack audio cables. Users should note that the speaker dock is not an official Sony Ericsson accessory.

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Delwin wants to be free

Poor Delwin indeed, but it's always good to know that your friends aren’t the fair weather sort. The 18-year-old's pals at Princeton are banding together to help pony up the cash needed to keep the RIAA hounds at bay. Faced with a 109-page legal document as well as detailed records of the 4,070 music files once residing in his computer, this undergrad doesn’t have a prayer of a legal chance. So the next best thing? Get rebranded as the martyr of free music sharing and have the global P2P crowd donate money into your coffers. Money, we are sure that RIAA would love to point out could have been given to the poor suffering record artists instead. More info here

Neuros MPEG-4 Recorder 2 for PSP

While the rest of Asia is still waiting for UMD movies from a limited catalog to arrive on our shores, there's another option for PSP owners to get their shows onto their consoles. The Neuros MPEG-4 Recorder 2 works like a standalone digital VCR that records onto flash memory. This means you can plug into any analog video source, including TV and cable, save the content as MPEG-4 video files onto Memory Stick Duo, Memory Stick PRO Duo, CompactFlash Type I and Type II, and Hitachi Microdrives with CF Type II, and playback directly onto your PSP, PDA, laptop or any portable media device that supports the above media. This totally eliminates the need to deal with different proprietary file formats. Now you can rerun that harrowing finale between the Linz siblings and Bransons in The Amazing Race as many times as you want, all on your PSP. Sweet.

Take a closer look here

Via Ployer

Price: US$149.99
Availability: Neuros online store
Device: MPEG-4 recorder
Basic specs: MPEG-4 AVI movie player, photo viewer, MP3/AAC music player, USB 2.0 High-Speed card reader, 110-240V AC/DC power supply, 4.6 x 3.42 x .71inches, 4.9oz, remote control, cables, see more here

Help! My iPod's melting!

Now that's hot, hot content. Sizzling hot, like blistering heat wave. Whoosh. We are parched. And we worry whether our Click Wheel will be able to stand up to our panting clicks. Good thing we bought protectors for our slinky iPods. But hey, isn't all that friction going to burn some rubber?

Playboy's latest Bodcast promises to deliver the sexy vibe back into your iPod, though we are rather hoping it will rub off on us, too. Think we will store it in our pants for the next seven days. Excuse us. It's time for another toilet break. More info here

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