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This glossy, wireless box is the Blackbox Bluetooth Speaker System from Gear4 featuring 24W stereo speaker output, a hidden LED display that comes to life when active and touch screen controls.

It ships with a remote and a convenient carrying case and to make sure its compatible with future cell phones and other devices they’ve made it real easy to upgrade the firmware.

Gear4Store.com: Blackbox Bluetooth Speaker System (£99.99, ca $200 US)

(Via RedFerret)

This weird device is called Yamaha TENORI-ON and I think Yamaha describes it best as a “16×16 LED button matrix performance instrument with a stunning visual display”. Basically it’s a touch screen allowing you to “draw” your music (with both MIDI and samples). It’s designed by Japanese media artist Toshio Iwai and will be available in the UK from September.

Just imagine the camp fires of the future where the always-present-guitar dude plays one of these instead.

Yamaha.com: TENORI-ON

Here’s Marantz new CD setup, the CR201 Personal CD System. This stylish one-piece system promises excellent sound quality through its built-in speaker system (with intelligent 3D sound technology) while sporting a mirror LED front panel, a side-sliding CD door, ambient blue LED lights a USB port for external devices.

The remote control is in all Japanese though, but probably easy enough to learn through trial-and-error to make up for the good looks of this thing.

AudioCubes: Marantz CR201 Personal CD System ($759.00)

(Via Acquire)

SanDisk just announced the new Sansa View and suddenly it looks nothing like the chubby thing they showcased at CES in January. The Sansa Views are available in two models (8GB and 16GB) with the possibility to upgrade to 24GB by using the MicroSD card expansion slot.

Besides the impressive storage capabilities it sports a 2.4" display, 30 hours of battery power and is capable of playing movies (MPEG4, WMV, and H.264, with more formats coming) in 30 fps, music (MP3, WAV, Audible, WMA) with gapless playback, pictures (jpeg), FM-radio and voice recording with the built-in microphone.

The estimated prices are $149.99 for the 8GB model and $199.99 for 16GB.

SanDisk.com: Sansa View Product Page

If one big subwoofer isn’t enough, how about one huge subwoofer consisting of ten smaller ones? Yeah. Elemental Designs Dodecasub sure looks like it’s packing some punch with its ten 11Kv.2 subs capable of 600 watts a piece. The whole thing is designed to keep a small sweet spot though, so don’t worry about the neighbors’ paintings falling down.

Elemental Designs: Dodecasub ($2,500.00)

(Via Technabob, Audiojunkies)

Darklite is Messiah’s new and sleek DVD remote control for Playstation 3 sporting bright backlit buttons (primary buttons on top and the secondary buttons just a slide-out away), a USB-connected receiver doubling as a charging station and both BluRay / DVD compatibility.

The Darklite is available on pre-order now and starts shipping September 25th.

PlayMessiah.com: Darklite DVD Remote ($29.99)

(Via Geekalerts)

Sony just announced VPL-VW200 and VPL-VW60, their two new 24p True Cinema 1080p SXRD Bravia projectors. The VW-200 sports a Carl Zeiss Vario-Tesar lens and a 120fps frame rate, the VW60 is gifted with improved brightness of 1,000lm.

“The VPL-VW200 and VPL-VW60 models feature newly designed SXRD panels with wire grid polarizers and high contrast plates that more than double the previous native contrast ratio. When combined with Sony’s Advanced Iris technology, the panels help to deliver a stunning 35,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio.”

The VW-200 will be launched in October for about $15,000 (ouch) and the cheaper VW-60 will set you back about $5,000 when its launched in September.

Sony.com: Press release

(Via Ubergizmo)

Here’s the Go Video Portable Media Player, a modern take on those good old cassette tape boomboxes. Besides being able to play CD’s and AM/FM-radio it can be hooked up with external devices using USB and play photo-CD’s and DVD’s on the 7" wide screen display.

Other than that it sports bass boost, stereo speakers, video and coaxial digital audio outputs and, of course, a remote control.

FingerHut.com: Go Video Portable Media Player ($159.99)

(Via Geekalerts)

Hitachi will launch the world’s first Blu-ray camcorders in Japan this August. They’re dubbed DZ-BD7H and DZ-BD70 and they’re both capable of recording one full hour of sweet, high-def footage (mmm… 1920×1080…) directly to Blu-ray discs for later viewing using any compatible Blu-ray player.

From AVING:

“Both camcorders also feature a 5.3M CMOS sensor with an effective 2.07M for video and 4.32M for stills. You would also get a 10x optical zoom(electronically stabilized) and 2.7-inch widescreen LCD on the Hitachi DZ-BD70 and DZ-BD7H.”

Tech specs @ Fosfor Gadgets

(Via Aving, Fosfor Gadgets)

Bitman Video Bulb is a Japanese toy that promises to light up any house party. Just plug it in your TV’s RCA video jack and Bitman will pop up on the screen, portrayed as a giant, pixeled stick man. He’ll run around in his pixel house, climbing stairs and dance wherever he wants to (which seems to be pretty much everywhere).

If everything goes like planned your house party guests will stare in awe for a while and then blindly join him in his crazy monkey disco dance. Or something.

AudioCubes: Bitman Video Bulb ($19.00)