The MP3 player was presented at the 2007 Seoul Motor Show in VW booth. The music player produced by LG Electronics and inspired by VW Beetle comes in three colors like the car: Salsa Red, Shadow Blue, and Sunflower Yellow. The VW badge stays in the front announcing the branded MP3 player.

There are not so many details about this player. It features a 2.4″ touchscreen LCD. We suppose it’s a touchscreen because the LG player doesn’t feature any buttons. It is produced in two variants of 2GB and 4GB, respectively. The MP3 player has aluminum case. The battery is said to last around 20 hours of music playing.

Pricing and availability weren’t announced yet. Probably LG and Volkswagen are developing their marketing strategy right now. We will come back with new info as soon as we get. - MIHNEA BOIANGIU

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Verizon Wireless and RIM have announced officially the BlackBerry 8830 World Edition. The smartphone works in the dual-mode CDMA/GSM. The 8830 model is using a SIM card and is able to switch between the two networks offering international coverage. You will enjoy fast data transfer, because the phone is EV-DO capable.

The BlackBerry 8830 gave up to the black color in favor of the silver one. Being a smartphone, BlackBerry 8830 World Edition comes with many utilities like: media player, speakerphone, voice-activated dialing, conference calling, 64MB internal memory and microSD slot. Moreover the mobile features a Bluetooth with dial-up networking capabilities (tethered or wireless) and the BlackBerry push e-mail solution with support for Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Domino, or Novell GroupWise.

For all those who expect this mobile, we have some good news. The BlackBerry 8830 World Edition can be ordered starting from May 14th through direct sales channels and in retail stores starting May 28. The price goes at $299.99 with two years contract in Verizon network. - MIHNEA BOIANGIU

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It looks like AT&T, that recently acquired Cingular, the company that will market the iPhone when it’s released, works hard to ensure the backend of its own systems to be able to sell it to enterprises. This however is still something not officially confirmed since we don’t have anyone from AT&T saying it out loud, only a spoke man under anonymity.

However if this is true it’s not going to look good. Mobile phones marketing gurus are against the proposal and their reasons are reasonable:

1. We all know how Mac computers are not a standard be it for companies or home use, and that’s because people are close-mouthed to use it widely. This is the first phone they will launch and targeting the wrong clients would put it in disgrace.

2. For business it has a few shortcomings like “no removable battery” and that is a must if we think that the new iPhone has multiple processors and will eat lots and lots of Volts.

3. Dialing and browsing with your finger only, because of the touchscreen, you cannot think this is good for business. Could you dial while driving?

4. Running OS X, will not give the option of writing new applications for the company because you need an open OS. This doesn’t happen with Windows Mobile or Symbian, therefore enterprises will move to BlackBerry or other Windows Mobile phones.

5. Why would a company buy its employee a mobile phone with plenty of storage for their digital music collections? Do I want him focused on Eminem and Beyonce or on the business?

Waiting to see if AT&T is really preparing for enterprises or not, because the reasons above really make a good case against the idea. - ALEX ION
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I’ve been thinking that my 2 years old laptop (it’s a good one, don’t laugh at it) could use a new hard drive because I am going to buy myself the new Sony H9 when it releases, and those pictures are going to be pretty big.

The CF-to-SATA adapter is the perfect solution. Just heard about it on Engadget and I think it rocks. You get to use any type of compact flash into the CF-to-SATA hard drive adapter and then connect it to your laptop just like a normal 2.5-inch SATA hard drive. The compact flash is seen like an ordinary drive and you can make it bootable if you need to install your system on, be it Windows, OS X or Linux.

Two more things I need to say. It supports DMA and Ultra DMA modes and only costs $35.99 if you think that a CompactFlash media is shock resistant and a low power consumer. I might buy one just now to test it and post the review here. - ALEX ION

We have a new release from Inter Genius Systems, Rapsody N35 which is a new multimedia player that you can attach a 3.5-inch HDD from 40GB, up to 1TB. You get to connect it to the PC via wire or wireless LAN through an access point, it has an USB point that you can connect a CD or DVD-ROM, a memory stick or an external HDD.

It also comes with a writing security system, uses DVI (Digital Visual Interface) and to be honest you get to use it as a storage device and you can store WMV, AVI, MPG, MPEG, DAT, M2P, M2V, VOB, IFO, ISO, TP and TRP, JPEG, MPEG 1,2,4 MPEG2-TS, DivX, Xvid and WMV9.

The new Rapsody N35 has 1.8kg without the HDD and the dimensions are 248 x 47 x 244. Last thing is that it’s both Windows and Mac compatible and the price is 28,000Yen which is around $235. We would love to test it a little … - ALEX ION

[via Akihabara]

Pure lazyness is the first thing that comes into my mind seeing the pictures. It looks like Norwegians entered the Lazy People Club.

Look at the pictures and see these lazy people using a bicycle lift to climb up a hill. The lift is 130 meters long and is used by mommies and their babies, children, grown-ups and even the elders take the ride. Still haven’t stopped laughing and I have to wonder what should we do now: ask for one in our city or blame them for being lazy and file a petition to take it away? Gizmodo already said they want it in San Francisco, so why not ask for one in Bucharest?

I would really love to read your comments about the Norwegian bicycle lift. - ALEX ION

Check up the gallery below (via Fresh99)

UPDATE: We know that the bicycle lift is in Trondheim, Norway and we have the movie, not just pictures. Check below.

For those of you that didn’t know of the Amosu creations I am telling you these guys turn your common mobile phone into a gold mobile phone or into a diamond mobile phone so that you own the best luxury product in town. It looks like, now they can make your iPod look better …

Recently they’ve created the 24 carat gold iPod with hardened mirror case. I bet no one is interested on specifications, because you no longer carry just an iPod, you have the 24 carat gold iPod that not even the fashion gadgets like LG Prada or other could beat. The 8GB Nano and the 30GB video iPod sells for £299 while the 80GB video iPod sells for £399.

However, my main concern is, if I am scared to carry my $700 mobile phone in town how would I feel with one worth $2,000 or $40,000, and I also wonder how appealing would an iPod be to the thieves in my town? If you still want to buy one you can do it on Amosu. - ALEX ION

Used with a scroll-wheel for your mouse? You can forget it because Genius Traveler 355 Laser claims to be the first Opto mouse in the world with a touch sensor that replaced the scroll wheel. I am not sure how well will this new solution be accepted because we have a mouse with no mechanical elements: only some plastics and a bunch of sensors.

It’s not yet available, so if you want to test the new Genius Traveler 355 you should wait until it will be released next month, and I guess we will see some reviews and get feedback on how good the Opto Mouse is. - ALEX ION

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Listen to me because we no longer need Michelangelo or other renown painters because now we have big digital picture frames to put on the walls or wherever we feel like. AG Neovo V-10 photo frames are 7-inch active matrix LCD with a print size of 4″ x 6″, without any buttons, a resolution of 800×480, 400:1 contrast ratio, Touchable Frame and 220 lumens of brightness.

You get to use your SD, MMC, MS, CF and MD cards to work with it because AG Neovo made it easy for everyone to slide in their JPEG photos and see them. The memory is not big but enough for a high quality picture to be stored, 128MB, and you can also use your memory stick because it has a mini-USB connector. This is not just a display machine for a photo, because it has slideshow and file browsing, calendar and clock that you can turn on and off and a rechargeable lithium-ion battery.

The price is £150, and you can get more info on AG Neovo. - ALEX ION

It looks like 32 people dieing is not enough harm done because malware writers have ideas to exploit the situation at the Virginia Tech University to get your online bank accounts informations and your passwords. The malware attack redirects the user to a website that has an image of Cho Seung-Hui the attacker and links on the page. The links redirect to videos in Brazil and they download a screen-saver for you, TERROR_EM_VIRGINIA.SCR, that will install a trojan to get what they initially wanted.

More and more people are using these kind of events for potential spam attacks, phishing, trojans or other kind of computer viruses. Tsunamis in the Indian Ocean, London terrorist attacks or the Katrina Hurricane, more and more malware attackers exploit tragedies and catastrophes for small or big amounts of money out of people’s suffer.

Beware when you are trying to see more about Virginia Tech University because there are so many new registered domains that you could end up on, that may not be safe. - ALEX ION