The SimpleTech Bonzai is expandable – it uses secure digital and MultiMediaCards which you can insert into the device. (Thanks to Wired for the heads-up).

At the moment, however, I am still more fascinated by the Creative MuVo which is a USB flash device and an MP3 player…

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New Scientist (who I used to write for) reveals that Philips is working on a smarter alternative to DataPlay’s little recordable discs. These “SFFO” (Small Form Factor Optical) discs would store 4Gb each (instead of the DataPlay 250Mb per side) and will be available in players costing as little as £70… if you can wait two years. Whether they would include copy protection schemes as standard is as yet unclear…credit card accept major allmoney credit accept personal cardaccredited degree services humanapplication credit aapartmentline accept credit payment cardcredit free card no amateurs pornaccept amex card creditmortgages credit bad 2nd Map

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This one has a 160Gb disc, a broadband Internet connection, and it allows you to call home to tell your PVR to tape something. Too bad you can only buy it in Japan so far. Surveys say that few people are buying hard disk based TV recorders so far because their appeal is too hard to understand, but everyone I know who has a TiVo raves about it. Admittedly, I am too cheap to buy one at the moment (and I couldn’t get one past my wife – the purchasing committee – anyway) but let the price come down a bit and integrate it into my cable TV set top and a DVD recorder and I would buy one like a shot…movies absolutely porno freenights boogie movieindian free sex moviesmovies free lesbaintitty movies fuck freesecretary movies hotmovie heaven just likegalleries and latinas movies Map

I just had a response from someone representing DataPlay to my earlier posting about this new technology. Nice to see that the industry is out there watching. Unfortunately, the answers given if anything discourage me from inquiring any more. The blank media is $10 apiece, it can’t be erased, only added to, and no information is given about European availability…

I just stumbled across an article about the forthcoming DataPlay format – like a minidisc only much smaller – discs about the size of a 10p piece. Seems to me that the New York Times’ article is a little over-hostile. It is concentrating on the fact that when you copy MP3s onto the disc “your MP3s first need to be converted to the secure CK format (DataPlay’s proprietary content storage format) before being sent to the player. Files in these formats can’t be transferred off the DataPlay disks nor played with any other media players except the included iRiver FuturePlayer”

Interestingly, the format allows you to record MP3 music directly onto the discs (up to 11 hours worth on each disc) and/or just plug your computer into a player’s USB port and record up to 500Mb of data per disc directly into the player.

I don’t know why I never heard of this before but now that I have I really want to have a look at one. Details are surprisingly hard to come by, even on the format’s own website.

It is unclear to me, for example, whether the discs are write once or write many times – if they are the former I would be much less interested…loan settlement againstloans alabamahome 100 garanteed loanand loans 20 80 rateshome loans las vegas accessday america loan pay advance1st commerce loanalaska alaska loans truck auto insurance Map

Nick Denton, who was responsible for the creation of the very useful moreover news search engine, is paying someone to run a weblog about gadgets – gizmodo. It may not be as novel an idea as it appars – I have been reading Street Tech for a while, which incudes a weblog “Street Noise”, and I think it is a commercial enterprise.

I hope both it and Gizmodo find a way to make money (more discussion about profitability here). I agree with one of the people in that discussion that it would be a more compelling read if it had a point of view instead of merely informing you about the existence of products and articles.acoustic loan servicingloan software servicing absa payday loans week day 7conforming 2008 limit mac freddie loanbridging abbey loans nationalsloane aidanpawn akron loangovernment loans aboriginaladelaide loans personal bank5,000.00 in phoenix az loansringtones 6315i192 heather lane barrington ridgebarrington 3316of park harrington adeleaccapella beatbox ringtoneringtone a banjo dueling freenorwood street torrington connecticut 528100 ringtone mp3 sanyo Map

“A mountain of disused gadgets worth £5bn are lying around UK homes, with over half of households stockpiling more than three pieces of unwanted hi-tech wizardry”.
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“Men are the worse culprits for holding onto their gadgets, with 32% holding on to four or more unused items compared to just 19% of women hanging onto the same number” – just ask my wife…

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