University professor Bae Sang-min led his team to create a music player which bagged a silver prize at the 2008 International Design Excellence Awards. The product was named as CrossCube Nanum foldable MP3 player which resembled a cross but when folded, it would turn up like a dice. Pretty neat! Not only the professor showed his team’s innovative side but the winning amount (KRW 400 million) which they won was donated for the education of children coming from weak financial background.

The music player is up for sale and from what I understand a bit of Korean (the translators didn’t work), it will come with 1GB capacity and will cost around KRW 40,000 (USD 40).

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A phone which was just a rumor few days back has got its official status. Samsung i850 which has been renamed as INNOV8 will give SE’s 8 megapixel offering a run for its money. INNOV8 will run on Series 60 and is powerpacked with features. Starting with its mammoth 8 megapixel sensor, autofocus and other advanced features like face recognition, smile recognition and so on. Its bad that Samsung missed out to put Xenon flash but to compensate they have included dual LED flash. The phone will come in storage options of 8GB or 16GB but if you would like some more space, it can be done via microSD cards. Other exciting things to be included are 2.8-inch screen supporting 16M colors, DivX support, Wi-Fi, A-GPS, 3D accelerator for gaming, DNSe 2.0 for enhanced music experience, Bluetooth, accelerometer, FM Radio and DLNA certification.

The phone supports quad band networks and will hit the European market next month.

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Today I will admit that in my 20 years of age, I have never been able to solve this mysterious colorful Rubik’s Cube. It was too difficult for me which on the other hand is as easy for this Tilted Twister bot. This robot is made completely out of Lego Mindstorms kit and it works by keeping the cube on its turntable. The sensors now take over as it detects the cube place, the colors and then goes for the knockout. Watch the video to see it in action and if you seem interested in building yourself, here’s the DIY guide.

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Users having inconvenience operating their cell phones because of their eyesight problems should look out for Wine phone (LG-KF300/L706ie) which is currently selling in the Japanese and European regions. The phone integrates large displays so the user can work around with the phone without straining his eyes. The external screen measures a good 1.8” whereas the internal one boasts 2.4” screen space.

LG is selling Wine in colors of white, gold, and pink if you’re in Japan or pink, dark purple and black if you happen to be in the European Union.

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Creative is on a roll. After launching Zen X-Fi and Krystal, they are back again with Mozaic. The keypad is designed in true Moziac style which can be changed with the Mozaic skin packs. On the specs front, the player has got a 1.8-inch 64K TFT display, loudspeaker, different storage capacity options of 2GB/4GB/8GB, FM Radio and playback of audio (MP3/WMA/WAV/Audible 4), video (after transcoding to the compatible format) and image (JPEG /BMP/GIF/PNG/TIFF) files. IF you get bored of your collection then there’s FM Radio to the rescue with voice recorder and EQ settings added for functionality.

The player as you would expect is not available worldwide, Singapore for the time being at a price tag of SGD 99 (USD 73), SGD 129 (USD 93) and SGD 169 (USD 124).

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N-Gage community will be a tad larger now as Nokia has expanded the list of compatible handsets making the total count to 6. The new handsets which will be supporting N-Gage are N78, N96 and XpressMusic 5320.

Gamers seeking more realism than just top notch graphics should check out the full-motion gaming chair from Gyroxus. The crash against the wall in GT5 or burning the tyre on a straight road, this chair will make you feel everything. Good thing about this is that it does not require any additional hardware to show its colors and is happy with the game’s controllers tucked on the stand of the chair. Current support is for PS2, PS3, Xbox 360, PC and Nintendo (presuming Wii) and costs a hefty $479 after an introductory discount.

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Wii users in Japan will now be able to upload and print their images from their Photo channel thanks to a deal struck between Nintendo and Fujifilm. The details about the service are pretty scarce right now but we reckon this function will be enabled after a firmware update. This new service will also enable users to print their Miis on a business card.

[Via Reuters]

We reported about the possibility of Sony preparing an updated version of PSP. Well we still don’t acknowledge it as official but more images are floating of the PSP 3000.

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A beautiful looking PMP from Cowon will soon head for the Korean market. Dubbed as P5, the exterior of which is graced by luxurious hairline metal body while the interior runs on a Alchemy AU1250 fast processor clocking 700MHz with Windows CE 5.0 onboard and wide 5-inch touchscreen display capable of supporting 800×480 pixels of resolution. Other than the obvious multimedia playback support of audio, video and image, Cowon has added Widget, Haptic support with other inclusions like Bluetooth, TV-Out, Flash, FM Radio, Dictionary and T-DMB receiver.

The media player will come in storage capacities of 60GB and 80GB and will be available in Korea soon. No word on pricing yet.

Supported formats:
Audio: MP3, WMA, ASF, OGG, WAV, FLAC, APE, MPC, WV
Video: AVI, ASF, WMV, MPG, OGM, DivX, Xvid, MPEG4, WMV9
Image: JPG, BMP, PNG, RAW

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