The over-the-ear style headset features a flip-down monocle display that can be used to watch videos or surf the web. With 4GB (Nikon Media Port UP300) or 8GB (Nikon Media Port UP300x) of onboard storage, the Nikon Media Port UP headset can download data from the web (via a WiFi connection) to enjoy later or just play video and music. Integrated motion sensors allow for hands-free webpage navigation media playback controls through head-motions (up, down, left, and right).

The Nikon Media Port UP headset brings your favorite media with you for on-the-road pleasure. Because, you know, real life is just so boring.

Nokion Media Port UP headset - Resistance is futile.

The Nikon Media Port UP300 ($580) and UP300x might not catch on in the mass market, but it’s definitely an interesting idea. Now, if this Borg-style headset were to sport a Bluetooth connection to link up with a smartphone, would anyone use it?

[Via: core77]

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The facts

• There's an Apple event on October 14 and we will be there to liveblog the pants out of it.

• Long overdue, a new MacBook line will be unveiled, with newly-designed MacBooks and MacBook Pros.

• Remember that Apple told resellers not to stock MacBooks or iPods (this was just before the Let's Rock announcement).

The logical and probable rumors

• The MacBook Air, being a recent design, will probably get a features bump, but not a redesign. This could to be supported by price cuts during the summer.

• Despite the pretty mock ups, the MacBook and the MacBook Pro will probably look like the MacBook Air, but on a different scale. In previous generations, there was always a new model that introduced a new look, then the rest followed up.

• Several images of the base top, the base bottom and the display frame of the MacBook Pro have surfaced. It is still not clear if these images are real or not, even while they do look real indeed.

• Some people alleged that these images show a shell carved out of a single piece of aluminum, using a new and revolutionary manufacturing process code-named "Brick".

• However, there are several reasons to believe this may not be the case, starting with an Apple patent detailing a new welding process. However, both manufacturing techniques may have been combined for this product.

• The MacBook in the teaser invitation may be the 13-inch model. Assuming the Apple logo is the same size as before, that is. They have changed its size before.

• Following Apple's commitment for greener computers, all displays in the upcoming MacBook line may be LED-based.

Crazy rumors and wishful thinking

• The usual blurry MacBook spyshots have appeared, some of which, like this one, have been proven to be fake.

• The glass iPhone trackpads are most probably just that, fake.

• Some crazy people really wish to see a touch notebook.

• There's even more crazy people that think that a semi-transparent MacBook Pro may appear, based on an Apple patent.

• Some really really crazy people have been dreaming about tablet Macs since 2007 and before.

Once Yahoo Go is installed, users can access the voice-enabled search with a single click from a home screen. Unfortunately, not all users are “affected with the voice.” Initially, Yahoo Go 3.0 only supports those users living in select countries — including U.S., UK, India, Singapore, The Philippines and Canada.

As for the features supported, you can speak to your phone to find such things as flight numbers, locations, web site names, local businesses, and more… As usual, more information is available on Yahoo’s mobile products website.

[Via: SymbianFreak]

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Alright, I have never had the urge to cuddle with my speakers.  Nor do I wish for a set of speakers that would be comfortable to cuddle with.  To me, speakers are meant to sit there and make noise, on occasion maybe have a bit of geek appeal.  A cuddly bear speaker is just taking things too far.  Besides the first time you watched an rated R movie on your laptop with one of these plugged in, it’s poor ears would probably go up in flames.  It’s sometimes difficult to see who they could possibly be marketing something like this towards, luckily in this case they just came out and said it.

They think it’s an ideal gift for lovers.  Seriously, if any guy ever bought me one of these that’d be it, frankly I’m not a five year old.  Even if I were five, five year olds don’t need laptop speakers.  The speakers plug in via USB as usual.  They are currently being sold for $22.99 on Sourcing Map, but you might want to hurry since there are only three in stock.  We all know what a horrible tragedy it’d be to miss out on these gems.

Source: SlipperyBrick

Our Commander and Chief Matt has been given 2 tickets to the Future of Mobile 2008 show in London on the 17th & 18th of next month and has decided to offer one of our readers the chance not only to spend the a bit of time with himself (that's a whole other competition) but to attend the event with him.

The Future of Mobile show (or FOM for short) features answers to questions like:

How you'll be affected by Google's latest moves in mobile

Expert analysis of new mobile services worldwide will be given and you will get the chance to see ideas and tactics for breaking down the barriers inhibiting mobile start-ups.

The ticket we are offering is worth a massive £580 and includes a 1 Day Conference Pass, lunch paid for by Matt and access to the workshops being run at the event.

Speakers at the event include:

Daniel Appelquist	James Body	Jason Langridge	Rich Miner	Doug Richard	Simon Rockman	Christian Sejersen	David Wood
Vodafone	Truphone	Microsoft	Google	Trutap	SonyEricsson	Mozilla	Symbian

Our usual competition rules apply. Simply send us a paragraph on why you should win along with your your name, mobile number and email address using our normal contact page. One entry per person please, but feel free to get your friends and family to enter too!

Find out more about the event visit : http://www.future-of-mobile.com/2008/london/

Good luck and we'll announce the winner really soon!

Posted by: John

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In an interview with Charlie Rose, Sony CEO Howard Stringer is candid about Sony's problems, and displays a wit and humility that might come as a surprise to those who wonder why it can't be more like its competitors.

"All big companies settle into vertical silos," he told Rose, recounting the difficulties of cutting fat at a Japanese company. "We have to go into the kind of world that Steve Jobs has developed. We're going to communicate horizontally, because every device will talk to every other device."

People at Sony, he said, didn't even talk to one another.

"You've got to get mad that the iPod beat us," he told employees at a recent company retreat. "You've got to be mad when Samsung's market share goes up."

He knows that his unique status, as a Westerner in charge of one of Japan's most successful companies, is no accident: "I had to be careful, sylistically," he says of cuts. "... but it was easier for me to take ownership of that kind of ruthlessness than a Japanese executive."

In the interview, he often hints that his job is mostly about unifying something that would otherwise unravel. He also hints that Japan's strongly hierarchical business culture is another reason that change is slow. But when it comes to product development, polite inference gives way to a calculated bluntness.

"We also don't need to make it three times," he told Rose. "... We're so big, we make the same thing twice in different parts of the company, and no-one seems to notice."

Stringer once remarked that when he took over at Sony, he found a company that made more than 30,000 products: it's no wonder that its cool and innovative gear, like the recent Rolly MP3 gadget, and OLED televisions, don't seem part of a grand plan, such as can be seen behind iTunes' connections to almost all of Apple's hardware.

Sony, traditionally, doesn't have an ecosystem at all, just a relentless avalanche of new products. It owns a fifth of the music industry and one of the largest Hollywood studios, but you wouldn't know it from the lack of service integration in its gadgets.

All about to change, according to Stringer, who outlined plans centering around the PlayStation, which he said will ultimately link Sony's many products, acting as a hub to channel media to portable products, regardless of who makes them.

"It's a home server, sitting in the home .. delivering this content anywhere. It's in direct competition with AppleTV."

If it seems odd that he'd see Apple's least-successful current offering as its strongest in the long term, it's worth remembering his background: before taking command at Sony, he had decades of experience as a broadcaster in the U.S. But while Sony has its hands in every imaginable pot, including content-over-internet, it knows that it still has to make a success of its big investements: "If I fail to make Blu-Ray successful, it will be on our tombstone as Betamax 2," Stringer tells Rose.

More interesting points from the interview:

• On OLED television displays: 22" model out soon, and you "could wrap the display around your arm."

• He rather suggested that the cat is out the bag on free music, describing it as a commodity like "air or water." This was, however, to make a point: such a situation is never ever going to be accepted with movies, due to the capital wrapped up in making them.

• "The margins on computers are very small, but everything is becoming a computer."

• The Japanese have a marvelous sense of humor, he said, and have always been very welcoming to him, especially the younger generation at Sony.

• "People want, in bad times, to be entertained."

• "Video games have taken the place of external entertainment in the home," for adults and children alike.

• "Spiderman's been good to Sony."

• On being a Welsh-American working for Japanese company: "I am culturally confused. ... I'm a triple threat and a triple disaster, depending on your point of view. ... I'll wake up after my term at Sony with no friends anywhere, except airline pilots."

• A question: does this renewed focus on internal unity at Sony spell doom for Sony-Ericsson, or what?

Video of interview [Charlie Rose; the interview starts at 15:45]