Creative Zen walkthru

About an hour ago the folks over at french Generationmp3 did a nice video walkthru of the new Creative Zen. Check it out. Very tiny player i say, tiny.... indeed.

Creative Zen

This week at the IFA Consumer electronics fair in Berlin, Creative launched their new supersmall creditcard sized media player, the Zen. With a width of 8.3 cm, 5.5cm high and measly 1.13cm thickness, it still manages to pack from 4/8/16gb internal memory and an SD card slot, making it upgradable to a total of whopping 32gb (counting the new Toshiba 16gb cards coming out soon). As if this wasnt enough, it packs a 2.5", 16.7 million color capable 320x240 bright tft screen..... and the real news is.... not only does it do Radio, voicerecordings, a calendar, but it is Itunes compatible my friends. Yes, the Zen does Aac4. Heres the list of formats it supports : Audio- MP3, WMA, AAC4 (.m4A), WAV (ADPCM), Audible 2,3,4. Video- MJPEG, WMV9, MPED4-SP3, DivX3 4/5 and XviD3. Wauv... thats what i call every Indiekids dream. Get it everywhere soon. 149$ for the 4gb, 199$ for 8gb and 299$ for 16gb, aint bad.



Also check out the Cnet.com Review video here

Lullatone...

Japanese based Lullatone is the wonderous works and joint efforts of melody maker Shawn James Seymour and singer Yoshimi Tomida. A duo which delicious childlike and playful whispery singalong aesthetics gently armwrestles with the absolute most admirable fragile micromusical athmospheres. As mentioned on their myspace, theyre inspired by "daydreaming and humming in the bathtub", a thing i definently lack to draw musical conclusions upon... untill now.... and i concur.... Lullatone is the perfect soundtrack for vivid daydreaming and long sunday showers/baths preparing/recharging for the contrast evils that await around the very corners of the days to come. Of all creatures on this planet.... Lullatone is climbing my list of favourites, tailgating other out of this world inventions like Domo-kun and the Friends with you creatures. I guess by now, youve figured out that i think Lullatones music is nothing less than magical, innocent and cuddly creature like. So if youre into moods and things like that, i guess you owe this japanese duo your dedicated attention. Visit them at myspace here or visit their website lullatone.com. You should.

Lullatone - "Bedroom bossa band" video

Lullatone - "Magical" live in Japan

More Cowon Q5...

Yeah. I just cant get enough of this one. It just seems to be an amazing pmp. Before i forget, last time i mentioned the q5 i forgot to state that it ofcourse, just like the Cowon A2 and other cowon devices, has a Usb host (cameras, phone, other players etc.). Anyhow, heres some more pics (courtesy of the Korean Cowon site). Notice the tiny D2 aswell (lying on top of the q5). The D2 which already is out in most of europe. Very nice device aswell. Oh well.... here some great pics to get you wound up. Please pay close attention to the amazing screen, which is obviously.... insanely contrast rich and viewable from even sharper angles (3rd last pic). Enjoy.

More, more Commodore...

I posted about the Commodore Gravel media unit some time ago, and just thought i would follow up and post these pics to show you how things are coming along.... how good it looks etc. All 3 Gravel units (here only shown 2, c200 which is a smaller unit just for music, coming later) will be able to connect directly to commodores new massive media empire. Rumours are that you will be able to have individual storage space for your media at their site (perhaps along a profile or something, who knows. ;)). Gonna follow up on that later. In the meanwhile check this out, including the link to the official Gravel site.






Gravel site: www.commodore-gravel.com