How many times has your 4 year-old kept nagging you to watch her videos on your 52" plasma while you're still watching your Rocky XII on it? Well, here is a solution. Rip all her DVD's and give her one of these: a Winnie-the-Pooh media player by Aigo.

For a mere 1699 Yuan (US$224), your daughter will get to enjoy her videos and music on a 3.5" screen (big enough to share with her friends at their next tea party). She will also love the navigation button shaped like Pooh's head. Of course, she probably doesn't care that it has 2GB of flash memory and supports all kinds of media formats (VCD, VOB, MP3, WMA, MPEG, ASF, AVI, etc.) She can also plug the player into a TV to share with the boys when they crashed their tea party.

With the exception of VCast here in the US, watching TV on the cell phone is still a foreign concept to us. While the folks in Korea, Japan, Europe and other parts of the world have been enjoying their TV shows on their cell phones, we are still using our cell phones primarily for voice calls.

That still didn't stop LG from unveiling more TV phones to make us even more frustrated with the state of our cellular technology here in the US. The company has introduced the LG SH150 (with the help of their beautiful Korean models). The device works with the HSDPA network and receives TV programs via its DB receiver. It also boasts a 2.2 QVGA screen, a 2 mega-pixel camera and a VGA camera for video conferencing.

Sigh... We'll never get to enjoy it here.

What would you do with $70,000? Pay off your student loan? Buy a condo? A luxury car? Or blow it on a plasma TV? Oh, hell yeah! Definitely the plasma

OK, so not everybody can just fork out that kind of money and spend it on a TV. But if you're one of those who can or just want to catch a glimpse at the world's largest plasma TV (Panasonic TH-103PF9UK ), then you can check it out at Ken Crane's on West Rico Blvd in Los Angeles. starting next Wednesday (August 15th).

So what do you get for $70,000? 103" screen (of course!), 1080p support and 4000:1 contrast ratio, just to start. And that doesn't include a stand or wall mount either.

Ken Crane's is the only West Coast retailer given the right to sell the supersized TV directly to consumers.

Only a few movie studios  can pull this off:  offering new movies to home users before releasing them to the theaters.  But then again, Mark Cuban is in a unique position; he owns Magnolia Pictures (a movie studio) and HDNet (television channel).

Mr. Cuban would like to offer Brian De Palma's "Redacted" as "Ultra HD Video On Demand" to cable and satellite subscribers.  Another possibility is a movie starring Demi Moore and Michael Caine called "Careless".  The price will range betwen $12.95 and $19.95.  The subscribers will also have the option to burn the movie onto a DVD.

This could set a new trend in releasing new movies.  According to research done by cable and satellite providers, the ability to watch movies while they are in theaters is "at the top of the requests" by consumers.

Halo 3 is now the "fastest-selling pre-ordered video game in history", according to Microsoft.  Quoting numbers from major online retailers including Amazon, GameStop, Best Buy and Wal-Mart, the company is hoping that the game will revive the sale of the Xbox 360 consoles, which plummetted 60% in just over a year.

At $60 a copy, the game is not inexpensive.  There is even a special "Legendary Edition", which sells for $130, that includes a helmet-style case, bonus discs and collector's art.  The fact that the gamers are willing to shell out this kind of money for the game indicates that Microsoft will be able to rely on the Halo franchise for a long time to come.

Halo 3 for Xbox 360 is scheduled to ship on September 25th.

It's been a while since Sony released any new media player. But we may not have to wait long. Pocket-lint reported that the electronic giant is prepping a new music player for IFA 2007 that will "shake up the music player market".

Code named "Rolly", the new player is rumoured to have an egg-shaped form, quite a departure from the iPod crowd. It will also feature an integrated speaker, which should be industry standard by now. Let's hope that this player have what it takes to capture more market share from the iPod.

OK so some of you may already have seen this.  But it's fascinating (and disturbing) nonetheless to see something that people lust over being stripped of dignity and shown to the world.

The Japanese site took the brand new aluminum iMac and performed a major surgery on it, taking out bits and pieces of the iProduct.

Now, we just have to wait for iSuppli to do their usual teardown to see how much the parts really cost. 

With the hi-def war being waged between HD-DVD and Blu-ray formats, it's hard to get excited over a DVD player nowadays.  However, one look at the KISS 1600, you might want to have another look at DVD players.

Unlike regular DVD players, the KISS 1600 not plays your DVDs but it also upscale the signal via HDMI or component connection.  That's nothing special you say?  How about the ability to stream media via wired ethernet or wifi?  Did we get your attention yet?

With this DD player, you can stream the DVD pictures over to several computers at a time.  All you need is the bundled media sharing software to be installed on the computers.  It also capable of streaming media files of all types (XviD, DivX, MPEG-4, etc.).

Not your ordinary run-of-the-mill DVD player after all. 

Last time I checked, a Lojack installation cost somewhere around $700.  That's a lot of money to shell out for my beat up '98 Civic.  It would still hurt if somebody stole it though.

Luckily, somebody figured out how to make a similar tracking device by using a Boost Mobile phone, a GPS tracking service and a data cable.  The total bill comes up to be around $34.  Sure can't beat that.

I wonder how they are going to get around the battery problem though. 

Calling all lonely men. Get out your beer and dollar bills. Somebody has captured a photo of the notorious USB pole dancer at Fry's in Sunnyvale, CA. Now you can own your very own pole dancer and enjoy the night away.

In case you are not aware of this product, there is a video available here. The video was posted back in January so it's been out for while. We just had never seen it in the wild before.

Fascinating...