ViewSonic VFM1024W-11 10-Inch Digital Media Frame -Features Music, Video and Photos with High Resolution 1024×600 (Cherry wood)

• 10-inch Digital Media Frame with high resolution of 1,024×600, 16:9 aspect ratio
• Enjoy favorite music & photo simultaneously, deliver flawless video play back
• Cherry wood frame, auto Rotation, Internal Memory of 128mb
• Calendar, clock and alarm feature, magic feature with four split screens for random image rotation
• Image viewing adjustment, contract ratio and brightness control

The VFM1024w-11 digital media frame not only delivers perfect picture quality with elegant cherry wood frame but also offers multifunctional capacity for excellent video and audio play back. The high resolution of 1024×600 screen provides brilliant picture quality. With magic screen feature, it is fun to show case your long lasting memories in a random picture rotation. The beautiful layout & design for the calendar, clock and alarm feature brings everyday usage with style

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List Price: $ 189.99

Price: $ 89.99

I don’t know what it is about Japan and earphones, but this country does offer some unique ones. Today, it wasn’t some weird little company but Pioneer that announced strange earphones: One is cherry-shaped [JP], the other looks like a piece of a leather belt [JP] for some reason.

Needless to say, the 9mm-earphones aren’t anything special technically, but you will only want to buy these for the design only anyway. Both types will be offered in four different colors. The Cherry model comes in an extra-cute bag (see below).

All of these Japan-only earphones will go on sale in the middle of next month (price: $30). Ask import/export specialists Japan Trend Shop, Geek Stuff 4 U or Rinkya if you’re interested but don’t live in japan.

The chances of me being genuinely amazed at something I see a Belgian tech company achieve are rather slim. But occasionally, it happens. Last week I went to local entrepreneur meetup BetaGroup and saw five startups pitch their stuff to the 200-person audience.

The last one to get its five minutes of fame was Cherry, a new mobile operator that promised to “revolutionize the telecom world”. Needless to say, I was as curious as I was skeptical.

Then the company’s CEO got up on stage, introduced himself, took out his Nokia smartphone, called some random guy in the audience and had him call him back on his phone afterwards. Projecting his mobile phone screen on a bigger screen for everyone to see, he demonstrated how he didn’t need to launch an application and just browsed his contact list to call the other person. Standard functionality, sure, but the cool part of it was the fact that the phone was lacking the presence of a SIM card, which is supposed to identify you as a subscriber of a telephony service.