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Yes, we spotted the Sony’ Dash at Best buy just a couple of days ago, but the launch date of April 29^th is finally here and Sony has officially  unleashed this non-tablet touchscreen gadget into the wild. Sony’s Dash arrives with a price tag of $199 and features a 7” display screen, outstandingly appreciated alarm clock, and if you are accompanied with Dash you can have access to streaming media from Netflix, Pandora, CBS, and many more.

The days are gone when Night Vision used to be limited within the accessibility of military Special Forces only because over the past couple of years it has become accessible for whoever wants to use it. In fact, even a person with small pocket can easily have access to this amazing feature if he/she is seriously interested. But, we could be on the threshold of a green-screen revolution if study taking place at the University of Florida, led by Dr. Franky So, comes to fruition. Dr. Franky along with his students are currently working on an OLED film which is a lot excited by infrared. Much to your surprise, the stuff’s multiple layers convert that light to a spectrum that is visible by our eyes, and if everything goes better as expected, it could be layered onto almost anything from normal glasses to car windshields.

It has been around a year now since iPod touch and iPhone users were able to have access to Sirius XM app but it seems like Android users too will soon be able to get into some mobile streaming.  Although no specific date of launch has been announced yet, the app is “coming soon”, and seems to be a lot identical to the iPhone OS counterpart, complete with assistance for streaming over both 3G and WiFi. However, somewhat curiously Sirius SM is saying that this app will be available only for Nexus one and Droid, although that is a pretty puzzling considering they are not the JUST Android 2.1.

If you are too eager to get yourself a ThinkPad netbook (Yes, I’m talking about original Atom-based, 10” Thinkpad), we have got some good yet bad news. Let’s start with good news i.e. Lenovo is indeed working on them. Well, the bad news is that you will need to enroll yourself in a school in New South Wales for having access to one.  Yep, according to Lenovo, the product is meant for the Australian school district only. The netbook in accordance to sources features a 1024×600 10” screen rather than the original 11.6” one. Also, it boasts a 1.6GHz Atom N450 processor that doesn’t have as power as AMD Neo, which is being used in the X100e. However, you can expect your notebook to run for at least 2 more hours with the same 6 cell battery.

The cellophane GPS got a good rise and admiration in Europe this year. ComScore, a company that keeps tracking painful sounding concepts like market share and penetrations, lately reported that around 21 million Europe-based people quit asking their phone for directions last year. Well, that is up 68 % from the 12.5 million who did so in the year 2007.  Well, judging by recent events, 2010’s numbers can be expected to be stellar nonetheless.

If you have been looking for such a nettop that comes without those fussy abilities of playing HD content, EeeBox EB1007 by ASUS might be what you are actually looking for. The EeeBox EB1007 that is on its way of being unleased very sooner features the Intel Atom D410 processor, 160BG of hard drive, 1 GB of DDR2 RAM, 3 USB 2.0 ports, in addition to 802.11b/g/n WiFi. No words on pricing so far.

Sony recently quietly unleashed an all-new water resistant, wearable Walkman – the NWZ-250. It arrives in both 2 GB and 4 GB models, and the battery life is assumed to last for up to 11 hours in normal. With 43 grams of weight, it is probably best for even those weight very weight sensitive ears. They will be available in four difference colors including black, lime green, magenta and silver. The price you will need to pay for owning this tiny treasure is $60.

Netflix discs have already been shipped to quite a few Wii users for a few weeks now, but Netflix and Nintendo have recently announced that the discs plus services are now fully accessible to the entire users as of today. Thus, if you were not among that larger initial group, you can as well receive your desired disc wherever you want (if you have not yet), and of course you can still demand a disc from Netflix but make sure you have already secured your membership with them.

Although Zune HD 64 was supposed to get officially launched at April 12^th, you can now get yourself a Zune HD 64 if you want. All you need to do is placing your order straight from their official website. as promoted, the device comes with $349.99 price tag. When it comes to 16 GB and 32 GB models, their prices are $200 and $270 resp. Of course, you will also have access to the latest latest v4.5 firmware pre-loaded on this gadget that packs all-new features like SmartDJ.

Well, it is a half compact, half retro and chock jam-packed with adventure. This is Olympus’s PEN E-PL1!  It is the first ever Micro Four Thirds camera from Olympus to feature an MSRP. This very new addition to Olympus gallery seems to gain a huge attention of end-users and have been appreciated to some extent as the overall package seems to be fine! You will get improved megapixels, improved ISO performance and they offer it in neon green. All in all, you can give it a try if interested!

Not much satisfied with a mere electric skateboard? Well, it seems like some researchers at Shibaura Institute of Technology in Japan weren’t either as they are trying their best to come up with so-called “robo-skateboard” since last few months. With this upcoming invent, you are likely to travel around six miles per hour. Weighing in a whopping 33 pounds, robo-stakeboard will probably hit the outer-world by 2013 and the researchers till then will try to reduce its price to ¥100,000 (just over $1,000). Again, all we can do is wait and watch! Let’s hope someday we will finally get to ride on it.