Sony recently announced that they will soon be selling a USB optical mouse that doubles as a Skype phone receiver, dubbed the “Mousetalk”. The mouse/phone will look like a flat mouse that flips open to a clamshell-like cell phone. Sony even suggests that you can use the phone for hands-free conversations by opening the clamshell halfway. While the specifics of this feature are lacking, I assume that opening the mouse only halfway will trigger a speaker phone setting. It remains to be seen whether or not it will be possible to still retain functionality of the mouse while in hands-free mode.


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Pioneer is preparing for the shipment of it’s new internal ATAPI Blu-ray Disk (BD) recorder/player, the BDR-101A. The unit will ship as an OEM at the end of January 2006. The BDR-101A can write to BD-R and BD-RE disc formats as well as read BD-ROMs. Both the BD-R and BD-RE have a capacity of 25 GB with a maximum read/write speed of 72 Mbps. Single layer recording takes place at 2x speed while playback of single or dual layer discs at 2x speed is also supported.

DVD writing is also supported with a maximum write speed of 8x for DVD±R, 4x for DVD±RW, 2.4x for DVD+R dual layer, and 2x for DVD-R dual layer. The buffer capacity for BD is 8MB while only 2MB for DVD. However, CD read/write is not supported.


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Source: [PC Watch]

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