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Behold a do-it-yourself battery powered USB charger. It requires some extremely cheap components, but not anyone can make it on his own. As you can see, a 9V battery is used as the power source.

Find out more here.

Marantz BD8002, the company's new flagship Blu-ray player, touted to be the "ultimate-quality, reference standard High Definition source component". Features are as follows:

• Full HD resolution at 1080p;
• 24 frames per second;
• Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby True HD and DTS-HD Master Audio decoding;
• DVD upscaling;
• HDMI 1.3a;
• 12-bit/297MHz video chipset;
• 10-bit Silicon Optix Realta processor;
• SD memory card slot;
• Supports VCDs, SVCDs, MP3s, WMA and DivX video files, display JPEG images

Sadly, it offers only Profile 1.1, and for a whole GBP1,799, I think one can find a better option.

On Wednesdy at CES 2009 the SD Association announced its new SDXC specification, which will allow for up to 2TB of storage capacity and read/write speeds up to 104MBps (with future expansion up to 300MBps) for SD memory cards! The new SDXC cards will use Microsoft’s exFAT file system and will be compatible with a wide range of PCs, consumer and mobile electronics. The first SDXC cards and devices supporting them will be available in late 2009 - early 2010.

Toshiba has announced today that starting January 2009 they'll begin producing 16GB microSDHC cards. In addition to that, the company will also make 8GB and 16GB SDHC cards starting next month. All the new memory cards will comply with the SD memory standard 2.00, and will support class 6 ultra fast read/write speed, delivering write speeds of up to 20MBps.

According to IDG, ASUS will launch its Eee Top (ET1602 and ET1603) all-in-one desktop computer tomorrow. The device runs on Intel Atom 1.6Ghz processor, used mainly in netbooks, and is said to have a 15.6" display, a 160Gb HDD and an integrated webcam. We can also expect up to 2GB of RAM installed.

The expected price or the whole unit is $499.