Europeans looking for a little cocoa therapy will soon have LG’s KG800 as an option. Nicknamed the Chocolate Phone, the mobile has been the belle of Korea’s cell-phone ball since its Asia release in November, selling more than 300,000 units. It’s the first phone to feature a touch keypad, and the mobile’s glowing red controls on the outer shell disappear when not in use. The unique face has earned LG several design awards (most notably, the iF Design Award and red dot Design Award). While hungry fans in the U.S. will have to remain — surprise! — patient, the May release of the KG800 in Europe might be a sign that folks in America will taste LG’s Chocolate in the near future. — Trevor Noren

Via Scifi Tech

This is really nothing new—Seiko and Citizen have had versions of this movement for years. However, it’s a very cool design. The Ventura V-Tech Sigma MGS is “automatic” digital with all sorts of fancy, Swiss tomfoolery in it. First, you have a scratch resistant case and crystal and then you have Ventura’s EasySkroll knob, which allows you to set the time, date, and other functions with one scroll wheel.

You power the watch through the natural movement of your arm and there is a small rotor near the face which is connected to a micro-generator and battery. The resulting amalgam of fanciness and high-tech will cost you about $1,750 and should be available soon.

World’s first Automatic Digital Watch [WristFashion]

From Gizmodo

Samsung rolled out a 2.5-inch, 32GB flash drive that the company intends to market as a hard drive replacement unit. As it is with solid-state anything, it uses up just a fraction of the energy of devices with moving parts—in this case, 5% of the power of an old-fashoined spinning hard disk.

This technology will be especially well-suited for laptops, where Samsung, the world’s largest manufacturer of NAND flash memory, has been trying to push its products. Samsung didn’t reveal pricing for the 32GB unit, but it will probably show up first in notebooks manufactured in Taiwan.

Samsung unveils 32GB Flash-based ‘HDD killer’ [Reg Hardware]

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If you’ve got an iPod Video and watch lots of things during a long commute, Belkin’s new TunePower rechargeable battery pack might be for you—it promises to add an extra six hours to your iPod’s two hour battery life.

So in the real world, that’s probably an extra three or three and a half hours, right? The TunePower comes with two sleeves to fit both 30GB and 60GB iPod Videos, costs $79.99 and should be out in the next week or so.

(If you haven’t got an iPod Video yet, you might want to hold off till the end of April. We’re just saying.)

Power Your iPod® Longer with Belkin’s TunePower® for iPod video [Belkin Press Room]

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Who needs Origami when you have Linux? The ‘Municator is a $146 computer designed to surf the web, get email, and listen to audio and video. It weighs about a pound, has 256MB RAM and 40GB hard drive, a 800-MHz Godson (???) processor and TV output. Four USB ports, VGA-out, and PS2 port make this uber-micro PC just about as useful as any $2,000 portable tablet.

$146 Municator Computer? [GizmoWatch]

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We’ve been hearing a lot about this Teclast “dual core” MP3 player, and we’re relieved that someone either understands enough Chinese, knows enough about audio processors, or both, and has provided an explanation of what exactly Teclast is getting at by calling this “dual core” (other than trying to catch a ride on the latest buzzword, of course). Turns out that the C150 has one chip for decoding audio files, and another one for digital audio processing (yeah, we probably could have guessed that on our own, but it’s nice to have some facts to fall back on every now and then). The company claims that this reduces interference from the decoding process, resulting in a clearer, cleaner sound. We’re a little dubious, since the two chips are still pretty close together in that little box, but we’re willing to at least try it out if the player ever makes it out of China. (Other specs include video playback on a 1.5-inch LCD, 512MB storage, line in and FM tuner.)

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