Toshiba is not giving up in the futile war to kill the iPod, with marketing goons pushing even more semi-different Gigabeat models on us, the P5S and P10. These flash memory-based babies are trying to build on the slight success of the P5 “CanCam” edition.

The P5S holds 512 MB of MP3, WMA, WAV or JPEG files, while the P10 carries 1GB of your favorite music or pix, and both offer an OLED display, FM tuner, and a slightly funky-looking analog clock. We’ll reportedly be seeing these in late May, with the P5S running $118, and the P10 going for $152.

Toshiba Gigabeat P5S/P10 [Tech Blog] Thanks, Steve!

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We can’t say there’s much here that differentiates Homecast’s “Tvus” from the scores of other DMB PMPs out there, but it’s really not a bad looking unit. The widescreen display measures 4.3-inches, and the device can handle a myriad of codecs, along with offering T-DMB recording. Supposedly the Tvus runs Windows CE, and while we’re not so sure about that, we do know that Homecast plans to follow up the unit with GPS, PVR, and WiBro units in the future, so hopefully we’ll be seeing more of this form factor before long.

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If Americans are really as addicted to TV watching as the latest market statistics say we are, then this gadget sell like gangbusters. The WinTV Nova-t stick is small enough to fit in your pocket, but big enough to support SDTV, HDTV, and digital radio. The unit has a 2 year warranty and comes with their proprietary WinTV software. There’s even a high performance antenna that comes with it so you won’t have to position your laptop at a weird angle to get a signal. Now, not only can we blog from inside the porcelain kingdom, we can watch Lost there too.

Latest Hauppauge WinTV Nova-t Stick [Crowdedbrain via uber gizmo]

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MobiBLU is apparently getting ready to roll out a successor to the DAH-1500/1500i, the company’s diminutive flagship product. The new model, apparently known as the Cube 2, doesn’t appear to shave an millimeter or gram off of the DAH-1500′s tiny footprint, but does add a new cross-shaped controller, along with a two-color OLED display. (We assume MobiBLU has kept the player’s MP3/WMA/FM specs.) And we still don’t recommend wearing it as jewelry.

[Via DAPReview]

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Are you ready for the optical disc format of the day? It’s Hitachi Maxell’s 1TB stacked volumetric optical disc (SVOD) array, comprised of rather thin DVD-size discswith DVD-size capacities: 9.4GB total storage each on two 92µm thick data layers. Yeah, we know, we promised a terabyte; well, watch and learn. These polycarbonate discs may be too thin to be manufactured from typical plastics, but they can be stacked in an optical array 100 tall, and 6.5 x 13.3 x 16.1cm (2.5 x 5.2 x 6.3-inches) in size. Even though Hitachi Maxell wants to make the terabyte carts relatively cheap at Â¥40,000 (about $340 US) and claims there are consumer applications, don’t toss that HD DVD player just yet. It’s pretty easy to realize why optical arrays are really of only limited utility for the end-user; if these should ever be popularized, we’d imagine it would serve first as data archival medium for businesses before you’d ever outfit your rig with, like, the high def optical disc system, dude.

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