Gresso has unveiled a new luxury phone that “they claim is ‘well equipped technically.” It’s made of gold and African Blackwood and boasts a sapphire anti-glare crystal glass screen.

Gresso claims no two of its phones are alike, but hasn’t released any price or availability info

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Right on time for a holiday launch (specifically early December), Nikon’s announced their new D40 entry-level DSLR; look out for what they’re claiming to be the smallest, lightest, easiest DSLR they’ve made to date. The 6.1 megapixel camera takes SD, shoots in RAW or JPEG, has a 2.5-inch display, and comes bundled with an 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor lens. How much? How much you ask? $599, that’s how much. We can’t find much that isn’t pleasing here, so let’s pass you on through to see some more photos of the thing.

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Polaroid – or should we say the Polaroid Holding Company — is best known for its instant cameras budget digicams these days. Still, that’s not stopping ‘em from rolling out a couple of new 32-inch and 20-inch LCDs in Japan. These new panels of unspecified, though likely Chinese origin, all bring a 1366×768 resolution, 1,000:1 contrast ratio, 8-ms response, integrated digital tuner and 1x HDMI input on top of Japanese D4, S-Video, 2x composite, and D-Sub15 for the PC. The 32-inch FLJ-3235 features a 550cd/m2 brightness and 170-degree visibility while the 20-inch FLJ-2035 dims down a bit to a 500cd/m2 brightness while upping visibility to 176-degrees. While these may be Polaroid firsts for Japan, similarly spec’d and priced models can already be found at Home Depot of all places, closer to home. Invading Japan this December and priced to please at Â¥100,000 (about $845) for the 32-inch model or about Â¥70,000 (about $592) for the wee 20-incher. Go Polaroid uh, branding, go.

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Here’s an odd one: Woojin Inc. is showing off its new line of “Tenbuno” 19-inch LCDs that are normal in every regard… except for a random 8.4-inch “sub-screen” jutting out of the top. Yeah, weird, right? AVING, who spied this in the flesh, recommends a bit of home shopping TV up top, but we can’t really make up our minds what we’d use that extra 8.4-inches of freedom for. Alls we know is that the boring old rectangular LCD on our desk just lost half its charm. Oh how you tease us, Woojin! As for specs, the 19-incher sports a 1280 x 1024 resolution, while the 8.4-incher hits 800 x 600 pixels. If up top ain’t your style, the LCD can rotate so you can watch 8.4-inches of “Home Shopping Network” down below. Now if you’ll excuse us, we’re going to see how far duct tape can get us in this direction.

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While Sony and AMEX Digital have already busted out Blu-ray-equipped media PCs, it looks like Okoro Media Systems is finally making the leap, too. Just a few months after stuffing Core 2 Duo chips in its machines, the company has now unveiled the OMS-BX100 and OMS-BX300 HTPCs, which both sport Blu-ray drives and HDPC-compliant 1080p outputs. The thinner, sleeker BX100 packs an Intel T7200 Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB of DDR2 RAM, front panel LCD, optional 7-inch touchscreen, 500GB SATA hard drive, ATI X1600 PRO 256MB PCI-e graphics card, built-in TV tuner, and the usual complement of ports including 4-pin FireWire, audio in / out, USB 2.0, and just about every video output imaginable. The larger, more feature-packed BX300 houses an Intel 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo E6600 processor, 2GB of memory, a terabyte of internal storage, NVIDIA GeForce 7600 256MB PCI-e graphics set, dual OTA tuners, and touts the same port selection as its smaller sibling. Both units come with your choice of operating system and HTPC software, and while both boxes are available now, the low-profile BX100 starts at $2,995, and the beefed-up BX300 will set you back $3,495 (or much, much more).

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You know how it goes, once one manufacturer goes quad-core with thems Intel Core 2 Extreme procs, everybody has to do it. Now Niveus is jumping into the game with its new Pro Series n9 rack-mount media server, which sports a quad-core QX6700 processor, along with Intel Viiv tech, GeForce Series 7 Graphics, 3 terabytes of storage, HD DVD playback, multiple independent HD video and music playback sessions through out the house, and plenty more. The 3U unit is CableCARD ready, and includes HDMI, RAID 5 storage protection, 4 TV tuners (two NTSC, two ATSC), 4GB of RAM and a couple fancy audio options. Of course, none of this comes cheap. The Media Center starts at a cool $15k, and while we’ve definitely seen pricier solutions to HD nirvana, that doesn’t change the fact that $15k is a good chunk of change.

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