Mvix has certainly found its way to your living room before, and we’ve heard the rumblings of its latest HD streaming / storage device coming to fruition, but just before the holiday rush the firm is officially releasing the MX-760HD Wireless HD Media Center. This feature-laden box supports wireless media (HD thankfully included) streaming over 802.11g with full WEP support, and comes packed with an optional 200 to 750GB hard drive to store files remotely. Sporting a 7.4- x 7.6- x 2.3-inch enclosure, the Linux-based box plays nice with Windows systems and outputs in NTSC / PAL, and even includes an external LCD to give you quick updates on what’s going where. Aside from WiFi, it also features Ethernet connectivity and USB ports, and Mvix even includes a remote to control the action from afar. On the rear, you’ll find outputs for DVI, component, composite, stereo, and optical / coaxial digital audio to play back any of your DivX, MPEG 1/2/4, WMV, ASF, DAT, DVD, IFO, VOB, ISO, MP3, WMA, AAC, OGG, PCM, AC3, DTS, BMP, JPEG, and PNG files — and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. So if you’re scouting a svelte HD streamer with internal storage to boot, the MX-760HD can be pre-ordered now (sans an internal HDD) for $329.

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Just when we thought we’d seen it all, ROLLERtoaster comes onto the scene and makes everybody look bad. Sure, it’s just a concept for now, but don’t say we didn’t warn you when this thing takes the world by storm and revolutionizes the entire toast industry forever. Designed by Jaren Goh of Singapore, and winner of the 2006 Red Dot Award, the ROLLERtoaster is pretty self explanatory: stick bread in one side, and watched it get rolled into toast by the compact little unit. We’re not so sure how well this is guarded from little probing fingers, or the exact mechanism for rolling the toast through, but do details like that really matter when faced with such exquisite design beauty? We didn’t think so.

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Now that we’ve finished drooling on I-O Data’s new RHD2-U RAID, they’ve busted out an equally shiny — if slightly less monolithic — 802.11n router for Japan, the WN-GDN/R-S. The WN-GDN/CB PCMCIA card which accompanies the router appears to be a cardboard cutout in the picture above, which doesn’t exactly inspire confidence, but the router sounds just fine, with a 130Mbps theoretical peak speed, plus all sorts of pretty acronyms like IPv, DMZ, UPnP, VPN and SPI. The router also includes a USB port, but there doesn’t seem to be any related functionality, such as the insta-NAS capabilities of competing routers. We’re not too hot for the pricetag either, at 30,975 yen (about $267 US) for the router and 12,075 yen (about $104 US) for the slip of cardboard laptop card, but we’re sure the market will smooth those over before long.

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Joining Toshiba at the top of the SDHC capacity/speed game is Elecom with this, the world’s second class-4, 8GB SDHC card. Not class-2 son, oh no, this is class-4 so we’re talking a 4MB/s minimum write speed. Elecom claims you’ll see a max transfer rate of 7MB/s when these launch (before Toshiba?) in the first part of January. Fine, but what interests us more is the price: about Â¥39,800 or $343. See Toshiba, it’s not all that hard to provide a price now is it? Now get moving, pressures on to beat Elecom if you want to live up to your “world’s first” claim.

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Given how many different Skype and VoIP handsets we’ve seen over the last several months, it’s a wonder that new companies keep rolling ‘em out. Well, get your WiFi routers ready, because AVING has just spotted a fresh one at the VoIP/IPTV WORLD 2006 expo in Korea: the NexTouch NT 700 WiFi phone. It looks pretty much like most of the other handsets that we’ve seen, with basically the same features, including support for 802.11 b/g networks, a three-hour talk time, 60 hours of standby time, and a keypad with Latin and Korean characters. Oh yeah, and it looks really tiny. We got bupkis with respect to price and availability, but we’ll keep an eye (and an ear) trained across the Pacific for you.

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Another day, another NAS. This time it’s NEC bringing the goods, with a relatively small 8.66-inch tall enclosure and a lockable front door. The forthcoming NS50 packs a 600MHz Intel XScale processor, 256MB of RAM, dual LAN ports, and twin USB 2.0 connectors, and plays nice with a slew of Windows and Linux-based operating environments. Per usual, the box connects via gigabit Ethernet and can be managed through a secure web connection as well as remotely, and touts support for Microsoft‘s Active Directory as well. NEC claims the unit can integrate seamlessly as an FTP server or as a “soon to be announced” print server, and can run things in RAID 0/1/5 or JBOD, whichever you please. NEC’s perfectly average NS50 should hit shops next month for £949 ($1,845) if you’re digging the 1TB (4 x 250GB) version, while the 2TB (4 x 500GB) flavor will set you back a whopping £1589 ($3,088).

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