Just one day after seeing the first “officially announced” SideShow remote for Vista Media Center Edition, out pops this slider from Ricavision. Their loquaciously named remote — the Microsoft Windows Vista SideShow Media Center Remote Control — is a confirmed IR and Class 1 Bluetooth device. That gives you a 100-meter (or so) operating radius when coupled with the included USB RC6 (IR) receiver and Class 1 Bluetooth receiver. Nice, however, what’s most notable is that sweet, sweet 2.5-inch QVGA LCD display for Microsoft’s promising SideShow technology; a bit of magicking that hooks the remote into a suite of Media Center “Gadgets” allowing you to extract and display information related to your media. In short, you’ll have damn-near full control over your media center’s TV recordings and schedules, music library, radio presets, and collection of pictures and video. Better yet, the remote works with any Gadget assigned through Vista’s SideShow Control Panel like eMail, calendar, and RSS feeds just to name a few. Great, now add a touchscreen and hack that thing in half and we’ll be able to carry it around in our pockets. Nevertheless, we’ll have to give this, and other SideShow remotes a thorough hands-on at CES in January to see if they’re worth the premium. Otherwise, you’ll just be in suspense, wondering how to spend the $199 the MWVSMCRC will cost ya when hitting in April, 2007 — that would just be mean. More product renderings after the break.

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I-O Data is back on the RoHS-compliant NAS trail again, as its new LANDISK Tera offers up a secure, environmentally-friendly way to stash and share your data over a network. The new drive comes in both 1TB and 2TB flavors, supports RAID 5, boasts four hot-swappable bays, and now features AES 256-bit encryption. Additionally, this data cube comes dressed in all black, keeps your data under lock and key, and even touts a secondary security lock that can only be accessed with your chipped USB thumb drive. Aside from touting gigabit Ethernet, you’ll also find support for Windows Active Directory and a data tracking feature to keep watch over who moves your precious files. Both units can be snapped up sometime next month, and while the 1TB variety will run you Â¥99,800 ($846), the 2TB edition will demand Â¥168,000 ($1,424).

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In between all the previously announced laptops and the less-than-fresh concept models Fujitsu showed off at recent a event in Signapore was this brand new entry to its LifeBook 7000 series, the P7230. Unfortunately, the model name’s about all we know at this time, other than that it was designed by Fujitsu’s Cheif Designer Kenichi Kimura, the very same man behind those aforementioned concept laptops, and that it’ll supposedly be available “soon.” If the earlier entries in the 7000 line are any indication, however, you can probably expect the P7230 to be heavy on portability and battery life but relatively light on power — them’s the breaks of an ultraportable, after all.
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According to Samsung, its upcoming SCH-V960 slider is touted as the “world’s first optical joystick phone”. It features a 2.12-inch TFT-LCD display, 2.0-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, GPS, microSD card slot, and EV-DO. Pricing and availability have not yet been announced. One more picture after the jump.

Rather, it’s the new joystick with optical sensors which, according to Sammy, reads and reacts to your finger movements for “quick and hassle-free” navigation through the menus. The phone also touts a “smart lighting” featuring to automatically control the brightness of the LCD and keypad to help squeeze a bit more life out of the battery

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Volvo has just unveiled its XC60 concept. This crossover SUV integrates “muscular XC-versatility and the sporty charisma of a coupe.” More pictures after the jump.

Buttons and controls are entirely integrated into the surface, and the invisible screen for information and navigation appears only when it is switched on, starting up with a spectacular pulsating sequence. The screen image is back projected, which makes the centre stack one of the innovative highlights of the interior,” says Steve Mattin.

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