Mmm, look at the old school turntable gone new. The VPI HR-X from TEAC features a belt driven, 50-mm thick acrylic platter which floats on an air suspension system at 33.3 or 45rpm. Packing a pair of 24 pole, 300rpm AC synchronous motors, this pup weighs in at 52.5-kg or 116-pounds. Oh, and It’ll set you back Â¥2,310,000 or about $19,000 when these go on sale in Japan in mid-June.

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As rumored, the big new device that’s Palm’s Jeff Hawkins has chosen to announce at the D conference today is the Palm Foleo, which the company is billing as a “mobile companion.” Boasting a 10-inch widescreen display and a full-size keyboard, the device is intended to be used in conjunction with your smartphone, with any edits to documents made on one device automatically reflected on the other thanks to the device’s Bluetooth connectivity. The device also promises to turn on “instantly,” boasts built-in WiFi, and should last about 5 hours on a single charge. The pricing and release info leaked out earlier also look to have been spot on, with it now officially set to be released sometime this summer for $500 (after a $100 mail-in rebate). We’ll have plenty more pics of it shortly, but for now you can check out one more after the break.

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