On one hand, we’re pretty impressed that someone would actually bother to produce an e-dictionary this fancy. On the other, we’re disheartened that those very “someones” didn’t just throw a real-deal OS on here and call it a UMPC. Hannuri Biz’s newest premium pocket dictionary goes by Nurian X40Kris and features a 4.3-inch LCD, QWERTY keyboard, 4GB of internal storage, 79 different dictionaries (saywha?) and support for XviD, PDF, Flash, JPEG and MP3 files. We’re told that it’ll be offered up in South Korea for ₩379,000 ($253), and we’re giving it around a fortnight before someone shoves a TV tuner and their favorite flavor of Linux on here and calls it a day. [Via PMPToday ] Filed under: Handhelds Nurian X40Kris e-dictionary is an OS away from a UMPC originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:22:00 EST

And another iPod accessory line is born. The Scosche IDR350M, IDR450M and IDR650M in-ear buds will be the first to support the new Shuffle ’s inline controller. An adapter is also in the works. The phones range from $50-$100 and will be available come springtime.

We just came across this video showing the Linpus Linux Lite OS in action. Aimed squarely at netbooks and the Splashtop crowd, the operating system comes to life pretty quickly on the pictured Acer Aspire One. Unlike Splashtop, however, this isn’t part of the BIOS, “just a very very minimal customized Linux version, installed on the hard disk,” as the guy in the video points out. We would, however, love to know what error message is being generated when he opens the media player. See for yourself after the break. [Via Netbook News ] Continue reading Linpus Linux Lite OS caught on video Filed under: Laptops Linpus Linux Lite OS caught on video originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:53:00 EST

Fashioned after Akai’s legendary MPC samplers, these are the next best thing to owning one. Somewhere in another dimension, Dr. Dre and Just Blaze are fighting for the last one. [ Geek Alerts via BBG ]