Listen Up:Consumers snapping up digital tunes online have a new option for digital audio players. Apple's trend-setting IPod has a slighter, smaller sibling, the IPod Mini. This $249 device comes in five colors, is 0.5 inch thick, and is about the length and width of a business card. Its 4GB hard drive can store about 1000 songs.
Picture This: Epson America, best known for its printers, is testing a new product line: big-screen televisions. The company's Livingstation LCD projection TVs, which are slated to ship in March, will feature HDTV resolution and--yes--a built-in color photo printer. The hybrid TVs can produce 4-by-6-inch prints and will also include a CD-R/RW drive and slots for popular memory cards, including CompactFlash, Memory Stick, MultiMediaCard, SD, and SmartMedia. The 47-inch model will retail for $3499, and a 57-inch model is expected to carry a price of $3999.
Must-See TV: At 7 inches deep, the new 61-inch (diagonal) ScreenPlay DLP TV from InFocus is about half the thickness of the slimmest projection TVs currently on the market. What's more, the ScreenPlay TV is lightweight enough to hang on a wall. It uses DLP technology from Texas Instruments. The ScreenPlay TV is expected to ship in the second half of the year.
Triple Duty: Targus's new $80 input device is much smarter than the average travel mouse. The three-in-one unit combines the functions of a mouse, a pointer, and a remote control for running projector-based presentations. The Wireless Optical Mouse/Pointer/Presenter operates at 2.4 GHz, a frequency that was previously found exclusively on deskbound mice. Its receiver is also dual purpose: It's the first small travel mouse capable of recharging itself.
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