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We have seen many MP3 wrist watches which also let you store digital files via USB interface, how often do you see a wrist watch that lets you play video files? Thanko has a MP4 watch on their web based store, supporting video playbacks in MP4 (NXV) format, as well as audio playbacks in MP3 and WMA formats.

The Turbolinux Wizpy is not only a Linux based portable media player that plays MP3, Ogg, WMA, AAC and DivX formats, it’s also a portable Linux drive which lets you plug and boot into Turbolinux’s own Linux OS—Turbolinux FUJI on any PC.

Good news to fellow British laptop owners, from next month onwards you will be able to watch digital terrestrial TV (as well as tune in to DVB-T radio in available region) on your laptop with help of the little PCTV USB Stick external TV tuner produced by Pinnacle Systems.

The Mark Frank Montoya MP3 Integrated Headphones made by Skullcandy is named after world renowned Pro Snowboarder, Mark Frank Montoya. It is more than just a pair of DJ style headphones with 90 degree swivel earcups, coming along with the headphones is a detachable flash-based 512MB MP3 player.

SanDisk introduced their new Sansa e200 and c100 series digital audio players on Thursday at CES 2006. The Sansa MP3 players come in compact stylish black designs and various storage sizes.

Samsung has introduced their latest flash-based media player, the YP-Z5, which more or less resembles Apple’s iPod nano, but better than the latter as it also plays video (WMA) files other than audio files.

It looks like Apple is very determined in their attempt to dominate the MP3 player market. They have just unveiled the highly anticipated next generation iPod, the kind-of-egg-shaped iPod NanuNanu (the “Nanu2”) just before the CES in Las Vegas.