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Slashgear: Thiel Audio rolled out a new series of SmartSub subwoofers designed for ultimate bass reproduction in home theater and music sound systems. The 4 new lines of subwoofers, namely SS1, SS2, SS3 and SS4 is capable to generate a deep, dynamic and low distortion bass down to 10HZ. They are active-sub and powered by 500 watts (SS1) to 1000 (SS2-4) watts high efficiency mode amplifier with thermal overload protection.

The Subwoofers can be used with Thiel’s patent pending smartsub technology companion SmartSub Integrator or with the PX02 or PX05 Passive Subwoofer Crossovers. The integrator can be adjusted automatically to match the rest of the units with accurate and seamless sonic integration.

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Electronista: Home theater outfit Marantz is preparing the release of an unusually elaborate HDMI switch. The VS3002, expected to launch first in Japan, will allow users to connect a full six HDMI inputs, where most allow a maximum of two or four. It has two outputs moreover, enabling owners to connect to both a TV and another device, such as a computer monitor.The 3002 will support HDMI 1.3′s Deep Color standard, as well as RS-232C connections for more elaborate home theater setups. Although the system will ship with a remote, it auto-detect inputs as a rule, and also indicates whether or not a connected device is powered.

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PMP Today: A young girl opens an iPod box for Christmas only to discover that it’s been replaced with an interesting, almost anarchistic message that reads: “Reclaim your mind from the media’s shackles. Read a book and ressurect yourself. To claim your capitalistic garbage go to your nearest Apple store.”

When the girl’s father returned the iPod to the Wal-Mart store where he bought it, the manager told him that another customer came to the store complaining about a similar issue.

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Mobile Magazine: Let’s see. You’ve got yourself a 3G-capable Windows Mobile device that also happens to have a WiFi radio embedded within. Did you know that could combine these two wireless technologies to share the web with your friends? That’s exactly the objective behind the appropriately named WMWifiRouter.

The application is absolutely free — although they appreciate any donations you’re willing to provide — and it essentially allows your Windows Mobile device to connect to the web through a 3G connection, and then share that connection via WiFi to any compatible devices in the area. This functions in a similar way as tethering your smartphone to your laptop, except the sharing is done via WiFi.

You will naturally need a crazy 3G data plan if you want to use WMWifiRouter. Otherwise, you can surely expect to get a huge bill at the end of the month.

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The Register: Venturer’s anticipated cut-price SHD7001 HD DVD player went on sale this morning on the QVC home shopping channel for less than was expected.

The player comes bundled with HD DVD copies of Hulk and Troy, plus a voucher entitling you to five free HD DVDs via a mail-in offer from the European HD DVD Promotion Group.

It also comes with an HDMI cable, though the player provides component-video and composite-video outputs too. There’s a 10/100Mb/s Ethernet port on the back for linking HD DVDs to online content, and both digital optical and analogue audio outputs.

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NaviGadget: GIGA-BYTE Communications today announced GSmart i350 in Italy. GSmart i350 has a 2.6″ touchscreen, miniSD card slot and a 2MP digital camera.This sleek phone supports quad band GSM/GPRS networks, offers WiFi, bluetooth, and runs on a Marvell PXA270 CPU. Not finished here though, GSmart i350 also has embedded SiRF Star III GPS chip.

Powered by SiRF Star III chipset, GPS Navigation helps users get to destinations with optimized route. With the Track Recognition feature i350 lets users save and recall the best routes to places they have been to. GSmart i350 is bundled with Garmin Mobile XT Navigation software, providing high quality navigation experience and making it your best partner for finding the best route.

GSmart i350 will sell for 500 € in Italy.

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Slashgear: So the Wii obviously has motion sensitivity, in facts that’s just about the only way to play the system, and then there is the PS3 that has motion sensitivity even though its not used near as much as the Wii, that leaves the 360 as the only system without motion sensitivity. That’s not entirely a bad thing as that leaving out the motion sensitivity makes it easier for game developers to make great games based on the same old standards that have worked for years.

But with motion sensitivity taking over the gaming world, developers are obviously going to be switching to designing games in that style, and the only way they could easily be ported over to the Xbox 360 is if it has motion sensitivity capabilities. So, now we have Microsoft working on a new gaming peripheral just for that purpose.

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Engadget: We have no idea why luxury watch and occasional cellphone maker TAG Heuer would be getting into the PC peripherals game, yet according to an FCC filing, the 150-year-old Swiss watchmaker has a Creative Labs-built USB headset in the pipeline.

And although this wireless unit is branded TAG and developed by Creative, the actual cans themselves will likely be sold by Listen To Believe (LTB) Audio, another accessories company with very similar products. Either way, what you’re getting here is reportedly “the world [sic] first digital wireless headset that delivers high-quality 2.0-channel stereo audio with extra sound clarity and soft, deep bass effects,” according to the manual.

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Electronista: Further reducing the rapidly shrinking Japanese HDTV market, Fujitsu on Thursday said it would halt production of its AVIAMO HDTV line, signaling the end of the company’s display business. The company argues that its focus for the sets, which primarly included a set of high-end plasmas built for custom and luxury home theater setups, has effectively squeeze the company out of its own market.

As pricing in North America and the UK has become cutthroat, there is little money to be made in continuing the business, Fujitsu claims. Business will continue in these areas until March, when the display business will focus on Japan alone.

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Audio Junkies: Denon has upgraded its DN-HD2500 digital mixer with a USB MIDI interface for easy PC integration. For those unfamiliar with Denon’s digital mixer, the DN-HD2500 was designed to allow DJs to mix digital music from multiple sources. The mixer takes the digital music from these sources to allow DJs to import, store, control, modify, and play music from just about any source. The mixer also features a screen based file navigation system, USB 2.0 interface, four built-in effects, three platter effects, and pitch range with deep pitch resolution.

Denon’s addition of a USB MIDI interface adds even more flexibility and control to the mixer’s already rich feature set. For current users, the USB MIDI interface is available with a download from Denon’s website.

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Akihabaranews: Panasonic Communications Co., Ltd. today announced that the company has started shipping samples of the world’s thinnest (9.5 mm height) internal Blu-ray Disc (BD) drives to personal computer manufacturers.

Since Panasonic introduced the industry’s first 12.7 mm high internal DVD Super Multi Drive in May 2006, it has continued to pioneer optical disc drive technology by making the drive’s profile even thinner, to 9.5 mm and then to 7.0 mm. The company has achieved these breakthroughs by producing key devices in-house and is leading the industry in providing the benefits of Blu-ray discs.

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NaviGadget: This little device automatically tags your photos with GPS information (geotag). The concept of ATP Photo Finder is a bit different. The way this machine syncs with your camera is very simple. First you set the time of your camera and the time on your ATP Photo Finder to the same time.

Then you activate your photo finder and take your pictures as you normally would. After you finish taking pictures, simply insert your memory card into the Photo Finder’s card slot and the GPS data will be synchronized and added to all the pictures on the card. Then you use a GPS compatible software such as Picasa2 or Google Earth and then you can track the exact location and time of where your pictures were taken. And that’s why ATP Photo Finder will work with almost any digital camera on the market today.

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