SONY's dancing music player >> "ROLLY"

Want to experience a dancing player - well Sony makes it possible. Sony has unveiled the all-new 'Rolly' digital music player that rotates, flaps its ends, and flashes colorful lights in time to music.
The compact white-colored egg-shaped gizmo could easily fit in your palms. Weighing 300 g and measuring 104 mm long and 65 mm in circumference, Rolly has speakers on each end that are hidden by dish-like covers. There's only 1 button on the player - an on/off switch. The other functions are controlled by a pair of rings that circle its body. While 1 ring is used to move from track to track or album to album, the other controls the volume. These rings are connected to motors that enable the Rolly to scoot around a table-top in tune to the music being played. The player can stand 5 hours of audio playback. This drops to 4 hours when the device is in motion and 3 and a half hours when Bluetooth streaming is also enabled. Rolly has 1 GB of internal flash memory and can playback MP3, Atrac, or AAC songs (AAC songs with copy protection from iTunes Music Store aren't supported). It can also receive music streamed via a Bluetooth connection. With a storage capacity of around 600 songs (depending on the songs' audio quality and length) Rolly incorporates sensors that could identify which way is up, enabling volume to be controlled by turning the player clockwise or anti-clockwise and tunes to be switched by pushing or pulling it on the floor. Users have the choice of either using a special program on a PC, which analyzes music to come up with simple choreography that appears to match the rhythm of the songs, or download packaged moves to tunes from a Sony website. Sony's Rolly will be launched across Japan by September 29 this year and will be available for Rs 14,380 (40,000 yen/US$354).

Sony SRS-ZX1 Speakers !

Sony has announced a new set of speakers with a special feature called Mobius Duct. This feature enables the speakers to deliver decent low-frequencies from the portable package.
The speaker dimensions are 3.1 x 6.6 x 7.4-inches. It has an in-built amplifier and delivers 20W x 2 channels with 2x analog inputs. It will be available by October 20th in Japan for about $426 (Rs. 17,000).

Sony Video Walkmans launched in North America!

Sony has reportedly launched two new video walkman series in North America. The NWZ-S610 and the NWZ-A810 series can play both audio and video, and will be available in North America in September, Sony said.
Both series support an open platform so as to be able to play a variety of music formats, including security-enhanced Microsoft Windows Media Audio (WMA) as well as non-secure AAC and MP3; plus JPEG files for photos, AVC (H.264/AVC) Baseline Profile, and MPEG-4 video codecs. The new video walkmans feature a standard user interface (UI), a QVGA (Quarter Video Graphics Array) LCD screen (320 x 240 pixels) that displays video at 30 frames per second. The battery life is rated at up to 8 hours of video playback for the NWZ-A810 series, and more than nine hours for the NWZ-S610 series. For both series, the battery provides up to 33 hours of music playback. While the NWZ-A810 series will be priced between $140 (Rs 5,733 approx) and $230 (Rs 9,418 approx), the NWZ-S610 series will cost between $120 (Rs 4,914 approx) and $210 (Rs 8,600). And, Sony is introducing the NWZ-B100 series of walkmans for those who want to listen to music only. The walkmans in this series feature: USB direct connect, 3-line color LCD display, FM tuner, and up to 12 hours of battery life. The audio players also come with FM recording capability and voice recorder function with built-in microphone. Sony announced it will pull the plug on its Connect Music Service that distributes music in the company's proprietary ATRAC audio format in North America and Europe, sometime before March next year.