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Xtune introduced a new concept of portable speaker ‘XTS-02tok’ in Korea market, which can be attached to any notebook pc, phone, or music players. Offering up to 6-7 hours of playing time with one charge through USB port, the XTS-02tok supports 3W of output power. Sound is quite loud but don’t expect glass breaking high volume capability from these speakers, those huge wooden boxed woofers still rule here!

SEOUL, Korea — VIBEBS (www.vibeworld.co.kr) is drawing the attention of world buyers with its in-ear vibration earphone, codenamed ’80dB’ during 2009 Singapore Expo, June 16 to 18.

Featuring vibration functionality for bodily sensation, the 80db adopts the company’s exclusive vibe-sound function and offers unique excitement of games or music with vibration.

A company officials said that it is different from existing bone conduction headphone in that the former allows you to actually feel music or game while the latter transmits only sound.

TAIPEI, Taiwan Penpower Technology displayed its business card scanner ‘WorldCard ultra WCU01A’ during Computex 2009.

Able to recognize multiple languages, the WorldCard scans or captures a business card and automatically inputs all card information into the proper database fields, including the person’s name, company name, title, address, and telephone number. If using Windows, WorldCard can be integrated or synchronized with Outlook, Outlook Express, Palm, Pocket PC, Lotus Notes and many other types of PIM software. WorldCard is the only product of its kind that allows voice search queries. A special Mac version has also been released for Mac users so that everyone can create personal contact databases with the WorldCard Series.

Samsung Electronics announced today that it has begun mass producing 256 gigabyte (GB) solid state drives for use in notebooks and desktop PCs. The new 256GB SSD more than doubles the performance rates of Samsung 64GB and 128GB SSDs to become the SSD with the highest overall performance in the personal computer industry, combining sequential read rates of 220MB/s (megabytes per second) with sequential write rates of 200MB/s.

The Samsung 256GB SSD expedites data transfer when large multimedia files are simultaneously read and stored. It can store 25 high-definition movies in just 21 minutes, a significant advancement over a 7200rpm HDD, which takes about 70 minutes. Furthermore, the 256GB SSD launches applications ten times faster than the fastest 7200rpm notebook HDD. The 256GB SSD’s advanced performance can be attributed to a new, optimized, single platform design consisting of a chip controller, NAND flash and special drive firmware all developed by Samsung. This single platform is designed to easily adapt to Samsung’s 40nm class NAND flash memory.

Similar in weight to a 128GB SSD (81 grams), the 2.5-inch Samsung 256GB SSD retains the standard 9.5 millimeter (mm) drive thickness. Samsung’s 256GB SSD is also available with optional proprietary encryption programming that provides full disk encryption, a key feature for many corporate users.