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If you’re feeling sorry for your abandoned USB ports HP has good news for you. The HD100 is the first USB 2.0 based external HD-DVD player. But in order to make use of it’s HD-DVD playback, you need at least a 3.2GHz core solo Pentium or an AMD 64 X2 2.2GHz. No wonder no one’s jumping into the high def bandwagon yet. And if you want external output (duh!), you’d better have an HDMI or HDCP-compliant DVI-D cable lying around. The drive also won’t burn regular DVDs. What a bitch waste. It’s due around Christmas time this year, no known pricetag yet.

Press Release (PDF) - Via Everything USB.

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Tired of your girlfriend bitching at you about ugly laptops? Try the new Sony Core 2 Duo notebook lineup in sexy colors and style. Following the Apple’s Macbook at 13.3 inches these are perfect fit for your screen real estate and your girl’s cute little lap.

At five pounds, these babies are nice and light, and it’s got everything you need from 802.11a/b/g wireless connectivity to a DVD burner. They’ll cost you $1350 a pop and you can grab the black and urban grey models in a few weeks, but those other sexy colors will keep you in line until November.

Press Release (Sony Style) - Via Gizmodo and Laptops@TechFresh.

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The Polycom Voicestation 500 conference phone has futuristic design and boasts Polycom’s Acoustic Clarity Technology. This technology provides you full duplex, natural group conferencing which minimizes background echoes, word clipping, and distortion in order to carry out a high-quality voice conference call. You can also connect Bluetooth-enabled cellphones to carry out your conference calls, or to a computer for use with VoIP programs such as Skype. No word yet on pricing and availability.

Via Gizmag.

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BenQ Siemens’ newest concept phone, the Black Box, uses a touch screen as its keypad. The touch screen changes the control layout immediately which depends on the functions you are using. What an interesting concept phone it is!

Slashphone via CellPhones@TechFresh.

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I think Samsung has an obsession with Ultra Slim Phones, that’s why the company comes with another slimmest DMB phone in the world. The new SCH-B510 measures just 8.4mm thick that makes it even slimmer. The handset also features a DMB TV tuner, an MP3 player, MicroSD slot, a 2MP digicam, Motion Detection, MS File Viewer, and 3D Messenger. No word on pricing or availability yet. More pictures after the jump!

Akihabaranews via CellPhones@TechFresh.

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Samsung’s upcoming M55 HD-DVD laptop will be equipped with a 17 inch widescreen LCD display with a resolution of 1920×1200pixels and powered by the Intel T2500 Core Duo processor, 256MB GeForce 7600 Go graphics, up to 120GB of SATA disk, 802.11a/b/g WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR, and SRS Audio capabilities. Samsung M55 will be available soon and would retail for around €3,000 or US$3,810.

Engadget via Laptops@TechFresh.

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The HP Pocket Media Drive is a portable external HDD for backing up your music, videos and photos. The drive connects to your PC or laptop via USB, and in some HP Pavilion PCs, you can even save space by sliding it in the chassis slot. Moreover, this portable media drive provides a fast USB 2.0 connection and also backward-compatible with USB 1.0. The package includes the HP Pocket Media Drive, USB 2.0 cable, black carrying case, software CD-ROM that contains Sonic Back Up My PC software. The HP Pocket Media Drive is available in two versions; the 80GB version which sells for US$149.99 and 120GB version with the price tag of US $219.99.

Via Press Release.

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This is good news for Coca Cola lovers in Japan. Cellphone users in Japan have been able to purchase almost everything with their cellphones. By the end of 2008, US giant soft-drink company, Coca-Cola, will have modified its 200,000 vending machines in Japan to accept Felicia. Felicia is the method of cellphone payment developed by the major Japanese’s cellphone industry. This system will make it possible to buy any soft drink, coffee, tea or fruit drink in Coca-Cola machines in Japan by holding up a mobile to the machine.

Via FarEastGizmo.

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Casio has launched their latest ultra compact EX-S770, which is a 7.2MP digital camera with a 2.8 inch display screen, and supports SDHC, and Mpeg-4 recording at 640×480 pixels of video resolution. Casio Exilim CARD EX-S770 measures 94.5mm x 60.4mm x 17.3mm and weights 127 grams. One more pictures after the jump.

Akihabaranews via DigitalCameras@TechFresh.

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