The New IPOD Shuffle

1.8" tall by 0.3" thin to be exact.

To create the world’s smallest music player, the controls are moved from iPod shuffle to the earbud cord. This allowed us to make the new iPod shuffle dramatically smaller. It’s also easier to use, with the controls located where you can access them quickly.

Introducing VoiceOver.

Musically speaking, the new iPod shuffle is brilliant, thanks to an exciting new feature called VoiceOver. Say you’re listening to a song and want to know the title or the artist. With the press of a button, VoiceOver tells you as the music dips down. It even announces the names of your playlists. And when your battery needs charging, VoiceOver tells you that, too.

Your music library.

There was a time when limited storage meant you had to leave a lot of your songs on the sync-room floor. But now that iPod shuffle has 4GB of storage, you have plenty of room to store hours and hours of music — up to 1,000 songs.* With room for multiple playlists, too.

Fashion tech-cessory.

Even the iPod shuffle clip gets the rock star treatment. Now forged in stainless steel, the clip attaches securely to your shirt, jacket, workout gear, even your backpack. And the sleek, durable anodized aluminum case — available in silver or black — makes iPod shuffle a wardrobe essential. And yes, there’s still room for personalized.

Toshiba Announced New Solid State Drives

Key: NAND (NAND-flash) is a type of flash Solid State Drive(SSD) such as a usb flash and memory card of digital cameras. There are two main types of flash solid state drive, NOR and NAND. NAND was invented by Toshiba. In general NAND is better than NOR.

On Dec. 19th, Toshiba announced new NAND-flash-based solid state drives with the industry's first 2.5-inch 512 GB SSD and a broad family of fast read/write SSD's based on 43 nanometer Multi-Level Cell NAND.
Besides the 2.5-inch, 512GB drive, the 43nm NAND SSD family also includes 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB, offered in 1.8-inch or 2.5-inch drive enclosures or as SSD Flash Modules.
These 2nd generation SSD's offer increased capacity and performance for notebook computers. They can achieve higher read and write speeds, parallel data transfers and wear leveling to optimize performance, reliability and endurance.
These drives enable improved system responsiveness with a maximum sequential read speed of 240MBps and maximum sequential write speed of 200MBps. This faster response time enhances overall computing experience and allows for faster boot and application loading.
This is going to be the largest capacity SSD for notebook in the world, twice space as Samsung's SSD. These SSD's will be showcased at International CES 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada from January 8 - 11, 2009. Mass production will begin in the second quarter of 2009. The price is still unknown, however according to the increase in notebook computer needs, the future belongs to Toshiba.