Isaiah's Tech

Sony's making a few products official during their Tokyo event today and they're great! They shouldn't be too unfamiliar because Engadget talked about these "Honeycomb" tablets back in February earlier this year. The S1 is the one that looks like a regular tablet "with a curved top much like a folded magazine" along with a 9.4-inch display, a Tegra 2 CPU, dual cameras, a custom UI, and it's PlayStation Certified.

The other tablet is the S2 which is sporting dual 5.5-inch displays with an awesome 1,024 x 480 resolution. It also packs the Tegra 2 CPU as well as dual cameras so these tablets are definitely to be reckoned with. I can't imagine it being cheap though. This tablet will, of course, have WiFi as well as 3G / 4G connectivity where needed. Apparently, these will be available in the Fall and maybe we'll get a real name soon. Engadget's sources back in February told them that the S1 could launch for $599, while the S2 could cost $699. Who knows if that will stay true when it actually becomes available in a few months.

[Engadget]

Bloomberg has just mentioned a few bits of information regarding Sony's near future. Apparently, on January 27th Sony's event in Tokyo will definitely be about the next PSP (PSP 2) and then at MWC, which takes place in a few weeks, we'll see the official announcement of the PlayStation Phone - could be called the XPERIA Play. There's not much left to tell you here so we'll really just have to wait for the official announcements.

[Engadget]

Sony is rumoured to be announcing their PSP 2 in the next few weeks. Apparently, the public event will be taking place in Tokyo, Japan on January 27th. Rumoured specs haven't been confirmed yet but it should have a touchscreen display, a trackpad, a microphone, a front-facing camera, and dual analog sticks. It likely won't have 3D capabilities but let's hope that the battery will run a lot longer than Nintendo's 3DS does. Mark the date on your calendars people!

Update: Kotaku has mentioned that Sony is telling a few people that the PSP 2 is as powerful as the PS3. I would love for this to be true, so let's hope this really is the case. I might actually buy one if it's that powerful.

[Electronista]

Did you scoop up the Hello Kitty Phone 3G yesterday? If so, here's the notebook that will show off your Sanrio Hello Kitty fanboy-ness. Epson will be pushing out two versions of their Endeavor NJ2150 notebook. The NJ2150 notebook has: a 15.4-inch display, five USB 2.0 ports, a 3-in-1 card reader, WiFi a/b/g/n, and Windows Vista Home Premium.

The - non-Hello Kitty - "standard" version will sport an Intel Celeron 900 2.2GHz CPU, 1GB of RAM, an 80GB HDD and will cost $1,350 USD. The Hello Kitty "high-end" version will come with: an Intel Core 2 Duo 2.53GHz P8700 CPU, 2GB of RAM, a 160GB HDD and will cost $1,650 USD. The Hello Kitty model will also come equipped with some cute [Hello Kitty] wallpapers and screensavers.

These two notebooks will be available on July 17 at select Sanrio stores in Tokyo and the Japanese Sanrio online store. If you don't live in Japan, you can check out the Japan Trend Shop or Geek Stuff 4 U.

[Crunch Gear]

A couple of days ago, this news surfaced, but I never had the time to talk about it, so here goes. "Electrical engineering researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a flexible, stretchable OLED that acts something like rubber, and does not tear or break when stretched." Now that is amazing stuff. We can use OLEDs to produce ultra-thin TVs, for artwork, and now OLED expands as a rubbery type of product. If you want to know exactly how the rubbery OLED was made, then go check it out at Engadget. Apparently, the researchers will be presenting their findings in the British science journal Nature Materials later this month. It's so exciting what OLED will bring us in the future.

[Engadget]