Hasta La Gadget!

For professional use, Sony is releasing an All-in-one movie creating device called Anycast Touch “AWS-750″. It contains a lot of functions necessary for professional movie creation, including video switcher, audio mixer, streaming encoder, recording, create a ticker, etc.

It has a compact body (about the size of a small briefcase) with a sliding touch panel monitor and it is only 6 kg, which allows for operation in a small space with a few people.

Its greatest feature is you can airplay an event through one-touch operation by setting up images that you want to compose, create effects, set titles, adjust the angles of cameras for each scene in advance and set scenes to the pacing of the event.　It is intuitive for users with low experience.

Release date: September, 2013
Price: 2,100,000 yen

Panasonic is releasing 2 new wireless speaker systems on May 17: “SC-NE5″ and “SC-NE1″

SC-NE5
– Consisting of units: Speaker unit and CD/dock unit
– With the CD/dock unit, you can play a CD and there is an iPod/iPhone dock
– The speaker unit is a 2-way speaker that has 8cm woofer and 2.5 cm semi dome shaped tweeter.
– Compatible with Airplay, Bluetooth, Panasonic’s music play app “Panasonic Music Streaming”, and USB cable

Price: Price is not set
Size: Speaker unit 570 × 206 × 100mm, CD unit 192mm×206mm×93mm
Weight: Speaker unit 2.8kg, CD unit 0.9kg
Max output: 40W (20W×2)　6Ω

SC-NE1
– Speaker unit is a 2 way speaker that has 8 cm woofer and 2.5 cm semi dome shaped tweeter.
– Compatible with Bluetooth and Panasonic’s music play app “Panasonic Music Streaming”

This is only the speaker unit which communicates wirelessly with smart devices. It does not have a CD player or iPod/iPhone dock and is not compatible with Airplay or USB cable.

Price: Price is not set
Size: 570 × 206 × 100mm
Weight: 2.7kg
Max output: 40W (20W×2)　6Ω

In Japan, many people believe that the foam is a very important part of the beer drinking experience. So don’t be surprised at the “izakaya” when your 800 yen mug of beer comes 2/3 filled with beer and the remaining 1/3 just foam.

Many foreigners in Japan think this is a rip-off. But I think that most Japanese want to have a lot of foam, even if they’re paying for a lot of air.

So, for beer lovers in Japan, Takara Tomy Arts is releasing a beer foam maker called “Sonic Hour” soon – part of the “BeerHourSeries”. We saw the original “Beer Hour” at Toy Forum 2011 and the line-up of bubbles makers continues to grow…

How to use “Sonic Hour”: put a glass 2/3 filled with beer on the tray with a little water and touch the button. A supersonic vibration will be given evenly to the bottom of the glass and will make a fine creamy beer foam.

Want to be in more of a beer drinking mood? Try the “fashionable light-up” feature! You can choose one of 8 colors of illumination according to your mood.

The price is 3,990 yen (including tax). 2 colors; black and white are available.

Also try “JokkiHour” (Beermug Hour) and the “BeerHourCold” (also featured in the video).

Sonic Hour is available here.

Sony’s new combination music player for iPhone/iPod will be released on May 11.

It is Lightning Connector compliant for iPhone/iPod touch/iPod nano out in autumn 2012 or later.

Music can also be listened to through CDs and FM/AM radio as well as from other types of smart devices or Walkman by connecting them to the music player via an audio connecting cord (sold separately).

“Sleep Timer” and “Playback Timer” are other useful functions on this player.　You can go to sleep and wake up to your favorite music.

Price: 17,800 yen
Color: white
Size: 400 × 197 × 114mm
Weight: 2.4kg

Sony is releasing 3 models of multi-connection combination music players: CMT-BT80W, CMT-BT60 and CMT-BT40 on April 20.

You can play CDs and listen to FM/AM radio, or play music from your iPod/iPhone/iPad/smart phone/tablet by connecting wirelessly by Bluetooth or connecting directly with a cable.

And, for the first time, it has a digital Walkman terminal as well as a USB terminal and you can easily copy music into the Walkman. Also, because NFC is built-in, it’s easy to pair a smart phone just by passing it over the unit.

Only the CMT-BT80W model has IEEE 802.11b/g Wi-Fi communication.

The maximum output of the amp is 20W+20W for the CMT-BT80W and CMT-BT60 models. Their speakers accommodate Sony’s unique “Magnetic Fluid Speaker” technology. The maximum output for the CMT-BT40 model is 5W+5W.

CMT-BT80W
Color: black
Estimated price: around 40,000 yen

CMT-BT60
Color: white, black
Estimated price: around 35,000 yen

CMT-BT40
Color: white, black, pink
Estimated price: around 27,000 yen