Oppo Digital has come out with a new Blu-ray player called the BDP-80. This high-performance player supports BD Profile 2.0 (BD-Live and BonusView), DVD-Video, DVD-Audio, Super Audio CD (SACD), HDCD, CD and a wide range of multimedia formats including AVCHD, MKV video files, digital photos and music. In addition, it also comes with a 1GB of internal memory for BD-Live use and offers a range of connectivity ports including HDMI 1.3, two USB 2.0, component video, S-Video and composite video. The BDP-80 retails for $289.

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The iPhone has some decent games, but there are some classics that it is lacking, like Final Fantasy for instance. Not anymore. According to Square Enix, Final Fantasy will be headed to the App Store soon, though we don’t have an official release date or price yet.

Judging by the screenshots, you shouldn’t expect a modern version of course, but it should be fun for those gaming on their iPhone while they should be doing something else.

Are you excited?

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LCD’s are wonderful bits of technology. TVs, computer monitors and even the screen on your phone are probably LCD displays. Now one company even wants to use this same technology to replace your old-fashioned pen and paper. Behold the Boogie Board LCD Tablet.

No, this thing isn’t going to completely replace that pad of paper in your desk drawer, but it does have its uses. What you’re looking at is an LCD tablet that can be used with a stylus (or any other object, such as a fingernail) to write on. Touch-sensitive screens are

Onkyo is set to unleash their latest all-in-one desktop PC ‘E411A5B’ for the Japanese market. This space-saving machine integrates a 21.5-inch 1920 x 1080 Full HD LCD screen, an Intel Atom 330 1.6GHz CPU, a NVIDIA ION chipset, a 2GB RAM, a 320GB hard drive, a DVD SuperMulti drive, a digital TV tuner, a memory card reader, six USB 2.0 ports, Gigabit Ethernet, WiFi and runs on Windows 7 Home Premium OS. The Onkyo E411A5B will go on sale in Japan starting on January 23rd for a retail price of 89,800 Yen (about $999).

Tetris, which has been doing encore after encore, has now garnered a rare milestone. With 100 million paid mobile phone downloads, the video game is now relishing its rule at the top. It has been a dream run ever since Tetris arrived on to the gaming scene for home PCs.

Launched way back in 1989 on the Nintendo game Boy, Tetris then waded its way on to mobile phones in Japan after a gap of a decade and then on to mobile handsets in the US by 2001. All through these years, Tetris also managed to rope in dedicated gamers on to its platform and

While the hi-larious pun might make you think the Kandle ebook light can only be used with Amazon’s Kindle, rest assured the design and its WideLip grip (patent-pending) makes it compatible with any of the hundreds of eBook readers that will be flooding the market based on what I saw at CES. The Kandle’s dual pivoting arms allow it to fold up to a slightly more compact form factor, but it also allows the light from the 2 LEDs to be directed as needed. And while it’s nice that it includes 2xCR2032 batteries which power the LEDs, and we

Google’s original founders, Larry page and Sergey Brin, are planning on giving up their majority control of the company, by selling enough stock by 2014 to fall under the 50% mark. This was initiated in November, when the two entered long-term stcok disposal agreements.

The agreements are commonly used by executives to add some diversity to their stocks over time without driving away potential stock buyers. The interesting thing here is that by the end of the plan, the duo will have control over less than half of the voting power of

Sony Japan has recently introduced the DRC-BT60 Bluetooth case. The device pairs to a Walkman or a cell phone via Bluetooth, so you can listen to audio wirelessly. The DRC-BT60 has an onboard battery that will provide enough juice for 9 hours of continuous playback. [Sony]

We will know soon which rumors are real and which are fake regarding the Apple iSlate. This “iSlate advertisement” is pretty neat and seems professional enough. If this is the real deal, our fingers are going to be very busy indeed.

The ad is very Apple-like and yet not at the same time. Whether this is a real ad for Apple’s tablet or not, it’s fun to watch while we wait for the official word. Let us know what you think below.

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Valve, developers of the hit franchise Half-Life, haven’t been saying much lately, but a rumor is going around that is sure to disappoint a lot of fans – apparently, the last installment in the Half-Life 2 Episodes trilogy will not be released this year. It’s not known whether we’ll at least see some media beforehand either, but knowing Valve, they’ll probably keep it all a secret until the last moment.

After the release of Half-Life 2, Valve decided to expand the series before releasing Half-Life 3, and started