CES 2009 saw the announcement of what was actually the thinnest Blu-ray player in the market from Samsung, but we guess it finally took at least a couple of months before those announcements were made reality – as in arriving on store shelves at a good electronics store near you. 99 a pop. 99, respectively, the super slim BD-P4600 that everyone and their grandmother are looking forward to will only be able to bring one home when April rolls around, retailing for up to $499. Image courtesy of Engadget. Hmmm, that actually makes a PS3 a whole lot more tempting, never mind the fact that it lags badly behind in the current gen console sales. [Press Release]

While both the BD-P3600 and BD-P1600 are already readily available, retailing for $399. 99 and $299.

8m, thanks to its short focal lens. Sony makes another attempt at the projector game with the following two models – the VPL-EX7 and VPL-EX70. Both of them share the ability to throw a 60″ screen at 1,024 x 768 resolution from a distance of 1.

The new wireless SingStar microphones will play nice with the PS2 and PS3 consoles, and in “SingStar community” trials, 99% of participants decided to give the thumbs up as either “excellent” or “very good”. Sounds promising to us – just don’t go spoiling those songs with your warbling.

Available at UK stores this March 20th onwards, they will be ready to meet the needs of those who want to pick up SingStar Pop Edition for PS3 this April. Sony has just rolled out a new bunch of wireless SingStar microphones that are touted to be “easy to pass around”. These accessories are lead-free, which is good for the environment, although we’re not sure whether the voices that accompany them will be a disturbance to the local peace or not.

Sounds like Corsair has stumbled upon the perfect SSD for tasks such as HD video editing. Corsair is at the forefront of SSD news yet again with a trio of extreme SSD drives, coming in 32GB, 64GB and 128GB capacities. Sounds normal, until you realize that these puppies pack a mean 230MB/s read and 170MB/s write speed – similar to speeds achieved in an arrayed formation. There is no word on pricing, but chances are pretty good that these won’t come cheap at all.

These XPAL-branded packaging will hit retail stores pretty soon, with a trusted name to back it up behind the scenes.

These new chargers are virtually compatible with every popular device in the market these days, ranging from an iPhone 3GS to solar chargers or even the larger lithium ion charger that can provide enough juice for up to a trio of devices simultaneously, including a notebook. Energizer, a household name when it comes to batteries, has teamed up with XPAL Power to further expand its Energi to Go line of portable battery packs.

7″ WQVGA display. It features a built-in Chinese dictionary and boasts a database of over 560,000 words in English and Japanese, alongside a bunch of conversation examples in authentic native-speaker voice to help you learn better.

Panasonic hopes to reverse the visual calamity associated with massage chairs by releasing two models which ought to be able to find a niche place in any living room regardless of your decor setup. Unfortunately for the masses, most of the mid-range and entry-level massage chairs look ugly as sin despite doing their job pretty well. Panasonic will offer the EP-MS40 and EP-MS10 in ten difference colors.

Panasonic has expanded its Lumix line of digital cameras yet again, with a trio of them ready to hit the markets. 7″ LCD display which sees the introduction of Intelligent Auto mode, Optical Image Stabilization and Face Detection. No idea on pricing for all three models but they fall under the mid-range scheme of things. As for the FS42 and FS62, both of them will come with 10 megapixel goodness, 4x zoom lenses, Intelligent ISO Control, Intelligent Scene Selector and Face Detection, although the latter will pack in image stabilization as well.

It will take a fair bit of time to accomplish that though as the parts aren’t to say the smallest in the world, making it a rather huge challenge to incorporate it into something as tiny as the iPod nano. It seems that the iPhone and iPod lines of devices seem to incorporate more and more memory into them with each passing release, making it a snap for some to tote virtually their entire digital entertainment on-the-go, and Apple could be looking into integrated micro projector technology into future iPhones and iPods in order to turn those into a comprehensive portable media player that can be shared with family and friends in an adequately dark environments, viewing videos that everyone is interested in.

That’s probably some wishful thinking on the part of the projector manufacturer. Publisher’s note: note that while Apple *could*, it certainly would not. If Apple had to add some bulk to the iPhone, it should be for a sliding keyboard, not a projector.