At the heart of the compact box is a 120GB 2.5-inch hard drive, capable of storing many hours of HD content in MPEG 2, WMV9HD, or DiVX formats. The tiny box has outputs for component video and coax digital audio, but doesn’t offer HDMI at this point. Regardless, those outputs should satisfy most of us with a high-def craving.

It’s even got AC3 and DTS audio processing circuitry, so you can have full surround sound if you hook it up your amplifier’s digital input. In addition to its video playback capabilities, it’s also a full-fledged audio server, with playback of MP3, WMA and OGG format sound files.

As is typically the case with these cool Korean gadgets, you’ll probably have a tough time finding one outside of the region. If you’re willing to deal with the overseas shipping you can find these for about 219,900 KRW (about $235 USD.)

Beside looking great, the UM10 is a very capable media player, which can deftly chew through MP4, WMV, MP3, WMA and OGG files with nary a complaint. There’s also a DMB television tuner, FM radio, E-book reader and voice recorder. Not to mention the full-on personal organizer application suite which can sync with Microsoft Outlook. Plus, it’s also got Flash Lite support, so you can take advantage of those slick interfaces and games that Adobe’s flagship web app can crank out.

Oh yeah, it is a robust electronic dictionary too, loaded with dozens of books worth of definitions, synonyms, and other reference information in a variety of languages.

It all comes packaged in a slick black case, with a sliding QWERTY keyboard and beautiful 480 x 272 widescreen TFT display. The keyboard isn’t tactile though, so you’re best off using the stylus to control it. The base models comes with 2GB of RAM, but that’s expandable through a Micro SD memory card slot.

The Atree UM10 retails for 358,000 KRW (about $381 USD), and as is often the case with these types of wondrous gadget, is only available in Korea for now.

[via The Earlyadopter's World]

Available now from Brando, the $189 Meizu Mini Player looks like a pretty capable little media player. It’s got a nice aluminum alloy case and a 2.4-inch 320×240 color TFT display. Plus, there’s a nice amount of flash memory on board – 8GB.

There’s support for MP3, WMA, WAV, OGG and FLAC audio formats (though no AAC.) Video files can be played back in AVI format, and there’s even some sort of built in “game function” whatever that means. It’s also got some nice bonus features like an FM radio with recording capability, an audio recorder with a built-in microphone and a calculator.

And yes, even though the picture above is in Chinese, the player does support English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean language display.

The handmade wooden mini-cameras have an embedded Motz Music Box at their core, letting them play MP3, WMA and OGG files.

The only real downside to the player is that it only has 256MB of memory, and doesn’t look like it’s expandable. Still, it’s a fun conversation piece.

You can find these from Korea’s 10×10 store for 40,000 Korean Won (about $43.50 USD.)

The Digital Cowboy CA-K7 media player features the unique ability to remove vocals and a built-in microphone to sing along to your favorite tunes. The player can handle MP3, WMA, OGG audio formats and also has an FM radio built in. Its karaoke feature even lets you adjust key, pitch and echo for your vocals. The CA-K7 features a nice 1.8″ color display, and comes in 1GB, 2GB and 4GB versions.

I haven’t managed to find a U.S. importer for this player, but you can pick one up for UK importer KJGlobal and have it shipped stateside from there.

[via Akihabaranews]