Hitachi has just introduced DZ-WR90 Blu-ray burner designed for hard drive-based camcorders equipped with an eSATA port. Such models are of course made buy Hitachi too and this combo will burn up to three hours of full-resolution video on a Blu-ray disc in one and half hours flat or an hour of 720 x 480 video onto a plain DVD. No words about price yet but expect it to hit the Japanese stores somewhere in July.

It was about the time when someone would design a black ASUS Eee PC 901. This little cutie is 8.9 inch Atom based laptop that holds the Eee PC 700-series color scheme. And it is not that surprising that price is about $650 bucks comparing to the original $199 low-cost laptop.

NEC has designed beautiful and romantic heart-shaped LCD panel using new technology that enables more flexible design of TFT LCD panels. The prototype design, a heart-shaped low-temperature poly-silicon (LTPS) color TFT LCD module formed using two half-circular arcs and two straight lines, has a display width of 4 cm, height of 3.6 cm and pixel pitch of 174 micrometers. he new development is based on a more flexible TFT display that puts the display’s driver circuits along the perimeter of the LCD glass, allowing for more creative data and gate arrangements. The new LCD panel will be presented at the Society for Information Display (SID) Symposium on Friday May 23rd.

Seagate continues the WD steps and announced the Showcase external HDD for media centers and DVRs. This device extends the storage capacity of your Digital Video Recorder, so you never have to say goodbye to your favorite movies and television shows. Seagate also announced that the Showcase products will be designed to be compatible with Motorola’s market leading e-SATA capable high-definition (HD) digital video recorder (DVR) set-top portfolio. They also come with USB 2.0 ports and up to 1TB of space. Unfortunately there is no info about prices but we’re expecting that Showcase will hit the stores somewhere in Q3.

Vosonic has a new device that we could name PMP but actually not so sure about that. The VP5700 features 3.5 inch display, very cheap plastic casing and not so nice controls, multicard reader and support for image, audio and video files. Are you really interested in availability and prices?

Samsung has updated 82 inch QuadHD LCD with 120Hz motion processing and LED backlighting to keep blur at minimum levels. This Samsung’s latest product offers much clearer viewing as its 120Hz technology, which displays an image 120 times per second, increases the frame time by twice that of the existing technology.

Fans of COWON A3 PMP will be happy to hear that the company has extended the storage capacity to the 80GB. Of course it is expected that new model share the same specifications as previous and you can get it right now for €448 or about $698 bucks.

Dell’s official blog has reported that Alienware development teams has joined Dell XPS in developing new gaming laptops. So far, you can see on the Dell web-store two Area-51 m9750 models along with XPS M1730 line. Apparently those new development teams will go in more high-end consumer direction setting new global brand that sets benchmarks for gaming.

Samsung display division has created new OLED laptop concept with elegant style, touch-sensitive keyboard, and 12.1 inch display with 1,280 x 768 resolution. Samsung has already made plans for 14 and 15.4 inch OLED laptops for 2009. so we can expect that some of them might carry this interesting concept.

In the race for the “world’s fastest” SSD Mtron has a new winner - Pro 7500 series boast the fantastic 120MB/s write speed and the 130MB/s read speed. With such amazing numbers you can easily expect and very high prices once they release the Pro 7500 SSDs.