Distractable drivers beware. This Touchscreen Sun Visor is just another way for you to swerve lanes and miss red lights as you ogle at the DVD or TV you watch, thanks to the ultra-sensitive TV tuner included. It also has radio, but so does your car.

So, yeah, we’re pretty sure that the Touchscreen Sun Visor is made for passengers, and not drivers, but something tells me that all it takes is a sudden dose of ADD to be totally infatuated with the episode of Family Guy that your passenger is watching. Get yours for $128. Hit the jump for specs and more pics. (more…)

If you see someone on the street wearing headphones in front of the ears but not over the ears, that person is probably not crazy but probably the smartest dude around here, because he’s using Thanko’s Vonia bone conduction headphones. Instead of pumping sound into your ear canal, it relies on the part of temporal bone in front of your ears to conduct the vibration (sound), it is hard to explain how it feels but you can ask your doctor to perform a Rinne’s on you to get the hang of it. Bone conduction is the best when you are list music in loud places, the volume doesn’t have to go up to hurt your ears either. Enough of messing around at science museum, Thanko is already selling these headphones for 86USD in Japan. More product shots after the jump. –Sam Chan

Product page [Thanko]

Microsoft is doing an amazing job and confusing us right now in terms of where they stand with their own DRM technology. Remember PlaysForSure? And how the Zune completely snubbed that idea, and how we thought that PlaysForSure was “for sure” going to get phased out? Not happenning yet.

Microsoft has announced that they have another DRM technology that is completmentary to PlaysForSure called PlayReady. PlayReady is meant for devices like cellphones and smartphones (Zune phone, anyone?). The major network providers such as Verizon and Cingular are expected to support it in their music stores. With Steve Jobs’ recent blog post still looming over our heads, DRM is looking worse everyday. Intrusion is something that consumers cannot live with (or pay for) forever. –Nik Gomez

Microsoft brings PlaysForSure to mobiles with PlayReady [via Gadgetell]

Japanese company TurboLinux will start selling their Wizpy Portable Media Player (PMP) in 2 weeks, ITmedia took it for a review and answered a lot of our questions. What’s so special about this not-too-attractive PMP is that apart from the usual 4GB FM radio, voice recorder, music, video, picture, text viewer that we see in the market, it has a Linux operating system on it with which you can boot any PC as long as they can boot from USB drive (CD/DVD-ROM or HDD).

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SD to mini-SD, you heard that right and this is no boo. Diatec Japan will start selling this converter that with a line hanging out of any gadget’s mini-SD slot with a cradle at the end for you to shove in the large SD cards. This is really useful when you try to migrate data between your phones, PDAs and serious digital cameras. Conversely, you can get the more common mini-SD to SD adapter, of course. The adapter will be priced at 30USD, available this March. — Sam Chan

SD to mini-SD adapter [Diatec]

Watches are one product that has done its job well over the years, and not too much has been done to revolutionize this function. Sure, many have tried to stuff in more hi-tech features, but most of these devices just wind up looking bloated and unseemly.

Swatch’s new Infinity Concept Watch (there is such a thing as a concept watch?) completely erases these stereotypes. This media device plays music and video, records audio, and creates/views photo albums on its beautiful screen. Oh yeah, it can tell time pretty well too. Now if we could only see this baby put on the market. Then again, chances are we won’t be able to afford it even if a production model is made. –Nik Gomez

Infinity Concept Watch: Mp3s/Videos/Photos on your wrist [via Gadgetell]

With the recent crackings of the security measures set forth in HD-DVD and Blu-ray, it is only fitting that the DRM in the upcoming release of Windows Vista is hacked. Alex Ionesu, the man who claims to have bypasses the security, has only released very vague information due to the possibility of legal actions by Microsoft. Currently, this is just a proof-of-concept, but so what? It is fairly disappointing (yet somewhat expected) that Microsoft’s so called higher security safety implemented in Vista has been fooled before it has even been launched to the public. So what part has he defeated? Ionescu has put to rest the Protected Media Path that is supposed to stop Vista from playing DRMed audio and video files. Tricky, tricky. Microsoft should be sweating bullets. — Nik Gomez

Vista DRM Cracked [Electronista]

Who is Airis, you might ask. Take a look at this pretty sleek portable media player and you will come to the conclusion that, whether the device works or not, they know how to make well designed products. So how does it perform? With a 1 or 2GB flash drive, it seems a bit small in todays world of 8GB flash devices. Battery life is only rated at 10 hours and the screen is a meager 1.5″ 128×128 pixel display. Back to the battery. It is replaceable! This is something that Creative has done, but recently stopped. It need to be a standard feature in gadgets. Rechargable batteries die and wilt. What then? So on top of the replaceable battery, this Airis N004x only weighs 40 grams. All in all, this dap isn’t for most, but if you just want something to run with… this isn’t really it either. — Nik Gomez

New French Spanish & Taiwanese DAP - the Airis N004x series [dapreview]

Look at those screens and realize that they aren’t nearly as small as your iPod Nanos. Comparatively, the new LG FM37 digital media player packs either a 1/2/4 GB flash drive and supports MP3, WMA, and OGG audio playback. On the concept of thin, this player is only 10.4mm thin (about 1cm). Those screens are touchscreens and are 2.4″ LCDs. iPhone is a tad late here. At first glance, these look almost like an iRiver S10 of sorts, but it also looks like it ties in with the Chocolate line. Too bad this isn’t a USA player. So whatelse can this tiny piece of hardware sqeeze out? 24 hours of audio, 3 hours of video (unspecified), and it will only cost $159, $192, or $256 for the 1/2/4GB capacities, respectively. Looking like quite a catch. — Nik Gomez

LG’s FM37 touch-screen MP3 player (and others) outted in Korea [Engadget]

Have you ever felt that you wish the chair you were sitting in would rumble with the blast of the bomb you just bew up in your favorite war game? If so, your wish has come true. The Pyramat S2000 Sound Rocker uses what is called Audio Response Technology which uses the subwoofer (yes, there is a subwoofer in this comfy chair) to vibrate your body along with what is happening on your screen. It is compatable with pretty much any home media device including your gaming console, TV, VCR, DVD or MP3 player. It also has an iPod dock (what doesn’t have an iPod dock now?) so that you can be extra lazy. Now for the kicker, we know you all love your LAN parties, but what if you could feel your friends bomb going off? These S2000 allow you to hook up a maximum of 3 others for a true multiplayer experience.

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