Misc devices

The Eton Rukus Solar is a portable Bluetooth sound system with solar panels and a SURF (segmented) E Ink display. This is an outdoor sound system - hence the Solar and E Ink display...

The Rukus Solar is expected to ship in Q2 2012 for $150.

Phosphor's watch offers a large SURF (segmented) touch-enabled curved E Ink display. The watch several times zones and you can swipe across the screen to change the zone.

The new watch costs $79 (a lot cheaper than previous Phosphor watches which start at $175). You can pre-order the World Time Sport watches now.

Victorinox's new flash drive has 256GB capacity, USB 2 and eSATA interface, and a small 96x48 E Ink display. You can customize the display, the Victornix suggests showing "Documents information's, Drive information's, folder structures, backup information's, graphics and others.

We don't know the price or when they're going to release this cool little drive...

The Novatel Wireless Mi-Fi 3G/4G supports Sprint WiMAX data (average 3-6Mbps, 10Mbps peak) and features a microSD memory card slot. The E Ink display on top shows status information. The device has a 1500mAh battery which is said to last 4 hours of active use.

The MiFi 3G/4G will cost $49.99 with a 2-year Sprint contact, and will be available on February 27th 2011.

The new World Time Curved watch has an E Ink "surf" display which offers 24 time zones, several display modes and has a new ultra-thin (9.3mm) curved case. This is Phosphor's next-gen E Ink watches (here's the original ones). Here's our review of this watch.

The watch costs $150 and is now shipping from Phosphor's own shop.

Seiko's E Ink watch is the first one with an Active-Matrix E Ink display and can display the time, date and a world-clock option with a nice photo of the earth.

The will be released soon - it's already up for pre-order in Japan for ￥84,000, which is just a little over $1000...

The My Passport Studio series are new and updated external disks from WD. They offer FireWire 800 interface and 256-bit H/W based encryption and come preformatted for Mac computers.

The disks come in 320GB, 500GB and 640GB sizes, and are ready to pre-order now for $119.99, $139.99 and $159.99.