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If the Di Grisogono Meccanica DG was the first watch with a mechanical-digital display, the Opus 8 watch by Harry Winston comes in at a close second. While the DG used mechanical tubes to display the time, the Opus 8 works using a complicated system of mechanical pixels that rise up from the display when the user activates a mechanism on the side of the case. But that's not all.
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The Olive OPUS Nº4 has quite a striking design and boasts either a 320GB or 1TB HDD, internal CD burner, 802.11g WiFi support and a 480 x 272 touchscreen display. The unit supports MP3, FLAC and WAV files, as well as having a bevy of output ports, the OPUS Nº4 also pairs up wirelessly with the MELODY Nº2, which allows you to access your content from the OPUS Nº4 and audio files stored on your PC's hard drive or central server. The OPUS Nº4 and MELODY Nº2 will retail for $1,799 and $599, respectively. [Tech Digest]
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Olive Media teamed up with designer Karim Rashid (the guy with the glasses who's in those Dirt Devil commercials) to release a series of OPUS Nº5 music players with four different psychedelic graphic designs. According to Rashid, the inspiration for his designs came from music itself (we're guessing music from the '70s), "Omni-directional like sound, the patterns emphasize the 'voluminous' beats that radiate from music." The specs on the Karim Rashid flavors of the OPUS Nº5 remain the same, and include up to a 750GB hard drive, a CD player/burner and audio streaming capabilities. If you want the digital audio player in your living room so you can get down tonight, be prepared to hand over $2999. [Olive Media]
Youth may be squandered by the young, but it's the older folks that foolishly spend on equipment that should cost much less. Take for instance Olive's Opus No. 5 hard-drive audio server, referred to in marketing material as "The world's first digital audio system bringing together the sweet sound of vinyl and the accuracy and convenience of digital audio." To its credit, it is one of the only high-end products that boasts, "No costly custom installer required," but under the hood, the $3,000-$4,000 system is charging for hard drives at a markup of over 1000%.
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We learned a lot from the feedback we got from the story about those "danceable" $7,250 cables from Pear Cable. Besides a complete reinforcement of that concept of a sucker being born every minute, we also found out the Pear Anjou cable's $7,250 price is a downright bargain compared with the prices of these Transparent Opus MM SC cables, where a pair of 25-footers will run you a cool $43,000.
One of the most astonishing accomplishments of the Transparent Cable Company is how it gets "reviewers" to play along with its con game.
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Olive's just released a Opus No3 with a 250GB hard drive that's designed to hold 700 CDs worth of music in lossless capacity. The thing is iTunes compatible, rips CDs from disc to its hard drive, and is compatible with their Preload service (which you can send CDs to and they'll rip and include your music on a new unit). The 305S with a 160GB hard drive will go for $1,199, and the 307S with 250GB hard drive will go for $1,699. Not a bad price for slim standalone units, but a PC can do the same job, albeit in a larger, uglier way.
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11:00 AM on Fri May 11 2007
By Louis Ramirez
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Latest by ZSX: Unlike the Dash this runs Windows Mobile 6 Pro (i.e. Pocket PC, i.e. has a touch screen). Hardware wise though it is little more than a Ubiquio 501 in a fancy case. My guess it is a TechFaith Wireless product. Since more »
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2:14 PM on Tue Sep 19 2006
By Jason Chen
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