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Mio S400 GPS navigation system

Mio has rolled out their S400 GPS navigation system in Korea, where it picked up China’s ‘If’ design award so you can be pretty sure that this is easy on the eyes. The Mio S400 will be powered by the Windows CE operating system, where it will house the vaunted SiRFStar III GPS chipset and equipped with a 4.3″ touchscreen display and holds up to 16GB of external memory thanks to a memory card slot. You can pick up the 2GB model of the Mio S400 for around $100 after conversion.

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Play Hello MP3 player

Taylor Technologies hopes to hit it big with their Hello Kitty MP3 player known as Play Hello, where it will arrive in the Korea market with a net weight of just 160 grams and a whole lot of cuteness factor. Play Hello has up to 10 hours of playback time, and we don’t see anyone else other than Hello Kitty collectors as well as fans of the franchise picking this up.

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KT To Offer The LG KH5200 Andro-1 In Korea

If you think that the LG KH5200 Andro-1 phone looks rather familiar, you’re right, as it seems that this phone is a rebadged version of the LG GW620 that we’ve seen before. The KH5200 will be launching in Korea via KT as soon as next week, and should be going for about 600,000 won ($531). What makes it more interesting is the rumblings of a plan that will allow you to get the phone for free, if you’re on a plan of 45,000 ($40) won and above. It the rumors are true, the KH5200 will become KT’s first smartphone that will be offered for free on contract. Specifications of the LG KH5200 Andro-1 should include:

• Slide-out QWERTY keyboard
• 5-megapixel camera
• Bluetooth
• 3-inch 320 x 480 resolution display

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On-Line Electric Vehicle (OLEV) out in Korea

Of course, when we mention Korea, most of the time we would be referring to the southern part of the country since that is where great companies like Samsung and LG were born. This time round, we have the first On-Line Electric Vehicle (OLEV) in the world debuting there, where the OLEV intends to run without fuel simply by relying on strips buried a foot under the road’s surface. These strips will need to cover a mere 20% of the journey to the vehicle moving, which could mean installation at bus stops, parking lots and intersections could be sufficient. These strips will be hooked up to the national grid in order to provide wireless juice.

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Korea starts testing ‘recharging road,’ might make it part of its public transport system

Time to set aside the chains of worry that have prevented us from jumping on the electric bandwagon — Korean researchers have figured out a way to make us forget all about charging stations and cruising ranges with their magnetically recharging road. The Online Electric Vehicle (OLEV) you see here went into service yesterday and can now be found towing three bus-loads of tourists around a Seoul amusement park. It operates on a battery five times smaller than conventional EV juice packs and can collect its power through non-contact magnetic transmission from the recharging strips in the ground. We’re also told running costs for this system are a third of what a typical EV would require, and should it prove successful and find itself expanded to the public transport system, only about 20 percent of bus routes would need to be electrified — at bus stops, crossroads and the like — with the rest being covered by the power stored inside the OLEV. Here’s to hoping it all works out.

Korea starts testing ‘recharging road,’ might make it part of its public transport system originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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79 percent of adults believe web access is a ‘fundamental right’

The BBC World Service has conducted a poll of more than 27,000 adults across 26 countries to answer one primary question: is internet access a fundamental human right? We can skip right past Finland and Estonia who’ve already made laws to that effect, and take a look at what the other nations thought. Mexico, Korea and Brazil lead the way here with all having greater than 90 percent agreement, while Pakistan, India and Kenya — countries with a slightly different perception of what fundamental needs are — offer the least support, though they’re all still above 50 percent in agreement. Other interesting stats include the claim by 85 percent of Japanese internet users and 81 percent in Mexico that they would not be able to “cope without the internet,” while 55 percent of Brits and most other European nations believe that the internet should be regulated by governments in at least some way. Ghana and Nigeria are most worried about fraud (ha!), while people in the Philippines see explicit content as the web’s biggest threat. Hit the source for more such pearls of wisdom and do let us know what you think in the comments below.

79 percent of adults believe web access is a ‘fundamental right’ originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Mini Plus USB Food Flash Drives

Somehow the concept of food coupled with USB flash drives never seems to grow old, as companies keep churning out various kinds of (fake) food stuck onto flash drives. Next up is the Mini Plus flash drive, it offers a bunch of delicious looking food, which sadly, is non-edible. Each drive is hand-assembled and painted just to look like the real deal, so if you’re looking for something to give to your techie girlfriend, this might be just the thing. It’s currently available in Korea, so you might have to jump through a few hoops in order to get your mittens on one of these.

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Sausage stylus for the iPhone now on sale in the US

So you thought awesome gear never made the transition from Korea to the USA, huh? Not so in the case of the infamous sausage stylus we spotted a month ago. That cold weather peripheral — allowing its ingenious users to operate a capacitive touchscreen with gloves on — has made the big leap over to the Americas and can be yours for the low (seriously low) price of $0.99. Naturally, it’s a sausage, so it will be compatible with not just iPhones but anything receptive to capacitive touch, although you should be cognizant of the “not for consumption” label — compatibility with human stomachs is unlikely.

Sausage stylus for the iPhone now on sale in the US originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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iriver introduces D1000 ‘e-dictionary’ for Korea

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iriver introduces D1000 ‘e-dictionary’ for Korea originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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North Korea’s Red Star OS takes the ‘open’ out of ‘open source’

North Korea’s Red Star OS takes the ‘open’ out of ‘open source’ originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sarotech CyberNetor C2-US And C4-S Network Storage Devices

Sarotech has introduced two new NAS (network attached storage) devices over in Korea, namely the C2-US and the C4-S. Both introduce a new and more efficient cooling chassis, and the improved airflow should certainly go some way to help prolong the life of your overworked hard drives. The C2-US supports 2 SATA drives in RAID 0/1/JBOD configuration, while the C4-S supports RAID 0/1/3/5/10/Clone, along with both hardware and software RAID solutions. The C2-US is going for $103, while the C4-S will set you back $287. Too bad there isn’t any mention of when (if ever) these devices will be making it over to our side of the pond.

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LG LU2300 Android Smartphone Set For Korea

Looks like LG is planning to offer an Android-powered phone in Korea with some rather juicy specs. This certainly isn’t LG’s first foray into the Android scene, as it already has the GT450, but the LU2300 that it’s gearing up to release in Korea boasts specs akin to Google’s Nexus One. The picture shown here is obviously a render, so expect the actual phone to look different, hopefully prettier. Specifications of the LG LU2300 include:

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