The 4 Piratebay founders have been sentenced to the prison for 12 months as Swedish courts found the defendants guility of “providing a website with sophisticated search functions, simple download and storage capabilities, and a tracker linked to the website that helped users commit copyright violations” and not “hosting content illegally”

Onkyo Japan announces 2 new AV Amps today - TX-SA607 and TX-SA507, it is pure love for Onkyo fans today as these lovely beauties will be slated for retail on 24 April 2009 in Japan. Pure temptation..I am swayed !

Nvidia’s public event in Akiba featured the ION, which combines the Atom Z230 (1.6Ghz) and Geforce 9400M graphics platform. The public experienced a variety of events which includes Nvidia’s 3D steroscopic system.

It has been a while since Canon’s EOS 450D’s release and now Canon announced its successor - EOS 500D (also known as Kiss X3 Digital or Digital Rebel T1i) some time ago.

Shanghai’s Donya or also known as Evergreen have launched their Micro USB trackball, yes, it is micro and not mini. Talk about small, this little trackball device comes with dimensions of 30×20x30mm for 22g

Talk about fashion labels, Acer Japan and Eri-chan had announced her latest customized Aspire One netbook to promote the brand among women bloggers in Japan. Momoka Eri , a known Japanese model is also well known for her business in customizing gadgets with cute lovely designs

Iriver will be launching their E50 Metal in Japan on 20th March, this little sexy player is gonna pack a punch

IT Show 2009 was over last weekend and to be honest, despite the “whatever-you-call-it-recession”, the crowd in this year’s IT show was more than ever, in fact it has the most number of people as compared to the previous conventions that I went to.

Akihabara News report of a CLANNAD USB collector mouse that comes in both Nagisa and Tomoyo models. The design is a conventional standard mouse but the overall look gives it a very nice addition for CLANNAD fans.

Appliya is one of the leading publishers for iPhone applications in Japan. Evangelion Clock and Evangelion Picture Stamp, the first available iPhone applications based on the popular Rebuild of Evangelion films produced by Khara Inc. The applications are now available worldwide in the iTunes Application Store.

What you need is just a wink of an eye, a smile or raise your eyebrow and you will be able to change your favorite tracks in iPod or even turn on the TV.

Transparent OLED lighting is on its way soon to consumers as Philips developed a 12cm prototype panel which is transparent until flipping the switch for illumination.

Being a fan of Lucky Star and Macross Frontier myself, I wish I owned one of these lovely cute USB memory sticks. These “Swat Tars” USB memory sticks are by Buffalo.

“Tough” gadgets that boast different aspects such as pressure, water, etc is not something new but how about a tough LCD that is dust proof and water proof? Sony has what it takes to announce the toughest LCD in town - GXD-L65H1.

While the offical launch program is not being named yet, TechARP has reported that the program is targeted at the consumers who meet these requirements to be deemed eligible for the upgrade to Windows 7 when it is released.