Computex 2005 ended yesterday. I leave you with some of the more interesting mobile gadgets that we’ve come across.

The Transcend Digital Album has a 20GB hard drive and a 2.5″ hi-res display. It plays MP3 music and displays JPG pictures. It even has an A/V out port and a remote control.

Unlike the iPod photo, this unit accepts memory cards: CF Types I/II, Microdrive, SmartMedia, SD, MMC, Memory Stick, and Memory Stick Pro. This means that this unit was designed precisely with photo buffs in mind, allowing them to use this as portable storage for freeing up their cameras’ memory cards.

TwinMOS has come out with a variation on the USB flash drive theme. This time, you can slot small memory cards into USB 2.0 drive cases and plug them into your computer.






Shown on top is the miniSD pack that comes bundled with a 512MB miniSD card. And if that isn’t small enough for you, there’s the microSD bundle below! Perhaps the key advantage of this setup is that you can use the same memory card not just for your PC but for your other devices as well.

But what really got our attention was this amazing device from Geil, which is more known for its high-end PC memory boards.

The David 200 iBall is a pendant media player. Not only does it play MP3 and WMA music, but it actually plays videos as well! Wear this around your neck and the sharp OLED display can flash images to stunned onlookers. Or watch entire movies here. The iBall uses a proprietary video converter to transform your PC videos into a tight, iBall-friendly format. Surprisingly, the tiny display is serviceable. What’s more, the unit actually looks gorgeous as well and comes in a number of attractive metal case colors.

These are just some of the interesting gadgets that we came across in Computex 2005. For a more detailed look-see, check out next month’s issue of m|ph!