Coming out later this month in the land of the rising sun are Sony’s new E Series Walkman DAPs and if you don’t pay attention, you might mistake one for a USB drive.

These trim beauties will come in three memory sizes (1 GB, 2 GB and 4 GB) and in five metallic colors (black, gold, pink, blue and purple.) Weighing in at just 29 grams they can play MP3, AAC, WMA and ATRAC files using Sony’s Clear Audio technology and, of course, dock right into any USB port.

Another cool thing about these gems is that they have a three-line OLED mini-screen built in which shows you what song is playing from what album and even the cover art. Battery time will give you about 30 hours of play. The suits at Sony haven’t released to Japanese techheads how much the E Series DAPs will cost or when we might get the opportunity to pick one up stateside but we’re guessing that it might be around the holiday season.

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