LG has a new non-high def DVD burner that should hit the market within days, sporting a very slim and portable design. The LG Slim DVD burner is completely USB powered requiring no additional cables to run, helping you to conveniently burn discs and drain the battery from your notebook when you’re on the go.

The device measures only .84 inches thick and weighs less than a pound making it very portable, housing the ability to burn DVD+R / RW, DVD-R / RW, and DVD-RAM discs as fast as 8x. LG has two models of this slim burner coming out; the GSA-E50N will retail for about $122 and is the standard model. For $136 you can treat yourself to the GSA-E50L which adds LightScribe to the feature set, using the same DVD burning laser to let you burn labels …

LG got busy with AT&T today by exclusively unveiling a multi-purpose clamshell mobile device which is geared for multimedia users. The trax by LG is available beginning Tuesday for around $130 after rebate and two-year contract.

The trax by LG is around .62 inches thick and weighs around 3.55 ounces. Inside this thin phone you get support for 3G HSDPA data speeds, stereo Bluetooth support and a 1.3-megapixel digital camera. Its support of AT&T’s UMTS/HSDPA network also lets users of this phone access the provider’s online video service as well as share live video from the device during a phone call.

You can also get access to a variety of online music subscription services and support for MP3/WMA/AAC music files. The trax by LG definitely seems to be a phone targeted towards the media focused cell phone owner. The phone doesn’t do much for us style wise …

The cool kids in Hollywood are finding a place to shelter themselves from the hot California sun while playing with tech toys from LG Electronics. The LG House Malibu is open for business for the movie star crowd.

The LG House Malibu is 3,500 square feet of electronic party space, said LG. The house, which has already hosted parties for Chris Brown, Nick Cannon and Emmy Rossum, also recently held a party for Universal’s casts of its Emmy- nominated shows such as Heroes, House and The Office. Upcoming events will include celebrity birthday parties, beach days and MTV’s premiere party for The Hills.

Alltel Wireless said today it was exclusively rolling out a new mobile phone developed by LG. The phone is called The Wave and its available for around $80 after a mail-in rebate and two-year sell your soul to the devil service agreement.

The Wave by LG is described as having a “rolling design that mimics the curl of a wave as the deep colors fade into black.” Beyond this trendy statement you find a lot of features similar to that of other cell phones, including a 1.3-megapixel camera with video recording, a built-in MP3 player with external controls, Bluetooth, GPS capable and expandable memory via a card slot.

LG seems to think they have found the magical formula in the form of a 22-inch widescreen display which can serve as both home television and computer monitor. Enter the mighty LG Flatron Wide Format M228WA.

What you say? Why is this the replacement for your big screen plasma? Well, we weren’t exactly saying it was. Rather the LG M228WA, with its 1680 x 1050 viewing resolution and 170-degree viewing angles, will serve as a nice LCD display for television when you tire of crunching numbers in Excel. The monitor, optimized to work with Windows Vista, has a slim and light design which hides built-in stereo speakers, 16:10 aspect ratio, a “digital fine” contrast ratio of 3000:1, 2ms response time and automatic detection and switching for dual monitor support.

This is all on top of a USB input interface for multi-screen support and …

The day when you will be able to flip pages on your newspaper while watching full motion video articles and ads may be sooner than you think. Yesterday LG Philips announced that it has successfully manufactured the first A4-size color electronic-paper capable of displaying up to 4,096 colors. The e-paper, which is a flexible thin sheet, measured 35.9 cm (14.1 inches) diagonally and is just 0.3 mm thick. LG also said that it had made its e-paper to be power smart and uses energy only when the image needs to change on the “page”.

E-paper works by using the electric charge to move electronic ink across a metal foil. Instead of using backlighting the e-paper reflects the light allowing for a greater field of angles (up to 180 degrees) to read the page from. LG Philips’ new e-paper also utilizes a color filter that …

Perfect for those of us that like to make things from spare parts lying around the house comes LG’s Kompressor vacuum cleaner.

Looking like it’s six degrees of separation from being related to R2-D2, the Kompressor not only sucks up all the crud and dirt found on your floors but, true to its name, it smushes it all down into the shape of a brick. The idea behind this isn’t that you can make an extra guest room out of your dirt but that it gives the user up to four times as much space as a traditional vacuum cleaner for sucking up the garbage before you need to open the unit up and dispose of it. Plus, it looks like a droid from “Star Wars”, which the Roomba still doesn’t look like (even though it really is a droid.)

LG plans on rolling out …

If you own an LG enV, are fast with your thumbs and have some time to kill, LG is putting on the first-ever National Texting Championship competition with a chance to win a total of $25k.

You must own and use an LG enV or V phone for the competition, and the contest involves you texting phrases that appear on a screen and sending them to a specified recipient. The first to send the correct message with no errors wins.

There will be basically two chances to let your apposing digit help you make your way through the apposing competition to the big cash prize with this text messaging contest. A west coast competition will take place March 31st in Hollywood, CA, and then and east coast and national champion competition will take place in New York, NY on April 21st.

The contest …

The rumor du jour is that LG is prepping to release its VX9400 handheld phone/TV on March 23. As we reported this past January, Verizon is soon to launch a service that allows for live television to be beamed and picked up by mobile phones.

Samsung is the other company with plans to release a phone, the u620, that works with the service, but we’ve been waiting to see what LG’s entry looks like in action especially since it has a neat looking pivot screen. According to a tipster that whispered in Engadget’s ear, LG will launch the VX9400 on the 23rd in the VCAST launch cities.

Prices are said to be $350 for the full version, $250 for a one year contract or $200 if you purchase two years at sign up. The same tipster also claims that the Samsung …

For those of you that absolutely, positively need to see just how far you can scroll your mouse across your screen, the Zenview Powerscape Ultra HD monitor system is for you.

Consisting of a central 30-inch primary LCD screen (2560×1600, contrast ratio 700:1) surrounded by two 20.1-inch LCD screens (1200×1600, contrast ratio 800:1) on either side (all manufactured by LG Philips), this is the best way we found to be browsing SlipperyBrick, doing your banking, answering email, checking your stocks and playing WoW all at the same time. You will need to grow an extra arm or two but that shouldn’t be a big deal, right?

Also included is support for High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection, Zenview manager multimonitor utilities and under the company’s three-year parts/labor/backlight warranty. Each panel has digital DVI and analog D-sub connections and is in black with silver trim. Zenview …

LG has some new HDTV’s coming your way with a nice built in feature. The new XCanvas high def televisions almost negate the need for a DVR by housing a built in hard drive.

We’ve seen LCD and plasma televisions with built in DVD players, but we seem to like this even better. Using an internal 160GB hard drive, high definition television and movies can be recorded and played back at a later date, even in a dual picture mode similar to having two tuners.

Your might soon start to wonder just how much high def TV the 160 HDD can hold, but have no fear. The new LG XCanvas televisions come with a USB port to transfer the media in or out, although we’re not sure of the format at this point.

These new hard drive toting TV’s also come with the …

LG and PRADA have announced the release of a new designer mobile phone with a complete touch screen interface which could make some trouble for the new Apple iPhone which was unveiled earlier this month boasting a similar touch screen as a key feature.

The PRADA phone by LG (KE850) was built with the same attention to detail and quality that would be seen in other products from PRADA, and the price is in line as well. The PRADA phone will be available to customers in UK, France, Germany and Italy in late February, but of course luxury (and touch screens) don’t come cheap. The phone will retail for around 600 Euros (about $775 USD), which is almost $200 over the expected cost of the high-end iPhone.

LG boasts the “world’s first advanced touch interface” which …

SlipperyBrick originally brought you the story of the dual format DVD player that was the symbol of unity, happiness and sunny flower filled meadows in A/V land. Unfortunately, real life is not always so rosy.

It appears that the LB HB100 hybrid may be in trouble because it will not receive certification from the DVD Forum. That’s because the BH100 doesn’t really support HD DVD. Sure it will play the movie straight through if you put an HD DVD in the player, but you won’t be able to access the menu system.

The HD DVD menu system is called iHD. For those uber-geeks out there, iHD was developed by Microsoft and Toshiba for HD DVD. iHD is built on open standards like ECMAScript (JavaScript) and XML. …

Today LG Electronics announced that it is going to provide the worlds first DVD player to support playing both Blu-ray and HD DVD discs. Details are going to be announced next week at the 2007 CES in Las Vegas.

This offering is a much anticipated solution for both producers of DVD’s as well as consumers, and hopefully will end the confusion and decisions necessary on which high definition format to produce and which type of player to buy.

The Blu-ray format created by Sony is supported by Samsung, Hitachi, and JVC, while the HD DVD format that was created by Toshiba is supported by Microsoft, Intel adn NEC. Both formats provide increased data storage on the same disc dimensions to allow higher definition multimedia. Both formats are promising, and consumers and producers were left with the decision of which format to …

This new mobile phone design has reportedly recently won an award with the International Forum Design in Germany and some photos had surfaced, but no real specs, release date or price, yet.

The mobile phone in question called the KE850 sports a new design from LG that we really like. Instead of having a keypad that has to be slid out or opened, it has the keypad right on the display as a touch screen. Touch screens like this have had in the past, and will probably continue to have, their share of trash talk from those who really don’t like finger prints or smudges on their screens, along with others that have “fat fingers” and have trouble narrowing down to one item on the screen to press. Overall this looks to us like a promising design.

Everyone likes having additional screen …