The latest Stereo headphones from Sony come in the form of the MDR-ZX100. These are available in red, blue, black, white, pink and gray and provide a frequency response of 12 – 22,000Hz, a 30mm diameter driver unit, 24-Ohm of impedance, 100dB/mW output sound-pressure and a 3.5mm gold mini-jack (L type).

These headphones are affordable and also lightweight. If you like what you see in the Sony MDR-ZX100 Stereo headphones, they are priced at 3,980 Yen or about $48.95.

Sony Insider has some new info on Sony’s Google TV sets. According to the site, four models will be introduced first: NSX-24GT1, NSX-32GT1, NSX-40GT1, and NSX-46GT1. In order of mention those are 24-, 32-, 40-, and 46-inch sets.

No price info on the smallest, but we assume it will be under a grand, since the others are reportedly priced at $1299.99, $1499.99, and $1899.99. It’s basically a TV with an Intel processor and the ability to fully surf the web (including flash sites).

Sony’s NSX-46GT1 Internet TV is set to be unveiled on October 12th. The set has an Android-powered interface that should deliver amazing search capabilities, as well as picture-in-picture. There’s even talk of being able to perform search requests by speaking into a remote.

You can also expect to see the Chrome browser as well. It’s not a long wait. Just two weeks. It will be interesting to see how it does.

Sony has just introduced the SMP-N100 network media player in the UK. It will allow you to access Bravia Internet video, using Wi-Fi and DLNA support. This makes it similar to Apple TV, allowing you to stream content via Wi-Fi throughout your home from the Sony SMP-N100 directly.

You can access YouTube, the BBC iPlayer and Demand Five, and films. Content Noise Reduction is built in to improve the quality of streamed video. It will hit the UK market next month for about £120.

Sony has upgraded PC lineup with some speed and option upgrades across some models. The VAIO E series gets most of the updates: options for the faster 2.66GHz Core i5 580M and 2.53GHz Core i5 460M, and a new 2GHz Pentium dual-core option for build-to-order models.

The EA and EB now have options for Mobility Radeon HD 5650 video and 1080p displays, while every E series gets purple as a color choice. The VAIO F gets a visual performance upgrade with the newer GeForce GT 425M and a single USB 3.0 port.

If that Buffalo external Blu-ray drive that I mentioned a while ago was too large for your tastes, the new Sony Optiarc slim Blu-ray drive might be perfect for your needs. The new optical drive is very thin and can write to BDR media at 6x.

The drive also plays Blu-ray films and can write to DVD and CD media as well. The drive can record a 25GB Blu-ray disc in about 25 minutes. It also supports the playback of 3D Blu-ray films. The external optical drive may be perfect for notebook or netbook users without an optical drive or for machines that don’t have Blu-ray.

The Sony Bravia EX710 is an update to the EX700 series. This new model features a smaller bezel for a more streamlined design and minimalist look. You get a 1920 x 1080p panel, edge-lit LED backlighting, and Motionflow 120Hz processing.

It also has a Presence Sensor that will automatically turn off the picture when you leave the room. That’s always good to save energy. Speaking of which, there’s also a zero-watt Energy Saving Switch and an Ambient Sensor that adjust the best brightness level for you.

When it comes to digital photo frames Sony already has several offerings. Digital frames are very popular and are one of the best ways to show off all the pictures you take without spending time and money printing them all out.

Sony has added three new frames to its lineup. The new fames include the DPF-XR100, DPF-VR100 and DPF-D830. The XR100 and VR100 are very similar with the notable exception that the XR100 is a portrait mode frame. Both can show AVCHD format video and have 10.2-inch LED backlit screens. Both of these frames also have an internal image processor that will scale pictures up to 256MP to fit the screens.

Digital downloads might seem like the future when it comes to consoles, but realistically it is still a long way off, according to Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Kaz Hirai. He ruled out future digital-only PlayStation consoles (perhaps thinking about the PS4), despite Sony being the first company do so with the PSPgo. In that case it didn’t go over so well.

Most gamers still prefer physical media anyway, so it will be a long time before we see digital only consoles go mainstream. Would you want physical content or digital?

With each new line of TVs that debut, we get more and more features. It’s common today for TVs to have full HD resolution, 3D, and internet connectivity all built-in. The internet connectivity opens up a whole new world of content for the viewer right from their TV.

A company called Hillcrest Labs has announced that it has licensed its Freespace technology to both Sony and LG for use in remote controls for web-connected TVs. The technology allows the remotes to be used like a mouse for HTPCs that needs no desk.

Sony has developed a single wire interface technology. The new design will replace the 20 or so cables that are usually found inside mobile phones to provide power, control signals, audio, video etc, with one single copper wire that can handle data at 940Mbps.

This design should offer greater reliability and give Sony’s design team more flexibility and space when designing their products. We can’t wait to see what they do with it. Less wires will allow them to do all sorts of things.

Sony has a new website that will let you customize your new Vaio notebook with all kinds of colors. You can customize the keyboard, outer shell and even the mouse and laptop sleeve in variety of different colors.

The custom colors are only available for the Vaio E series notebooks, but maybe Sony will offer the service to other models in their Vaio range in the near future. So if you get a new Vaio, color that bad boy up.

Sony saw the sales of its PS3 increase significantly, when the price was cut and the PS3 Slim hit the market. The console is still selling decently and fans in Japan will have a new color with a couple new features to choose from soon.

The new PS3 console will be offered in the existing black color and can be had in white as well. The console is replacing the current 120GB and 250GB HDDs with new 160GB and 320GB HDDs.

Yesterday I mentioned that Sony was having an issue with some 530k of its Vaio notebooks where they could overheat and cause distortion of the plastic chassis of the machine. There were mixed reports that the machines were being recalled along with reports that a firmware fix was being offered.

These mixed reports left a lot of us wondering exactly what was going on. Apparently, both things were true. To most of us when you say recall, we think box it up and send it back. Sony and the Consumer Product Safety commission have issued a “recall” on the machines.

Sony has confirmed that about 535,000 of its Vaio laptops are plagued with an overheating issue. According to the company, there have been 39 reports of the machines overheating to the point that the notebook deformed from heat.

Sony claims that no reports of injuries have been made. The issue affects Vaio F and C machines launched back in January. The real confusing part is that there are mixed reports of how the issue is being addressed.