Canon has now released the CanoScan 9000F in Japan. The 9000F is a high-end scanner that delivers a maximum color resolution of 9600dpi with a color depth of 48 bits and offers improved scanning times. It can even scan up to four 35mm slides or twelve 35mm filmstrips at one time.

The CanoScan 9000F uses the Canon’s Film Automatic Retouching and Enhancement Level 3 technology to remove dust and scratches. The Canon CanoScan 9000F high-end scanner retails for 25,980 Yen (or $284). Not a bad price for the features.

This isn’t the first time that pictures of the upcoming BlackBerry 9800 slider have shown up, but so far they’ve been blurry. Now however, we have some pretty good looking images of the device, which give us a much better idea of the device.

Now you can clearly see the SIM card slot and memory card slots. The pics are good enough to give you an idea whether you want the BlackBerry 9800 slider when it’s released, or not.

What do we have here? Seagate calls it a “device that becomes you, so you become faster.” A “game-changing” device that will boost system performance by a whopping 150 percent. We are gonna go out on a limb here and say that since ASUS’ ROG G73Jh gaming laptop will be first to use it, it must be a new kind of SSD.

The mystery device will be 20 percent quicker than a 600GB 10,000rpm SATA drive, 80 percent faster than a conventional 7200rpm HDD and able to boot “within six seconds of an SSD drive.” It will learn about the user to dramatically decrease disk time, boot time, and application load time, making everything faster.

You know how it is. You find yourself standing in the middle of a field, with your laptop. You have your laptop and a willingness to do some work, but what you lack is a desk. Maybe you like to work among nature, I don’t know.

Well, now you can erect a desk anywhere thanks to this Thanko Notebook Tripod Stand. It’s just an aluminium plate with a 1/4″ tripod thread and air vents, but it allows you to work almost anywhere. Think of the possibilities.

If you’re a fan of Futurama or just of robots in general, you can never have too much Bender. This Bender iPhone case is from etsy seller NOKOMOMO and comes with a matching keychain.

Admittedly, it looks as if Bender is a mask wearing bandit or has some Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle genes, but it’s still a pretty cool iPhone case. You gotta love that beer-swilling cigar smoking bot, so why not show your love by buying this baby at just $24.

There is no end to the number and styles of cases that are on the market for the iPhone and other devices. If are ready for the summer to get here and are looking for summer like gear to outfit your iPhone in the Tikicase might be perfect.

The device is a case for the iPhone that looks like one of the tiki statures you would find in Hawaii. The gaping mouth of the Tikicase holds the iPhone and the case itself is made from silicone material that is soft.

We remember the good old days of computing. The old Commodore of the 1980s brings back some good if graphically challenged memories. Barry Altman, President and CEO of Commodore USA, now has the rights to the Commodore name. And now, if we are lucky we can have a keyboard computer with the Commodore logo slapped on it.

Apparently it’s based on the Cybernet ZPC-GX31, the exact configurations and pricing are not available yet, but hopefully soon.

They have a special edition phone for every occasion so we kind of expected this one. Oakley and Nokia have teamed up to launch the limited edition Nokia N97 Winter Olympics 2010 edition. If you want one you better not mess around, because as usual they won’t produce very many.

In fact Nokia will release just 200 units. The phone sports the Oakley Thunderbird logo for the Vancouver Olympics laser etched on the back. It also comes preloaded with exclusive Oakley team videos and photos.

Apple’s Mac Pro hasn’t had an update since September 2009. That was when the Quad-Core model got support for 16GB of RAM. The new rumor is that the Core i7-980X and Core i7-970 processors might be arriving this month. You might remember that Apple was the first to use the Nehalem Xeon, having an exclusive deal with Intel. Should history repeat itself, we might see Apple having exclusivity with Intel’s latest processors. At least for a while.

These new processors will be the first dual-socket, six-core processors from Intel. The processor will feature 6 cores and 12 threads, a dual-processor configuration will mean the i7-980X Mac Pro will have 12 physical cores and 24 logical cores with a top frequency of 3.33GHz.

I am a big movie and home theater fan. If I could find a way to get surround sound speakers in the back of my room without causing a divorce I would. For some of us real surround sound just isn’t an option for many reasons. Thankfully, we can at least get sound bars to get better sound that what the TV offers.

Zvox has a line of sound bars that it has been offering for a while now. The company announced today that it has updated three of its sound bars with digital inputs. The Zvox 575 HSD, 550 HSD, and 430 HSD have all been updated with optical and coaxial digital inputs.

If only the PS3 could record and process high-definition video. Well Sony is finally taking care of it, announcing Torne, a DTV adapter for Japan that will allow you to record television and even video playback while surfing the web.

The Torne ships in March, priced at ¥9980 (or $110) on its own. Or you can get it in a bundle for ¥42,800 (or $465). As for the US getting it? Don’t hold your breath.

[Engadget]

Frontier has unveiled its new 10-inch Pine Trail netbook, the Frontier UX netbook. This netbook comes with a DVD drive, so you can watch your favorite DVD movies wherever you are. It also features a 6-cell battery, which will give you up to 6.4 hours of power.

The Frontier UX weighs about 2.9 pounds and is powered by a 1.66GHz Intel Atom Pine Trail N450 processor, has a 1024 x 600 pixel display, 2GB of RAM, a 320GB hard drive, 802.11b/g/ WiFi, and Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium.

Older readers might remember the PyramidTalk clock which verbally announced the time and other information. Seiko was selling the clock in the 80′s and people loved it. Well, now consumers in Japan can get an updated version.

Just press the top of the PyramidTalk once to hear what time it is and a blue LED light will come on. If you press it twice, the radio wave clock will verbally tell you the date, temperature and humidity and it’s also an alarm clock.

The mouse has gone anorexic. I mean look at this thing. You can barely get a finger on it. Somebody better plug that guy into the USB port and let it eat. This one is called the I-T Click Click 2 and yes, it’s controlled with a finger and a thumb.

We aren’t sure how comfortable that would be, but we imagine that it’s like a constant pinch without anyone yelping. The I-T Click Click 2 features an 800dpi optic sensor. Those in Japan can purchase this thin mouse for 1980 Yen or $21.

This may not be the most powerful camera on the market and you won’t find a ton of fancy features, but if you’re looking for a cheap camcorder, this may be the one for you. The Yashica DVC525HD is at least worth a look as it will only cost you 9980 Yen (or $111).

It will record videos in AVI format at 720p and it boasts an internal 128MB of memory along with support for SDHC cards up to 16GB. Great price if you don’t need a lot of features.