The Samsung TicToc is a motion sensing MP3 player. What’s interesting about this one is that it picks a slow song if shaken slowly and a fast one if it quickly shaken. It has a large button for power on and off, but if you press and hold the button when the player’s upside down the volume will go down. Do the opposite to increase the volume.

It comes in 2GB and 4GB capacities. It may not have a display, but the TicToc has more going on than the iPod Shuffle. Even if it does look girlly. It can play MP3, WMA, OGG and FLAC files for 12 hours before recharging.

Here’s something you don’t see everyday. JVC’s latest CU-VS100 HD player features two SD and SDHC card readers so you can play SD/SDHC content on your HDTV. The device connects to your TV through an HDMI port.

The JVC CU-VS100 is compatible with most popular audio and video file formats including .mts, .m2ts, .mov, .tod, .mod, .mpg, JPG, MP3 and WAV. They throw in a remote controller with every purchase and an A/V cable.

It’s still cold here in Texas, but I know in a few months we will be back up in the 90′s or higher and we will all be wishing the cold weather was back. With the warm weather within sight, many people are probably already dreaming about hitting the beach or lake for some fun.

Many people like to take music with them, but most MP3 players are too fragile to stand up to water and drops. Marinemart has announced that it is taking pre-orders on the Freestyle Audio Waterproof MP3 player. The device can play MP3, WMA, and WMA DRM files.

Pantech just dropped their latest cell phone, the Sky IM-U560K. This one is designed for girls and packs in a touchscreen display and an accelerometer for games and applications. It also comes in handy for manipulating the GUI using hand gestures and movements.

The Sky IM-U560K has a 2.6-inch screen, a DMB TV tuner, MP3 player, and a Korean to English Text to Speech Translator. Nothing on pricing yet, but we’ll let you girls know when we know.

Viewsonic’s latest Moviebook has us drooling. It sports a 5 inch LCD display screen, 8 GB of memory, microSD expansion and HDMI output.

You know what that means. It means you’ll be enjoying 1080p videos. And it supports a wide range of file formats like DAT, MPG, MPEG, VOB, MP4, MOV, AVI, DVD Video, ASF, WMV, MKV, TS, and RM/RMVB as well as videos and MP3, WMA, WAV, AAC, OGG, FLAC, APE, AC3, and DTS audio formats.

Getting music from you computer in one room to your home theater or stereo in another can be a challenge. You can carry your notebook into the other room and connect it up some times, but for the most part, you need something wireless for the task.

Aperion Audio has announced a new device called the Home Audio Link system that can stream music from your PC to a home theater system wirelessly. The system plugs into the USB port of your computer on the transmitter end and the receiver plugs into your audio system with RCA cables.

We have some more details on the color ASUS DR-570 e-book reader that showed up over the weekend. In addition to WiFi, 3G, and 122-hour real world battery life, you can also expect lightning quick 0.03 second page turns. In case you’re wondering that’s about 23 times faster than the Kindle and its competition.

It also sports 4GB of onboard storage with SDHC expansion, 512MB of SDRAM, and a 1,530mAh battery. That’s not all, it also has a built-in RSS reader, audio/video/Flash player, text to speech engine, and a built-in web browser. The device will hit before the end of the year. Apparently there is also online video streaming support via Amazon video on demand, 3D gaming and navigation, “One stop shopping for books, video, music,” and support for ePub, PDF, txt, MP3, MP4, and AVI content formats.

Beatles fans can now display their fandom on their laptops and cellphones proudly thanks to MusicSkins who have just launched a line of Beatles skins. Now you can dress up your cell phone, laptop, mp3 player or gaming device.

They offer custom fit skins for almost any popular device. Your choice of Abbey Road, Sgt. Pepper, Yellow Submarine, Let it Be, A Hard Days Night, Rubber Soul and more. It’s a sticker with an adhesive that leaves no residue behind so it can be removed and reapplied many times.

Too many e-readers. Do people really love them or are OEMs just all going crazy? Anyhow, Teclast, the portable media player guys, have now entered this crowded market with the K3. It supports the usual document formats and packs a 6-inch E Ink display, an MP3 / MP4 player and text-to-speech either in English or Chinese.

They call it a “Talking Portable Library”, but we are guessing that the voice leaves something to be desired. Call it a hunch.

We first told you about these speakers back in September, but since everyone else is all gaga over them we thought we would remind you. JVC’s nano colored SP-A130 speakers are compatible with the nanos in size as well as color.

Just slide the cover out and you’ve got yourself a portable speaker with a 3.5mm input to connect it to your nano or other compatible portable media player. It’s powered by AA batteries and will be available this March for $29.95.

We all know by now that lightsabers make noises, fake noises from the mouths of nerds as they pretend to slice through enemies. Well, here’s a real lightsaber hilt that makes real noise. It plays your favorite music, which is probably from one of the movie’s soundtracks.

It’s available in two different versions and measures 3.14 inches. They also feature microSD card slots, but no display sadly. They will simply playback music directly from a card. The Star Wars Lightsaber MP3 Player is available for just under $24.

The DoDoNa S-100 MP3 player is a cube with some old school iPod controls and some buttons on top. It comes in your choice of black, white, yellow and green.

The S-100 features a 1.1″ OLED display capable of 96 x 96 resolution, an integrated loudspeaker, 4GB of internal memory, FM radio and it supports MP3, WMA, OGG and FLAC file formats. The S-100 will deliver 15 hours of audio playback using headphones and 8 hours through its speaker.

You just don’t see the ole cannon as much these days, what with our machine guns and killer robot drones, but if you have a special place in your heart for the cannon, then check this out. It’s a wood USB speaker. In the shape of a cannon.

The Wooden Cannon USB Speaker plugs into your computer via the USB port and has a 3.5mm headphone jack, which allows it to work with other MP3 players. The speakers will deliver 2.5W + 2.5W output. So how much is a wooden cannon USB speaker? Only $22.

Here’s another portable media player vying for your hard earned dollars. The Newsmy A78HD is a 7″ device that packs in 720p support as well as TV Out, allowing you to watch your high definition videos on your HDTV.

Or you can watch them on the 800 x 480 resolution touchscreen display. It’s not bad looking. Supported video formats include RM, RMVB, AVI and FLV. As for audio compatibility there’s MP3, WMA, APE and FLAC. The Newsmy A78HD will also handle gaming, using 64-bit ROMs.

You typical iPod or other standard MP3 player isn’t up to the task of swimming or sports where shocks and bumps are apt to happen. You can wear a plain MP3 while you exercise, but if you get it wet the player is pretty much done.

Finis has announced its latest rugged and waterproof MP3 player called the XtreaMP3.1G. The device has 1GB of storage capable of holding up to 240 songs. The player is design for sports where shocks are common, like snowboarding, skateboarding, and cycling.