Looks like Cowon is planning another portable media player, the iAudio 9. The player comes with a stylish design and features a 2-inch LCD display, built-in FM tuner, microphone for voice recording, built-in speakers and TV-out support. No words yet on availability.[journaldugeek]

Belling is launching the Media Chef, a digital cookbook/digital frame that comes with a 8-inch large LCD display. It comes with 48 cooking instruction videos from chef Brian Turner. The Media Chef serves also as a digital photo frame and media player. It comes with a remote control and costs GBP170.[engadget]

Active Media Products (AMP) announced the Aviator 312 series USB 3.0 SuperSpeed external SSD storage devices. The Aviator 312 series is available in 16GB (N16G-A312), 32GB (N32G-A312) and 64GB (N64G-A312) capacities.Based on MLC NAND Flash memory, the AMP’s Aviator 312 offers up to 160MB/s write speed and 240MB/s read speed, using USB 3.0 SuperSpeed interface that supports transfer speeds up to 4.8Gbits/s.The Active Media Aviator 312 is priced at $89 for 16GB, $119 for 32GB and $209 for 64GB.[activemp]

Remember how mom always had those hand written recipes on 3×5 cards? Well those days are gone. Now mom watches all of those fancy cooking shows on the food network. So it makes sense that Belling’s new Media Chef digital cookbook actually contains 48 cooking instructional videos from chef Brian Turner on its 8-inch screen. You get an included remote control and the device can also function as a general media player, calendar and photo frame. It will retail for about £170 ($271 US). We don’t know when it will be available though.Rachael Ray and Martha Stewart will

The name makes it sound like it’s small enough for your pocket, but actually this media player from Panasonic Japan features a 9 inch screen with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels, along with a CD player, FM radio, an iPod dock and 4GB of internal memory. Not exactly portable.The device also has a SD card slot and USB port for all of your audio and image files that are elsewhere. From the built in amplifier you can expect an output of 5W × 2ch.The MW-10 will be available in Japan on October 23 in three colors for pricey price of 50,000 Yen (or $550). [New Launches]

Still remember the Asus O!Play HDP-R1 media player hat we mentioned back in July? Asus today announced the availability of this gadget in the US market. Priced at $99.99 each, this media player is compatible with a wide variety of codecs with 1080p resolution including MPEG1/2/4, H.264, VC-1, and RM/RMVB. The Asus O!Play HDP-R1 also has eSATA and Ethernet ports. [Engadget]

The Lighthouse SQ7 is described as a Social Media tablet and so will run both Facebook and Twitter. Oddly, it relies mainly on its built-in voice recognition engine to get input from the user. The tablet boasts a 7″ touchscreen display at 800 x 480 resolution, Wi-Fi, and the Samsung ARM S3C6410 667MHz processor.Oh and 128MB RAM and 1GB of internal memory, all powered by a 4,500 mAH rechargeable battery which will give you up to 5 hours of non-stop use. The Lighthouse SQ7 will ship on October 7th for $249.It sure looks sexy enough. Anyone gonna pick one up?[Ubergizmo]

The QNAP NMP-1000 networked media player was unveiled at CeBIT in March earlier this year, and has finally made its way to the masses by offering the following :- BitTorrent ServerFTP ServerRemote web browser accessCan function as an external USB or eSATA drive to your PCAutomatic categorization of local and remote disk dataDLNA compliantVideo codec support: MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, XVID, H.264, H.263, WMV9, VC1Video container support: AVI, MPEG/MPG, VCD (ISO, MPG), DVD (VOB, IFO, ISO), WMV, ASF, TP, TS, TRP, M1V, M2V, M4V, M2P, M2T, M2TS,

ILuv has unveiled its latest digital media player, the i1166, which features an iPod interface and a large 9 inch screen that should be perfect for watching video. It should arrive in mid-October for $269.99. When docked, you will have complete control over an iPod, using an AC adapter. The i1166 is also compatible with the iPod touch 2G, nano 5G, nano 4G, original touch, and nano 3G, plus the iPod classic and iPod with video. The player is also DivX certified and has a built-in DVD player. Looks like you are really getting your money’s worth.It’s powered by AC, DC, or

QNAP Systems has released the QNAP NMP-1000 networked media player that originally debuted in March at CeBIT 2009. Now it is making it’s way to the masses. The device supports BitTorrent Server, FTP Server, remote web browser access, and is DLNA compliant.The QNAP NMP-1000 can also function as an external USB or eSATA drive for your PC. The device supports most multimedia file formats including XVID, H.264, H.263, WMV9, VC1, AVI, MPEG/MPG, MKV, FLAC, WAV, WMA, AAC, PCM, AC3, and OGG.We don’t have any info on price just yet however. [Techfresh]