Archos has started shipping their 4.3 inch tablet/PMP, the Archos 43. It has been showing as available for pre-order on Amazon for the past two weeks. Now, the Android 2.2 tablet has started shipping. The 4.3 inch tablet device has a 854×480 pixel capacitive touchscreen and packs a lot of features under the hood. It is powered by an ARM Cortex A8 1GHz processor with DSP and graphics support for OpenGL 3D ES 2.0. It is capable of outputting video at 720p through its onboard HDMI port which can be connected to an HDTV. Its 2MP rear-facing camera can also record HD video at 720

Android is not just limited to smartphones and tablets. Now there are some devices in between that have functionality somewhere between that of a PMP and a Tablet. Archos has been moving in on this market and their latest offering is the Archos 43 portable media player. It is like an iPod Touch, but only better, and running on Android 2.2 . The name 43 comes from the size of its display, 4.3 inches. The touchscreen PMP packs an ARM Cortex A8 1GHz processor under the hood along with a graphic accelerator. It supports quite a lot of media file formats including AVI, MP4, MKV, MOV,

Lenovo has entered the 3D world with their new IdeaPad Y560d 3D notebook, which has now gone on sale through the company’s online store. The new notebook uses the TriDef 3D system and is priced starting at $1399, depending on the various options you hook it up with. The TriDef system consists of the display, the glasses, and the software. The latter is of particular interest as Lenovo says the “TriDef Media Player” and “TriDef Photo Transformer” software will be able to convert and display conventional 2D video or photos as full viewable 3D

MSI has just announced the launch and availability of its latest high-end gaming notebook, the GT660R in the US. The new 16-inch notebook is the latest in MSI’s variety of notebooks and netbooks ranging from budget machines to high-end performance beasts. The MSI GT660R boasts a 1.73 GHz Core i7-740QM processor, 6GB of DDR3 RAM and 1 TB storage from dual 7200rpm HDDs. Pixel pumping will be managed by an nVidia GeForce GTX285M 1GB GPU. It includes a chiclet style keyboard with numeric keypad, 720p webcam, stereo speakers with subwoofer and a BluRay combo drive. For

Hey, remember Spawn Labs? Look, we know last September was a long, long time ago, but how could you ever forget the box that essentially acts as the Slingbox for your video game consoles? The HD-720, which arrives with the ability to pass along either Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 signals to a web-connected PC for remote playback, is now available to order for $199.95, while additional adapters can also be purchased for $39.95. Of course, you should make sure you have a pretty robust Windows-based laptop and a solid internet connection before getting your hopes up too high here, but

CES is great and all, but one of the bones we choose to pick with the show is the typically long gap between the Vegas introduction and the mass market ship date. Thankfully for us, Toshiba has no interest in keeping us waiting for one of the world’s first Intel Wireless Display-equipped (or WiDi, as it were) laptops. The Satellite E205 — which comes stocked with a 2.53GHz Core i5-430M processor, 4GB of DDR3 memory, a dual-layer DVD writer, 14-inch display (1,366 x 768 resolution), 500GB hard drive and a Netgear Push2TV wireless display adapter — is now shipping