Sony- Rolly (A new generation dancing player)

The compact white-colored egg-shaped gizmo could easily fit in your palms and can rotate, flap its ends, and flash colorful lights in time to music.

Want to experience a dancing player - well Sony makes it possible. 

• Sony has unveiled the all-new 'Rolly' digital music player that rotates, flaps its ends, and flashes colorful lights in time to music. 
• The compact white-colored egg-shaped gizmo could easily fit in your palms. Weighing 300 g and measuring 104 mm long and 65 mm in circumference, Rolly has speakers on each end that are hidden by dish-like covers. 

• There's only 1 button on the player - an on/off switch. The other functions are controlled by a pair of rings that circle its body. 
• While 1 ring is used to move from track to track or album to album, the other controls the volume. These rings are connected to motors that enable the Rolly to scoot around a table-top in tune to the music being played. 
• The player can stand 5 hours of audio playback. This drops to 4 hours when the device is in motion and 3 and a half hours when Bluetooth streaming is also enabled. 

• Rolly has 1 GB of internal flash memory and can playback MP3, Atrac, or AAC songs (AAC songs with copy protection from iTunes Music Store aren't supported). It can also receive music streamed via a Bluetooth connection. 
• With a storage capacity of around 600 songs (depending on the songs' audio quality and length) Rolly incorporates sensors that could identify which way is up, enabling volume to be controlled by turning the player clockwise or anti-clockwise and tunes to be switched by pushing or pulling it on the floor. 

• Users have the choice of either using a special program on a PC, which analyzes music to come up with simple choreography that appears to match the rhythm of the songs, or download packaged moves to tunes from a Sony website. 
• Sony's Rolly will be launched across Japan by September 29 this year and will be available for Rs 14,380 (40,000 yen/US$354). 
• However, Indian customers still have to wait long since Sony is yet to decide plans for an international launch.

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Google Music is LIVE

The search giant has finally entered the cloud music arena by launching first invitation only public beta of their "Google Music" service, unfortunately the service is only available to US users but the limitation can be easily bypassed as shown after the jump along with Google Music features, beta invitation process and a video demonstration.

Google Music Beta Features :

• Listen anywhere, even offline - You can get to your personal music collection at home or on the go. Listen from the web or any enabled device with the Music app available from Android Market. Not online? No problem. The songs you've recently played will automatically be available offline. You can also select the specific albums, artists and playlists you want to have available when you're not connected.
• Stay in sync, without the hassle - Spend more time listening to your music and less time managing it. Once your music is online, it's always available. Playlists are automatically kept in sync, and you don't have to worry about cables, file transfers, or running out of storage space.
• Your collection, now in one place - Upload your personal music collection to a single library, even if it's scattered across multiple computers. You can upload music files from any folder or add your iTunes® library and all of your playlists. And when you add new music to your computer, it can be automatically added to your music collection online.
• Mix it up - Create your own custom playlists with just a few clicks. Or use Instant Mix to automatically build new playlists of songs from your collection that go great together. All the playlists you create and all the changes you make to them are automatically available everywhere your music is.

How to get an Google Music Beta invitation :

• Goto Google Music Beta page and click "Request an Invitation >" button.
• If you are not from US, you will be shown an error message as posted below - in this case continue using a US proxy site like www.hidemyass.com to access the page.

• Once the page loads-up Sign-in using your Google account credentials.

• Confirm the request.

• You will now be notified when your number comes for the invite.

Visit : Google Music World Tour

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