In 1974, Arthur Fry applied a discarded adhesive, concocted by his work colleague, to pieces of paper to make sticky bookmarks for his hymnbook. The rest is history. Post-it notes are now everywhere. I have a soft spot for that style of good old-fashioned traditional inventing. That's why I had to look twice at this new monitor from Sony. They've taken their normal LCD range and added a plastic panel along the bottom, simply for sticking Post-its to. A great traditional design solution! If that's not enough, Sony has added a little groove for pens and pencils to sit in wait for those ever-decreasing analogue moments of the day.No price for the E-series monitor has been released yet, but the display will come in both 17" and 19" sizes, and available from 19th June.

For car geeks who deal with iPod, this going to be a multi-used gadget for you. Alpine unveiled an iPod video capable unit in Europe last month, the KCE-415i which is able to cooperate with most Alpine audio and TV system. It allows you to play/pause, skip, fast-forward/rewind the main 5G iPod directly from your Alpine MultiMedia station or overhead monitor with additional controls available from the Alpine head unit, remote control, or iPod itself. I’m sure some of you going to love this, the interface is seen by your Alpine system as an external DVD source and not only charges your iPod's battery, but allows the iPod to be switched on/off via your car's ignition system.

SIRIUS, the famous satellite radio manufacuter, released a bunch of new products recently, and here's one of them, the Startmate 4. This plug-and-play radio is compatible with a variety of electronic devices, including universal home dock, car dock, and boombox. Once connected, uses can start listening to their favourite satellite radio station and check out the current artist names and song titles on the provided large wide-screen display which supports up to five lines of text. It is possible to control the radio streaming with pause, rewind, and fast-forward. Users can even replay the last 44 minutes of the stream.

This radio also can be connected to a variety of other devices, including a universal home dock, car dock, and boombox. Other similarities are the large LCD screen that display song title and artist name, 100 pre-defined channel for FM transmission and the possibility to access Sirius GameZone and Sirius Game Alert services.

Here goes another new plug-and-play satellite radio fom Sirius, the Sportster 3. This slim and ergonomical designed device is obviously part of the Sporster Car Kit series, and comes with a rotary tuning knob and large buttons. Priced at $119.99, users can plug in the satellite radio onto its car dock, transmit the radio to any of 100 pre-defined channels, and start listening to the radio. For your convenient, there's a large LCD screen which will display the current song title and the artist name.

After previously released the world's first Blu-Ray player in the US market, Samsung has just announced that the BD-P1000 device will soon hit the Korean market as well, with a price tag 1,300,000 (KRW). Since it hit the shelves in June, this Blu-Ray player has been sold for more than 20,000 units in US market alone. It features both DVD and CD playback support, various HD resolution (720p/1080i/1080p), 192KHz LPCM, Dolby Digital and DTS sound system, MPEG2, and MP3 player. Later in October, the company will bring the player to Europe and Australia, with the goal of shipping 100,000 units worldwide by the end of this year.