Cannon’s new Selphy compact photo printers, namely the Selphy CP760 and Selphy CP770 - billed by Cannon themselves as sporting a ‘basket-style’ design - both of which feature a proprietary lamination process to help reduce image bleeding and blurring – as well as offering resistance to fingerprint marks and smudging – are at last available to US based consumers.

Kodak have announced that the members of its Kodak Gallery online photo service – which presently boasts a worldwide user base of around 70 million – can now order its range of Easyshare digital picture frames via the online application which can be preloaded with content, selected via users Gallery accounts, to the tune of some 100 images at the point of purchase.

Having only just posted about Creative’s new Vado Camcorder and, just prior to that, Creative’s USB Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 now - on what is rapidly very much becoming ‘Creative’s week’ here on TFTS – we also have news of a new MP3 player from Creative known as the MoVo T200.

Creative have, at last, officially launched their new VF0570-P Vado Pocket Video Camcorder following the Vado having been listed by an online retailer some weeks ago and, very much as expected – just like Pure Video’s Flip camcorder - the device appears to be aimed squarely at those looking to produce and upload video content to both YouTube and blogs as well as those looking for a decidedly budget-priced video capture device.

It was only back on May 1st that we reported that Dell had updated its XPS 730 premier gaming towers but now, only twelve days after Dell touted their new, updated XPS 730 performance gaming PCs as offering ‘a truly kick-ass gaming experience’ it seems that their days are numbered as, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Dell is purportedly set to drop its entire XPS gaming PC range.

Creative have announced their latest Sound Blaster X-Fi (eXtreme Fidelity) based sound solution for notebooks in the form of the Sound Blaster X-Fi External USB sound card which brings full multi-channel surround sound capabilities, as well as Creative’s X-Fi 24-bit Crystalizer technology, to any notebook sporting a USB connection.

The first rule of Fight Club posting on TFTS is never to post about something unless we have decent imagery so, without further ado, we’ll now act to show scant regard for that rule in offering a heads up concerning Sharp’s new TL-M4600 and TL-M5200 professional HD LCD monitors regardless of the fact that Sharp have supplied no imagery of said monitors in any shape or form (an oversight on their part, we’re sure, as opposed to being any kind of an indication as to how they may actually look).

Invariably there will be those that will argue that, in ‘merely’ being a concept, this touchscreen universal remote conceived of by David Chacon has the luxury of being as desirable as it pleases in being wholly fictitious and constrained only by the designer’s scope of imagination, but to do so would negate the fact that it’s the concepts of today lead to the products of tomorrow and so are as valid a focus of our attention as any product that has successfully made the truncated path through from concept to commercially available product.