Now that we’ve got the white-knuckle excitement of the Yoto M300’s Asian-only deut out of our systems, we’re getting hit with a sequel, the M400. Basically the same codec-friendly non-touchscreen PMP as the M300, it looks like the M400 features slightly better build quality in addition to adding PlayFX and TV-out. Oh, and it’s not a render, so that’s another tick in the plus column. Still, we’re not quite convinced we’re willing to travel to China and drop our hard-earned yuan on this bad boy yet — let’s see what the inevitable M500 has to offer.

[Via PMP Today]

What better to complement a wooden mouse (and wooden keyboard, for that matter) than a wooden mousepad? Nothing, that’s what. This masterfully constructed jewel not only brings the tree to your workspace, but it’s slightly angled for ergonomic pleasure and can likely be used upside-down in a pinch. Yeah, the $60.31 sticker makes this thing absurdly overpriced, but your wooden PC just wouldn’t be complete without it.

[Via CrunchGear]

Our pals over at Zatz Not Funny go their hands on one of those newfangled, silly-expensive WiFi Ultimate Remotes built by tvCompass for ESPN. They found the built-in episode guide to be quite nice, and the potential for content partnerships beyond the existing ESPN sports content “limitless.” So, $300 worth of limitless? Time shall tell.

Here’s a nice little tidbit: word on the street is that the most recent version of the iPhone 2.0 beta has added a “Location Services” feature that encompasses what appears to be GPS-based Google Mapping, along with geotagging for the phone’s camera app. Sure, even if these shots are legit, Apple is late to the party here — other featurephone users have been geo-tagging their shots for years — but that doesn’t mean we can’t condescendingly congratulate Apple for these “achievements” while simultaneously pinning screenshots to the fridge alongside that 3G preferences pane and the hand-traced picture of a turkey in crayon.

[Thanks, SuperSaf]

Microsoft turned a few heads at its Advance ‘08 advertising conference by announcing a type of ads for its Zune platform, in addition to those web, TV and Xbox “branding experiences” it already delivers. The primary method described merely involved corporate sponsorships of celebrity playlists, with the “ad” being consigned to branding on that musician’s Social card — and you’d have to have friended the musician to see any of it at all. Apocalyptic stuff, eh? Microsoft also promises to keep the ads appropriate for the audience, so we’re not going to start panicking just yet, but the first DAP builder to make us sit through a minute of ads every time we try to sync with our computer is sure score the (oh, hey, thanks for the $100, Microsoft!) scorn and vitriol love and affection of its customers for years to come.