Today's Website of the Day is The Apple Museum, a walk through the long and chequered history of Apple Computer. Look at the hardware, software and peripherals of the past 30+ years.

Philips have announced their GoGear SA9200 portable music player, with Nano-esque slimness and fairly good looks.

It will initally come in 1 and 2 gigabyte flash versions, so although initial storage isn't as much as a Nano, it's a good start. The screen is 1.7 inch (4 cm) colour and can display photos, but probably not video.

Even the controls sound iPod-like (though of course they're not) with their SuperScroll functionality that lets you tap and drag with your fingers on the smooth control surface. The buttons glow blue.

It plays standard MP3 as well as Windows Media DRM10 files. There's an optional docking station that works with the Streamium wi-fi hifi.

This really looks like a nice player with potential. Like its current and future rivals, it likely won't kill off the Nano but it could do very nicely, particularly if it continues to develop its features and storage capacity.

They're due at the end of summer (isn't that now?) for around €149 and €199 respectively.

Philips website

Our roving reporter, Susi, has all the latest information on Sharp's latest range of LCD TVs.

Philips announced today at IFA 2006 that it will make available a cordless DECT phone that will make Skype calls independently of a PC. The VOIP841 will connect directly to your broadband connection and should be available by Christmas.

Philips will also be releasing three multimedia headsets designed for VoIP calling, games, music and video - the SHM3100, SHM3300 and SHM6100. Availability and pricing to follow.

Philips website

Amongst everything else, Daewoo have been showing off a couple of their portable multimedia devices at IFA 2006.

Their DPC-7800PDT is a portable DVD player with a 7-inch TFT-LCD display, built-in speakers, and an integrated DVB-T digital TV tuner. Looks like Xoro won't be able to claim that uniqueness any more.

The DEH-705K is a multimedia player with an 8Gb hard drive and will store your music, photos and films. Not much more info than that at present, but we'll have pictures and better specs as they become available.

More Daewoo: Daewoo sat nav - Wireless HDTV

Blu Ray took another step closer to becoming the next high definition disc format ahead of rival HD-DVD with most of the major movie studios lining up at IFA to announce Blu Ray titles from this November.

Despite the very public split between Tom Cruise and Paramount Pictures, Mission Impossible 3 will be one of Paramount Pictures' first Blu Ray titles when it launches at the end of November. Meanwhile Warner Home Video ("we have been late coming into the Blu Ray fold, admitted Stephen Nickerson, Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Warner Home Video) announced it will launch titles in several European countries including UK, France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland and Austria.

"We will have at least ten core titles in each European country before Christmas," said Nickerson. These will include latest releases such as Harrison Ford's Firewall and George Clooney's Syriana as well as vintage titles such as Full Metal Jacket and Space Cowboys.

Daewoo have announced that three new satellite navigation systems will be available in Europe soon.

The DPN-3500 has a 3.5-inch LCD display and the DPN-5600 has a 5.6-inch display, and both sound to be fairly standard portable sat-nav devices. Daewoo seem to be targeting cyclists and walkers, which is interesting as reports I've read suggest that this type of system isn't hugely reliable because of issues with the transmitter.

The third sat-nav device, the ANK-6160, also boasts a Digital Multimedia Broadcast (DMB) receiver which is supposed to allow you to receive audio and video data such as radio/TV programmes and service information. However, at present the DMB system is not fully operational across Europe, letalone having the services on it, so it could be that this unit doesn't do much more that navigate you, particularly in the UK.

It will be interesting to see how reliable and feature-laden these devices are when they're released, presumably soon though no official word on a date or prices yet. As usual, we'll keep you posted.