When it comes to high-end headphones and headsets, Sennheiser makes some of the coolest around. The company has all sorts of headphones from units for audiophiles to headphones made for use with your gaming system or iPod. Sennheiser also makes a lien of headphones that are just for the DJs out there. The latest set of headphones form Sennheiser is the HD 25-1-II and they are branded with Adidas.

The headphones are over the ear style and they are offered in black and blue color scheme with the three stripes that Adidas is famous for. The headphones have value ear pads that help block out room sounds and are padded for long-term ear and comfort. The transducers are dynamic closed units with a frequency response of 16 - 22000 Hz.

The sound pressure level for the headphones is 120 db and the impedance is 70 ohms. The headphones have a cable that is 15 meters long and have a 3.5mm headphone plug. They also ship with a 0.25" adapter for using them with audio devices. The headphones are available now for £224.99.

The tablet market is hot right now with the iPad selling in droves and other tablets coming to the market in force. Some of the most popular tablets are those that run Android like the Galaxy Tab and there are many other tablets heading to market in the next few months that will use Android as well. HTC VP Jack Tong has noted that the iPad right now is hurting the PC business more than it is affecting the smartphone business.

HTC is watching the tablet market closely according to Tong in an effort to determine when it should enter the fray. It would be safe to assume that if HTC offered a tablet it would run Android. Tong also talked about Windows Phone 7 and says that HTC will continue to focus on Android for the time being. It will offer WinPo 7 handsets in the US and will offer Windows OS devices in China and other countries next year when the OS launches in other languages.

Tong also spoke a bit on the shortages with some of the high-end devices that HTC offers. He says that the shortages should ease in December. HTC has shipped more devices to key markets to help end the problem. HTC plans to ship about 9 million units in Q4 and reap revenue of about $3.29 billion in the quarter.

Corsair has SSDs for all sorts of needs from simple and small boot drives to high-capacity drives that can be used for storage and the OS on your notebook or desktop computer. Corsair is also a big name in the RAM business for PCs and other users. Corsair has announced today that it is adding a pair of new capacity SSDs to its Force Series offerings. The new SSDs are the F90 and F180 and they share many of the same features of their other family members the F60, F120, and F240.

The new SSDs both use the Sandforce SF-1200 SSD processor with read speeds up to 285MB/sec and write speeds up to 275MB/sec. Corsair also claims that the SSDs are good for 50K IOPs with 4K random writes. Both of the new SSDs support TRIM in Windows 7 and are shipping right now. The F90 will sell for $189.99 and the F180 will sell for $399.99.

"Corsair's Force Series of SSDs have become extremely popular with enthusiasts and gamers, and with these two new capacities we can offer our customers greater flexibility to choose the capacity that best suits their budget," stated Thi La, VP of Memory Products at Corsair. "The 90GB and 180GB capacities neatly fill the gaps in the current family, which now ranges from 40GB all the way to 240GB."

Back in October the Zoom company pulled the wraps off a new video recorder that promises audio recording that was HD along with 1080p HD video recording. The camera is billed as the only video recorder that can record HD video and audio with point and shoot ease. The camera is called the Zoom Q3HD Handy Video Recorder. When it was announced, we were given most of the important details.

We know the camera will record 1080p HD video at 30 fps and will record 720p resolution video at 30fps or 60 fps. It will record audio at 24-bit/96kHz quality and has an easy to use interface. The camera has a LCD screen on the back for watching video in the field and has a HDMI output. That HDMI output allows you to shoot the video over to your big screen in the living room.

The microphones in the camera are arranged in a 120-degree X/Y pattern, have stereo recording capability, and are the same that Zoom uses in the H4n audio recorder. The camera has a built-in USB cable for transferring video and ships with software for editing video. It also comes with a 2GB SD card and supports up to 32GB cards. The camera is shipping right now for $299.99.

ASUS held a press conference in Taipei today to announce its latest notebook, the U36JC. I couldn't attend the event personally, but luckily for us, Nicole of Netbook News fame was on hand to shoot a hands-on video of this new super slim laptop for us.

The U36JC features a 13.3-inch screen and comes installed with Windows 7 Home Premium and an Intel Core i5 460M processor and an NVIDIA GT310M GPU with 1GB of dedicated video memory. As far as memory goes, it comes with 2GB of DDR3 RAM and a 500GB hard disk drive. As Nicole explains in the video above, it's an ultra slim notebook coming in at just 1.66 kilograms, yet it still packs in an 8-cell battery that should be able to provide pretty decent battery life for most applications.

Nicole comments she is not a fan of glossy displays, but I reckon that style actually works pretty well, but I am still a bit on the fence. Getting a look at the notebook opened, we are presented with a stylish looking notebook with what Nicole describes a great chicklet keyboard, however she thought the shift keys are too small - I tend to agree.

Here is one for the books! If you've been in the PC scene for some years, you'll remember back in the day that a guy by the name of Jonathan Wendel or "Fatal1ty" as he is known in the online world by his gaming tag, made some of the best gaming motherboards on the market with the once king we knew as ABIT.

Fast forward several years. I get a call from ASRock earlier this week saying that they have a special guest in town and I should come out to their office for an interview. Of course, that special guest from the US was Fatal1ty. He is in town to introduce his new Fatal1ty P67 Professional gaming motherboard exclusively to us here at TweakTown.

The Fatal1ty product team decided to work with ASRock after discussions started back at CeBIT in Germany earlier this year. Development has been on-going for the past two or three months and both sides are finally ready to show-off the fruits of their labor and planning. According to Jonathan and his team, ASRock was selected since they consider the Taiwanese motherboard maker "craftsman of motherboards" after inspecting its engineers and products over time.

As I started this news report, I obviously have to choose a category but what do I choose? Video cards or Networking? After reassembling my head from it exploding at the thought of something never seen before (GPU + NIC combined) I thought it was a nifty idea.

Sure, it might not sell in the millions and Visiontek won't turn into Apple overnight - but when companies look at a box and think outside of the box, it is great. Visiontek and Bigfoot have co-developed a PCI-Express x16 expansion board that features both a GPU and NIC which is being touted as the "world's first online gaming upgrade card".

The product combines an AMD Radeon HD 5770 with Bigfoot's Killer E2100 network controller and is said to be the only PCIe expansion device that combines both high-quality graphics with low-latency networking.

Last week NVIDIA kicked off an IQ wave that has hit AMD and AMD are now finding themselves having to explain their situation. Hexus has sat down with Senior Manager of Software Engineering Andy Pomianowski and Technical Marketing Manager Dave Nalasco from AMD to talk about the situation.

Dave started off saying there were some changes in the Catalyst drivers to coincide with the HD6000-series release GPU's, in which image quality was a big part of. At the center of all of this is the Catalyst AI - which controls a large range of settings via a single slider.

Responding to the feedback, the above mentioned slider has been divided into a number of different settings in the latest release - giving users more control. One of the new additions was a slider to control texture filtering which has settings for "High Quality", "Quality" and "Performance".

Google Editions, Google's book store that's been a victim of delayed releases since last summer, looks like it finally may see the light of day soon. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google Editions will open its virtual doors by the end of 2010.

What sets Google Editions apart from competitors like the Kindle sstore and the iBookStore is that users can purchase books from either Google themselves or select independent retailers. Books purchased from retailers can be tied to the user's Google account, allowing them to be accessed across any desktop or mobile device.

Google product management director Scott Dougall stated in reference to the delays, "Because of the complexity of this project, we didn't want to come out with something that wasn't thorough." The independent bookstores working with Google and the revenue sharing information are not currently available.

Asus has unveiled a new laptop based on Intel's current Core 2010 platform. The chassis is built from aluminum-magnesium alloy lid and a "nanometer coating" on the palm rest that is meant to resist fingerprints and be easy to clean.

The U36 is just 0.75" thick and weighs in at 3.2 - 3.7 lbs depending on the choice between 6 and 8-cell batteries. The 8-cell is rated for 84 Wh which Asus are claiming will achieve around 10 hours of run time for the laptop.

It also uses a standard-voltage Core i3 and i5 CPU (again, depending on model) and has a GeForce 310M discrete GPU. nVidia's Optimus graphics-switching technology is offered - which is definitely not a bad thing. Keeping in mind how thin the laptop is and it has a standard-voltage CPU a more powerful GPU would have been hard to do.