Dell’s design crew has flexed their muscles and released the Dell Adamo — a super thin (.65-nches thick at it’s thickest point) laptop aimed squarely at Apple’s MacBook Air.

Adamo’s stylish features include a chassis milled from a single piece of aluminum, like the MacBook Air; a scalloped backlit keyboard, an edge-to-edge glass display, and a choice of onyx or pearl colors

The baseline Adamo version includes a low-power 1.2-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo SU9300 processor and a more expensive model with a 1.4-GHz Core 2 Duo SU9400 chip. Both processors fall short of tehe Air’s 1.6-GHz Core 2 Duo and 1.86-GHz Core 2 Duo configurations.

The Air also has a more powerful graphics with the Nvidia GeForce 9400M graphics processor versus Adamo’s Intel GS45 integrated graphics.

The starting price is $1,999, which is more than the Air, which starts at $1,799.

Imagine yourself on a loud, crowded bus or a stuffy airplane full of chitchat and all you want to do is phase out the public and tune into your own private world. The new Image S4 ($80) and S2 ($50) in-ear headphones from Klipsch are designed to make that vision an affordable, comfortable and safe reality.

The S4 and S2 use the same proprietary ear tips as their pricier predecessors, continuing the company’s extreme comfort with superior noise isolation story.

Below please find a press release announcing Evian Natural Spring Water’s sponsorship of LG Fashion Week Beauty by L’Oréal Paris taking place in Toronto from March 16 to March 21.  As the official bottled water of fashion week, Evian product will be served at all LG Fashion Week events including the media lounge, VIP bar, backstage areas and the highly anticipated opening night reception at Holt Renfrew.  Additionally, as part of Evian’s ongoing commitment to promote style and eco-consciousness, the “Evian Girls” who will be serving Evian product at select events throughout the week will be clothed in hemp silk gowns and custom designed shoes made from 100% recycled PET.

If you have any questions or would like to speak with an Evian spokesperson, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Nokia is back to please a wide range of audience, this time round by launching a trio of handsets that will cater for everybody with different budgets. The three are the Nokia 5730 XpressMusic, Nokia 5330 XpressMusic and Nokia 5030, offering music-oriented features that bring people’s music to life. Available across a wide spectrum of price points, it will open up more markets with Comes With Music service and the Nokia Music Store, in addition to integrating these elements as seamlessly as possible on both the cell phone and the PC. Nokia attempts to turn the digital music player that rings in your pocket into a library, shop and platform that manages all your music as well.

Nokia 5730 XpressMusic
This high-end handset comes with a full QWERTY keyboard for fast messaging and email, where the Homescreen for XpressMusic offers access and dynamic information on music, people, games, email and calendar. You can also enjoy an improved contacts bar with up to 20 friends and family members, while getting direct access to music, N-Gage and other applications (including Facebook, Photos, Ovi Contacts, Maps and messaging among others). Dedicated gaming keys make the Nokia 5730 XpressMusic a true N-Gage gadget, where direct access to the N-Gage Arena community and preloaded N-Gage games will go down well with the competitive types. It will retail for 280 Euros sometime in Q3 this year.

Nokia 5330 XpressMusic
The Nokia 5330 XpressMusic is a mid-range music-centric handset that helps one keep in touch with one’s social network. All XpressMusic touch keys on the side of the display offer instant music access, and it is nice to see a standard 3.5mm jack included for crystal clear sound for most headphones in the market. An extended battery life provides over 26 hours of playback, and you can also access online sites that specialize in online sharing, including Ovi, Facebook, and MySpace. Expect to see the Nokia 5330 XpressMusic in the market this Q3 for 160 Euros.

Nokia 5030
Last but not least is the Nokia 5030, the first handset from Nokia that comes with an internal FM radio antenna that does away with the need for a headset or external speakers. In tandem with its XpressRadio name, there is one touch FM radio and channel selection keys on the side of the device. When placed sideways, this cell phone will turn into a portable FM radio that targets emerging markets. Available in graphite and red colors, the Nokia 5030 will retail for below 40 Euros when it ships in Q2 this year.

Today LaCie announced three new ways to carry digital content – LaCie itsaKey, iamaKey and PassKey USB key drives, design by 5.5 Designers.

The itsaKey and iamaKey store up to 8 gigabytes of flash memory. Alternatively, the PassKey has a built-in microSD card reader, which allows you to use your memory cards as stylish and handy USB keys.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine is directed by South African filmmaker Gavin Hood, of the Oscar winner Tsotsi and Rendition previously. The script was written by veteran screenwriter David Benioff, of 25th Hour, Troy, and The Kite Runner previosuly. The character of Wolverine was first created by Len Wein and John Romita Sr. back in 1974. Fox will debut X-Men Origins: Wolverine in theaters everywhere on May 1st.

JVC’s Everio X GZ-X900 ($1000) shoots full HD 1080p (1920×1080) video or 9-megapixel still images with a 5x optical zoom. The unit is quite small measuring just 2.6 x 4.88 x 1.46 inches and weighing 0.66lbs

JVC’s new proprietary optical image stabilization (OIS) technology applies camera shake compensation optically using prism technology at the lens entrance to ensure effectiveness throughout the zoom range and allow high quality shooting without a tripod.

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Apple’s Mac mini gets a long-overdue refresh with a 5th USB port, FireWire 800, GeForce 9400M and 2.0Ghz Core 2 Duo processor.

Apple’s Mac Pro ($2499) gets a $300 price drop and the Nehalem CPU, available in 4-core or 8-core flavors; both models come with the NVIDIA GT 120 (dual ATI Radeon HD 4870s are optional).

The 24-inch iMac now starts at $1,499, although the 20-inch can be had for $1,199; all iMacs get NVIDIA graphics, from the GT 130 down to the 9400M.