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Memorex’s portable media players aren’t exactly always attention-grabbers, but it looks like the company’s new TouchMP model could be a slight exception, if only for the fact that it’s a full-on touchscreen PMP for $99 (and no doubt less after retailers start their usual discounting). For that price, you’ll get a 2.8-inch QVGA display, along with 8GB of storage, a microSD card slot for additional expansion, an FM radio, and all the usual media playback options, including podcast support. Somewhat notably, the device is also “adaptable” to both portrait or landscape modes, although it’s not clear if it actually makes use of an accelerometer or not. Look for this one to hit all the usual sources sometime in March.

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We knew Cisco would be throwing down in the home media space, and it’s coming out in force, supplementing that sexy Wireless Home Audio system with the web-enabled Media Hub NAS. Both the $400 500GB NMH405 and $430 NMH410 (1TB) feature a front-panel LCD and card reader, while the $350 NMH305 (500GB) does away with such frills. All three models come with a single drive, but can be expanded with a second unit later. The web interface actually looks super-slick, with file system and media playback functionality available to any web browser. Of course, you can also stream to any UPnP AV / DLNA device, and there’s also iTunes streaming if you roll like that. Not a bad little package, if you’re in the market — we’ll see how that interface runs in person later this week.
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Here’s a fun game that you can play at home: what comes between “Studio XPS 13″ and “Studio 15″? If you guessed “Studio 14,” you can count just about as well as those Dell marketing types. Granted, granularity has always been sort of a thing with Dell, so we can’t really harsh on them too much for giving us more options — though this laptop has only popped up at Dell Malaysia so far, so perhaps we’ll be spared the distinction (unlikely). For 3,599 RM (that’s “Malaysian ringgits,” about $1,038 of our boringly “US dollars”) you can score a Core 2 Duo T8100 2.10GHz processor, 2GB of RAM, X3100 integrated graphics, 250GB HDD and a 14.1-inch LED-backlit 1280 x 800 display. Those magical media playback controls to the right of the keyboard? Those come free.

[Thanks, Clinton T.]