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Olympus Press Release
Setting your life to music
The Olympus m:robe – a musical memory maker
Today Olympus announce their intention to redefine the world of personal imaging and musical entertainment with the revolutionary m:robe concept.
The Olympus m:robe MR-500i
Comprising of a 1.22 million pixel digital camera, an image viewer and a music player all in one the m:robe MR-500i combines the energy of music with the power of pictures to bring your photographs to life. With the m:robe it’s easy to weave together images and sounds to make the difference between a picture and a memory - amazing adventures and experiences can be recorded in photo albums and combined with the tracks that evoke the mood of the moment - letting you view the special moments of your life while you listen to your own personal soundtrack.
The m:robe looks great too. An eye-catching clean and minimalist design together with a distinctive touch pad control ensure it will be the next ‘must have’ buy for the style conscious consumer. The m:robe MR-500i is planned for release in early 2005.
Olympus has a long history of offering cutting-edge solutions in the rapidly changing photography and audio worlds and the MR-500i is no exception. Giving picture-taking a musical twist, photography becomes an even more fun and creative experience. With the help of a ground-breaking touch pad controller (receptive to the gliding of a fingertip) images, sounds and special visual effects can be combined in ‘Remix Play’ mode. The results can then be presented either on the unit’s large VGA display or a TV screen back home. Thanks to its 20GB memory capacity the MR-500i is able to store thousands of songs and images and there’s even plenty of room to load your favourite pictures from your private archived photo collection.
The m:robe is packaged alongside Olympus m:trip music and image software. The software manages music and image data, converting CD tracks into WMA format. Great music, cutting-edge visuals and a progressive design are some of today’s consumer products’ most essential traits. Put them together and you have the m:robe MR-500i.
The Olympus MR-500i – main features:
• Music and picture remix function
• 20GB hard disk drive motion music player. Stores up to 5,000 songs (at 128kpbs/title in WMA format), or 20,000 images*
• Touch pad control screen, 9.4cm colour LCD with high resolution (640 x 480 pixels)
• WMA and MP3 music player
• Music album function
• Up to 8 hours battery life
• Integrated 1.22 million pixel camera
(lens equivalent to 35mm on 35mm camera)
• Calendar function
• Shipped with m:trip software, earphones and remote control
• USB 2.0 Hi-Speed
• PictBridge compatible
* At 1MB file size each
The Olympus m:robe MR-100
With the m:robe MR-100 from Olympus, you will quite literally have music at your fingertips. It’s a digital audio player with a difference – operation is via a touch pad control so fiddling with buttons and dials will become a thing of the past. All you get is pure listening pleasure in an ultra-compact, head-turning design.
This m:robe model provides a USB 2.0 Hi-Speed port and features 5GB storage capacity for around 1,200 songs and plays both WMA and MP3 file formats so music management is hassle free. The m:trip software takes care of virtually everything, including conversion of CD audio files into WMA format on a PC. Loading tracks onto the player couldn’t be simpler - just dock the MR-100 on the USB 2.0-compatible cradle, which also doubles as the battery charger, and download. In no time at all, you’ll be humming along to your favourite tunes. Any time, anywhere.
The Olympus MR-100 – main features:
• 5GB hard disk audio player with touch pad control
• WMA and MP3 file formats (approx. 1,200 songs at 128kbps/title in WMA format)
• Comes with earphones, soft case, m:trip software, docking cradle and remote control
• USB 2.0 Hi-Speed
For more information and where to buy Olympus products please go to www.olympus.co.uk or call free on 0800 072 0070.
Posted by Darren in our News category on October 13, 2004