Zenum is a company that does a lot of designing but no shipping yet, and here’s an example: the Zenum Organum, a music player that the company says will roll out by the end of this year. It’ll supposedly have a built-in mic, and will play back all the usual suspect audio files. Its 1.8-inch color display will show you JPEGs and BMP files, and it’ll be able to store 2 gigs of your favorite audio in its flash memory.

But will it really exist? Zenum is a Swiss company headed up by designer Jaren Goh, whose work includes his similar-looking Sony Ericsson Black Diamond concept phone and his whimsical RollerToaster design. Even if none of these products ever hits the market, maybe copycats will pick up some of his sharp design sense and run with it. We can only hope.

 

Creative has added a couple more iPod accessories to their repertoire of MP3 player speaker systems. It is interesting to see Creative, the pioneers of everything anti-iPod, to finally give in and release some iPod speaker systems like every other damn company out there. The PlayDock i500 (pictured) has a subwoofer, remote and can charge the iPod. The TravelSound is a smaller version of the i500 and can be battery powered. Is this a sign of Creative waving the white flag? Slow down, Apple haters, I was exaggerating and speculating. The Zen music players aren’t too shabby.

The word Enano, as I learned it, actually means dwarf. But, we imagine the company probably had a different connotation in mind, perhaps more like “small or tiny”. Whatever the case, Enano Computers are indeed damn small, and energy efficient to boot. Matter of fact, that’s their whole point: some models consume as little as 20-25W, around as much as a laptop, and much less than an average desktop. They’re also tiny, at 6 X 6 X 2 inches. The company is proud to have achieved such low power consumption, and are positioning their products to attract the environmentally conscious crowd.

Not only are the Enano PC’s small, they pack half decent features too, running mostly Intel Core2 Duo processors, between 512MB and 1 Gig of RAM and between 40GB and 120GB of hard drive space. Sure, we’re not talking high-end gaming rigs here, but it’s not everyone that’s after that. If you’re looking for decently priced ($750 to $1,300), green and tiny PC’s, Enano sure sounds like it should be worth a look.