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Sony's PS Vita has landed in Japan, and unboxing videos are already surfacing on YouTube. This console features "dual touch pads at the front and rear, dual cameras at the front and rear, dual analog sticks, a 5-inch OLED screen, GPs, six-axis motion sensors and a three-axis electronic compass and exceptional built-in connectivity via Wi-Fi." Product page. Click here for more pictures. Continue reading to watch the video unboxing.

In the Vita box, there's the usual array of instruction manuals and plugs as well as the game hardware itself. The red booklet is the 3G plan for Japanese mobile carrier Docomo.

According to insider source Develop-Online, "Sony studios are already conceptualizing games and specs for the next PlayStation, with the console launching by as early as 2014." Click here to see more PlayStation 4 concepts.

Sony's going to be holding the cards for its PS4 close to its chest. If anything, we'll at least catch a glimpse of what Sony's planning at E3 next year, but even that seems like it's too soon.

Today, Sony announced that the PlayStation Vita will launch on December 17th in Japan, and the first 500-units sold will come with 100-hours of free 3G data from NTT DoCoMo. Click here for more pictures. Continue reading for a video from the event.

Customers will have two choices of connection here: 980 yen ($13) for 20 hours, and 4,980 yen ($65) for 100 hours.

With no official announcement from Sony yet, it's no surprise that the PlayStation 4's specifications are hard to imagine. According to EA president Frank Gibeau: "It's hard for me to conceive what you would do on a PlayStation 4. The displays are already 1080p, you're already connected to the internet... You could make it faster, you could have more polys and you could up the graphics a little bit... but at what cost? " Click here for more pictures of an artist's concept.

It'll be interesting to see how [Sony and Microsoft] think about it in terms of the next generation but it seems to me that customers are happy, and we're happy to build games on [360 and PS3] right now.

Officially revealed at IFA 2011, the Sony Tablet S1 features a 9.4-inch display, 16GB - 32GB of internal storage, 5.0-megapixel camera, Android 3.1, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. Expect to shell out $499 for the base model when it hits stores in mid-September. Videos after the break. Click here for more pictures.

he customized browser on the Tablet S supposedly loads Web pages much faster than the standard Android browser, through a function called "quick view." The S has an infrared emitter, meaning it can turn into a programmable remote control for your home electronics.

We have seen the future of home cinema, and it may just include Sony's all-new HMZ-T1. At $780, it's touted as the world's first 3D head-mounted display, which will essentially be "like viewing a 750-inch movie screen." Video after the break.

It also says the device's speaker system makes "it seem as though the sound source is emanating from speakers placed all around the viewer (including front and back)."

Sony's upcoming PlayStation 4 is one of the hottest topics making its way around gaming circles, so it's no surprise that some designers are coming up with their own sleek concepts, like the example above. Comprised of 60% recyclable materials, it "uses 0 watts in standby mode, and with its ECO Restart function games can be saved, the console turned off, and turned back on to resume exactly where the user left off without the need for a full start up." Click here for more pictures.

[via YankoDesign]

Taiwan IT wire DigiTimes reports that "the next-generation console - which the paper referred to as the 'PS4' or 'PlayStation 4' - would ship in 2012." It will purportedly be manufactured by Foxconn and Pegatron technology and feature body-movement controls. Click here to see more PS4 concepts.

In April, Sony said the PS3 has sold 50 million units. To date, the company has focused on revamping its mobile games console, now known as the PlayStation Vita.

Before Sony released their PlayStation console to the public in 1994, the "development kits -- sent to studios to ensure games would be ready for the console's launch --" shipped with the prototype controller you see above. Click here for more pictures.

[via Kotaku]

Priced from $2294, the Sony VAIO Z weighs in at just 2.6-pounds. It can be configured with "a 2.7GHz Intel Core i7 processor, 256GB SSD, 8GB RAM, 1600x900 screen and sheet battery borrowed from the earlier VAIO S for up to 7 hours of computing." Video after the break. Click here for more pictures.

Onboard it features only Intel's HD Graphics 3000 solution but the VAIO Z beats other ultralights with its Power Media Dock, which contributes the power of an AMD Radeon 6650M GPU with 1GB of dedicated memory connected via "the architecture codenamed Light Peak" -- Sony can't call it Thunderbolt -- when more polygons have to be pushed.