Karaoke In Your Pocket!

I can't remember how many times I've been sitting around at a friend's house or at a bar bored out of my mind, just hoping someone would pull out a magic karaoke machine. I'll fantasize about getting on top of a crate with a tiny TV screen in front of me, words scrolling by, and belting out my favorite Stone Temple Pilots songs, just so people can look at me weird and talk bad about my singing behind my back. Then, at the height of my fantasy, Paula Abdul will stroll in and tell me how amazing I am and to keep following my dream!

More often than not, that doesn't happen and I'm stuck being bored.

However, HANA Electronics of Korea is trying their best to help me out by developing their Mini Singer, a portable MP4 Karaoke player! The unit comes as is in the picture with a microphone attachment, but the base can also detach to function as an MP3 player. Other features include: Play Midi (Karaoke), MP3, Images and games; Voice recorder; built-in flash memory and expansion bay for Micro SD cards; key/tempo/melody/volume control; real-time scoring; USB connection to your PC.

While I couldn't find a price for it, the Karaoke Mini Singer looks like a great little hybrid gadget!

HANA Electronics to present its MP4 player Karaoke 'mini singer' [AVing Net]