Is this the Cowon A3?

We don't know much about this guy, or what he's holding (or why the hell he was hired to make people like us want to buy Cowon devices), but he's the same dude we saw earlier modeling (with) their new N3, and the device he's holding sure looks a helluva lot more likely to be the followup to the A2 than that not-quite-a-UMPC. We'll keep you posted, but not before we too get prep and throw our head back with abandon.

[Via iAudiophile]

[Chris @ Oct 2nd 2006 4:41AM]

Why make promotional shots where you can't even see the promoted product?

[0_0 @ Oct 2nd 2006 7:16AM]

I for one welcome the return of our 1980's transistor radio carrying overlords.

[Ben @ Oct 2nd 2006 5:15AM]

Somebody needs to make an "I for one welcome.." Joke here, Totally appropriate.

As for the shots, why does his ankle look blurred over?

[ocdude @ Oct 2nd 2006 6:14AM]

I, for one, welcome our totally excited, white wearing, shoes without socks, misc. product holding that I can't even see overlords.

[tekdroid @ Oct 2nd 2006 6:32AM]

I wouldn't be laughing at the fact my battery had gone flat with no user-replaceable batteries on hand.

[Alex @ Oct 2nd 2006 8:03AM]

"not before we too get prep and throw our head back with abandon." HAHAAHHHAA

[rockykabir @ Oct 2nd 2006 8:24AM]

Strike A Pose!

[dluna33 @ Oct 2nd 2006 8:35AM]

Don't hate me because I'm beautiful

[billy s. @ Oct 2nd 2006 9:09AM]

I, for one, am free-spirited, young, urban, and hip. I also have no soul.

[sang @ Oct 2nd 2006 9:46AM]

erm the dudes a korean celebrity, forgot his name tho.. but hes very popular in korea right now

[sunz @ Oct 2nd 2006 10:09AM]

Stop Being a HoMoPhobe. It is offensive and completely unnecessary.

-sun

[00 @ Oct 2nd 2006 11:05AM]

Who makes those shoes??

[gt2378b @ Oct 2nd 2006 11:05AM]

But he looks so happy; doesn't it just sort of warm your heart?

No...?

[FrankTheCrank @ Oct 2nd 2006 5:22PM]

Metrosexual with a capital M.

Nice shoes, nancyboy.

[Billy @ Oct 2nd 2006 8:50PM]

Isn't it N2 not N3?

[Nelson @ Oct 2nd 2006 9:23PM]

Wow. When you click on the picture, everything goes all, like, Korean... And stuff. But it still doesn't tell me diddly about what the clean man in white is holding with such satisfied glee. Makes me want to go take a shower. Not sure why.

[El Ron @ Oct 3rd 2006 11:26AM]

Maybe it can be used to figure this out:

http://regmedia.co.uk/2006/07/19/huangyangtan_wide.jpg/

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/484568/

That's the place in the middle of the desert where the Chinese Army has constructed a scale-model replica of the entire region of Aksai Chin (occupied by China since the 1962 war with India). At 1:500, it's still 700 by 900 meters big ( = several football fields). Next to it is a base with dozens of troop transporters seen coming and going. The duplicate shows everything: rivers, lakes, roads and snow-capped mountains. It's basically a landscape within a landscape.

The problem is that nobody has been able to figure out the function of this thing. The world's biggest miniature golf course, perhaps? China's own Area 51? That's why it's the subject of so much discussion in the blogosphere.

Any ideas?
Google Earth forum: Huangyangtan Mystery Landscape

That's the place in the middle of the desert where the Chinese Army has constructed a scale-model replica of the entire region of Aksai Chin (occupied by China since the 1962 war with India). At 1:500, it's still 700 by 900 meters big ( = several football fields). Next to it is a base with dozens of troop transporters seen coming and going. The duplicate shows everything: rivers, lakes, roads and snow-capped mountains. It's basically a landscape within a landscape.

The problem is that nobody has been able to figure out the function of this thing. The world's biggest miniature golf course, perhaps? China's own Area 51? That's why it's the subject of so much discussion in the blogosphere.

Any ideas?