Starbucks will expect to sell digital songs and videos within a year. With his recent speech at New York’s Levin Institute, CEO Howard Schultz expects customers to be able to “walk into a Starbucks and digitally be able to fill up your MP3 player with music”. Their October 2006 agreement with Apple have increased speculation that the download platform for their instore downloads will probably be Apple iTunes.

Via [The Seattle Times]

Ever want to watch TV out in your yard? Steward Filmscreen’s Starglas offers a solution that will turn some heads and increase your popularity indeed.

The Starglas Rear Projection TV is based on a screen lamination layer between two pieces of glass, which means it’s basically a window that has a television in the middle.

The screen includes some very nice features that may go unnoticed however, such as the anti-reflective coating which helps improve visibility of the picture outdoors, and the fact that you can clean it like a normal glass window. The Starglas Rear Project Television also fits most outdoor safety specifications (withstanding sun and water) so you are able to install it pretty much anywhere.

Retailed at $4,395.00, it is not bad a price for a 100″ screen inch TV.

Product Page [Stuartfilmscreen] Via [Luxuryhousingtrends]

With the rumored extinction of Compact Discs through the competition posed by MP3 players and other media sources, it’s no wonder why CD player manufacturers are starting to find new ways to make CDs and CD players more unique. YankoDesign has discovered one way to stir up consumers interest with the Square CD.

Designed in Italy, the Square CD is a touchscreen controlled CD player that is made to incorporate into the design of your house, acting as part of the decor. It blends in with your house design with its unique Corian surface (normally suited to kitchen counter tops), giving it a nice simplistic touch. When turned on, you are welcomed with a beautiful glowing screened play, stop and eject buttons.

The Square CD is not released as yet, but is rumored to cost well over $1,000 mark.

Read [Crave]

If you have ever wanted to share your videos, music and other files with your friends or business colleagues, then the Bluonyx is for you.

Just connect to a TV, Cell Phone or Computer and you can view its contents. The Bluonyx is small in size, around the size of a regular cell phone making it completely portable. It also comes in some very hip colors, which range from Pink, White and Green. There is a Bluonyx out there for everyone, and every type of application including business as a small presentation device.

Like the iPod, it has its own rechargeable battery. Storage options are available from 1 GB- 40 GB and it comes with wireless capability (as a standard), quite a high spec for a little machine that is just slightly larger than a credit card.

Almost any media file can be hosted, along with accessing the internet from any file sharing source such as myspace. The price tag is expected to be around the $100 to $200 depending on memory size and other options.

Will this product catch on? Time will tell.

Product Page [Bluonyx]

For the Transformers fans out there, BigBadToyStore is now accepting preorders for the new Transformers MP3 and iPod docking stations. Prices start at $79.99 to $144.99 for an Optimus Prime Convoy iPod docking station (with speakers). All the iPod products are fully licensed by Apple and spot the white iPod color scheme.

Preorder Page [Bigbadtoystore.com]