San Diego -- e.Digital, a developer of digital consumer electronics,

announced on Thursday that it has partnered with Japanese electronics

manufacturer Toshiba to create a removable storage digital music player.

The companies will showcase the device at the Consumer Electronics Show in

Las Vegas this week. San Diego-based e.Digital is providing the inner

workings of the player with Toshiba designing and manufacturing the outer

shell. The player will use quarter-sized storage discs designed by

Colorado-based DataPlay, capable of holding 500 MB of information, or

about eight hours of music. The device will be the first implementation of

DataPlay`s optical storage technology, which can also hold video and

graphic content.

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