Volan Design Debuts Industrial Design for e.Digital Corporation's DataPlay-Enabled `Orbit' Digital Music Player; Compact, Durable Digital Music Player/Recorder for Today's Technology

Business Wire, Jan 6, 2001

Business Editors & High-Tech Writers

CES 2001

Booth No. 1357 LVCC So. 3-5

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 6, 2001

Volan Design LLC, an award-winning product and brand development company based in Boulder, Colo., today unveiled its industrial design for San Diego-based e.Digital Corporation's DataPlay-enabled Orbit(TM), a digital Internet music player/recorder utilizing removable DataPlay digital media and e.Digital's proprietary MicroCAM(TM) technology.

Product Design and Development:

e.Digital's Orbit is able to play and record MP3, as well as higher-quality music formats such as AAC, WMA and others.

"Orbit leads the first generation of DataPlay-enabled music players," says Volan Design principal Greg Volan. "Orbit's sleek, compact design not only complements DataPlay's digital media and micro-optical engine, but fills the consumer electronics market need for high performance and high portability in an affordable, consumer-friendly product." The Orbit project is part of Volan Design's ongoing brand development and industrial design relationship with e.Digital, a global provider of comprehensive digital product development and designs for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).

Volan Design: Building Corporate Brand Assets:

Volan Design has delivered integrated winning product and brand development for corporate clients since the firm's inception in 1979. Based in Boulder, Colorado, with offices in Palo Alto, California, Volan Design enjoys national recognition and a client roster that includes DataPlay, Inc., Hitachi Medical Systems America, MatchLogic, Network Photonics, Oracle Corporation, Reebok/CCS, Waterpik Technologies and Wireless, Inc. With an emphasis on brand-building design, the firm's multidisciplinary team of product, engineering and communications experts provides measurable business value to clients. For more information about Volan Design, call 303/530-2828 and visit the company's website at www.volan.com.

Note to Editors:

Project images may be viewed at www.volan.com. To access high-resolution images, contact Wendy Volan.

Visit the DataPlay booth at CES, 1357 LVCC So. 3-5, to view a gallery of visionary consumer electronics concept models designed by Volan Design.

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Volan Design and the Volan Design logo are trademarks of Volan Design LLC. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective companies.