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by Chris Matier on April 15, 2009
logitech has announced a new pair of high-end, audiophile only, quality headphones. The Logitech Ultimate Ears 700 offer noise isolation, superior sound, and a true high-fidelity music experience. Unf...
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by Chris Matier on April 7, 2009
Every day, iPods everywhere die needlessly in swimming pools and Jacuzzis across the globe. These senseless deaths no longer have to happen thanks to Grace Digital Audio. They have just released the A...
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by Chris Matier on March 19, 2009
All of the cool kids cell phones have bluetooth A2DP support, heck, even the iPhone will be getting it in a few months. If you are looking to capitalize on all of that Bluetooth goodness of your phon...
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by Mark Rollins on September 23, 2008
sandisk announced the other day that they will be selling slotMusic, a way for musicians to put their tunes on microSD cards.
The card can have 1GB of memory, and can play back music up to 320 kilob...
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by Mark Rollins on August 14, 2008
Whoever designs school uniforms has finally designed them for the new millennium, and has made them accommodating for iPods.
A UK retailer marks and spencer has created some smart clothing that has ...
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by Mark Rollins on August 5, 2008
I've always admired old vinyl record players, and perhaps what killed the LP was not the sound, but the lack of portability. Portable record players were not quite ready for the age of portable mu...
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by Mark Rollins on March 12, 2008
I always liked iPod docks, and some of them are getting pretty original in their construction. For example, the high school musical Clock radio for the iPod.
As you can see, it's shaped like a l...
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by Mark Rollins on February 27, 2008
Picture the deep-voiced movie preview guy saying this: "In a world where iPod docks are a dime a dozen, one iPod dock must do a dozen for a dime".
Okay, that was a little odd, but the Vest...
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by Mark Rollins on February 26, 2008
Sony has a huge Open House going on in Las Vegas, and they have scads of new products on display. One of them is the ICF-ClipMK2, a dock for the iPod and iPhone.
As you can see, it is designed to lo...
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by Mark Rollins on January 29, 2008
It seems like I cannot stop reporting on iPod docks these days, but they come with so many cool features these days.
For example, the Soundmaster Projection Alarm Clock comes with a projector that c...
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by Mark Rollins on January 28, 2008
Ah, remember the Lava Lamp back in the sixties and seventies? Well, I don't either, but I wouldn't mind having the Aquallusion iTube Lights/iPod dock.
The iTube dock is designed to produce i...
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by Mark Rollins on January 25, 2008
I'm not certain what otto stands for, or if there is a market for it. However, I think there might be a use for it.
Basically, the OTTO is able to attach itself to anything that is usually silen...
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by Mark Rollins on December 17, 2007
I suppose that someone's intentions were good when they came up with the iPond. That clever name is what a Sydney store calls its iPod speaker which has the unique, if not strange, ability to be a...
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by Mark Rollins on November 21, 2007
There are many who say that the Jukebox Lamp iPod Charger is simply ugly, but I believe it has a place. For example, when you go visit those fifties diners with that retro look, why not have lamps tha...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on October 31, 2007
Yesterday, I was talking about the return of vinyl. If there was any doubt, here's a gadget that proves it: the iPod USB Turntable from Hammacher Schlemmer.
The turntable will rip MP3 directly t...
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by Mark Rollins on September 14, 2007
In case the Optimus Maximus is not enough for you, you can touch all colored lights you want with the Jazzmutant lemur. Of course, this is not a keyboard, but a modular graphic interface concept with ...
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by Mark Rollins on August 29, 2007
One of the problems with speaker sounds, is that the sound is naturally unnatural. However, the new JVC quasar Speakers can deliver a 360 degree sound field so that the music or noise sounds natural. ...
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by Mark Rollins on August 1, 2007
In a world full of iPod dock, only the most unique get written about. That little movie preview-ish intro is precisely what I think about B&W Loudspeakers Zeppelin, an iPod dock that certain lives...
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by Eric Hanson on June 15, 2007
I know what you're thinking: does the world need another iPod dock? I admit to the same skepticism myself, until I read about the features the iLuv 199 sports: iPod docking, CD player, FM and AM t...
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by Eric Hanson on June 12, 2007
Turtle Beach has a long history of making well-made sounds makers (the first sound card to complete with the Soundblaster, for example), so it's no surprise they've gotten into the latest thin...
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by Mark Rollins on May 17, 2007
I'm certain there are millions of vinyl records out there that now only get scratched up by DJs. These LPs have no place in the age of the iPod.
But this is not so! ThinkGeek is offering the Ion...
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by Eric Hanson on April 25, 2007
You may be familiar with the concept of mall rats: suburban kids who hang around malls but don't do much shopping? Kevin Smith made a movie about them about 15 years ago. Anyway, some people consi...
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by Eric Hanson on March 28, 2007
Project mixers like the Alesis iMultiMix8 USB are already their own special beast: they're great for musicians with small studios, looking to lay down demos or DJs who something portable and cost-...
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by Mark Rollins on March 20, 2007
I'm sure all TV watchers will relate to me on this one. For some reason, I have to crank up the volume just to hear all the subtitles of the newest episodes of Lost, but as soon as the commercials...
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by Eric Hanson on March 18, 2007
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by Eric Hanson on March 15, 2007
I've become a big devotee of silicone-covered in-ear headphones (I'll be reviewing my newest pair, made by Sony, in the next few days), so I can see Eric Sofge's point in his review of Bos...
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by tiago on March 15, 2007
There are some ways to pretend you are a rich person (don't know why would you want to do that) and one of them is wearing fake bling bling jewelry or devices, with this in mind MediaReady has pre...
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by tiago on March 15, 2007
In an effort to come up with something special in the mp3 players market, the Chinese company Teclast has decided to come up with a cheap player with plenty of storage capacity - 2GB. This recent addi...
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by Mark Rollins on February 28, 2007
Despite the age of the iPod, the traditional AM/FM radio still lives on. However, the olympus VJ-10 gives the average user more options if what he or she wants to listen to.
The Olympus VJ-10 comes ...
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by Eric Hanson on February 16, 2007
For some reason, there seems to be something about people singing along to recorded music that makes manufacturers want to take things to the logical conclusion. Such seems to be the case with Griffin...
