Bluetooth headset specialist Jabra has just unveiled a nice new Bluetooth kit at the Mobile World Congress called the Clipper. What makes it good? It’s a pair of good-quality in-ears with a Bluetooth connection at the end (at the “clip” part) that lets you listen to stereo-quality audio and talk hands-free on a phone without making you look like a workaholic if you wear it all day.
Taiwan’s Kingmax technology, a company known for their computer memory products and flash memory storage, has just come out with a nifty new iPhone 3G/3GS protective case that integrates an extra battery for longer playtimes.
Rusty North America is an apparel brand that caters to the surfing crowd. Green Day is a punk rock band. Rusty has just announced that they’ll be collaborating with Green Day on a new collection of hooded apparel with built-in machine-washable headphones—something that doesn’t seem to have anything to do with surfing, punk rock, or Green Day (unless you wear the hoodies after you surf and listen to Green Day), which pretty much leaves us with an intro that goes nowhere.
Weeks after announcing the Lady Gaga-influenced Heartbeats in-ears, Monster Cable pulled Sean “used-to-be-called-“Puff-Daddy-but-decided-to-stick-with-just-Diddy” Combs from out of a hat and designed new in-ears called the Diddybeats around him under the Beats by Dr.Dre brand.
Accessory maker Belkin has just come out with what could be considered as the ultimate FM transmitter device built for iPhones called the TuneCast Auto Live. What makes it so special? Regular FM transmitters are simple accessories that allow you to transmit your iPod’s (or any other compatible porta-player) playlist wirelessly to an FM receiver, basically letting you tune in your car radio to an iPod playing in your pocket. The TuneCast Auto Live comes with a little bit more functions, along with an app that lets you control it using an iPhone’s screen.
After coming out with quite a few iconic smartphones recently, HTC’s HD2 has been gaining a lot of ground because of an excellent mix of high-spec (starting with a 4.3-inch screen) and high-performance (thanks to the 1GHz Snapdragon processor and WinMo 6.5 OS) bundled into a slim frame. In case you need to squeeze a little more juice from a smartphone that already comes with a battery that’s listed to play music for up to 12 hours, you might want to check this out.
We’re not sure when or how this started, but ever since portable audio players have been out, accessory makers have been trying to out-crazy each other by trying to come out with “unique” designs that range from downright cool and stylish to questionably fashionable and just plain tacky. But where do you rate these? In case it wasn’t obvious enough, this set is the Brick Earphone, a $10 earphone set that’s designed to look like Lego bricks.
Aliph has released a new Icon line of premium Jawbone Bluetooth headsets, featuring what the company describes as “military-grade noise-eliminating technology.” They look pretty good too, if you’re into fashionable Bluetooth headsets that feature military-grade technology.
Now this is rockstar-tech. Before you think about price and availability, you gotta know exactly what this is and what it isn’t. The UE 18 Pro kit is actually a set of custom monitors for pro musicians to use onstage, and not just something nice you can pick up for use with your iPod. Of course, you can still use them as such, but with the four-figure price tag, you might want to check your priorities.
Wearable has announced that they’ll be unveiling the AirStash, a compact device that looks and acts like a USB flash drive and then some. The device is equipped with a wireless connection that lets it stream media to an iPhone or iPod Touch from a computer its plugged into, but it also comes with an SD card slot for adding external storage—think of it as a wireless flash drive for the iPhone—that lets you expand on the iPhone or iPod Touch’s limited, set-in-stone capacities.