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Archive for the ‘Portable Audio’ CategoryJabra intros music-friendly Clipper Bluetooth headsetThursday, February 18th, 2010
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. Rusty, Green Day to come up with apparel with washable headphonesThursday, February 4th, 2010
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. Monster’s new Diddybeats in-ears: “All things Diddy” for $179Monday, February 1st, 2010
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. Looking for a unique pair of plugs? How about Lego bricks?Thursday, January 21st, 2010
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. iRiver outs Smart HD touchscreen media playerMonday, January 18th, 2010
Samsung outs players with transparent screen and wellness appsWednesday, January 6th, 2010
Samsung recently unveiled a pair of unique players (at least unique compared to the hundreds of iPod clones currently flooding the market): the YP-H1 IceTouch that features a transparent AMOLED screen, and the YP-W1 MyFit that features “wellness-promoting technology.” Philips’ Activa player pushes the tempoWednesday, January 6th, 2010JVC outs iPod dock with Dolby surroundThursday, December 17th, 2009
JVC has released a new personal speaker kit along their Made for iPod line called the XS-SR3. The new kit distinguishes itself among thousands of other iPod dock-speakers with a tubular design, Dolby Virtual Surround quality audio, and a cradle that rotates—for a nice, widescreen view of videos playing on an iPod touch or iPhone. Belkin intros Bluetooth Music ReceiverWednesday, December 16th, 2009
Chinon outs iPod stereo with 7-inch screen, DTV tunerThursday, November 26th, 2009
Chinon has just released the AVi, an iPod dock that comes with stereo speakers, a 7-inch LCD screen, and a digital TV and FM Radio tuner. The LCD screen on the front sports a 480 x 234 resolution displays videos and photo slideshows stored on the connected iPod (at least for the models that support the TV out feature), as well as for showing digital TV broadcasts. | ||
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Belkin has just released a handy new add-on that allows users to wirelessly stream music from a Bluetooth-enabled device—such as a mobile phone or portable media player—to home entertainment systems and speaker kits. Simply called the 
