Archive for January, 2008

Intempo matches the new nano with a speaker dock

The iDS-01NRX MP3 speaker-dock is just £39.99 yet produces a respectable 12 watts, and has touch controls and a credit card sized remote control. Intempo tell us it was a best seller over Christmas and now this bright pink version ought to go down well for Valentine’s Day. It’s a compact unit and there’s a [...]

Chinavision’s solar-powered MP4 player and Nintendo emulator

The Mobile Power Station is being sold as a nice little media player, only, thanks to the Chinese and their total lack of respect for international copyright agreements, it comes with NES, Game Boy and Game Boy Colour emulators pre-installed by the kindly factory workers. Hardly the most cutting edge of gaming hardware without even [...]

Another Simple MP3 Player

This one doesn’t have a name. It’s just referred to as the “Tactile MP3″ player. Why tactile? Simply because the 5 basic controls necessary to master your music are raised bumps, something like braille. The idea is you can control your music all by the sense of touch. Design wise, it’s pretty slick, like a [...]

New headphones from Audio Technica

Audio-Technica presents ATH-ON3, the all new ultra stylish and seamless headband headphones. Featuring a light weight body plus soft ear-pads for the long lasting, comfortable feel. The simple outfit makes ATH-ON3 a one-of-a-kind portable headphone. Adopts a long 1.2m cord for any audio player. Available in 5 different colors, Black, Lime Green, Pale Grey, Brown, [...]

Samsung YP-S5 Stands for Slimmed-down K5

Samsung’s YP-K5 is generally a well-received MP3 player, thanks to its ‘top notch’ hardware and ‘better-than-expected’ built-in speakers. Though, you have to live with its bulky size, limited speakers’ use and its lack of video playback capability. Samsung comes up with YP-S5 this time around; the refreshed DAP is basically a slimmed-down version of the [...]

Logic3 JiveBox iPod speaker

Logic3, famous for its award winning iStation Traveller iPod speakers has upped the ante with its latest offering; the Logic3 JiveBox. But can these speakers deliver what they promise? We get listening to find out. The JiveBox is as the name suggests a single box that guarantees to get you "jiving". To do this its [...]

Sharp’s SP600 PMP

This little PMP is certainly spectastic, the Sharp SP600 has a 4.3-inch screen, 30GB HDD, any video or audio codec you’d want (including OGG and H.264), plus an SD card slot, e-dictionary and Windows CE 5.0. The 419,000 won ($444 US) pricetag isn’t even that bad, but we’re seriously depressed by the "aesthetics" here. If [...]

Princeton Mobile speaker

The Princeton Mobile speaker is handy companion to have around. The PSP-MSSP hooks onto your portable music players and also has a stereo mini- output. The speakers lock onto the player holding it secure in it’s and is easy to slide it into position. The speakers use a neodymium magnet driver and amplifier belts out [...]

JVC HANC100 Noise Cancelling Headphones

JVC HANC100 Noise-Canceling Headphones – JVC HANC100 is a noise-canceling headphone that can produce a 75% noise reduction when in the active mode. It also operates for 50 hours on one AAA Battery. It also has a cord rewind system, so that it will retract its 4.9 foot cord into its left earpiece. And to [...]

Teclast announces the M30

Teclast is a company that seemed to slip through the doorway as Meizu was making their successful, yet controversial debut in the US. Their players certainly were nice to look out, but after you bit into this eye candy, you’d find the center to be rather sour. Their previous attempts had poorly implemented software which [...]