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These new speakers (worthy of Barbie toys) provide an output power of 1.5Wattsx2 and are available in two colors.
LG Electronics has officially announced a new DAB radio, CD player and iPod dock called the LG PC12DAB in the UK that looks more like a rugby ball that your average speaker.
The new iPod dock will come in a gloss black finish, feature ambient red lighting and be LG’s first iDock to offer DAB radio.
Other specs include MP3, WMA playback and CD-R/RW, as well as the ability to copy music direct from a CD to a USB compatible MP3 player.
A four-mode audio equaliser offers sound effects such as POP, flat, classic and jazz, and an alarm clock complete the package.
The LG PC12DAB will be available in the UK from this month for around £200.
Until recent times, we didn’t have to choose new MP3 players or DAPs, now we don’t know what to buy as new earphones and headphones come out every week. This time, it’s Audio-Technica who will release new headphones At the end of the month.
Our ATH-FW3 will provide a frequency response of 15Hz-22,000Hz, a sound pressure sensitivity of 100dB/mW, an impedance of 32Ω, and 30mm drivers.
If anyone is going to make a decent waterproof MP3 player this time around, it would have to be someone like the tight bathing suit-producing Speedo brand. The Speedo Aquabeat — made by Iriver — contains 1GB of storage, plays for nine hours on one charge, come in three coors, and weighs just 35 grams. So what’s so Speedo about them? These players (and earphones) are good for up to 3 meters below the surface and they float — so you can just leave the things floating about while you go mix another margarita. Retail price is $145, available now from your local Speedo dealer or high school coach — just listen for the whistle.
Podcasts are available in ridiculous quantities around the net ranging from tech news to transsexual talk shows and everything in between. Podcast downloaders have been around for a while in software form like iTunes and Juice, but the first one requires actually using iTunes and the second failed rather epically when I tried it as it didn’t even detect any MP3 files in the RSS feed I gave it. Software downloaders of course also reuires the computer to be on and the player to be connected and it’s not really that automatic if you still need to fulfill those criteria.
The CastGrabber is the first standalone podcast downloader for pretty much any MP3 player on the market and it might just make it that much simpler to get updated podcasts automatically. Its basically a box where you plug in an Ethernet cable and the USB cable of your MP3 player and it will do it’s thing without further hassle after the initial setup along with charging the player. It’s all very easy and according to the website you manage everything online with no complicated processes whatsoever. It all sounds well and good, but there is very crucial (for many, including me) feature missing - WiFi. Since you can only connect with an Ethernet cable, that means that it simply won’t work unless you place it directly beside your router. I’d imagine a lot of people would use this at work, on the nightstand or similar places and that’s not exactly the most common place to put a router. Either way, nice piece of hardware that might just be worth the $120.
