Interesting news/reviews/deals from the portable audio market
The Earbud Clips should help you with those tangled headphone cords. We got a sample from PKOH NYC to review and we were impressed by the clever design. They come in a pack of four (in four different colours: black, white, green, pink) for 10 bucks, plus a dollar for shipping; you can order them [...]
An impressive release in the high-end department from Shure, the E500 canalphones feature triple drivers for ultimate audio bliss and and a “Push-To-Hear” accessory that mutes the music and activates an external microphone to let you hear outside sounds. I know more than a few canalphone users (heck, all of them) who will appreciate this [...]
Griffin’s TuneCenter is one powerful, sweet looking iPod dock: when the iPod is docked into the TuneCenter (and the TuneCenter linked to the TV set), the iPod’s playlists and menus appear on the TV screen. Using the included 14-button remote you can enjoy your music, photos or videos from your couch. The TuneCenter is made [...]
Sima’s Hitch USB-101: one of the most useful accessories to surface at this year’s CES, the Hitch allows you to pair two USB devices for file transferring between them. In the case of iPods it allows you to choose the songs you want to transfer. Battery-powered, runs on Linux. Expected around April for an estimated [...]
Apple didn’t present new Shuffles at the MacWorld Expo (like we, along with others, had guessed) but did hav e a treat or two for the iPod users.
The iPod Radio Remote lets you enjoy you favorite radio stations via the built-in FM receiver, accompanied by a nice visualisation on the iPod’s screen. Favorite stations can [...]
Guide to iPod accessories: iLounge has written some introductory texts for the various categories of iPod-related accessories. The most noteworthy are:
microphones and microphone adapters
remote controls
speakers
SendStation is offering the FireWire version of their popular PocketDock iPod accessory for free—you just pay for the shipping ($5.80, in my case at least).
We are giving away 1,000 free PocketDocks FireWire. Offer available exclusively from our online store while supplies last or until Dec. 24, 2005.
In case you didn’t know what the PocketDock is:
The [...]
Everybody loves lists, right? Thanks to The Age’s article [via], we’ve got a bunch of data on the Australian MP3 player market. Here we go:
more than 400k Australians may be buying an MP3 player during the holiday season
more than 6 out of 10 MP3 players sold are iPods → more than 8 out of 10 [...]
Good news, and if I may, about time: a working group has been announced by the Consumer Electronics Association to “create an industry standard docking connector specification that could be adopted by any host or portable device manufacturer regardless of the format or protocol that it supports.” If you use an iPod (and have pledged [...]
The story of Shufflicious—making an iPod case to sell: a fantastic behind-the-scenes look on what it takes to build a case for a portable audio player. You don’t have to be a case manufacturer wannabe. This is the case in question—I like the fact it costs $5 with shipping included, wherever you are. It’s a [...]