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Posts tagged “MP3”

Musical Chairs: Five Chairs that Seat and Play a Beat

It's surprising that with the popularity of the iPod, iPhone and other digital music devices, there aren't many chairs that can accommodate to dock, power and control players. But here are five chai...

Auto Sort and Organize your iTunes Library for Free!

I have a friend who shall remain nameless, but he spends a decent amount of his waking weekend hours sorting his iTunes library. His biggest pet peeve in life is a song without album artwork......

Bird Electron Dice Speakers

These Bird Electron Dice Speakers (45mm squared) were designed specifically for mini sized flash drive MP3 players like the iPod Shuffle and Sony NW-E005's. Don't expect to rock the party with one of ...

Stylish Kami Sound iPod Dock By Alvaro Uribe

In our quest to find great looking iPod docks, we are always confronted at how some of them just look awful while other ones look really good. It's hard to make a choice when there are so many on the ...

Michi Jung's Tasty Sounding Chocolate Music Furniture

Michi Jung's Chocolate Music ottoman is an obvious ode to that most delectable of treats, combining the appearance of a huge cube of our favourite confectionery with that of sound system embedded ins...

New Ipod Nano Torn Down By Ifixit

It hasn't even been a day since the new iPod Nano became updated with a video camera, pedometer, and an FM tuner. Now iFixit has posted a complete teardown on this new iPod, to show you exactly what g...

iPod Prices Dropped Just Before Today's Big Apple Event

It's the 09.09.09 event date for Apple and in preparation for this, iPod prices have been lowered early this morning. It's Only Rock and Roll promised to be filled with interesting tidbits, but for no...

Doze Off to Music with the Sound Asleep Pillow

Plenty of us seem to wear headphones while working, but in the last year or so we've returned to a teen habit: easing into sleep while listening to music with headphones. After about 30 minutes of lis...

TASCAM CD Player Features Retractable iPod Dock

TASCAM might not be a big name for everyday home tech like Sony and Panasonic, but TASCAM is big for audio recording and music production. It's cool, then, to see that the entire music industry—...

Flickr Roundup: Kids & Their Home Tech

Parents are very adamant about their views about technology in the home. Some say there's no TV until a certain age (although sometimes online videos count) and likewise, there's those who keep co...

DIY: iPod Dock From Reused Parts and Leftover Chicken 3

Hello again:) In our last installment, I turned some scrap aluminum into a backplate and heatsink for our iPod dock. The leftover MDF was cut to the same size as the original speakers and we solde...

Bulk Up Your Music Library With 1000 Free Songs

Microsoft is playing nice guy with this free 1000 song download offer. What's the catch? You'll see (but not hear) advertisements on your screen in addition to the album's cover art, which is how Micr...

Solar Powered CD and MP3 Player

Want to enjoy your tunes without worry about energy bills [cue in appropriate music]? Live somewhere with an abundance of sunshine? I've always wanted a modern-weird looking audio device to confuse fr...

Balloon Music Speaker: Sharing Music Has Never Been Easier

If you are trying to share music with your friends, you'd need some kind of a dock. The problem is that most docks are bulky and it's not something that you'd take with you when you are going out of y...

Transparent-Looking PMP Player: You Can Use it As a Mirror

The last PMP that we had was an Archos. We used it on and off, but never as an MP3 player. The thing was just too heavy. We stopped using it when the battery blew up. The PMP market has been growing, ...

Nilox Vintage: Turn Vinyl Into MP3s

Have you ever wanted to encode that old record collection your father has lying around? Maybe you've found some gems in the attic and wanted to sample them. It's not easy to listen to records nowadays...

LEGO Boombox and MP3 Players: Cheap and Ready For Your Kids

If you are looking for some great gadgets for your kids, look no further because LEGO has teamed up with Digital Blue to produce some LEGO themed devices. They aren't fancy, but they sure get the job ...

Retro Radio Dock: Playing MP3s in Vintage Style

A great looking dock is always needed. You need one in your bedroom, in your office, and they can be used almost everywhere else. The trouble is that most docks just look mundane and uninteresting. Th...

Customize Your New iPod in Different Ways

iPods are great music players. Personally, I have trouble with iTunes, but maybe that's because I don't have a Mac yet. Still, after about 8 years and only two different iPods in all of that time, one...

ReBraun: The BMW of Digital Media Players

WiFi audio streaming? Twin LCD displays? All this packaged in a fashionable aluminum, acrylic, and steel casing inspired by a 1962 Audio 1 Kompaktanlage design? We've seen our share of retro MP3 playe...

How to: Rate Songs by 'Half Stars' in iTunes

You know when you like something, and you know when you hate something. It's a pretty easily regulated concept. Like the song? Download it from the iTunes store and and jam out on your iPod. Hate a so...

Re-iStick: Putting the New iPod Shuffle to Shame

With all of the hoopla about the new iPod Shuffle, you're probably wondering if you'll get one. iPods are a great way to listen to music, even though I don't like iTunes that much. I've had an iPod Cl...

World’s Smallest Music Player iPod shuffle...With VoiceOver Technology

If the Apple iPod shuffle gets any smaller, they'll have to start selling/dispensing them from Tic-Tac containers. The new shuffle is now 1.8" tall x 0.3" thin, smaller in length than the average hous...

New Coleman Inflatable Matress has Built-In Speakers

If you're the type to get all into the sounds of wildlife around you while you're out camping, this is not for you. This inflatable mattress, from the camping-supply pros at Coleman, features a speake...

Zero.1 Plays Everything You've Got
You Don't Have a Cassette Tape Collection, do You?

Audio-obsessed music collectors and DJs will usually tell you that they prefer to chill out to the sounds of a vinyl record spinning on a turntable. But housing a record player and a collection of lar...