CES: Taser may get the prize this year for introducing the most stupidtactular product at the Consumer Electronics Show – a leopard-print “fashion Taser,” with an MP3 player holster. While everybody else was putting iPod docks onto televisions and refrigerators and speakerphones, Taser had the audacity to something truly unique and, well, possibly insane! The [...]

  Microsoft has officially announced tomorrow as the release date for its updated line of Zune portable media players. The new Zunes promise higher capacities, useful wireless capabilities and support for podcasts. Updated Zune software will also be available, bringing new capabilities to the first-generation Zune players. Microsoft is also offering customization options for the [...]

Portable video players, like Apple’s latest iPod nanos, are going mainstream, according to a report from Parks Associates. Worldwide shipments of portable video players will grow at an annualized rate of 30% over the next five years, reaching 132 million units shipped per year in 2011: The massive adoption of portable video players, with over [...]

Microsoft has updated its line of Zune portable media players. While they are still no iPod-killers, they offer enough new features that it’s time to reconsider the Zune platform. Here are five reasons to take a second look at the Zune: The Zune’s WiFi features are starting to get useful. Zune devices can now automatically [...]

Sony has introduced the Rolly, an egg-shaped robotic “audio entertainment player”. The Rolly plays MP3s from speakers on each end that are normally hidden by dish-like covers. The device has just one button, an on-off switch. Everthing else is controlled b y a pair of rings that circle the player’s body. One ring is used [...]

Apple today introduced the new iPod classic, featuring 80GB or 160GB of storage that holds up to 40,000 songs or 200 hours of video. Now in its sixth generation, the new iPod classic features an enhanced user interface featuring Cover Flow and a new all-metal enclosure. iPod classic is priced at $249 for the 80GB [...]

Yamaha has announced a new MP3 player, the BodiBeat, that promises to DJ your workout, selecting tunes based on your heart rate.¬† According to Yamaha, it’s “the world’s first music player/heart rate monitor that selects and plays songs to match the pace of the user’s workout.” The player goes beyond Apple’s Nike + iPod combination, [...]

Mszunefan, aka the King of Zunes, has gone for a second Zune tattoo. His first Zune tattoo featured the logo for Microsoft’s portable media player.¬† We still haven’t seen any iPod tattoos, yet…… via engadget

English artist David Hockney knows what’s to blame for the decline of western civilization. It’s not homosexuality. It’s not expressionistic art. It’s iPods! Speaking on the eve of his 70th birthday, Britain’s best-loved living painter said the proliferation of iPods and other digital music players has combined with a decline in art education to create [...]

Melodeo today announced nuTsie, a new mobile music service that lets you get your entire iTunes library on your mobile phone. nuTsie lets users access their iTunes music on a wide variety of popular phones. nuTsie is built on Melodeo’s mobile streaming technology, which means users don’t have to sync their phone to a computer, [...]