Posts Tagged ‘ MP3 player ’

The $1,895.00 Super Boom Box

Jan 27th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Strange, iPods & Portable Media Players

The Super Boom Box is a $1,895, built-to-order tank of a boom box that plays radio, CDs & MP3s.
Here are the specs:

Play music from AM, FM, CD, or a USB Flash Drive source.
Up to 65 hours of unique music can be stored on a 4GB Flash Drive (based on our benchmark tests, 1000 [...]



MP3 Fashion Taser May Be The Bad Idea Of The Year

Jan 9th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Music, Strange, iPods & Portable Media Players

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 $379.99 TASER [...]



Yahoo Wants To Own Your Listeners

Jan 8th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Music, Podcasting Services

Yahoo today announced a new free browser-based MP3 player that you can use and freely embed in your page.
Here’s how it works:

You add links to MP3s in your web page. These can be anywhere on the web.
You add a line of code to insert Yahoo’s Javascript library.
Working play buttons appear next to MP3s in your [...]



Bizarre New Age MP3 Player Pillow

Dec 28th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Strange, iPods & Portable Media Players

The Mpillow is a bizarre new age MP3 player pillow designed to use light and sound to help you relax:
MPillow can connect to a computer wirelessly and music can be downloaded to it by way of MP3’s or by using the sounds available on MPillow servers. The enterior of the pillow is filled with technogel, [...]



Tascam Intros MP3 Players Designed For Musicians

Jul 30th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: iPods & Portable Media Players

 
At the Summer NAMM Show, Tascam introduced two new MP3 players that are specifically designed for musicians, the MP-BT1 Bass trainer and the MP-VT1 Music and Vocal trainer. Both feature variable-speed playback, which lets you adjust the speed of playback, independent of the pitch.
The MP-BT1 Bass trainer comes with a Hi-Z Bass input, multi effect for [...]



New MP3 Player Listens To Your Heart, DJ’s Your Workout

Jul 16th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: iPods & Portable Media Players

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, a [...]



Cortex Intros dMIX-300 iPod Mixer

Jun 11th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: iPods & Portable Media Players

Cortex has released a new iPod DJ mixer, the dMIX-300 Digital Music Control Station.
The dMix-300 is a compact all-in-one iPod mixing solution for Digital DJing. The mixer includes a 2-channel audio mixer and a built-in iPod Dock (suitable for all iPod models), and lets you search, cue, play, pitch, mix and even scratch digital [...]