Thanko might not be known for their practicality, but I think they might be on to something for once. Their Micro Sports MP3 Player looks more like a Bluetooth headset. The device fits right into your ear with a built-in earbud. It’s that tiny. Available in 2GB and 4GB flavors, the Micro Sports MP3 Player looks a little chintzy, but ...
Read More »Tag Archives: shuffle
iPod Shuffle and Apple Remote Smashed Into One Device
An ingenious DIYer noticed that the second generation iPod Shuffle and the Apple Remote have a similar shape. So similar that the two devices could be merged together with some crafty electronic finagling. When headphones are connected to the Shuffle / Remote mash-up device, the gadget works as the music player. Without headphones, the device carries the features of an ...
Read More »To DRM or Not To DRM?
So over the weekend, one of the bigger topics floating about the Internet involved Apple’s new iPod Shuffle. After dissecting the new set of headphones it comes with, Boing Boing Gadgets discovered a very small chip on the inside of the headphones that was overlooked by nearly everyone. BBG speculates that the chip is some kind of proprietary DRM chip ...
Read More »Apple Updates iPod Shuffle
If you want to call it an update, that is. For $49, you can score a 1GB iPod Shuffle in one of four new colors: blue, green, red and pink. Your old pal silver is still available, just in case you read too many Ziggy cartoons as a child. Apple has a 2GB version available as well for only $69, ...
Read More »Toys �R� Us Expanding Its Tech For The Holidays
It’s the holiday season and you know what that means: toys! That’s why Toys ?R? Us is expanding its tech side by adding Apple iPods and Asus Eee PC netbooks to its inventory. The iPods will be sold within specially designed ?iPod boutique? wall displays. iPod Shuffle,? Nano and Touch will all be available come next month, but for how ...
Read More »Shuffle Cam documents your life randomly
Shuffle Cam is a design concept by William Boulier, which takes photos at a specific user set time interval, depending on the events nature, to document where you have been. Shuffle Cam has modes for event, classic, and daily, each bearing a different time difference between shots. These options can be chosen from the side of the device. Shuffle Cam ...
Read More »Swim with your iPod Shuffle and bone-conduction headphones
When we want music, we want music everywhere, some of us even want it underwater, so somebody created the underwater MP3 player. The problem of listening to music underwater is that the earphone lines are going to tangle, let alone the fact that your ears would feel uncomfortable because of the super tight earbuds; another danger would actually be not ...
Read More »New iPod Shuffle colors released!
Apple has released a new improvement on the line of the iPod Shuffles: colors! Instead of the plain, boring silver, you now can choose between pink, green, blue, orange, and silver. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like any specs have been changed, it’s still only a gig, still $79. So if your children (or you) have been asking for a Nano ...
Read More »iRiver feeding the hunger with S10 and watch accessory
As you probably know, the iRiver is a direct competitor to the Apple shuffle. Coming in both black and white high gloss finishes, the iRiver is just about the same size as the shuffle and adds many features to what the shuffle lacks in nearly every department. The S10 has a 1.15″ color OLED screen which goes easy on the ...
Read More »LG UP3Flat Chocolate MP3 Player to rival Shuffle
Don’t like the fact that Apple has us by the balls with iTunes, the iPod, and every other product they have? So much of what they make requires proprietary software. Break free from the Man with the LG UP3Flat Chocolate MP3 player. LG has figured out that the style of design created with the Chocolate phone is the rage nowadays ...
Read More »