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Lego-styled MP3 player & Ipod dock station

cleo — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:43:39 +0000

Those cute and simple funny gadgets are not concepts anymore. Lego MP3 player and Ipod dock station are already available for sale and ready to hit the market!

The MP3 Player looks just like an increased in size Lego block. All buttons (volume, pause, play, forward and backward controls and on/off button, of course) that are common for mp3 players are present and look like interlocking nubs on Lego blocks. The player is available in blue, red, yellow, green and white colors. It has built-in Li-ion battery that provides up to 6 hours of playing time. There’s no built-in memory, the device can play songs on microSD cards up to 2GB max. Retail price is $46.

The other lego-styled device is an Ipod dock station that looks like it was built from those world-popular blocks. There’s nothing to say about it – just a usual dock station with common buttons and functionality. It is also available in variety of colors for $46.

The Zune

cleo — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:53:19 +0000

The Zune has been one of the toughest competitors for the iPod. It is made by Apple’s counterpart, Microsoft. It has many features that the iPod does not have and is one of the best Mp3 players out on the market right now.

The reason I am writing about the Zune is as of lately, the prices have been declining and there are many places to purchase a Zune. For instance, Amazon.com was offering up Brown 30 Gig ones for 90 dollars or so. Nice Deal! Also, Microsoft Club is now featuring them for an interesting amount of club points at 20,000 points. That would be like playing the word jumble game and winning 1,000 times. I suppose I would pay somebody to do it or myself even.

Overall, The Zune is one of those products that if you are a loyal Microsoft buyer and/ or just don’t like Fads, then buy a Zune. I would also suggest Zunes for the person that likes a bigger face(screen), and doesn’t care about what everyone else has.

Happy Days!

~Jason

Samsung launches new YP-T10 player

cleo — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:11:02 +0000

Famous Korean manufacturer announced the launch of its new media player. It will appear in Korean stores first, than worldwide. It is no surprise that this player itself looks like very similar to iPods. Looks like every media player manufacturer tries to imitate iPod’s design.

But anyway, YP-T10 is a quite good alternative. This player features 2-inch 16:9 wide screen, music/video playback, text/image viewer, Java games support, FM radio tuner, and recording. All popular media file types are supported – MP3, OGG, WMA. It offers up to 30 hours of music or 4 hours of video playback.

But there’s nothing special about it. The main feature of YP-T10 that it’s the first portable media player with bluetooth support! That means that you can use wireless headphones, Samsung YP-T10 allows you to use two pairs of bluetooth earphones simultaneously.

There’s no information about its retail price for worldwide sale, all that we know is that it will be available in 5 colors: midnight black, mystic purple, maple red, lime yellow, and white cloud and will come in 2GB and 4 GB variants.

First pocket DJ system

cleo — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:25:55 +0000

Not satisfied with your iPod (or other MP3 Player) anymore? Want something more? Do you want to make your own mixes wherever you go? In that case Pacemaker – world’s first portable DJing system – is exactly what you were waiting for.

Pacemaker is a 120GB hard disk flash player that has two virtual “decks” (like old tape recorders) direct-to-hard drive recorder, multi-band equalizer, crossfader and pitch shifter, controlled by multifunctional touchscreen. This patent-pending player (that means that we’ll probably see some competitive products later) supports all popular audio formats like MP3, WAV, AAC, WMA and trendy FLAC and has two 3.5-millimeter stereo jacks. It’s not available for sale now, but the price will be like $700.

I haven’t seen Pacemaker by myself, but I guess this device is worth it’s money. Moreover, I think that it will bring a whole new class of gadgets.