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portable media

ImAmp by Audiotrack Beefs Up Your Cans on the Go

If you like to watch a movie on the go, but find your headphones don't give you enough volume for the full-on fillum experience, then you might appreciate the ImAmp. Made by Korean company Audiotrack, the ImAmp is a separate amplifier with a couple of headphone jacks, line input and volume control. The battery takes four hours to charge, and gives you eight hours of juice. Weighing about 200 grams (including battery) the ImAmp will be available on July 1 and will cost just over $250. [GeekStuff4U and Impress]

diy

Apple Floppy Drive Amp Mod is Retrofabulous

Check out this fantastic DIY project, which involves an Apple PC 5.2 Floppy Drive being modded into a fully functioning amp. I think you will agree; it looks quite amazing. The amp has four speaker terminals, face-mounted volume control, an RCA stereo jack and styling that makes us drool all over our now weakened knees. If you're willing to make the $5.99 investment for the floppy drive, give this awesome project a shot. If we weren't so lazy/cursed with abysmal soldering skills, we certainly would. [Instructables]


audio

JB7 Digital Jukebox Lets You Rip Your Tunes Without a PC

3ga has just announced the JB7 digital jukebox, which allows the user to directly rip CDs to its internal HDD, negating the use for a PC. Standard rip time is less than five minutes, and the JB7 is available in either 40GB ($586) or 80GB ($625) flavors. Other features include alarm clock mode, USB connectivity, 30 watts per channel amplifier, remote control and support for various music compression storage formats. Sure, the JB7 is neat, but at those extortionate prices? We think not. [Tech Digest]

home entertainment

Hovland Stratos Amp: Sell Your House, Kids and Organs for Rock'n'Roll

To the un-rock'n'roll like me, the object above looks like a TV cabinet, or a disco oven - but, like I said, I've never had much of a fever for cowbell. This is the Stratos from Hovland, an amp that was 20 years in the making. And this is the price: $50,000. More on what it has and what it does (and doesn't) after the jump.
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boostaroo revolution

Boostaroo Revolution Headphone Splitter + Amp: Make a Friend or Bother The Neighbors

Another day, another gadget that amplifies headphones, but this time with a silly name. Meet the Boostaroo Revolution High Definition Headphone Splitter & Amplifier. Claimed to boost volume levels by up to 400 percent, the Boostaroo Revolution will have no problem making all your hot beats loud enough for everyone on the subway to hear. Or, if you just want to share your music with that special someone, just plug in another set of headphones and hand 'em over. I tell you, nothing wins over a girl's heart quite like a little Nas. More »

portable media

DIY: MP3 Player Amp

We don't discriminate here. Obviously this amp was made for the use of an iPod but it could also be easily used with any type of audio player using the standard 1/4-inch audio jack. The total cost is under $30 depending on what supplies you already have. The designer for this wanted a simple system that he could leave in his garage that would give good sound for his iPod but not cost him an arm and a leg. This isn t your 10-year-old's science fair project; it does take a little bit of electrical know-how. More »

gadgets

Portable Digital Guitar Amp

What does an amp look like the age of the iPod? The Vox DA5 digital guitar amp ($130 street) weighs under 8 pounds, runs on C batteries, and includes multiple amp models (crunch, clean, overdrive) and 11 digital effects, with inputs for your guitar, mic, and an aux in and a speaker and headphone/line jack. No big sound here — the speaker is 6.5" — but it's a perfect practice amp. Or you could play it onstage with the world's tiniest guitar. -P. Kirn More »