Belkin Makes iPod Into Recording Studio
This is a bit of a head-scratcher, but Belkin has gone to the trouble of building a mixing board that records music onto Gen 5 iPods (those that support video). The TuneStudio is the first four-channel mixer for iPods, claims Belkin (and we’re inclined to believe it, since the idea never even occurred to us).…
LG LFD 790 DVD Microsystem: Chocolate Sibling?
This microsystem from LG has a touchscreen and piano black finish that reminds us so much of the LG Chocolate phone. Like its Chocolate bro, it also stinks on ice, mainly because its touchscreen buttons seemed a little faulty during the demo. https://gizmodo.com/why-the-chocolate-phone-stinks-on-ice-193589 The LFD 790 is essentially a glorified DVD player. It looks good,…
Parrot Makes 7-inch Bluetooth Photo Frames – Because They Can
Bluetooth is French company Parrot’s Raison d’etre, and while they haven’t pursued all the options yet – like Bluetooth-enabled cheesburgers, they have managed to squeeze radios into many other doodads. Today they debuted their latest Bluetooth-equipped picture frames with colorful 7-inch, 720-by-480-pixel screens — a huge improvement over the squinty-small 3.5-inch frame they introduced last…
Eton Sound 101 Sports Sirius, iPod Dock
Dropping Monday is Eton’s new iPod/Sirius lovechild, the Sound 101. It comes equipped with built-in Sirius satellite radio, AM and FM tuners alongside a traditional iPod dock. The sleek, sexy box (available in black, white or silver—sorry, no camo option here) sports a 24-hour alarm clock and comes with a remote control for $250.
Roboquad Crawls Into CES
We’ve all been waiting to see how the fabled WoWee Roboquad crawls. Now we know. The four-legged bot moves in all directions, has 3 different speeds, and a deep IR scanner to spot movements up to 13 feet away. Its sound sensors are reactive, and it can tell the difference between dark and light. Kind…
A Fistfull of New Headphones from Shure
Shure — maker of yummy-sounding, somewhat-affordable headphones — introduced its new SE line, which promises to deliver beefier bass and more comfort when you stick ’em in your ears. The top of the line SE530 is a rebranding of last year’s E500, but with new in-ear sleeves that should last longer. Shure has been making…
WoWee’s Elvis-Bot: Viva Las Vegas!
Elvis lives. WoWee, makers of the Robosapien and Roboquad, showed this singing and talking bust tonight at CES Unveiled. Based on the 1968 Comeback TV special, the King can be set to play his greatest hits or be operated with a microphone. Available this year for $349. –Noah Robischon with video by Richard Blakeley
Fastap On Major US Carrier Fall ’07
Even though Fastap‘s been around for a while, no major carrier—don’t kid yourself Alltel—has it. Digit Wireless tells us besides launching on a major Mexican carrier next week, a major US carrier has plans to deploy a Fastap phone this Fall. Of course, they wouldn’t tell us which carrier, but the phone shown above is…
Gennum nx6000 Bluetooth Headset is Refreshingly Small
Tired of looking like a cyborg while using a Bluetooth headset? Gennum is showing off the nx6000 (on the right, chief), a Bluetooth headset that incorporates the same noise reduction technology as its previous entries, but shrinks down the size considerably. The result is a headset that won’t make people think you’ve got some serious…