Radios

Sony’s Bare Bones XDR-S16DBP Radio a Nod to Simpler Times

The speaker on Sony’s XDR-S16DBP won’t blow your hair back or anything, but its retro styling might look at home on a bookshelf or in the garage next to that perpetual work-in-progress you and your kid tinker with every weekend. Wood, rounded sides, DAB/DAB+ and FM tuner…it’s a radio alright, and that’s about it. No…

Tech News Jack Loftus Apr 2

Solar Radio Doubles As USB Charging Multitool for Adventurers

Eton’s Raptor doesn’t know if it’s a radio, a weather-gauge or a bottle opener. An inbuilt solar-panel charges the li-Ion battery, powers the AM/FM/digital tuner, and also juices-up your phone through the miniUSB port. Planning an expedition through uncharted territory? You also get a compass, chronograph, altimeter and barometer to keep you on track and…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Dec 23

Pure Combines SAD Light With a Digital Radio for Edward Cullen-Free “Twilight” Lamp

As the winter months pull us in, it’s that time of the year again when people ponder purchasing a seasonal affective disorder (SAD) lamp. I sprung for a Philips one a few years ago, and never looked back. Pure’s claiming their Twilight is the first “dawn simulator lamp” combined with a digital radio. Sure beats…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Nov 25

700 Used Coffee Capsules Turned into Batteries Keep Clocks Ticking

Coffee makes the world go ’round for millions every day, but in Vienna over 700 dirty, used Nespresso capsules were combined with copper and salt water to make battery-powered clocks, that linked together to keep a radio playing away happily. Supposedly the average coffee-drinker can get through 700 Nespresso capsules a year, which are discarded…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Oct 15

PURE Brings Back Marshall Amp For Digital Radio RAWK Times

A few years ago, PURE had a real hit on their hands with the limited edition Marshall radio. Made in partnership with Marshall, this new EVOKE-1S goes all the way up to 11—digitally. Made from vinyl and wood, with brass controls and a metallic speaker grille, it’s got a 3″ drive unit and active-filters, and…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jul 29

Lexon’s New Gadgets Brought To You By Corn, Bamboo, and the Sun

Lexon recently announced a new line of sustainably powered gadgets that are decidedly down to Earth. That is, they’re made from bamboo and maize bio-plastics. And let me tell you, corn has never looked better. If you’re in the market for a new calculator, alarm clock, or FM radio, why wouldn’t you want it to…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Jan 27

RF Cochlea Is a Super-Powered Signal Processor Modeled After the Inner Ear

RF signal processors are pretty commonplace in consumer electronics. Which is exactly why it’s exciting that two MIT researchers have created a super-radio based around the function of the human ear that’s substantially faster and 100x more power efficient than today’s signal processors. The inner ear is able to take in all the noise in…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jun 17

Kikkerland Solar/Hand-Cranked Radio Is Green Inside Out

If you’re dreading that annual family camping trip because you need to know the score—or if you just want to have a disco party where there are no electrical outlets—the Kikkerland AM/FM radio is for you. Although the green radio is solar powered, it comes with a built-in hand-crank for cloudy days and nighttime boogying.…

Tech News Andi Wang Jun 3

Thank You, Italy, For Making the Brionvega RR227 Radio

The world of retro AM/FM nightstand radios is large, and some do have the looks, but the one I think I want now is the Brionvega RR227, a re-make of a 1960s Italian classic. Aside from the beautiful numbering, the ABS-monolith design and the ability to flip it upright or lay it on its side,…

Tech News John Mahoney Apr 13

A Gallery of Knobs and Buttons…Because They’re Amazing

Completely disregard what Apple is trying to tell you: buttons are awesome, knobs are rad, and they make gadgets fun. If anything, we need more of ’em in our daily lives. Case in point? This gallery of knobs and buttons in all their glory. https://gizmodo.com/new-ipod-shuffle-moves-buttons-to-headphones-adds-text-5167946 Anyone who tells you otherwise is a HUGE fan of…

Tech News Adrian Covert Mar 11

DAB Kitchen Digital Radio Should Withstand the Ultimate Food Fight

Designed with greasy hands, soapy gloves, and cookie-dough-covered fingers in mind, the minimalistic DAB Digital Radio was created for a nitty, gritty kitchen environment. With a splash-resistant design featuring large touch-sensitive buttons, users can power on ths battery-operated radio, turn up the volume and control this gadget using their elbows and knuckles. Users also don’t…

Tech News Andi Wang Feb 27

The Thumbs Up Radio Doesn’t Clamour For Your Approval

Forget about your fancy MP3 player. Back in the day, if you wanted a stand-out audio device, it had to be shaped funny. The Wonderful Hand Radio is an homage to a bygone era, when you distinguished a clock by putting a radio in it, and you distinguished a radio by building a nicer clock.…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jan 16

Beautiful Walnut Radio Is Actually Artful PC Casemod

I’ve always wanted an old radio, like this 1946 Stromberg Carlson recreation. But it would just be something that I looked at, like, “ooh, neat…now what?” But old tyme modder Jeffrey Stephenson has another idea. This particular radio actually has a PC inside. So while the exterior is a tribute to the Ingraham Cabinet Co,…

Tech News Mark Wilson Dec 4

Areaware 2B Radio: Minimalist Design and Features For Your Stylish Grampa

Kids these days, with their baggy jeans and their MTV and their fancy networked booming boxes, they don’t know the joy of sitting around the old-timey radio and listening to the soothing stories. The Areaware 2B radio just might be the bridge to these whippersnappers: its visible vacuum tubes have a cool retro feel, not…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Sep 27

Today A Nano-Radio, Tomorrow A Micro-Semiconductor

A radio made out of carbon nano-tubes could get better reception, than the current bulky silicon-based models. Researchers led by John Rogers at University of Illinois solved the amplification problems that had stymied previous nano-radios by making their radio on a quartz wafer the size of a grain of sand. The other big breakthrough: a…

io9 Charliejane Jan 30

Make a Metal Detector For Like 5 Bucks and 2 Minutes

Click to view We’ll admit it: we’ll lack the ambition to perform most of the hacks you read about on Giz. But taping a calculator to an AM radio to make a metal detector? That’s right up our alley. And by “right up our alley” we mean probably still too much effort…but not by much.

Gadgets Mark Wilson Nov 24

Trail Tune Carabiner Radio Clips on Just About Anywhere

Climbers and hikers among you will be interested in this carabiner-shaped AM-FM radio from Trail Tune. It’s water-resistant can be attached to just about anything—although I advise against clipping it to any piercing rings, as it might be a bit painful, unless you’re one of those magicians who can pull entire trains along by his…

Tech News AddyDugdale Jul 27

Low End Theory: Gadgets Are the New ChapStick

By Brendan I. Koerner Totally against my will, the missus dragged me along to Bed Bath & Beyond a couple of weekends ago. (Insert whip-cracking sound effects, wise guys.) It was every bit as horrific as I’d feared—I must lack whatever gene enables some folks to swoon over Casabella all-purpose gloves. Oh, and I had…

Gadgets Brendan I. Koerner Apr 19

Radiosophy Brings HD Radio Prices Down with Budget Boombox

The last time we checked in on HD Radio, we weren’t too impressed with the hardware or the pricing. Well, the guys at Radiosophy are trying to fix the latter with their new budget $119 HD100. The radio will have all the standard features of other models, like station presets, auto-scan, and an aux input,…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Apr 13

Ferrari and Meridian Empty Your Savings with F80 All-in-One Entertainment Center

Now that they’ve dipped their toes into the world of laptops and cell phones, Ferrari is teaming up with Meridian to tackle the world of home entertainment with their new F80 do-it-all entertainment center. The retro-styled radio can play CDs/DVDs, hook up with your iPod, and manage to pump out 80 watts of power. I…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Mar 1

Sony’s Bare Bones XDR-S16DBP Radio a Nod to Simpler Times

Solar Radio Doubles As USB Charging Multitool for Adventurers

Pure Combines SAD Light With a Digital Radio for Edward Cullen-Free “Twilight” Lamp

700 Used Coffee Capsules Turned into Batteries Keep Clocks Ticking

PURE Brings Back Marshall Amp For Digital Radio RAWK Times

Lexon’s New Gadgets Brought To You By Corn, Bamboo, and the Sun

RF Cochlea Is a Super-Powered Signal Processor Modeled After the Inner Ear

Kikkerland Solar/Hand-Cranked Radio Is Green Inside Out

Thank You, Italy, For Making the Brionvega RR227 Radio

A Gallery of Knobs and Buttons…Because They’re Amazing

DAB Kitchen Digital Radio Should Withstand the Ultimate Food Fight

The Thumbs Up Radio Doesn’t Clamour For Your Approval

Beautiful Walnut Radio Is Actually Artful PC Casemod

Areaware 2B Radio: Minimalist Design and Features For Your Stylish Grampa

Today A Nano-Radio, Tomorrow A Micro-Semiconductor

Make a Metal Detector For Like 5 Bucks and 2 Minutes

Trail Tune Carabiner Radio Clips on Just About Anywhere

Low End Theory: Gadgets Are the New ChapStick

Radiosophy Brings HD Radio Prices Down with Budget Boombox

Ferrari and Meridian Empty Your Savings with F80 All-in-One Entertainment Center

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