Hasta La Gadget!

If you’ve traded Comcast and DirecTV for Hulu and Boxee, you might be a cheap geek.

1. What kind of projector can $516 get you? You might be surprised. While the ViewSonic PJ258D originally listed for $1,453, Amazon currently has it for over $900 less. This small-yet-powerful projector weighs only 2.9 pounds, displays 2,000 lumens, and has an attractive contoured design. I love that it has an iPod dock for easy video sharing.

2. Listen up: White earbuds were cool for a while, but now every hipster in Brooklyn is rocking a pair of giant over-ear headphones and bragging about how much better their music sounds. If you want to get in the game, grab an ironic t-shirt and this pair of Sennheiser EH-250 headphones from Buy.com. They’re only $39.98, come with free shipping, and offer Sennheiser’s rich, balanced sound.

3. We all know it’s dangerous to use a cell phone while driving, but sometimes you’ve just got to take that call. The solution is to get the Jabra SP5050 Bluetooth speakerphone. It clips to your visor and offers the excellent sound quality that Jabra is known for. NewEgg has it for $25.99 with free shipping.

Not that we haven’t seen MP3 players integrated into earbuds before, but we’ve yet to see any that give us more inspiration than these. Seriously, just look at this guy above — pumping iron, resisting the urge to shoot up a fine dose of ‘roids and getting all the motivation he needs from the Rick Astley jams that are undoubtedly streaming through. ANTARES’ KPMP316 DAP consists entirely of two enlarged earbuds and a cord to keep ’em close; as you can imagine, the 1/2/4GB of internal capacity, play / pause button and volume rocker are all positioned just millimeters away from the actual drivers. Folks over in Asia can supposedly snag one in yellow, green, orange, blue, purple or black, but we’ve no idea what kind of outlay you’ll be looking at.

[Via PMPToday]

Filed under: Portable Audio

ANTARES smashes earbuds and MP3 player together, produces KPMP316 originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Aliph Jawbone Prime (http://tinyurl.com/ctw7c7) looks just like the last Jawbone headset, but appearances can be deceiving: This one’s better.

It’s been almost a year since Aliph last graced the Bluetooth headset world with its presence, and now it’s back with the Jawbone Prime to reclaim the throne. The Jawbone Prime is only a minor update — on the surface, anyways — to its predecessor, and in fact the only visible change is a slightly different surface pattern and a minor indentation to denote one of the headset’s two invisible buttons. Other than the quite welcome addition of Bluetooth 2.1+ EDR (multipoint connections, easy pairing), almost all the improvements under the hood have to do with the algorithm tweaks of NoiseAssassin 2.0 to improve noise reduction. It’s really too bad the original isn’t firmware-upgradable (we asked). The Prime will be replacing existing Jawbones at retail for the same old $130 pricetag, and comes in Blah Blah Black, Coffee Talk and Going Platinum, while an “EARCANDY” edition is available in Frankly SCARLET, ‘YELLO!, Drop Me A LIME and LILAC You Mean It. Both will be available at retail on May 2nd.

Filed under: Peripherals, Wearables

Aliph Jawbone Prime arrives to coddle your ears, raid your wallet originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Plantronics isn’t planning to share intimate details about its Voyager PRO Bluetooth headset until April 23rd, but evidently its supply chain executives didn’t exactly touch base with marketing before sending out stock to Best Buy. Jeff and John both managed to procure the $119.99 Bluetooth headset over the weekend, and we’ve got the shots to prove it. Based on the teaser site down in the read link, this here headset should be it’s most advanced yet, but for a buck twenty, it better answer and respond to our calls without us having to intervene.

[Thanks, Jeff and John]

Filed under: Peripherals

Plantronics Voyager PRO gets purchased, unboxed early originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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