Jul 17

Bose intros SoundLink wireless music system, charges $550 with a straight face

Posted in: audio, Music, speaker, Today's Chili, usb

Ah, Bose. While almost any other audio company would be properly lambasted for charging $549.95 for a portable sound system with absolutely no hard specifications (driver material, amplifier type, wattage, etc.) to speak of, somehow or another Bose gets away with the practice. All bitterness aside, the fresh SoundLink Wireless Music System is actually rather attractive, and unlike its other models, this one arrives with a USB dongle that enables computers to stream tunes directly to it. ‘Course, we’re not told what kind of technology is used here nor how far you can stray without losing signal, but as we alluded to earlier, this is all par for the course for Bose. In brighter news, there’s a rechargeable battery that keeps it humming for three hours on a full charge, and the bundled IR remote could probably be programmed to control your media app from afar. Oh, and there’s a standard 3.5 millimeter auxiliary jack for linking things up the “old way.” Start saving your pennies quarters, folks — this one ships to those with more dollars than sense on August 27th.

[Via HotHardware]

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Bose intros SoundLink wireless music system, charges $550 with a straight face originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jul 02

TechSaver Test: RadioShack July 4 Sale

Posted in: sale, speaker, Today's Chili

Plantronics Explorer 230 Bluetooth Headset

RadioShack is offering 17 products at a discounted rate for its July 4 Sale. Several of the products are on sale through the end of the month, too. Orders totaling $50 or more will receive free ground shipping (except desktops, laptops, and TVs).

RadioShack doesn’t have a huge stock of electronics as we all know, but from time to time it does offer great deals. To put the store to the challenge this week, I’m taking four sale items and comparing them to other retailers’ prices. Let’s see if RadioShack’s sale on the Magellan Maestro 4350 GPS, Casio Exilim EX-Z29 10.1MP Digital Camera, Plantronics Explorer 230 Bluetooth Headset, and Cyber Acoustics CA-3402 2.1-Channel Speaker System will have you running back for more.

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Jun 21

Crapgadget: Delicious salmagundi of decorative inanities edition

Posted in: flash drive, FlashDrive, mp3 player, Mp3Player, PMP, speaker, Today's Chili, usb

We’re always big fans of mixed-use gadgets — but these ones kind of mutilate the principle. On hand today we’ve got a two pack of bedazzled necklaces — one an MP3 player, the other a USB flash drive / watch combo. We’ve also unearthed a USB speaker that claims to be a whale, but more closely resembles a weird, in our opinion. Finally (and this one was worth the wait, trust us), we’ve got a tiny Moto Horn for your bike, which makes it “safer” to ride your bike by… making vroom vroom motorbike noises as you zoom along. Consider these our best suggestions for what to do with your disposable income, folks.

Read – USB Jewel Square Necklace MP3 Player
Read – USB Jewel Watch Necklace Flash Drive
Read – USB Cetacean Whale Speaker
Read – Moto Horn

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Jun 05

Cheap Geek: Garmin GPS, JBL Speaker, PowerEase Stapler, Donuts

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Sorry this is late today. The Cheap Geek team is busy creating a summer reality show for NBC called “So You Think You Can Save Money.”

1. The deal bins are full of excellent GPS navigators. Why? Because you’re not buying them at full price. Bad for the industry, but good for you. Today you can grab the Garmin Nuvi 850 from Amazon for $245.96, and that includes free shipping. This Nuvi has a 4.3-inch screen and voice recognition so you don’t even have to take a hand off the wheel to set a destination. Cool, right? Even the Jetson’s flying car didn’t have that.

2. The price of the JBL L890 floorstanding loudspeaker is so low that Amazon can’t show it to you. But I peeked and I’ll tell you that it’s $400.22. This attractive unit offers great high-frequency sound, as well as outstanding bass. They’re sold individually, so order two to get a pair.

3. If those deals were a little too spendy for you, but you’d still like something cool, how about this: Amazon is selling the Swingline Optima PowerEase stapler for $12.46. You’ll get free shipping if your order is over $25. Why is this stapler so cool? Because it can do 25 sheets at once, it’s easy to load, and it takes 70 percent less force to use that regular staplers. We may live in a paperless society, but somehow there’s still a lot of stapling to do.

Bonus Deal: Today is National Donut Day! Dunkin’ Donuts will give you a free donut with any beverage sale. The more generous Krispy Kreme will simply give you a free donut.

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Jun 01

Waterproof Bluetooth Speaker approved by vacationing Billy Corgan

Posted in: audio, Music, sound, speaker, Today's Chili, waterproof

We don’t know a single soul who hasn’t wanted to hear Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness from start-to-finish whilst swimming off the coast of Phuket, but seriously, who’s going to tune in on a $40 waterproof Bluetooth speaker ball? Then again, maybe Billy’s secretly more concerned with his choice of swimwear and lack of sunscreen than the clarity of Iha’s riffs.

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May 24

Crapgadget: USB embarrassments shame Intel’s rock stars

Posted in: intel, speaker, Today's Chili, usb

Seriously, Ajay here would be downright ashamed. His Universal Serial Bus has found some seriously awesome uses over the years, sure, but the latest torrent of USB-equipped garbage is looking to do more harm than good to the venerable connector. In our latest roundup of crap found ’round the web, we see yet again that it’s the USB-infused devices holding down the fort. From a flashlight-packin’ USB SD card reader to a USB Parrot, our heads hurt from just imagining who among us is actually spending cold, hard credit on this rubbish. Feel free to inflict the same pain upon yourself by visiting the links below, and then cast your vote for the worst of the worst. Good luck, brave souls.

Read – USB SD card reader with flashlight
Read – Sparkling USB bracelet with no purpose or dreams
Read – USB Notebook Pocket Cooler puts ‘Huffing’ and ‘Puffing’ out of work
Read – Pepe, the USB Parrot
Read – 4-port USB hub gains a mirror… because it can
Read – Jewel Rose Pin USB Flash Drive: perfect for Great, Great, Great Grandmother’s Day
Read – USB U-Shape i-Speaker just looks disturbing

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May 02

Podio speakered PMP for cyclists sure to cause accidents, impromptu dance parties

Posted in: bike, mp3 player, Mp3Player, Music, PMP, speaker, Today's Chili

We’ve seen plenty of speaker / PMP combos around these part, but the Podio — which looks kind of like a hairdryer to us — is designed for the cyclist on-the-go who just can’t bike without jamming to Green Day at a semi-loud volume. The Podio comes with a harness to attach it to the bike’s handlebars, and boasts a rechargeable lithium-ion battery that gets somewhere between nine and twenty hours of use per charge. The whole thing weighs 139 grams, boasts 2GB of onboard storage, and has a 1.5 watt speaker to get the party started. There are no details on pricing or availability as of now, but we’ll let you know when they come around — err… are on the market. One more photo after the break.

[Via Oh! Gizmo]

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Apr 27

Kenwood lights up your life with prototype OLED-illumed speakers

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Details are scarce on these new speakers from Kenwood, but if you find yourself frequently faced with a lamp-or-noise dilemma, we might’ve just stumbled upon the solution. The prototype flat speakers, developed by Junji Kido of Yamagata University in Japan, are inexplicably surfaced with white Lumiblade-style OLED lights — we’re not sure what that does for the sound, but we probably won’t be trading in our studio monitors in anticipation of this brightly lit conjectured future.

[Via OLED-Info]

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Apr 23

Creative TravelSound i85 adds external speaker, FM tuner to iPod nano

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There’s really no easy way to say it — Creative‘s TravelSound i85 is bordering on unsightly, so devout fashionistas should probably look elsewhere. For those who always put design second and utility first, this here device adds a portable speaker and FM tuning abilities to Apple’s fourth-generation iPod nano (the tall, thin one, for those unaware) and even includes a built-in rechargeable battery for pumping out up to 15 hours of house jams. Aside from operating as a gaudy wrist adornment, it can also double as a stand (horizontally or vertically), though there’s no Dock Connector pass-through (just a miniUSB plug). Worth $99.99? That’s between you and the monster underneath your bed.

[Via FarEastGizmos]

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Apr 23

X-mini Happy arrives for quasi-spherical MP3 playback

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There’s just something slightly alien to the X-mini, and this latest “Happy” model does little to assuage our unfounded fears of it. What’s new this time around is MP3 playback, thanks to an SD card slot. Size and shape-wise it’s almost identical to its X-mini II predecessor. Happy can handle about 6 hours of playback, or 11 hours of speaker work, on a charge, and the USB cable not only charges the ball but also allows the unit to work as a slightly-less-difficult-to-misplace SD card reader. You can also still daisy chain Happy speakers like with the X-mini II. Happy is currently in prototype stage, and should hit the market sometime around Q3.

[Thanks, Yutaka]

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