The new Grundig Audion 8 Hi-Fi was on show at the IFA exhibition last week, and it seems to be quite a performer. Single-handedly taking on the Philips Streamium range of Wi-Fi Hi-Fis in the features stakes and Bang and Olufsen in the design stakes, the Audion 8 is an extremely flexible Wi-Fi Hi-Fi that […]
If you need some serious ooomph to your music, you could do worse than buy yourself a PodSpot: an external speaker that’s been designed to hook up to an iPod or any other MP3 player, and broadcast the sound at a mighty 115db through its tweeters, horns and two huge 10″ subwoofers. To give you […]
Samsung has released a new range of HDTVs called the Samsung Series 7 range. The interesting thing about these high-end TVs (apart from their great looks) is that they’re designed not just for watching TV, but also for viewing content from all manner of sources. There’s a USB connector, for example, for plugging in your […]
I thought the Creative Zen Mozaic was bad enough but Sony have managed to raise the level of ugly with their PMX-U55 personal media player. I am not sure which bit of the above image I dislike the most, the picture of the dog or the media player itself. I just hope that the device […]
LG, like me, must have been looking around the DVD player market recently and yawned at how dreary and boring all the designs have been. There has been nothing new and exciting around for a long time, so LG decided to spice things up a little and produce the DVS450H DVD player. Ok the name […]
Its been a great year already for home entertainment gadgets, but what’s in store for next year? You might think it too soon to ask, but with with the IFA consumer electronics show in full swing, all the major gadget manufacturers are showing off their wares and setting out their stalls for next year. So, […]
There’s been a huge variety of different technologies over the years for playing back video on your TV. Everything from Betamax and VHS through to DVD and now BluRay. The engineers over at Panasonic were clearly reflecting on these different ideas one night, when one of them suddenly had a brain wave and thought: “I […]
5). Alesis Transactive Mobile – the world’s largest iPhone dock? What is it? Regular iPhone speakers are for wimps! What you need is the Alesis Transactive Mobile (although calling it “mobile” is a bit of a stretch!), a huge industrial strength amp and speaker designed for outdoor events that belts out tunes to over 150 […]
Traditional music devices like HiFis, are so last century. Now all our videos and tunes have gone digital, there are thousands of gadgets that let you do all sorts of things to them, most of which you never knew you wanted to. In the first of a regular series of Mental Media gadgets, here’s a […]
Axxen has released a couple of mp4 player which are so thin you my snap them if you look too hard. Both the Playgo X11and the Playgo x12 are just 5.6 mm thick. These two mp4 players have fancy OLED screens and support touch keypad. They have all the usual features, such as FM radio […]
