If you’ve often thought that what your Hi-Fi setup really needs is a speaker shaped like a cowering child with a hoodie, then you need the SpeakerBuddy.
Just a protoype at the moment, but designer Alex Underwood is hopeful of production. Explaining his inspiration for the SpeakerBuddies, Underwood said they’re meant to “…capture child-like memories [...]

I know the couple of entries have been relating to the iPod and iPhone but I promise we are not turning into fan boys, there are just some interesting accessories appearing on the market recently. This iPod docking station from Griffin is no exception.
The AirCurve for the iPhone and iPhone 3G is described as “breakthrough [...]

Top-end Hi-Fi manufacturer Cambridge Audio has released a new range of seriously good looking receivers that feature everything you need for listening to your tunes in the highest quality - including a dedicated iPod dock.
The new Cambridge Audio Sonata is a 40W per channel amp and 2.1 channel DAB receiver for £299, on top of [...]

Memorex have come up with an interesting add-on for your iPod or MP3 player - a sophisticated microphone and microphone stand that cuts out the vocals from your tunes and lets you belt out your own vocals over the music. Or, to put it simply, an iPod Karaoke microphone stand.
As if the X-Factor wasn’t bad [...]

Logitech Squeezebox systems have always been well received, both by users and crtitics alike. These stylish little boxes plug into your Hi-Fi and let you wirelessly stream your tunes from your PC through to your Hi-Fi, where you can listen to your tunes in much better clarity than through your PC’s speakers.
Logitech released a new [...]

You can find all sorts of docking systems for the iPods, there are weird and wonderful shapes, sizes and even ones attached to televisions but now you can add a little class to your place with Revo’s wooden iPod docking system, “Blok”. Blok was launched during IFA 2008 and offers 40 watt speaker and contains [...]

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 an [...]

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 feet.
Obviously [...]

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 [...]