Bluetooth

Aug 11, 2008

Want a Bluetooth MP3 player? Here are dozens…

Posted by Mike Evans in Bluetooth, Featured, Lists, MP3 Players, Manufacturer, Media Receiver, Portable Gadgets 3 comments

A Bluetooth MP3 player transforms the way you listen to your tunes, but finding a good one from the thousands of ordinary MP3 players on the market can take days of tedious research.
So we’ve done the hard work for you and compiled a list of the top Bluetooth MP3 players on the market today, together [...]




Jul 17, 2008

Brando has their sites set small… but does size matter?

Posted by Daniel in Bluetooth, Gadgets, Technology No comments
brando microSD reader

The world is in two minds at the moment they want their devices smaller but the screens bigger. As you have probable spotted there is a slight problem, the device needs to be at least as large as the screen. That is unless you have a device with a rollable screen. So that’s the problem [...]




Jul 17, 2008

World’s smallest iPod transmitter launched

Posted by Daniel in Bluetooth, Gadgets No comments
iPod Beamer

Brando latest offering for the smallest in the world is a Bluetooth A2DP transmitter which is compatible with the iPhone and all dockable iPods. So it supports: iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, iPod Touch, iPod nano(1st, 2nd, 3rd gen), iPod Classic, iPod Video, iPod (Color) and iPod Mini.
This little gizmo removes the need for wires to [...]




Jul 4, 2008

Nextar’s speakers float above the rest

Posted by Daniel in Audio, Bluetooth, Gadgets, MP3 Players, Manufacturer, Technology No comments
Floating speakers

Nextar’s Bluetooth floating speakers will play continuously for 4 hours and are ideal for using in your pool, but I am sure there are many more people without pools than there are with (me included), so what use is this gadget to us, we may as well just buy the sentry water proof speakers? Well [...]




Jul 1, 2008

Philips to launch its new player ‘GoGear’

Posted by Daniel in Audio, Bluetooth, Gadgets, MP3 Players, Philips, Portable Gadgets, Technology, Video and TV No comments
Philips GoGear

Philips has launched its digital audio & video player ‘GoGear (model:SA5245)’. Apart from looking very nice, its most noticeable feature is FullSound, a digital audio algorithm patented by Philips that refines audio output. FullSound apparently brings out the best of their audio system and delivers more life to the music by performing millions of operations [...]




Jun 28, 2008

Reshape your pits to squeeze 42GB on a DVD

Posted by Daniel in Bluetooth, Media Receiver, Miscellaneous, News, Technology, Video and TV No comments
Reshape your pits

Japanese researchers have been hard at work fiddling with discs and they have come up with a way to multiply the capacity of a CD or DVD by 9 fold. The researchers have managed this magnificent feat by reshaping the pits on the media surface, which are normally flat, into ‘v’ shapes.
Unfortunately you won’t be [...]




Sep 10, 2007

The Mad Sony Rolly - an MP3 player in an egg

Posted by Mike Evans in Audio, Bluetooth, MP3 Players, Sony, Technology 1 comment

Sony have announced what could be the world’s most bonkers MP3 player. The Sony Rolly (or the SEP-10BT to give its less-inspired formal name) is shaped like an egg, and you control its functions by either twisting it or rolling it.
Even more impressively, the Rolly can actually dance in time to the music, spinning [...]




Sep 7, 2007

Silent discos with Samsung YP-P2 and T10 media players

Posted by Mike Evans in Audio, Bluetooth, MP3 Players, Samsung, Technology No comments

Samsung have announced the Samsung YP-P2 and YP-T10 MP3 players. Well, I say MP3 players - they both play video as well, making them more PMPs than MP3 players. Whatever, both gadgets look pretty nifty, coming as they do with support for Bluetooth 2.0, and the badass P2 looks like it’s quite capable of [...]




Sep 6, 2007

Samsung YA-BS300 Bluetooth Speaker

Posted by Mike Evans in Audio, Bluetooth, MP3 Players, Manufacturer, Samsung, Technology No comments

Samsung have been showing off the niftily-titled Samsung YA-BS300 Bluetooth speaker. As you can see from the pics, the YA-BS300 is not the biggest speaker in the world, but then it’s not meant to be. It’s designed to be carried around with you, so you can hook it up wirelessly to your Bluetooth-supporting [...]




May 7, 2007

Cowon Q5 - a PMP with Wi-Fi, HSDPA and GPS

Posted by Mike Evans in Bluetooth, Portable Gadgets, Video and TV, Wi-Fi No comments

Cowon have announced the Cowon Q5 Personal Media Player.
The Q5 looks like your average PMP - slim design, huge screen, perfect for watching video on to stop yourself being bored on long trips (oh how I needed this on my recent 20-hour flight to Las Vegas!)
What makes the Q5 special, though is its [...]