Articles about iPod’

Sep 26, 2008

Mental chargers: iPod and iPhone chargers with a difference

Posted by Daniel in Mental Media, Portable Gadgets, Technology No comments
iYo YOYO iPod charger

iYo YOYO
We saw the iYo YOYO (pictured above) and memories of our childhood came rushing back, yoyos are versatile toys; you can walk the dog, go around the world and now you can even charge you iPod or iPhone with one. The Swedish designer Peter Thuvander has taken your average yoyo added a little Apple [...]




Sep 21, 2008

iPod Karaoke with the Memorex SingStand

Posted by Mike Evans in Audio, Gadgets Comments Off

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 [...]




Sep 10, 2008

New iPods galore, but no new Apple TV

Posted by Mike Evans in MP3 Players, Portable Gadgets No comments

Well, the Apple Let’s Rock event has finally happened, giving the Apple FanBoys the cool new gadgets they need while leaving the rest of us slightly shrugging our shoulders! Most of the rumours prior to the event came true, which slightly took the gloss off all the new announcements, but at least no-one will be [...]




Sep 8, 2008

New Apple iPods and Apple TV to be announced tomorrow?

Posted by Mike Evans in News 1 comment

The Apple rumour mill has gone into overdrive again, as Steve Jobs prepares to work his magic on a million fanboys at Apple’s Let’s Rock event in San Francisco tomorrow (actually today, given that I’m posting this past midnight! Ah, the joy of blogging - whatever happened to sleep?!)
All sorts of speculation is up in [...]




Aug 21, 2008

Mental Media - the Ten best Audio Gadgets you never knew they made part 2

Posted by Mike Evans in Audio, Gadgets, Mental Media No comments

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 [...]




Aug 21, 2008

Mental Media: the Ten best Audio Gadgets you never knew they made

Posted by Mike Evans in Audio, Featured, Gadgets, Mental Media No comments

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 [...]




Jul 28, 2008

Griffin Wireless Sound System not quite as high-tech as you’d think

Posted by Mike Evans in Miscellaneous, News No comments

Griffin have released the Griffin Evolve Wireless Sound System, which sounds like it’s a nice piece of high-tech equipment designed to take on other wireless sound systems such as the Philips Streamium range or the Sony Giga Juke.
Sadly, its nothing of the sort. What you get instead is a set of speakers and an iPod [...]




Jul 23, 2008

How to make an iPhone/iPod stand

Posted by Daniel in Apple, How To No comments
iPhone stand

Not all the versions of iPod/iPhone come with their own stand as standard so the industrious users at instructables have come up with several homemade solutions. You could go out and buy a stand from the shops relatively cheaply, but you could make your own for less money and have more fun doing it. There [...]




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 15, 2008

iRecorder: records movies and TV shows direct to you iPod

Posted by Daniel in MP3 Players, Portable Gadgets No comments
iRecorder

The tale tell “i” at the front implies this is another attachment for your iPod. Which it is but it is much more as it is compatible with any USB device which can play Mpeg4s, so don’t be put off by the “i”. This little gizmo’s aim in life is to make yours easier. It [...]