Oakley is pushing out farther into it’s “Wearable Electronics” with their newer Mp3 sunglasses: The Oakley Thump Pro. What’s new about them you ask? They are thinner, more light weight and durable.
Athletes train all the time, any weather any conditions. These are designed to be water resistant of any kind. Rain, Sweat, Snow any kind of moisture these glasses will repel to the best of their ability. They also have more of a tight grip and the rubber really clings so that if you jump make quick head motions they wont pop off.
Organum Mp3 player. This super smooth, amazingly sexy MPE player has an end of 2007 release date. The new DAP heavily tagged as “under development” throws down support for MP3, ASF, WMA, WAV, JPG, and BMP files and features a 1.8-inch, 128 x 160 pixel display, built-in microphone, and 2GB of storage. It seems to really try and compete with the high end of Mp3 players. It’ll take more than just a pretty shell to rattle the iPod hold.
Eighteen months after rival Apple Inc. raised the bar in the music player market with its video iPod, Sony Corp. will launch its first digital video Walkman. The NW-A800 series Walkman will initially go on sale in Europe in April. They’ll appear later in other markets but timing hasn’t yet been decided, Sony in Tokyo said Friday. For Europe there are three models: the NW-A805, A806 and A808. The only major difference is in the amount of flash memory, which is 2G bytes, 4G bytes and 8G bytes, respectively.
Shiro will be unveiling a trio of digital audio players at the upcoming CeBIT event that will be held in a fortnight’s time. The three musketeers comprises of the Shiro ME, VE, and MK. The MK will be the lowest end of the trio, featuring a mere 1.8″ display and 2GB of internal memory. The ME and VE has double the amount of storage space, while the VE features a much larger 2.4″ display. All three models support the MP3, WMA, and WAV audio formats and AVI, SMV, and WMV video formats. The VE’s internal memory can be expanded upon by inserting a microSD card, while the ME takes in miniSD cards and the MK takes in SD/MMC memory cards. Since all three are pretty similar in specifications, it really depends on your personal taste on which one suits you best.
The ExeMode CDR-300 mini stereo system is a cheap boombox from Japanese company KFE with a single redeeming quality: you put in a CD and it turns its cuts into MP3 or WMA files, slamming them down onto an SD card or USB key.
Unfortunately, for some reason the ExeMode can’t handle SD cards that hold over 1GB. That sucks, but perhaps the most remarkable aspect of his box is its price, quoted at $60. We abandoned CDs long ago, but if you haven’t, this might be a convenient way to quickly snag some of those songs on a flash card.
You can soon expect to pick up a free song of your choice from iTunes with every concert ticket you buy at Ticketmaster. No gimmicks, no catches. Buy a concert ticket, get any track you want, gratis.
The other side of the promotion extends a program where last year, for example, pre-orders of Stadium Arcadium from iTunes got RHCP fans early access to tickets. By pre-ordering “select digital albums,” you’ll get a crack at that artist’s tickets before the rest of the non-iTunes-using barbarians do. No word yet on which artists are participating, though…
According to Microsoft’s business chief Chris Stephenson, the company is planning on working with retail chains to provide “filling stations” for the Zune. Fast food service stores like McDonalds, Starbucks and other Affiliates will let you download the songs you are listening to right from the store.
Imagine going to your late teens/early twenties clothing store, hearing a great song over the speakers, and being able to immediately download the track to your Zune right there. No need to walk up to the snarky cashier and ask her what the song is. This is just one way Microsoft is trying to make a dent in the Apple mp3 control.
Planned for release on May 1 of this year, Flight+ ($129) is a wireless iPod remote control with a complete digital wristwatch as its body. In a novel design, Flight+’s music controls, such as volume and track adjustment, are built into a rocking bezel around its central Electroluminescent (EL) backlit watch screen. Available in two colors, this watch will feature standard time, date, and chronometer features, including alarms, plus the ability to trigger the Nike + iPod Sport Kit’s voice feedback feature.
The Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas, saw a host of must-have gadgets being unveiled and according to CES President Gary Shapiro - today an area the size of 30 football fields showcases the latest products, from high definition TV’s, leopard skin laptops, to interactive video game furniture.
It is estimated that the average American consumer will have 26 gadgets and is likely to spend $1,500 on them a year, says Shapiro. The CES saw the LG DVD player the first player in the world that plays both Blue Ray and HD-DVD. Thereby beginning the end of the DVD format war.
Are you a Zune owner? If you are you’ll be playing games on your Zune by July 2008 according to Microsoft VP, Peter Moore. Though everyone felt the Zune may have gaming capabilities when it was announced first it was not to be.
But, Microsoft’s planning along these lines though now the Zune functions mainly as a portable music player, like Apple’s iPod. Zune desperately needs to gain dominance with the huge popularity of the iPod being still intact. The iPod continues to rule as the main music player in the business and recently expanded its functions to include video playback and gaming.