Showing posts with label ipod. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ipod. Show all posts

Thursday, March 19, 2015

The JVC Boombox. Kaboom!








Totally express yourself―via iPhone or guitar


The JVC Kaboom! has taken a mighty step forward. The new RV-NB70 has a 
Dock for iPhone® /iPod® 
additionally to the CD, USB Host and FM Tuner.  
The composite out allows you to check your dance or enjoy
movies on iPod® or iPhone® with TV Screen.  
Plug a guitar or mic into the RV-NB70 and you've got a 
massively powerful amp on your hands with this boombox. 
You can play guitar or sing along with a backing track. It's great for street performance. 
Whatever music or instrument you want, you'll love the deep bass generated by the twin Super Woofers. Express yourself everywhere you want.


Sunday, November 8, 2009

Nifty Gadgets : ATiny USB Drive, a Mobile Signal Booster and the newest iPod Nano

TUFF-'N'-TINY™ USB Drive

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TUFF-'N'-TINY™ 8GB USB Drive - Purple

Penny-thin and travel-tough, the Verbatim TUFF-‘N’-TINY™ USB Drive offers secure storage in one of the most compact, durable USB flash drives available.  Designed for everyday handling and resistant to dust, water and static discharges, this drive measures up to its name and is compatible with all USB ports.  It offers password security for Windows users and is enhanced for Windows® ReadyBoost™ for Windows 7 and Vista users.  Perfect for carrying the files you use every day, the TUFF-‘N’-TINY™ drive comes with key ring lanyard to attach to mobile phones or key rings.  Choose from capacities of 2GB, 4GB and 8GB. See for yourself how the Verbatim TUFF-‘N’-TINY™ sizes up!

Features & Benefits


  • Tiny, rugged USB drive measures 1.19 x 0.5 x 0.06 inch
  • Resistant to dust, water and static discharges
  • Compatible with ALL USB ports
  • Password security for Windows users
  • Enhanced for Windows® ReadyBoost™
  • Compatible with Windows 7, Vista, XP or 2000, Mac OS 9.x or higher, Linux kernel 2.6x or higher
  • Bonus key ring lanyard for mobile phones or key rings
  • Available in 2GB, 4GB and 8GB capacities

5BARz™ Mobile / Cellphone Booster

Poor mobile phone reception and dropped calls are problems for many mobile phone users -- and the problem is magnified with video downloads, cellular internet and 3G service offerings. CelLynx designs, manufactures and markets affordable, indoor cellular coverage enhancement solutions for significantly improving mobile phone coverage. CelLynxTM offers the industry’s first reliable one-piece, plug ‘n play mobile signal booster, 5BARz™. The CelLynx family of boosters significantly enhances your mobile phone reception, reduces or eliminates dropped calls and improves 3G and 4G services such as music and video downloads and cellular internet.

5BARz™ is the most affordable and reliable mobile phone booster and unlike all other solutions it requires no installation. 5BARz delivers:

  • Easiest set-up -- just plug the unit in
  • Stronger signals, better reception and faster internet (including 3G) in your car, home, office or your travel destination
  • Works for all nationally advertised cell phone coverage plans
The CelLynx family of products also includes 5BARz™ @Home (available soon) our next plug ‘n play booster that enhances cell coverage to a larger area. While 5BARz is portable to your car, office and home office, it only covers one room. With 5BARz @Home you can increase cell phone coverage to potentially cover your entire home or office suite (up to 2,500 feet per unit, multiple units can work together for larger areas).
We are confident you’ll agree that no matter what weak coverage issues you face, CelLynx delivers the best product for you.

iPod Nano features camera

David Stephenson



Media Credit: Apple Inc.

It's safe to say that almost every college student has used, owned, or at least heard of the iPod. Even after almost ten years and the constant assaults of competitor's next "iPod killers," the simple click wheel design and easy to use iTunes software, still make the iPod the best selling digital music player year in and year out. If Apple continues to release devices like the newest generation of iPod Nanos, it's easy to see them repeating their dominance this year.

The most recognizable feature of the new Nano is a tiny video camera included on the back of the player. It allows you to record short standard definition videos that are transferred to iTunes where they can then be uploaded on Facebook or YouTube. This addition sets the Nano apart from other devices, but it does have its limitations.

Because of its miniature size and relatively small weight, holding the Nano while recording video can be awkward and can sometimes result in extremely shaky footage or getting a figure in the frame. The placement of the video camera also presents a problem because it is exactly where the Nano is supposed to be held and therefore extremely prone to finger prints or scratching.

Additionally, Apple's included iTunes software is great for organizing music and watching the videos you create on your computer, but when you want to share your videos on the Web, you'll have to upload to each Web site through an Internet browser since iTunes doesn't have an option to share videos online.

Besides the added video camera, the new Nano packs an impressive number of features for a device its size. Although the Nano is only available with storage of up to 16GB, small compared to the iPod classic or other larger music players, the inclusion of an FM tuner allows you to listen to new songs on the radio and even pause live radio, or purchase the track from iTunes. The new iTunes genius mixes are also available on the Nano, allowing the computer to quickly pick a playlist of similar songs to expose you to other songs might be interested in.

The light weight and size of the original Nano was extremely popular for exercising purposes, and this new generation Nano doesn't disappoint. Apple's voice over feature, when enabled, has the iPod read aloud the name of song and artist you're listening to so that you don't have to take your hands off the weights. For joggers, the Nano comes preloaded with fitness software from Nike that tracks your lap times and distance and syncs it with nikeplus.com so you can keep up with your routine.



Tuesday, November 3, 2009

A World Without Apple?


Sascha Segan
South Korea shows what the world might look like if the iPod and iPhone had never happened.
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Imagine there's no Apple. Over here in the US, it's hard to do. But in technologically advanced, mobile-crazy South Korea, there's more iRiver than iPhone—no iPhones at all, no Apple stores, and far, far fewer iPods on the Seoul subway than I've seen in New York.
That made me think: What if Steve Jobs had never returned to Apple, and the company had crumbled as was widely expected in the 1990s, or just stayed a second-tier PC maker? Would the world's tech market look a little more like Korea's?
Obviously, Apple's design innovations have had an effect on everyone in computing and media—even on the gadgets I saw in Korea. But it's not like Apple invented the touch screen, the media player, or the mobile Web browser. Most of Apple's innovations would have happened, they just might have happened differently.
Here are some ideas based on what I saw on the ground:
Triumph of the keyboard
Koreans, like Americans, love flip phones. That hasn't kept them off the Web. They surf on flip phones, text on flip phones, and watch TV on flip phones. Looking at the US, we love flip phones, phones with full keyboards, and iPhones. As I've said before, touch keyboards are fundamentally flawed; we only put up with typing on a touch keyboard because we love the rest of the iPhone's features. An Apple-less world would have a lot more physical keyboards in it.
More diversity, less DRM
Yes, Korea has its faults—one of the ways the country has kept Apple out is through laws that favor domestic manufacturers. But ironically, that protectionism seems to have created more diversity than the iPod monoculture you see in big US cities. I saw people tapping on big-screen Windows CE media players, typing on things that looked like tiny laptops with tinier keyboards, and listening to music on both traditional flip phones and iRiver MP3 players.
Here's where I go out on a limb. The iPod monoculture in the US did great things for the digital music market, but it also locked us into DRM for years. As we found out through the disaster of Microsoft's PlaysForSure, DRM doesn't work well when there are too many different companies involved. Without the iPod, music firms may have taken longer to enter the digital market, but they may have done so with less DRM because no single solution could address enough of the market.
More TV?
Koreans are crazy about mobile TV. DMB, their mobile digital TV system, seems to be in everything. This, in large part, comes thanks to a proactive government that set aside spectrum and defined a mobile TV standard long before ours did. But free mobile TV also provides an interesting solution to the video DRM problem. Film and TV companies are even crazier about DRM than music companies are, resulting in a chaos of different formats. Having one standard for mobile TV let that form of video spread quickly, and perhaps there would have been more pressure for a common mobile TV standard here if Apple hadn't so dominated the media conversation.
Missing Links
Capacitive touch screens are marvelous, but I saw very few in Korea; most people seemed to be using styli on their touch-screen devices. (Before you comment, Korean isn't a character-based language like Chinese that requires you to draw characters with a stylus—it uses a 24-character alphabet.) The rage for capacitive touch screens in the U.S. has largely been driven by the success of the iPhone; manufacturers don't seem to get why users love them.
The big wild card, of course, is whether Apple's iProducts have pushed all interfaces forward. Many modern smart device interfaces—especially the touch screen ones—owe a lot to Apple's software design. What would interfaces look like if Apple hadn't brought big icons and simple menus to the game? Hopefully they wouldn't look like Windows Mobile 5—finger-unfriendly screens that borrow way too much from desktop PCs.
Apple and KT, a Korean wireless carrier, recently announced they were bringing the iPhone to Korea. So maybe the era of gadget diversity in Korea is coming to an end. But I don't think so; Koreans are very patriotic about their gadgets, and Samsung and LG are both innovative companies. I'm not sure if we can learn anything from Korea's relative avoidance of all things Apple, but it's still interesting to see a country where they really do think differently.
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I'm glad Apple is around. Thanks to Steve Jobs, his company focuses more on creativity and innovation ahead of profits and monopoly. More power to Apple and I hope more innovative products and design will come out from this company.

Raul B. Romilla