Tag: Portable
BBC iPlayer comes to iPhone
At the end of last week, the Beeb’s iPlayer passed a significant landmark: it is now available on a portable device for the first time.
If you’ve read the headline, you’ll know that the portable device in question is Apple’s iPhone, but even without that advantage you could probably have guessed from the BBC’s utter lack of originality when it comes to naming its player that a similarly i-prefixed product was the obvious first port of call.
Sony launches Bluetooth-enabled NW-A820 series of media players
More portable music from Sony, this time the more impressive NW-A820.
Cool Motz MusicBox Core MP3 player – shaped like an acorn
Is this the smallest MP3 player around? Probably not, but the Cool Motz MusicBox Core is certainly one of the quirkiest.
Ziszor – the first 'designer' handheld paper shredder
I’ve nothing against shredding – in fact, it’s something to be encouraged when it comes to important financial documents. But do you really need a portable one?
The iRiver Siren – generic but pretty little MP3 player
We’ve started paying a bit more attention to iRiver press releases ever since it revealed some pretty shiny things at CES. Here’s the first fruit of our new-found iRiver love – an update about the iRiver Siren.
The Siren’s not that special, really. We could say something about art-deco-influenced squared design and its simple yet pleasing range of three traditional colours, but that’d all be a bit unnecessary. It’s an MP3 player. It comes in 1GB and 2GB sizes, no doubt with the 2GB one costing ever-so-slightly less than twice the price of the 1GB model to encourage you to go for the extra space. We know all the mind-games they play.
CES 2008 LEFTOVERS: iRiver SPINN – complete with novelty knob
None of our CES field reporters have done anything on this yet. Odd, seeing how staggering cool it looks. iRiver’s silver Spinn handles MP3 tunes, MP4 movies, has an FM tuner, a 3.2″ LCD, does Bluetooth 2.0 with ease, has a microphone and a 160GB hard drive and so on – all the sort of stuff you’d expect from a modern electric thing that fits inside the pocket of even your tightest trousers.
BUT! iRiver’s newest media matchbox has a clever little gimmick. An analogue knob. That twiddly bit on the right there. This makes it easier for people to find and play stuff, apparently, with iRiver touting this as its “Extremely Intuitive User Interface.”
Sony gives three products a pink spray-job for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
You may be thinking this is better suited to our pink-clad sister blog, Shiny Shiny, but considering it’s for a good cause (and I’m sure there’s a few readers on Tech Digest wanting to spend the pink pound), I’m going to mention it anyway.
It’s National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and Sony has done the noble thing and jumped on the ‘oooh, let’s give all our gadgets a pink makeover to support the cause’ bandwagon. Three of their products have been given a pink sprayjob, firstly the VGN-CR290EAP laptop for $1,369.99…
The M300 WatchphoneMP3playercamerawapbrowser
The M300 super-watch is being knocked out by presumably reputable Chinese supplier Quanzhou Quangang Samsin Trade Co., Ltd. and takes standard SIM cards, which transform it into a standard tri-band mobile phone.
And it plays MP4, 3GP, MP3 and MIDI files. And it has a two megapixel camera. And has a WAP browser. All in one watch-sized parcel. At least we hope it’s watch-sized…
In the 80s, a portable record player was cutting edge
New Launches has dug up some technology which was cutting edge for 1983. Mister Disc is a personal, portable record player system which allows you, with only a little bit of fiddling, to play standard 331/3 and 45 rpm…
Mod of the year week: portable NES
We only changed it from the mod of the year to the mod of the week, as history dictates that Ninty fanboys will one day manage to create a personal Shigeru Miyamoto clone, shrunk down to pocket-size, who can guide you through impossible levels like the last castle in New Super Mario Bros., all the while yelling out words of encouragement such as “Itsa me, Mario!”
Whoever modded this NES into a handheld module no doubt has a GBA and even a DS. Heck, I bet he has all of Nintendo’s handhelds…
