mp3 player

LEGO's Block-Inspired Electronics Are Ready to Be Snapped Up This Fall

Clay Dillow — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:52:54 -0400

LEGO has teamed with electronics designer Digital Blue to create a line of LEGO-inspired consumer electronics for creative kids and nostalgic adults alike. Announced earlier this year, the final product will be available this fall, and the line includes digital cameras (1.5 megapixel), walkie talkies, MP3 players, boom boxes and alarm clocks, and USB drives constructed of iconic LEGO components--but not actual bricks that you can snap apart.

Apple Shrinks its Smallest iPod, Adds Voice Feedback

Kit Eaton — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:42:30 -0400

Apple's iPod shuffle was already among the smallest MP3 players on the market, but the company has just released a largely re-invented shuffle that's even more compact and comes with two times as much storage.

Lego To Make Blocky MP3 Players, Cameras and Walkie-Talkies

Kit Eaton — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:06:23 -0500

Okay, it's strictly an agreement between Lego and manufacturer Digital Blue that's the source of these new gizmos--but they are going to be Lego brick-shaped. And that'll get millions of kids (and a huge bunch of adults) salivating, for sure.

SanDisk SlotRadio: MP3 Playing The Wrong Way

Kit Eaton — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:48:27 -0500

Apple's dropping of DRM in iTunes means full freedom of choice for music fans to do what they wish with their MP3s. But SanDisk's newest SlotRadio device just doesn't work like that: It comes pre-loaded with 1,000 songs...which you can't delete or move off the special microSD memory card.

Microsoft Zune Outage Caused By Leap Year Glitch

Kit Eaton — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:20:38 -0500

February 29th is a cool date. Whenever it rolls around, it's kinda satisfying to be experiencing a day that you only get every four years (except on millenia.) But for Zune owners earlier this week, Feb 29th 2008 was a big problem.

Thanko's Movie-Recording Wristwatch

Kit Eaton — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:20:16 -0500

This gadget's been on the cards since MP3/MP4 players and digital video cameras began to get tiny and cheap. A toy for grownups, its inevitability is based on a dozen spy movies from the recent past.

Sony Releases Video of "Alicia" Walkman Phone

Chris Dannen — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:02:43 -0400

Sony [NYSE: SNE] has produced a little video detailing some of the features of its upcoming "Alicia" Walkman phone, and the interface looks to benefit from a whole littany of inputs. For starters, the Alicia is a flip phone and MP3 player all in one, with a suspiciously iPod-looking wheel-and-select-button on its face, right below the usual flip phone exterior screen. But here's the kicker: the touch-wheel -- if that's not a trademarked Apple term -- seems to have another screen behind it, which displays things like weather iconography and various other chincanery.