Audio/Video Gadgets

Iomega have partnered with Sonic Solutions to introduce a new partnership that enables consumers to buy as well as rent premium entertainment right from the comfort of their living rooms, allowing them to view said entertainment on their own TV sets without having to leave the home. Available in time for the busy holiday season, upcoming U.S. models in Iomega’s award-winning ScreenPlay HD Media Player line will see the incorporation of the Roxio CinemaNow entertainment platform. This platform gives consumers instant access to purchase or rent movies and other premium content as long as they are connected to the Internet, where one can view said content on either standard or high definition TVs. Needless to say, if you’re going to dabble with high definition content, you would do well to make sure you’ve got a speedy Internet line in the first place.

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Research has shown that most men have shorter lives than women due to the type of lifestyles they lead – including late nights of boozing with their mates, being in a high-pressured job, undergoing plenty of stress as he wonders how is he going to pull his family through a crisis, and perhaps even engaging in crazy stunts and sports for that bit of adrenaline rush. Well, most men too would be involved with the use of power tools, and is tasked with mowing the lawn with NASCAR race attendance as his reward. Some of those activities mentioned do involve being exposed to high levels of noise at any one time which if left unchecked, could lead to permanent hearing loss many years down the road. With Christmas coming up in slightly more than a month, why not give dad the protection he needs with the NoiseBuster Active Noise-Canceling Hearing Protector? This professional-grade, high-performance equipment will merge a passive earmuff with active noise-canceling electronics to deliver overall noise cancellation performance that is unmatched by any other hearing protector.

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If you have a thing for audio gadgets that make you feel elite and special, now you can own a pair of limited edition Audio Technica headphones.  Even if no one knows that these are limited edition headphones, the shiny earpieces will attract plenty of attention.  Then of course when they’re pulled in by all that shiny, you can explain to them that your headphones are incredibly awesome for many reasons.

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It almost seems like manufacturers are getting desperate to sell their kitchen scales.  Lately there have been many kitchen scales that try to have a twist to make them more appealing to the general public.  Well if you use yours a lot, this one will let you listen to you music.  At least with this you can combine your iPod dock with a kitchen scale instead of having two different gadgets cluttering up your countertop.

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Strapya’s products at best could be described as eccentric most of the time.  This product is definitely odd, but it would actually be useful.  It’s so thin you could easily carry it around or lose it for that matter.  Plus it’s not only an MP3 player that’ll play all of your music through your headphones, it also has a built-in speaker to play your music out loud as well.  Sure, it’s not going to be the highest quality of gadget out there, but it at least plays your music.

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The next version of the Flip Mino Pocket Camcorder will have wireless capability ...

When Apple announced video capability in the iPod Nano and a video camcorder in the iPhone 3Gs, Cisco saw a dramatic increase in YouTube video uploads. And as such, they saw the handwriting on the wall. Sure, the Flip has the edge with HD, but to have an all in one solution with the iPhone has forced Cisco, the new owners of Flip Video, to get working on a response. And to that end, they’ve announced that the next model of the phenomenally successful Flip Video Pocket Camcorders will come with built in Wi-Fi. But that’s not all.

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Is it just me, or are MP3 players in everything these days? I guess some concept designer just had to put an MP3 player in clothes, and why not the pants? After all, the words “dance” and “pants” rhyme.

Say, is that an MP3 Player in your pants, or…all right, I think you all know where that one was going. I’m not liking where the Dancepants is going.

You see, the Dancepants isn’t just an MP3 Player that is designed to fit in the pants. That would probably be easy. You would just find a convenient place to stitch in the apparatus, and just make certain that the user can charge it and download tunes easily.

The Dancepants are not like that. You see, it is powered by kinetic energy. So if you like to listen to music while you are jogging, then you had better keep jogging, or your music will die. That, or you will. Heh heh heh.

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How many of you take your portable music listening experience seriously? As in, the moment you unpack your newly purchased portable media player, you chuck away the pair of headphones or earbuds packed within and put on a jacket, ready to do some serious shopping in order to garner the best listening experience possible? Well, Sleek Audio understands how you feel about that, and has released their highly anticipated SA1 wireless compatible earphones which offers above average audio quality without breaking the bank, guaranteed to put a smile on your face in the process. The SA1 offers wireless flexibility, tuning technology and stunning performance in a single package, so read on to find out more about it.

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