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Gadget Reviews
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Logitech Squeezebox Boom
"It's a fact that most music that you listen to today, at least at home or in the office, is in digital format. You may not have bought it that way, but you probably converted it yourself to MP3 or some other digital format, if only because..."
added dec 17 | read more »
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SoundCloud: Social Networking for Musicians
"But just like the sillyness of MySpace led to the supposed "exclusivity" of Facebook (protip: Facebook now has more global traffic than MySpace), so the "serious" people are starting to move to more specialized social networks that fit them. SoundCloud.com is one for musicians. Still in beta mode, I received an invitation..."
added sep 8 | read more »
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Samsung S2 Pebble MP3 Player
"Most MP3 players are still box-looking products, but that's about to change as they become mass commodities and people want them their way. The Samsung S2 (popularly known as the "Pebble") is a revolution in design, breaking out of the rectangular grid with a sleek, metalic shape roughly the size and weight of a small, flat rock..."
added aug 29 | read more »
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Netflix Roku Movie Player
"Remember ON-TV? How about Spectrum? These were early pioneers in cable TV - or figuring out a way to bring movies into your living room without destroying the motion picture industry as we know it. Since those dark ages of non-stop re-runs of C.H.U.D. and Cheech and Chong's oeuvre, there has been remarkably little evolution in on demand movie delivery..."
added aug 11 | read more »
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Sony Walkman NWZ 718
"Believe it or not, Sony is still making Walkmans. Really! And they're not even meant for the hipster crowd (see my review of the Lasonic modern boombox). These might not be waterproof like the flagship Walkmans of the 1980s, but they at least are a bit sleeker than their construction-tape yellow forbearers..."
added jun 17 | read more »
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Lasonic X Famous i931
"For the extremely ironic hipster in your life that rollerskates (not rollerblades) to work and grew up beating Run-DMC in the ghettoes of Rolling Meadows comes this modern version of the old school boombox from boutique electronics company Lasonic..."
added jun 11 | read more »
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Sony mylo2 Personal Communicator
"As shown in the legendary film This is Spinal Tap, bands and artists on their last legs usually like to say they're "big in Japan". This is Sony's mylo2 (it's lower-case, which market research shows is more quirky and fun!), and the only good thing that can be said about it is that, yes, it's big in Japan..."
added may 14 | read more »
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Ibiza Rhapsody MP3 Player
"It's amazing: how many years ago was the iPod released? And how long did it take to clone it? And how sad is it that competitors are still making products that look just like the standard-issue iPod, throwing a bunch of features in the box while still not getting at the device's soul?..."
added may 12 | read more »
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LaCie LaCinema Premier Media Drive
March 2008: "The LaCinema Premier from hard disk maker LaCie is either (a) an external computer hard drive with a few bells and whistles, (b) a useful and inexpensive necessity for anyone with an entertainment center, or (c) the bane of the movie industry that will bring Hollywood whimpering to its knees..."
added apr 25 | read more »
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Every month, Robert Young-Pullman - 5 Magazine's "Gadget Guy" - reviews the top MP3 players, mobiles, handhelds and other gizmos.
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