Another USB Music Release – The Fratellis
Doing music releases on a flash drive are slowly becoming more popular. Now available are The Fratellis on flash.
Apple TV Shipping
I got an email from Apple this morning at 4 A.M.. Guess my Apple TV is on its way. And it looks like they gave me a discount. I only got charged $281. It’s listed for $299 on Apple.com. I pre-ordered my Apple TV the day it was announced. Maybe I got the discount because it got delayed a month?
MagicJack the Magic Phone Jack
UPDATE: The MagicJack phone jack received Product of the Year in 2007. After the purchase of the MagicJack USB dongle (about $40) you pay a one time fee of $19.95 per year for unlimited calling. Not $19.95 per month BUT $19.95 per year. This will reduce your phone bill to just $20 a year! The MagicJack phone is available at Amazon. Review: GetUSB.info reviews MagicJack, the Magic Phone Jack.MagicJack is a convenient USB dongle with phone jack attached to it. By connecting your regular phone to the MagicJack phone port, you can now make free calls anywhere within the US for free. If traveling in Canada, Mexico, UK, China, Italy and Israel then you can call home (USA) for free.
Buffalo Silicon Flash Drive – It’s the World’s Largest
One year ago, almost to the day, IOCell introduced the self proclaimed “World’s largest capacity flash drive” at the CeBIT 2006 show. Today, you can find 16GB flash drives from Transcend, US Modular and Pretec, so why is the Buffalo 16GB announcement of interest? Well, it uses Silicon HDD Technology.
Plastic and Fantastic – USB Poll Dancer
Often those USB novelty gadgets are quite lame, but put a little music to it and become very funny. Take, for example, the USB poll dancer. Continue ReadingMini USB Dock Replaces 2G iPod Dock Station
The iPod Shuffle comes with the 2G Dock station which is a little large, relatively speaking, so replace it with this inexpensive iUSB dock connector. The Essential Tech iUSB connects directly to the iPod and directly to your USB port.
Review: Terratec Headset Master 5.1 Surround Sound USB
Gadget Centre has once again pulled through with an excellent review. The Terratec USB Surround Sound Headmaster is one high-tech, well built, hard core headphone system.
…held together by a unsightly looping support which wouldn’t look out of place in a medieval dungeon, it’s a good job the Headset Master is for your PC: if you took it outside people would go out of their way to point and laugh at you.
Chris Russell points out that although they are a little heavy, they are well built and designed for the hard core gamer who’d appreciate every tweak of sound during an all intense Counter-Strike tourney.
Continue ReadingiPod Alarm Clock Tutorial
The iPod’s Alarm Clock is nestled among other features like Calendar and Notes under the iPod’s Extras menu. While you may already be familiar with many of the iPod Extras (especially Games), the Alarm Clock is largely an under appreciated feature.
Disney MixStick MP3 Player With Feeble Attempt iPod Look
It’s always healthy to check in over-seas and see what trinkets are in the works. Well, the latest is a Disney MP3 player with a feeble attempt for looking like an iPod. The MixStick is a 512MB MP3 player where the navigation area is circular like the iPod but classy touch of a shuffle and repeat button atop for that Mickey tech look.
Free Style USB Optical Mouse Strapped to Your Finger
I’m a little skeptical about the USB optical finger mouse. The potential is there, but I see some issues with the strap working loose and thus becoming more of a nuisances then asset. None the less, the optical finger mouse is worth a closer look.
So the USB finger mouse straps to your index finger via Velcro, then use your thumb to push two levers up or down for scrolling. There is a rotary navigation dial as well, and I’m guess you depress the dial for
Continue ReadingPlay Anything USB Wind Instrument
The Electronic USB Wind Instrument from Ion Audio is something I bet any mother would pay top dollar for. With this USB instrument any middle-schooler can plug in and play a range of woodwind, brass, string synthesizer and percussion straight from the computer. Add in headphones and no more annoying notes while your little one learns the pipes. Or in my case, no more howling dog while playing the sax.
Two Outstanding Trust USB Gamer Wheels
Trust raises the bar for the pedal-to-the metal type. They’ve just released two new USB gamer steering wheels, the GM-3200 and GM-3400, and Trust didn’t lack in upgrades. The GM-3200 is for the tiny-tikes looking to break-it-loose with a smaller wheel diameter for smaller hands and rubber coating for optimal grip and sensitivity of wheel. The 3200 also comes with sturdy clamp and suction cup so nothing shakes loose.