Mp3 Players Archive

  • Innovative Innergie Magic Cables Integrate USB and Apple Tips to Charge iPad / iPhone / iPod and 10,000 Other Portable Devices with a Single Cable

    Innovative Innergie Magic Cables Integrate USB and Apple Tips to Charge iPad / iPhone / iPod and 10,000 Other Portable Devices with a Single Cable

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  • Smart Phone Site Simplifies Appliance Shopping on Black Friday

    LOUISVILLE, Ky.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Black Friday shopping extends beyond the traditional holiday ornament, GPS system, and MP3 players. Post-Thanksgiving shoppers have turned their gazes from electronics to appliances. “We’ve...

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  • Sure to Crash the Next Stevenote it’s Sony’s New Z and Y Series Notebooks

    Sure to Crash the Next Stevenote it’s Sony’s New Z and Y Series Notebooks

    Sony thinks you need MiFi in your laptop. We agree. It makes sense. Your portable computing device most likely needs internet to function, otherwise you’re reduced to minimal tasks. Find out how.

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  • The CrunchGear MakerBar gets underway at TC Disrupt

    The CrunchGear MakerBar gets underway at TC Disrupt

    We’ve carved out a corner of TC Disrupt and created our own Little Shenzhen sweatshop complete with DIY MP3 players, MakerBot 3D printer, and a pneumatic robot called Stabby. More videos of each event will be posted shortly but if you happen to be at Disrupt, we’re down by the RedBull lounge.

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  • Gadgets of days gone by: Sony MiniDisc recorder

    Gadgets of days gone by: Sony MiniDisc recorder

    This week at CrunchGear, we’re looking back at some of our favorite gadgets from the not-so-distant past — old phones, computers, media players, toys… those devices that still stand out in our memories despite their obsolescence. Feel free to contribute some of your own nostalgia. Back in 2001, I got a surprise Christmas present from my [...]

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  • Hercules Mk4 DJ controller announced at Musikmesse

    Hercules Mk4 DJ controller announced at Musikmesse

    After a sneak peak at this years NAMM show, Hercules officially announced the release date and price of their new Mk4 controller at the Musikmesse fair in Germany. This slim sized controller is designed to interface with whatever input you can dream up. There certainly is something to be said for portability. I’m just not sure [...]

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  • ‘Scuse me guv’nor. You seem to have forgotten your teeth

    ‘Scuse me guv’nor. You seem to have forgotten your teeth

    Everyone considers the airport to be quite the hassle. The waiting, the unpacking, the undressing. But we suffer through it daily for some sort of sense of security. The British though, apparently don’t have that sort of time to waste. A recent study by Airport Parking and Hotels revealed that an alarming array and number [...]

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  • Contest: Win a prize pack of Energizer ‘Energi to Go’ chargers worth over $450

    Contest: Win a prize pack of Energizer ‘Energi to Go’ chargers worth over $450

    See the photo there? That’s just ONE of the items in the $450+ prize pack that Energizer will be giving to one of our lucky readers. The rules are simple, here’s how to win: 1. Become a fan of Energi to Go on Facebook: Facebook – Energi To Go 2. Leave a message on Energi To Go’s [...]

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  • TenYears: Unexpected Success Stories

    TenYears: Unexpected Success Stories

    It’s almost January 1st, 2010 and we’ve been mulling over our favorites of 2009 – and the previous decade. Here we present another installment in our “Of the Decade” lists. Winner: Apple iPod and the iTunes Store No matter how you feel about Apple products, there’s no denying that the original iPod – released in October 2001 [...]

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  • TenYears: Single Most Innovative Product of the Decade

    TenYears: Single Most Innovative Product of the Decade

    It’s almost January 1st, 2010 and we’ve been mulling over our favorites of 2009 – and the previous decade. Here we present the first installment of our “Of the Decade” lists. Winner: The Trek Thumbdrive In 2000, something strange happened. Overnight, we changed the way we carried data. Those of us coming up in the 1990s first [...]

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  • CrunchGear in China: The Ex-Pats

    CrunchGear in China: The Ex-Pats

    I’m sitting on a darkened patio of a club called Viva in the Futian district of Shenzhen. It’s not too late – about 1am – and the place is busy but not full. It’s mostly ex-pats here, folks who work at the various sourcing companies nearby. This place is so anti-China that it almost looks [...]

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  • Old and busted: e-ink; New hotness: e-skin

    Old and busted: e-ink; New hotness: e-skin

    E-ink is cool, sure, but it's still largely a black-and-white technology. Philips Research has moved into the color realm with what they're calling e-skin. “The first applications using the technology could be e-skins for small devices such as MP3 players or cell phones. However, the technology is highly scalable,” says Kars-Michiel Lenssen, Principal Scientist at Philips Research. The vision from Philips is an e-skin on your portable device that can be changed to match your outfit or your mood with the press of a button.

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  • Target Black Friday ad

    Target Black Friday ad

    Well, well, well. If it isn’t Target’s Black Friday ad? Let’s see what’s inside, shall we? Oh my, hello there 32-inch HDTV for $246. How do you do? Stores open at 5AM on Black Friday. Doorbusters are marked with an asterisk and are good “while supplies last,” according to the circular. Digital Cameras Kodak ZD15 Digital Camera – [...]

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  • Zii Plaszma: A case study in WTF

    Zii Plaszma: A case study in WTF

    Creative makes MP3 players. They do a good job. I like Creative. Good people over there. A good company. But I got this email today describing Creative's plans with the new Zii handheld and I was immediately struck by a question: What the hell is this Plaszma Zii StemCell garbage?

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  • Multi-touch scroll wheel could make iPods… ehhh

    Multi-touch scroll wheel could make iPods… ehhh

    So AppleInsider found a patent that shows a multi-touch clickwheel. You pinch in to turn the music down and pinch out to turn it up. Blah-blah. More specifically, the 38-page filing made just this past September describes a “multi-dimensional scroll wheel” that “can sense a moving object, such as a finger, as it is moved [...]

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