Hells Angels Get iPod Dock January 9, 2007
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Listening to music on a motor bike, especially a hog, is generally seen as the motorcycling equivalent of trying to beat the Germans to the sunbeds on holiday: pointless.
A US company, 2 Wheel Tunes, with a UK distributor, has come up with a series of great sound systems designed to let iPod and MP3 owners rock out while riding without the use of earphones. The company offers the Universal MP3/XM Sound System which will fit on any bike but, in these show pics I snapped last night, are hooked up on an eye-popping Harley.
The system includes a pair of custom made bullet-style speakers, and an amp that can pump out 50W from each of them. When you are sitting on the bike (jump now), the volume is deafening but the sound quality remains undistorted and clean. The MP3 holder is mounted on the handlebars while the amp is hooked up on the chassis behind the front wheel. The latest addition is the Dock N’ Rock System, a chrome plated system that mounts on the riser with the amp in-built.
Both systems cost around £300. Hop for more photos. – Martin Lynch
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R2-D2 Home Entertainment System Rocks January 9, 2007
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There’s only one thing better than a home entertainment system and that’s a home entertainment system that can follow you around the home in the shape of R2-D2.
This is a fully-working robot that stands just under two-feet tall and as CES drags on this is one of the most fun looking gadgets I’ve seen, if for no other reason than R2’s lens is a fully working, LCOS home cinema projector. It can project images up to 80in wide in 800x600 pixel resolution. It has an in-built DVD/CD/MP3 player, FM radio, speakers, outputs for hooking up to surround sound systems, a USB slot, memory card reader and – if that’s not enough – a pop-out iPod dock.
And the best bit is the remote control, a big unwieldy thing in the shape of most boys’ favourite starship, the Millennium Falcon. The control pad slides out from underneath and I’m pretty sure that if you got one of these you’d never need friends again.
It’s built by Nikko Home Electronics and the show reps said that this going to be available in the UK in the coming months. The cost? A very reasonable £1,500. Jump now for more pics. -Martin Lynch
CES 2007: Sony OLED TVs Make LCDs Look Obese January 9, 2007
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One of the best looking things on the Sony stand last night was a selection of skinny HDTVs, powered by OLEDs.
I love OLED technology but it’s been hanging around on the fringes for some time now waiting for someone to start exploiting its amazing potential. Sony showed off an array of stunning TVs, the biggest being 27in that measured just 10mm deep. Yes, that’s about as long as your baby fingernail and sporting full high definition (HD) resolution of 1920×1080 to boot.
Even slinkier were the smaller 11in TVs with resolutions of 1024x600 but measuring just 3mm thick. Mass production of the smaller panels is looking most likely to be green lit first but Sony said it is currently developing larger OLED panels for later release.
Jump now for more pics of these anorexic beauties.- Martin Lynch
Sandisk Drives Support Windows ReadyBoost January 9, 2007
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That Vista train is well under way. Sandisk just announced support for the new Windows ReadyBoost technology in its forthcoming USB Flash storage drives.
After mid-Feb, a selection drives of 1GB and higher will support the new feature. For those of you new to or, frankly disinterested in the arrival of the Vista OS, ReadyBoost is designed to boost performance with removable storage drives by creating a cache for commonly accessed data in an unused part of the drive. The cache still remains accessible even when your gaming, torrent downloading and DVD burning activities have gobbled up all of your main RAM resources.
All data held in the ReadyBoost cache is encrypted, so there’s no way Mom or your employer will know what you are really doing online.-Martin Lynch
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