Creative is tackling the budget end of the MP3 player market with the new, colourful Zen Stone range of 1GB players which will barely tickle your wallet at £28.
Available in six colours - black, white, red, blue, pink and green –the player weighs in at 18.3g and measures 53.7x35.3x12.8mm. The 1GB capacity will take 500 songs, assuming a 4-minute track length, so Pink Floyd fans might want to do some math first.
It has a rechargeable lithium-ion battery which Creative claims is good for 10 hours and it supports MP3, WMA and WMA with DRM 9 files. You can even opt for some Zen Stone accessories, like the matching silicon skins, the sporty armband+skin combo and a “fashionable keychain” with a tiny case for putting the player in.
Pics of the keychain and the armband after the jump. –Martin Lynch
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Looking out the window, summer is certainly coming early this year and the bright laptop accessories are arriving right along side it.
I always thought laptop bags were made from dead cows or, cleverly disguised as rucksacks, to thwart the greedy gazes of nefarious types on the Underground. Seemingly not.
Wrappers has launched its summer range of laptop, and MacBook, sleeves, throwing dead animal bag tradition to the wind with a flowery and bright collection of, well, wrappers made from a wide variety of materials.
The company has ditched bags for catwalk designer sleeves to cuddle your precious notebook. Forget carrying extra batteries, removable hard disk drives and cables though as this is all about fashion, darling.
Designs and patterns culled from big names like Missoni and Paul Smith are combined with high quality materials like Tana Lawn Cotton from Liberty of London. There’s even something retro for you rockettes with the Jean Jeannie [pictured], a heavy duty denim sleeve with candy stripe lining.
Surprisingly, this kind of fashion accessory is not out to break the bank. Prices start at £17 and range up to £30+.-Martin Lynch
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Waffles may have come and gone on this side of the world but they still hold a fascination for many in the US.
Designer Chris Dimino though has decided that instead of eating a few thousand of them, he’d create something a little different. This is the waffle maker for geeks, with keyboard shaped waffles. He’s taken an old typewriter and cleverly re-used it to create one-off waffles for us proud and starving nerds. And it looks great in the process. In his own words:
Problem: Typewriter - Take this now useless item and give it a new life then it was intended to have.
Solution: The “Corona-Matic” a typewriter turned into a waffle iron that makes keyboard shaped waffles. Part of: The Next Best…Ding! A travelling exhibit on the reinvention of the typewriter.
This is ‘Green’ design done right.-Martin Lynch
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