Posts Tagged ‘radio’

The Future of Digital Radio: DAB Not Quite Dibs

The Future of Digital Radio: DAB Not Quite Dibs

I once owned what is now commonly termed a vintage radio. Back then of course it wasn’t vintage, just state of the art and I was very proud of it. It was a Roberts portable, and then just like now, it stood for robust quality; a rich lineage of portable…

Pioneer’s new Airplay-enabled Network Audio Players

Pioneer’s new Airplay-enabled Network Audio Players

Earlier this week, Pioneer announced two lovely new Network Audio Players. The N-30 and N-50 both support Apple’s AirPlay function and offer the ability to play music files from a variety of sources and formats, including high resolution 192 kHz/24-bit audio files. Awesome. Why should you be excited, then? Well…

CES Unveiled – Pure Sensia 200D music system

CES Unveiled – Pure Sensia 200D music system

At last night’s CES Unveiled press event, we were given a demonstration of the forthcoming Sensia 200D music system from the guys over at Pure. The 200D is the follow-up to the original Sensia and the primary enhancements are the ability to record audio (such as DAB radio) to an…

Great Eco-Gadgets For Christmas

Great Eco-Gadgets For Christmas

Do you love a white Christmas? Well, if global warming gets its way, say goodbye to those snowy Xmas days. That’s why we’ve put together this list of eco-gadgets to fill both your Christmas stocking and your heart with self-righteous eco warmness. Powermonkey-eXtreme Portable Charger The powermonkey-eXtreme certainly lives up…

Orange Liveradio team up with Logitech to ‘evolve the Squeezebox experience’

Orange Liveradio team up with Logitech to ‘evolve the Squeezebox experience’

In the same way only the most respected, celebrated and legendary car manufacturers, such as Mercedes Benz and Alfa Romeo, have forums dedicated for fellow enthusiasts to share their experiences and tips, technology companies must know they’ve ‘established’ themselves when there are forums in circulation devoted to sharing knowledge about…

Eton Raptor: Taking the ‘ruggedness’ out of camping!

Eton Raptor: Taking the ‘ruggedness’ out of camping!

The arrival of summer – even if it has turned slightly sour, at least up north anyway – beckons us into the open air. If you are heading to a music festival , or camping with the kids, or trekking in the Alps, or whatever your outdoor activity is this…

Parabola DAB radio: Stylish, portable and cheap

Parabola DAB radio: Stylish, portable and cheap

Anything that advertises itself as being “too hot to handle” whips up a certain degree of intrigue and interest. When, therefore, an email titled, ‘a DAB that is too hot to handle’ arrives in your inbox, you feel compelled to take a further look. At a first glimpse at a…

Minuet DAB Radio: Put simply, it’s child’s play!

Minuet DAB Radio: Put simply, it’s child’s play!

The benefits of buying your child a radio are more multi-faceted than the fact they can keep the kids ‘out of your hair’ by keeping them entertained for hours. Apart from relishing with delight that they have been given their very own grown-up technological ‘gadget’, evidence has proven that listening…

Magicbox Tower iPod alarm dock review

Magicbox Tower iPod alarm dock review

More and more iPod dock alarm clocks seem to be hitting the market. After all it’s a natural fit – you have all that space by your bedside table, an iPod or iPhone (if you’re reading this your chances of owning one are oh so high) and a need to…

Breville toaster radio: Breakfast gets a musical accompaniment

Breville toaster radio: Breakfast gets a musical accompaniment

Friends are often keen to hear about the latest gadgets I’m trying out, but all I seemed to get when I told them I was trying out a toaster/radio was a lot of smirks. But it’s from Breville, and it looks really cool, I proclaimed. They still weren’t convinced. However,…

Logic 3’s i-Station TimeCube review

Logic 3’s i-Station TimeCube review

So it would seem that iPod docks have become so prevalent, that simply playing back sound from your iDevice is no longer enough, and more and more dual (or more) function devices are appearing. Previously we looked at the GEAR4 Halo, a £99 alarm dock that had a lovely bass-filled…

Revolutions in radio technology: PURE Flowsongs and Logitech Squeezebox

Revolutions in radio technology: PURE Flowsongs and Logitech Squeezebox

Since its beginnings in the early 1800s, radio has been one of the more important technological devices. From helping keep soldiers’ morale up in World War Two, to keeping emergency services in contact with one another, radio, for decades, has provided societies with simple yet accurate communication and entertainment. In…