I have owned a bunch of portable speakers over the years. Ever since my first boombox in high school my love affair with portable music has led me on the quest for the perfect portable audio companion. My ideal companion must be small, have big sound, crazy battery life, cheap, high quality workmanship, and multiple [...]
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There is news that Twitter will launch a new music service, but it appears to be invite only. If you take a peak at music.twitter.com, there is a holding page with the hashtag #music and the words “coming soon”. There is also a button to sign in – but when you do so, it doesn’t [...]
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Guitarists who perform live (and even those who don’t) are always on the look out for new ways to attach an extra pick to their instruments. When you’re playing music in front of people and accidentally drop your pick, you can’t take time to search around for another one in the middle of a tune. [...]
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Made in the USA of recycled plastic, MagnetaPicks are 0.8mm thick guitar picks with an embedded neodymium magnet. The embedded magnet means you can stick these picks on metal surfaces such as the strings of your guitar (if you play a steel string guitar of course), the back of your tuners, mic stand or even [...]
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Have an awesome stereo speaker system but no way to get your music to it wirelessly? That’s where AirBlue from Kanex comes in. Shaped like a hockey puck, it’s a Bluetooth audio receiver into which you can plug a 3.5mm audio cable. Just pair your iPhone (or any Bluetooth-enabled music player) to AirBlue, and you’ll be able [...]
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The FlashHarp is a 2GB flash drive that doubles as a harmonica. Yeah, you read that right – a harmonica. It even comes with a 10 minute instructional video stored right on the drive so that you’ll be blowing “Oh Susanna” in no time. Play a tune then copy files to your computer. Just be [...]
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Do you have a lot of tunes on your mobile phone, iPod Touch, iPad, etc? Want to wirelessly stream those tunes to your stereo? Weezy will do it for you. It’s an interestingly shaped small device that plugs into the stereo input / aux-in jack of your stereo and receives streaming music from your device [...]
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Olive Music announces the O3HD music server for $999. This server has been designed to be a stand alone hassle free solution for accessing your music collection through your home stereo without needing a PC, software installation or network setup. It features a color touchscreen, internet radio, iPad/iPhone app control and storage capacity up to [...]
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Like most people in the 21st century, I own a few types of mp3 players including a few from the iPod line, the iPad, a few from Sony, and the many other electronics that have the mp3 function built-in like cell phones. I was looking for a cheap basic mp3 player. The Green House Kana [...]
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It’s August here in Indiana, so that means 90+ degree weather, high humidity and heat advisories. Not exactly the type of weather for a hat. But hey, it won’t be long before the frost will be on the pumpkin here and elsewhere. Be ready with the Headphone Beanie from Convenient Gadgets and Gifts. It’s a [...]
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I don’t play my guitars much these days, but the SpiderCapo from Creative Tunings makes me want to. Even if you aren’t a guitar player, you probably already know what a capo is and does. It presses across the strings on a guitar fretboard to change the pitch of the strings. The SpiderCapo is the [...]
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