I try to spend as little time as possible near my washing machine and dryer, so the idea of a washer with a built-in iPod dock is less than appealing to me. Apparently, LG's patent for the "Home appliance with MP3 player" is banking on a whole lot of people liking the idea. The drawings show a dock for the iPod/Zune (or any MP3 player for that matter) on the top of the machine, combined with speakers and a USB port.
The colorful washing machines seemed like a big enough novelty, but if you really want to listen to music and wash your clothes I suggest grabbing your MP3 player and headphones instead of enduring tumble noise. Source and Source
This summer, watch out for the launch of these lovely ATH-CK1 pastel earphones by Audio-Technica. You can choose from a variety of six different colors including purple, pink, yellow, turquoise, light blue and red which all come in matching cute aluminum containers. Cost is about $27. Would you consider trading in your basic white iPod earphones for a pair of these ones? Leave your comments below!
First John Mayer declared that he was a geeky master gamer who loves playing Halo. Well it turns out he might also be a BlackBerry junkie as well!
Reuters has announced that BlackBerry will be sponsoring Mayer's 40-date tour which is set to begin June 1. BlackBerry is using the tour to help launch its upcoming AT&T mobile phone, the Curve.
The senior director of corporate marketing for Research In Motion is hoping that this partnership will help BlackBerry reach a new younger audience. On-site at each concert, people will be able to see, touch, feel and take pictures with the BlackBerry Curve so they can get an up close and personal look at this new sleek smartphone. Now if only I could get my hands on a pic of Mayer using the Curve...in due time!
You know when you're shopping online and you see a box on the checkout page that tells you to enter a discount code, coupon number or promotional code? You can actually obtain those money saving codes and digits from Retail Me Not, a website that lists online coupon codes for stores like J Crew, Amazon, Victoria Secret, Starbucks and Avis. The website gets all of its discount codes from user-submissions, so there's no guarantee that each code will work 100 percent, but it's definitely worth a try. Just enter at the checkout page and give them a whirl, you never know what goodies you'll get at a fraction of the regular cost!
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Yesterday a bunch of you admitted you love playing around with fun and funky cameras like the colored Lomolitos cameras and the hilarious fisheye lens camera, so when I saw the concept for the Nikon 360 Degrees Digital Camera I knew I wouldn't be the only excited photographer around here. The idea is the camera can take an "unbroken view of an entire surrounding area," (ie panoramic shots).
With most cameras, getting a real panoramic shot means turning 360 degrees, to receive an unbroken view. Based on an ergonomic cylindrical form lens, the Nikon 360 allows you take an all-round picture. It has an angle indicator that provides a gauge on the direction of the rotating head and is also an additional detail to provide the camera with a stronger and steadier feel while in operation. What do you think of the idea?
When the folks from Griffin dropped by to let me test out their portable Journi speaker they also let me test out the soon-to-be-released Evolve speaker, which combines a small, traditional iPod speaker system with the joy of portability and wirelessness.
The system is made up of a light charging base and two cube-shaped speakers that can be moved off the base or in to a new room. The demo guy actually started it up and made me follow him across the office with one of the cubes and shockingly, the sound was still pretty great. My favorite part is, there is no wire hassle, so you can put one speaker on your desk and keep the other in another room and not worry about tripping over wires.
Each speaker has its own Lithium-Ion battery pack, which apparently delivers up to 10 hours of music between charges. The system also works with non-iPod MP3 devices. Price and release date available soon.
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