Black must be the new Black… especially when it comes to Apple products and Apple accessories! We featured the absolutely gorgeous Black Macbook 13″ last week, and today’s Gizmo of the Day is the Bose SoundDock System for iPod… in Black.
If you’re an audiophile looking to use your digital music stored in your iPod for a sound system, these speakers preserve the fullness and richness of your music. Of course, the SoundDock comes at a price.
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We’ve featured other weather forecasting/reporting devices before, but I really like this one. It has that elegant, executive look to it and is nice and compact. The 5-day Weather Forecaster from Ambient Devices receives zip-code specific info from Accuweather via Ambient’s wireless nationwide network. The LCD screen has clear icons for various weather conditions and the thing that I really like is that the temperatures are not only displayed as numbers, but in a graph format, so you can get a feel for how the weather is trending. Must be the engineer in me…
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Here’s another environmentally friendly gadget, that is power conscious. It’s a power strip and surge protector that very simply detects whether or not the devices you have plugged in to it are actually on or not and stops drawing power from the wall. I immediately thought of a great application for this: my spare laptop power adapter that I like to leave plugged in to the wall outlet, so I can quickly plug into my laptop to juice it back up. Immediate power and money savings. Just in case you’ve got devices that you need/want to leave on permanently (and we all do!), just plug it in to the red outlets.
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Zinio Systems offers digital magazines in a slick interface that allows you to flip through magazines easily, zoom in, use a markup tool and search easily through magazines. I’ve always wanted to grep through magazines, and now I can!
Some of the Digital Lifestyle magazines offered by Zinio include Home Theater (which is my favorite), PC Magazine and MacWorld to name a few. They offer free test samples to give digital magazines a try.
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A couple days ago, Apple unveiled the newly designed MacBook, the world’s most advanced consumer notebook featuring the Intel Core Duo processor and a gorgeous new 13-inch glossy widescreen display, all in a sleek design that is up to five times faster than the iBook and up to four times faster than the 12-inch PowerBook. Together with the 15-and 17-inch MacBook Pros, the new MacBook completes Apple’s Intel-based portables lineup and replaces both the iBook and the 12-inch PowerBook.
The Geeks think the Black MacBook is the sexiest laptop we’ve ever seen, but… will it scratch?
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If you are a gamer… we found your edge!
This Wolfking Warrior game pad puts the action keys you need for FPS (First Person Shooters) games in an ergonomical manner. Wolfking has thought of it all, they even include a layer of silicone between the keys to quiet the keystroke noise allowing gamers with family to game late at night!
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A “6′ 3″ guy who weighs no more than a buck-65 (wet out of the shower)” wrote a review on Kensington’s SX-2000 Speakers for iPod featuring NXT Technology over at LIVEdigitally. NXT Technology is known for their flat panel loudspeaker technology and the NXT technology is used by a plethora of vendors including Kensington, Logitech, Hitachi, Philips, Pioneer, Sonos, NEC and Toyota. Here’s an excerpt from their review:
Now slim size is a nice plus and all, but for me the main question was: “How does it sound?�? The answer is “amazing.�? The sound is rich both at high and low volumes and nice and steady throughout. It’s not a Cambridge Soundworks system, but for the price and size, it does everything we want. We’ve even started to crank up the tunes while we are in the other rooms and the sound carries well and with no notable distortion. Part of what impresses me about the Kensington unit is the NXT technology (used in the device).
Currently, the Geeks are testing out an offering by Logitech (look for the review later this week), and we’ll agree with Ron on the sound quality. Check out the entire review on LIVEdigitally’s site.
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The Geeks have been following the Nabaztag for several months now and it looks like we can finally list them as a Gizmo of the Day because they are available (that’s one of our rules for Gizmos of the Day – the Gizmo must be available).
The Nabaztag can teach you tai chi, read your e-mail, report the weather or stock market, pull RSS feeds and tell you the time. He’s also got personality. Nabaztag can move his ears, play music, talk and whistle, and his body can show off hundreds of colors and special patterns of light. Sometimes he will even have his own random things to say, as long as you can put up with his moods!
The Nabaztag is a networked furby on steroids.
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Iogear’s VoIP Skype Calling Kit allows you to quickly and easily call friends and family using a familiar keypad. In addition to allowing people to use a familiar keypad that looks like a phone’s keypad, the Calling Kit also has a built-in 6-port USB hub, sound card and audio switch to switch between the audio ports.
If you haven’t tried Skype yet… you have to! The sound quality rocks!
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This extremely small voice recorder can hold over 66 hours of speech in monoaural mode. That may not be that impressive given how cheap storage has become, but hopefully this will impress you a little: the RR-US395S comes with voice editing software that converts from speech to text *and* can translate into 5 different languages: French, Spanish, German, Italian and Russian. I think Japanese and Chinese are missing, but maybe that’ll be in the next revision. Still not enough? The software also has a feature to pronounce the speech as well in those other languages. I’m actually a bit surprised that it’s priced under $80.
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