Posts Tagged ‘ Strange ’

Blogging, Podcasting Improves Your Social Life

Mar 4th, 2008 | By | Category: Citizen Media, Commentary, Internet TV

It starting to look like geeking out with new media may be good for your social life. First, Cosmo revealed that the Apple Store is a great place to meet people “for a fun fling or a long term relationship”: Most guys are natural gadget lovers, and with sales of iPods and MacBooks skyrocketing, more […]



iPod Madness, Techno Addiction Ruining Lives

Feb 20th, 2008 | By | Category: General, iPhone, Strange

The BBC is warning about the rampant new problem of techno addiction – when gadgets get so damn sexy that people become addicted to them. According to the venerable BBC: Techno addiction can become so bad that people wake up several times a night to check their e-mails and text messages; Techno addiction can interfere […]



One Less Thing To Worry About

Jan 31st, 2008 | By | Category: General, iPod Accessories, iPods & Portable Media Players, Strange

A new report refutes claims that portable music players, such as Apple’s iPod, interfere with cardiac pacemakers. Howard Bassen, a researcher with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in Rockville, Md., led a research team that measured the magnetic fields produced by four different iPod models: a fourth-generation iPod and an iPod with video, and […]



Listen To Your iPod The Austin Powers Way

Jan 29th, 2008 | By | Category: iPod Accessories, iPods & Portable Media Players, Strange

Alberto Frias Transport “perceptual pod” isn’t like other iPod accessories: The Transport is a $16,000 composite fiberglass waterbed pod; It is handmade & numbered for authenticity; It has a built-in full-spectrum LED lighting system; It has a remote control so that you can control the built-in sound system and lighting effects; and, best of all… […]



Tiki Bar TV Star Saves The Day

Jan 28th, 2008 | By | Category: General, Strange, Video Podcasts

Animation producer Kevin Gamble, otherwise known as Tiki Bar TV‘s fez-wearing bartender Johnny Johnny, recently moved from Vancouver to New York. They say that New York is the most exciting city in the world, but Gamble got more excitement than anyone could wish or plan for this weekend when he rescued a woman who fell […]



Will It Blend Takes On The Writers’ Strike

Jan 28th, 2008 | By | Category: Podcast Quickies

Tom Dickson of the Will It Blend video podcast isn’t letting the Writers’ Strike slow him down. One more reason why a video podcast about a kitchen gadget is one of the top twenty channels on YouTube.



The $1,895.00 Super Boom Box

Jan 27th, 2008 | By | Category: iPods & Portable Media Players, Strange

The Super Boom Box is a $1,895, built-to-order tank of a boom box that plays radio, CDs & MP3s. Here are the specs: Play music from AM, FM, CD, or a USB Flash Drive source. Up to 65 hours of unique music can be stored on a 4GB Flash Drive (based on our benchmark tests, […]



Obama Fighting For The iPod Vote

Jan 26th, 2008 | By | Category: Internet TV, Strange, Streaming Video

Barack Obama delivers the Top Ten list on the Late Show with David Letterman: # 4 may be the best fake campaign promise yet!



New Turntable Records To Your iPod

Jan 20th, 2008 | By | Category: iPod Accessories, iPods & Portable Media Players

At the 2008 Winter NAMM Show – the largest North American music industry convention, Numark introduced an interesting iPod Turntable. The TTi iPod turntable is a turntable that includes a Universal Dock for iPod, USB audio interface, a metal platter and pitch control, making it one of the most versatile turntables ever produced. The included […]



MP3 Fashion Taser May Be The Bad Idea Of The Year

Jan 9th, 2008 | By | Category: Digital Music, iPods & Portable Media Players, Strange

CES: Taser may get the prize this year for introducing the most stupidtactular product at the Consumer Electronics Show – a leopard-print “fashion Taser,” with an MP3 player holster. While everybody else was putting iPod docks onto televisions and refrigerators and speakerphones, Taser had the audacity to something truly unique and, well, possibly insane! The […]