We're surprised there isn't more iPod-related crime.
We're not advocating stealing them, but iPods seem to get all the MP3 love while other products, and their respective owners, seem to get left out in the cold.
Take Alpine's IDA-X001 digital media receiver. It's explicitly advertised as having been designed for iPod lovers. The device doesn't feature a CD player, but rather a USB input for direct connection and control of fifth-generation iPods and other USB devices.
Why should iPod get special mention, while the array of other products, from such luminaries as Creative Labs, Sony and Panasonic, gets relegated to other USB devices status?
Sure, the product arrives Bluetooth-ready, has a beautiful little screen to convey track information, is satellite-ready and can even work with a CD changer. It's a great feature set making the question poignant all the more: Why do iPod and its owners get all these wonderful toys? $470; visit www.alpine.com.
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Show me an individual willing to spend $6,000 on a cellular phone and I will show you a company more than willing to sell one.
Vertu, Nokia's upscale brand, has recently released its Limited Edition Racetrack Legends cellphones. On the surface, they'd appear to be regular phones that just happen to be spectacularly expensive, partially hand-finished in fine leather and constructed with knurled titanium.
But turn over the phone and you'll find a back cover partially etched with the likeness of race tracks including Le Mans, Monza, Monaco and others.
Stamped with limited-edition numbers, it's the type of device that will unequivocally designate you as having lots of money.
Considering Paris Hilton carries around the relatively pedestrian Sidekick, imagine how far a car buff can go with one of these puppies in hand. $6,000; visit www.vertu.com
Kicking it old school, Good on Dual AV for supporting the Cro-Magnon man with its newly released XC4100 in-car cassette player.
All kidding aside, now is probably a great time to have a cassette player in your car. While music buffs everywhere must venture to the shopping mall and spend hard-earned money on their compact discs, cassette users need only stroll over to their neighbour's garbage can to enjoy a healthy sampling of this nearly defunct media.
Sure, we laugh on the outside, but as our own Honda Civic doesn't yet contain CD technology, we admit to crying on the inside. One scan of the feature set reads like a wish list from the 1980s: 30 station presets, a locking fast-forward button, and knobs and dials that toggle volume, tone and balance.
And it has bass boost, so you can really party like it's pre-1999. All told, Dual has priced this gem brilliantly, as it should. $40 U.S.
Source : www.canada.com
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