October 20, 2005
Onkyo D-TK10 speakers
These new Onkyo D-TK10 speakers, $1,435 US, are the first speakers that use the same wood as an acoustic guitar and are designed just like the instrument. The subwoofer itself is made out of all natural, non-synthetic materials that have 3.5 times the resistance than before due to a hybrid fibre made out of 3 elements which include the natural fibres, pen fibre and aramid fibre. Costly but worth that sweet acoustic sound.
Originally by jp6212 from Travel Gadgets | Travelizmo on October 20, 2005, 1:03am
Airpie Korea has launched a new clip-type portable speaker for MP3 players the “Airpie-Pump”. With an attractive design and clip, it is portable and compatible with other portable devices like PMP, PDA, or game device and of course MP3P. Its speakers support 0.8 W and it runs for maximum 18 hours for 1 AA battery. It comes in three colors: white, yellow, and blue. It measures 91 x 32 x 32mm. 
So Sony is working their way into the media center market, but in Sony fashion they are too good of a company to just have a plain old “media center” so they are labeling their new device as a “digital living system.” Good news for Sony is that this computer is, in fact, not a media center at all. It is way worse and way more expensive. This machine features a Pentium D processor, only 512 MB of memory, a lowly 200 GB hard drive, no RAID, 802.11g WiFi, a GeForce 6200, and a dual-layer DVD burner. For the mediocre specs this machine it has a hefty price tag of $2,300. Don’t worry, this machine didn’t bring out the full negative Nancy in me. This machine does include a nifty keyboard/touchpad combo, has an integrated DVD changer and doesn’t look very PC-esque. So it could nicely blend into any ritzy home theatre setup.
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The wireless head phone “HP-W80” from JVC uses analog infrared ray transmission and consists of head phone and the transmitter section. The head phone section weighs 105gms (including the battery) it the lightest wireless headset available in the market. The open air type headphone unit with 30mm diameter uses high magnetic force neodymium magnet and CCAW voice coil adoption for quality playback. The playback frequency is in between 20Hz - 24 kHz and the headphone range is 7 meters. When the headphone is out of range the “automatic muting function” Cuts of the noise. The headphone is charged via the transmitter. Also you can use a single A4 size alkaline cell. It takes roughly 24 hours for a full charge which lasts for approximately 30 hours. The A4 Alkaline cell can be used up to 50 hours. The transmitter weighs approximately 150 grams. The HP-W80 will be available from November 1st for 5,000 Yen ($ 45)
Panasonic recently announced a couple of micro stereo systems as well as four audio players that work with each other via the SD memory card format. The two micro stereo systems are equipped with hard drives of 80GB (SC-SX800) and 40GB (SC-SX400) capacities respectively, and are supposedly the world’s first CD and FM/AM audio players with hard drives and SD card slots. Each stereo system has a large LCD with QVGA quality that can show up to 7 lines of audio info. The idea here is that you can rip songs from a CD right to the hard drive, and then copy them to the SD card for use with one of the four audio players, all without a computer.
AudioTechnica’s “ATH-CK7″ ear phone will be available on November 25th. This superior quality earphone gives studio quality listening. The earphone is made of Titanium with mirror surface finish. The unit which uses neodymium magnet and CCAW voice coil. All adds up to high clear music with balanced playback. The earphone has 16 Ω impedance and weighs approximately 10g. (Excluding the cord).The cord length is 1.2m. This state of the art professional earphone comes with a carrying case. The ATH-CK7 will be available for 10,000 Yen ($ 90)
