Filed under: Meta, Peripherals, Portable Audio

Griffin just slipped three new iPod accessories into the Apple Expo showroom: the iKaraoke, iTalk Pro, and TrueCenter. The iKaraoke allows you to fade-out the vocals from your favorite songs and replace ‘em them with your very own self-stylings over the included mic. The results can then be pumped out your stereo over the wire or wirelessly via the embedded FM transmitter. Three levels of reverb are available to improve your vocals for, well you know, when the sake just ain’t enough. The new iTalk Pro boasts not just one, but two built-in mics for 16-bit stereo or 8-bit mono audio recordings. But you’ll need to drop an external mic into that 1/8-inch jack, jack, if you need greater stereo separation. Last, and certainly least, is the TuneCenter — another of those iPod media docks with remote controls. Only this dock sports a “full-slate” of Internet Radio stations — bonus! No pricing has been announced, or availability, but we’ve got some bigger snaps after the break and that’s gotta count for something.

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Filed under: Features, Portable Audio, Portable Video

Obviously we’re all a little underwhelmed that the 5.5G iPod isn’t the true video iPod we thought would be debuted with the movie store, but the screen is definitely brighter, those hard drives are definitely bigger, and you really just can’t argue with a $50 drop in price. Or games, which cost a small chunk of change. But at least it’s nice to know what you’re getting yourself into here, and that’s a 5G iPod with a 60% brighter screen.

Pac Man! Haww yeah.

Ok, so it was a little out of focus, but this is the new 30GB model. Unfortunately the 80GB wasn’t around for size comparison, but we doubt it’s any larger than yesterday’s 60GB device.

This one’s a personal favorite of our spammers.

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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

Man, Steve really must have people in a tizzy, the rumor mill is still glowing bright even at two in the damn morning. Up today we have:

• Apple New Zealand supposedly leaks 50GB / 80GB iPod dock adapter kit for Universal Dock system. Oook.
• TUAW has what could be (but probably isn’t) Steve’s itinerary, which highlights a new nano, widescreen video iPod, and the TubePort, a streaming home theater movie device that connects your TV to your computer via USB and grabs movies hosted by Apple.
• Core 2 Duo MacBook Pros, of course. (We were really trying not to say natch that time.)
• Updated nanos with larger capacities, battery lives, differing colors, and aluminum posteriors.
• iTunes 7 and 10.4.8 will be released.
• Ok, that’s more or less it right now.

So that’s not a lot, but we weren’t going to write those up (even though they’re a little too good to leave alone). Stick close for more, it’s gonna be a busy day — and feel free to hit us up with your late breaking rumors in comments!

[Thanks, Graham & dawnraid]

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Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video

Last time we saw a banner shown at an Apple event was, well, last month for the WWDC 2006 extravaganza. But this banner, supposedly taken at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco for the event intended this Tuesday the 12th, pretty clearly depicts what appears to be the touchscreen (true) video iPod — that is, if it’s real. Of course, we can confirm nor deny anything, but obviously the churning machine that is the Apple rumor mill right now should not be discounted, friends. Two days until we all find out!

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Filed under: Gaming, Portable Audio

Ok folks, let’s do a little role playing: imagine you’re some big manufacturing company in Taiwan. Just for argument’s sake, call yourself Foxconn Technology Group. Now imagine that your company produces one of the world’s most popular gadgets (call it the iPod) for a company in California (call them Apple Computer), and then two Chinese journalists also investigate and then your company later sues them for $3.77 million. Then, a British journalist investigates your factory and confirms that your workers are working in erm, questionable conditions — and even Apple starts looking into the matter. Upon further reflection of the absurdity of your lawsuit your company rescinds the lawsuit and reduces the damages to one yuan (12 cents). So, here’s the question: what is the next logical step in this crazy sequence of events? After studying every successful business guide that we could get our hands on and consulting with everyone from Bill Gates to Steve Jobs, we’ve discovered that the only possible, rational and meaningful subsequent business move would be to start selling Joan Mirò-inspired NVIDIA graphics cards. Yes, we knew they were coming as of a few months ago — but no, we don’t think that makes it a good idea now.

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Filed under: Cellphones, Portable Audio

Listen up LL Cool Stevie J.: would it be really so hard to get your engineering posse on building Bluetooth into the iPod? Seriously, we’d settle for even a Bluetooth dongle at this point, just so we wouldn’t have to get scrambled up in our headphones anymore. Because if you guys don’t come out with something soon, then we’re going to have to settle for these really mediocre things like this BluPod here — all it does is display caller ID info on your iPod and turn down your music accordingly (oh, and it adds an FM transmitter, too). Ok, nevermind this BluPod — just get going on that iPhone, m’kay?

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Filed under: Laptops, Portable Audio

In a move that will be seen as gracious by some, extortionist by others, Apple has offered to pay a New Jersey woman an undisclosed sum to rebrand a laptop bag she sells so that it no longer includes the word “pod” — but not before reminding her in a letter that she was in potential violation of the closely-guarded iPod trademark. Until recently, Medford Lakes resident Terry Wilson had been selling her protective case under the name “TightPod,” which as we all learned from the ugly little Profit Pod incident, is dangerously diluting the brand significance of Apple’s cash cow. Unlike the electronic Profit Pod, however — which Apple referred to as “a small, flat, round corned rectangular device with a display screen” — we can’t see all that many people confusing a furry computer case with the world’s most recognizable audio player. Still, you gotta do what you gotta do to proactively protect your brand, we suppose, so we’re just waiting by the mailbox to receive a big fat check that will allow us to begin the long, painful process of rebirthing the Engadget Podcast as the Engadget Zencast.

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Filed under: Portable Audio

Apple has settled a lawsuit filed by a Vermont-based company called Contois Music Technology, which alleged that the iTunes user interface violated a 1996 patent for a “Computer Control System and User Interface for Media Playing Devices.” Contois Music Technology claimed that Apple integrated elements from its patent into iTunes, and based its accusation on the fact that Apple employees were present at trade shows in the mid-90s where Contois Music Tech had demonstrated its software. Some of the functionality which the company claims was copied by Apple includes using a menu selection process to select music, the ability to search and sort music based on the genre, artist, and album, and transferring music from a library to a portable music player. As we reported last year when the lawsuit was filed, several other software packages capable of similar functionality existed around the same time as when Contois Music Technology was showing off its patented software (e.g. WinAmp), but as patent-infringement cases are notoriously expensive to fight, we’re not surprised that Apple decided to settle instead. As the exact terms of the settlement were not disclosed (read: how much Apple had to cough up), it’ll be hard to draw parallels between this and Apple’s recent $100 Million settlement with Creative over the menu system for the iPod: unfortunately, that also means we’ll have to wait until the next Apple lawsuit to hear more of that oh-so-subtle smack talk from Jobs.

[Via AppleInsider]

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Filed under: Portable Audio

Remember that 14-year-old girl who is suing her friend over a missing iPod? An anonymous kind soul took it upon herself to buy Shannon Derrik a new iPod Nano, a pink case and a $50 iTunes gift card — but Melanie McCarthy, Derrik’s mother, who filed the lawsuit on her daughter’s behalf, is refusing the gift and is going ahead with the case. A package was dropped off for Shannon Derrik, the victim of this terrible, terrible situation, at the offices of The Naperville Sun, a suburban Chicago newspaper that has been closely following the case. The newspaper also reported that both Derrik, and Stephanie Eick, the girl who was entrusted with Derrik’s iPod, were invited to appear on the Judge Mathis show, which is taped in Chicago. The respective families had initially accepted the offer, but then McCarthy came to her senses and realized that she’d be ridiculed publicly for putting her daughter through such absurdity.

[Thanks, Ricardo G.]

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Filed under: Portable Audio

In the age of terrorism, security officials are a bit on edge these days, you know? British travellers have had to check their electronics, Americans are facing the war on liquids, and the Canadians have just opened up a new front in the war on carry-on items. Some twelve days ago an incoming plane from Chicago, landing in Canada’s capital city, Ottawa, was kept away from the main terminal as a suspicious item was found on board in the plane’s lavatory. The passengers were taken off the plane, a canine team and bomb squad were brought in and the plane was checked from stem to stern. The offending item? An iPod. No word on what kind, though. Folks, please be careful with your iPods — don’t let them go wandering off to the loo unattended, ok?

P.S. – A guy turned up on the World of Warcraft forums, claiming that it was his iPod that caused the whole fiasco. He recounts his tale here. Airport security FTW!

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Filed under: Portable Audio

You gotta love the litigousness of youth — especially when there’s an iPod involved. A spat over a missing iPod resulted in a lawsuit in Wheaton, Illinois, when 14-year-old Shannon Derrik sued her (now former) friend Stephanie Eick for losing her brand new iPod. It seems that Shannon made the fool mistake of lending her iPod to Stephanie, who decided it’d be a good idea to give back the iPod by leaving it on Shannon’s desk rather than waiting for her to return from the restroom to hand it over in person. The iPod managed to disappear — apparently someone in that classroom had some sticky fingers — and so Shannon sued for $475 in damages and court fees (she says she did a LOT of babysitting to pay for that iPod). The case was initially tossed because of an improper filing, but it looks like the two girls will finally square off in court in about a month (the word on the street is that they’re gearing up for a serious showdown in the cafeteria when school starts up again). Ryan and I will be headed to Wheaton next month to liveblog the entire trial, we really have no choice to put all our resources into coverage of a case of this magnitude.

[Thanks, Ricardo]

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Filed under: Peripherals, Portable Audio, Portable Video, Wireless

While it seems that there’s just too many of those not-exactly-functional FM transmitters for your iPod / DAP-of-choice to ever actually decide on just one (and hope for the best), the market for transmitting video from your portable media player is bit more limited. Princeton has unveiled its video (and audio) transmitting solution, dubbed the PCK-UAV, to give 5G iPod owners, as well any other PMP — or anything with RCA outs, actually — the ability to transmit media wirelessly over the UHF band. If you’re fortunate enough to rock a TV monitor (or four) in your ride, and you’ve got a built-in TV tuner somewhere in there as well, you can pipe your TV shows, movies, tunes, etc. to any connected display by tuning into one of the four UHF stations the PCK-UAV plays nice with; DIP switches on the unit allow for broadcasting to channels 45, 48, 50, and 53, and you can supposedly pick these up on a standard television as well, giving you an excellent reason to dust off those ‘ole rabbit ears. Contrary to most poorly complemented Japanese products, Princeton includes some thoughtful extras here, such as a 12 volt car power adapter and apparently a video / audio connector cable made specifically for the iPod with video — although we can’t quite pick up solid deets concerning price or availability, nor how well this implementation of an in-car transmitter will actually, you know, transmit, it’ll supposedly run you about ¥8,000 ($69) when it drops this month.

[Via OhGizmo]

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Filed under: Home Entertainment, Portable Audio

If you’re looking for something a bit beefier-looking than Apple’s own much-maligned iPod Hi-Fi, Logitech may have just the speaker system for you. At $299, their just announced AudioStation (pictured above) isn’t all that much cheaper than the Hi-Fi, but it does look to stack up pretty well against it, with two 1-inch dome tweeters, a pair of 4-inch woofers, and a total power output of 80W. For the audiophiles out there, it also promises a maximum sound pressure level of 110dB, and a frequency response of 36Hz to 23kHz plus/minus 3dB. Specs the rest of us can understand include an AM/FM radio, built-in LCD that displays a clock or radio info, a standard 3.5mm input, and an S-Video output for iPods with video, as well as a 16-button remote. Look for it to drop this October, along with a portable version, the AudioStation Express (pictured after the break), which is much more Hi-Fi-inspired design-wise, although quite a bit less capable in the audio department — it’s set to retail for $129.99.

Read – Logitech AudioStation
Read – Logitech AudioStation Express

[Via PC Mag]

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Filed under: Portable Audio, Storage

If you haven’t been paying close attention to the theoretical glass ceiling that the iPod has struck, you may not realize that Apple’s darling has been capped at 60GB for quite awhile now. While the iPod with video is, in our humble opinion, very ripe for a refresh, the holdup could be history if Seagate has anything to do with it. The world’s “largest hard drive manufacturer” isn’t phased by the recent flash-based memory craze, and feels that even NAND can’t oust the tried and true storage platters on its own. William Watkins, the company’s CEO, recently stated that he felt quite secure in his operations, and that while flash memory had its place, consumers needing spacious drives for backup and home / vehicle media storage will be skipping over the small stuff and heading straight for the hard drives. Regardless, recent analyst reactions to the less-than-stellar financial performance from the company has sparked questions about how it plans to stage a comeback in a flash-driven world, and the answer just might be the iPod. Watkins noted that Seagate hasn’t been competitive in the high-capacity 1.8-inch drive arena, but we latched onto a certain comment regarding his intentions to change that — in regards to 60GB and 120GB 1.8-inch drives, Watkins claimed that the company “will have one in the December quarter,” which is obviously prime fodder for new iPod speculation (you know, since that’s the holiday shopping season and all). While we weren’t told outright that Seagate was in line to supply Apple with these larger drives, we sure hope somebody hooks it up with more capacity, and besides, there’s never a time like the present to crank up the rarely-stagnant Apple rumor mill once again.

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Filed under: Household, Peripherals, Portable Audio

If those run-of-the-mill iPod music stations are just too puny for your tastes, but your significant other won’t allow a full-sized jukebox to invade your home, Sonic Gear’s valve tube amplifier / speaker system could deliver those warm tones you’ve been yearning for. The bizarrely-named i-Steroid system injects 28 watts through the red-coned drivers, and sports the customary iPod dock-connector cradle along with an IR remote to control the jams from long range. UK’s Personal Computer World was quite impressed with the “smooth and rounded” tonal qualities derived from the atypical tube-driven amplification, and found the included accessories to be adequate, but not exactly remarkable. The biggest dig came from the 10 minute warm up period required for the tubes to get prepped, but anyone interested in these rigs should understand the nature of the beast already. Overall, reviewers were impressed enough to slap 4 out of 5 stars on it, and although this high-class setup runs about £160 ($304), at least those of you seeking the perfect speaker system to match that U2 iPod can’t say you still haven’t found what you’re looking for.

[Via Chip Chick]

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Filed under: Portable Audio, Wireless

The deets are slim, but they come straight from a BBC News article, so we’re thinking there just might be some weight to them. Apparently the UK’s BBC is planning their very own DAB device to act as “clip-on” addition to current MP3 players. Such functionality extension brings the iPod and its dock connector quickly to mind, but BBC isn’t naming any names as far as partners go. Right now they’re mainly studying the feasibility of such a device, with the main goal being to “make sure that people can listen to digital radio on their own terms.” They’re also looking into versions for mobile phones and cars, and say they’d “like to get something out sooner rather than later.”

[Via Tech Digest]

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Filed under: Cellphones, Portable Audio, Portable Video

Apple rumor dredgin’ site AppleInsider just hocked-up another canard for those of you feeling a bit shorted following WWDC 2006. AI reports that the obsessively closed-mouthed Steve Jobs is so giddy about the oft speculated iPod cellphone that he’s been blow-harding its merits amongst personal acquaintances. Sources touting an “unblemished track record” in predicting Apple’s future and familiar with the device’s “ongoings” claim that prototypes have already been released to two potential OEM manufacturing partners with a “big bang” launch coming earlier than expected — catching even industry insiders (such as themselves?) off-guard. Certainly analysts and believers alike have all but convinced themselves that some kind of iPhone device (like that pictured to the right) with or without an MVNO is a certainty. Still, it’s hard to believe that Jobs would break character in such loose-lipped fashion even if they weren’t sitting around doing nothing.

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Filed under: Peripherals, Portable Audio

Okay, so you’re terrified to even leave your own home with your iPod, let alone take it on a stroll downtown, which leaves you with a portable media player that’s stuck in the house, right? If this is you, fret not — Pacific Rim Technologies has crafted the ultimate in-home (or bar, gameroom, café, etc.) accessory for your little Apple with the iPod-ready JukeBox Station. Standing a full one meter tall and weighing in at 55 pounds, this 72 watt sound system could technically be lumped in as just another speaker station that’s “made for iPod,” especially considering the built-in dock connector and included adapters to suit every dock-rocking iPod ever produced. But alas, this device demands a bit more respect than the little guys; this beast has 5 drivers, including a 6-inch subwoofer, 2 mid-range speakers, and 2 tweeters, an LED lighting system to add that oh-so-familiar jukebox ambiance, “17 function IR remote,” RCA / 3.5mm inputs for alternate DAPs, video-out, and even a lockable window to ensure the tunes don’t come to an abrupt stop care of a desperate party-goer. While we doubt the overall quality here will be anything above average (it’ll be sold through Target, which isn’t exactly known for its high-fidelity offerings), we doubt the signal-to-noise ratio is the focal point here, and though this jukebox isn’t coin-operated, it’ll cost you $699 — or 2,796 quarters — when it drops in October.

[Via iLounge]

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Filed under: Peripherals, Portable Audio

If you’ve ever dreamed of morphing your Sirius boombox and iPod speaker system into one incredibly convenient unit, you’re obviously not alone. Directed Electronics has raised the curtains on its Soloist universal media dock, which apparently hopes to be an end-all solution to folks who don’t want a separate sound system for every media player they own. Although this is labeled with the ever-trendy “universal” tagline, it’s clear this NXT-powered device was created with Apple’s cash cow and Sirius subscribers in mind. The Soloist utilizes SurfaceSound flat panel speaker technology, and packs a subtle 10 watt-per-channel Tripath amplifier into a thin, black housing. While the system will definitely support the iPod and Sirius varieties, an untold amount of other interchangeable cradles will supposedly be included. Just in case your DAP is shunned in the cradle department, an aux-in port is provided along with a headphone jack and a Sirius in-house antenna to boot. The portability crowd will be a bit bummed that the Soloist only plays when connected to an AC outlet, as a battery compartment is MIA, but you will be able to wake to your favorite tune or Sirius station thanks to the built-in alarm clock, which could possibly make dragging yourself out of bed at least slightly less excruciating. This surprisingly well-featured device might not replace your high-end speaker systems, but if consolidation becomes a necessity, you can snag the Soloist for $149 this September.

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Filed under: Handsets, Others

Alright, dear readers, you know the drill: proceed with caution. We have no confirmation here, but sometimes a tip is too juicy not to share, no matter how suspect it might be. A reader is reporting to us that a coworker’s tech-unsavvy friend, who is regularly hired by Apple to do marketing photo shoots, was recently brought on to take some shots of “the sleekest, sexiest damn phone he’s ever seen.” The launch date? “Some time in August.” Yeah, not a typo — August. Now, to be perfectly clear, we don’t know what the iPhone (if it exists) will be actually called, we’ve never seen a real pic of the elusive beast, and this doesn’t really jive with the time frame suggested by Peter Oppenheimer’s recent comments — but we want to believe, and we don’t have to wait very long for this one to get debunked or confirmed.

[Thanks, Frazer]

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Filed under: Portable Audio

By all accounts we saw the French iPod law pass late last month, but it would appear it was still yet to undergo further revisions and last minute addendums before hitting the executive branch. Those additions to the law were approved by France's Constitutional Court late yesterday, providing for some interesting loopholes. Apparently the crux is still intact, as Apple's FairPlay could be pried open by its competitors, however, under the law a newly appointed French regulatory authority would keep watch over the process in both directions, providing "protection" for companies developing DRM technology (like Apple) by preventing open-source derivatives from existing in the marketplace. In other words, while Apple is legally mandated to open up its DRM to, say, Napster, any open-source FairPlay DRM projects could find their creators in the slammer for up to three years, and fined up to $375,000. Sure, it's still at heart pro consumer -- they don't want open source giving away the DRM shop -- but what happens to the open source DVD players already around, and other open source fair use software projects? Are French anti-DRM open source freedom fighters about to get locked up in a strange turn of events because of this law? In addition to this, fair use statues are also being molded by the law; apparently DRM may now be used to enforce certain aspects of fair use in home media, like creating x or y amount of backup copies of your media. However, there is a bright side: President Chirac has still yet to sign the law into existence, and France's Socialist Party is supposedly trying to push this into evaluation to determine whether it's even constitutional. Sorry kids, we're not through with this biz yet.

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Filed under: HDTV, Peripherals, Portable Video

While the original iSee 360i video sleeve was meant to appeal mainly to non-5G iPod owners -- as you'll recall, it lets the 4G-, nano- and mini-flavored 'Pods act as mass storage devices for feeding video to its 3.6-inch LCD -- a new version is looking to bring even the latest iPod into the fold by offering playback of high definition content. Like its predecessor (pictured), ATO's iSee HD (our name, not theirs) partitions your 'Pod's hard drive into two sections: one dedicated to DRM'ed material you downloaded from iTunes, and another for unencrypted MPEG-4, DivX, and HD.264 files that you want to watch on its screen. According to company CEO John Scott, the new iSee will hit stores in about five months, which should be plenty of time for you to save up the $200 to $250 that it's expected to set you back.

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Filed under: Peripherals, Portable Audio, Portable Video

We can add another iNotch on the iBedpole to the list as Memorex has annouced its forthcoming portable video (and audio) player for Apple's iPod. The iFlip claims to only support the 5th generation variety (what about 6th gen?), and sports an 8.4-inch LCD with 480 x 234 native resolution, built-in speakers, tilting dock, and an integrated battery to provide "up to" 5 hours of excitement, which we assume drops substantially when using the device to play back video rather than just audio. While the fold-up unit has S-video out, line out, dual headphone jacks, and an on-screen menu to adjust color / brightness-related aspects, there appears to be no way to mirror your iPod's display on the iFlip (i.e. for showing album art while a playlist spins). But if the small screen on your iPod has you bumming, you can grab an iFlip in September for $200 and make life on the road -- at least for a few hours -- a bit more enjoyable.

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Filed under: Portable Audio

After you've dropped more money in a vending machine than you ever thought possible, you're left wondering how to fill your new iPod with media to escape the monotony of your 10 hour layover. Enter 22Moo, an Australian hardware and software designer who is developing an iTunes kiosk -- dubbed PodBuffet -- to place in airports, train stations, hotels, shopping centers, and who knows where else. The prototype is powered by a Mac mini attached to a 15-inch touchscreen display that allows users timed access to the iTunes Music Store. Equipped with WiFi and all the appropriate USB, FireWire, and dock connectors, the PodBuffet won't refuse service to any iPod. The idea is to provide convenient access (and satisfy those cravings) to Apple's media mall when your laptop is MIA, and we can imagine this setup creating quite a few impulse indulgences as well. 22Moo hasn't announced a launch date nor any plans to bring these stateside, but hopefully the famished can enjoy the all-you-can-afford PodBuffet sooner rather than later.

[Via Macminute]

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Filed under: Portable Audio, Wearables

It should already be fairly obvious that your iPod is a hot commodity, and the last thing you need is a crazed individual taking a stab at you, or worse, swiping your portable. You've already been warned by the NYPD that rocking the token white headphones is a big no-no, and Thomas Pink even designed a shirt and tie to keep iPod-jackers at bay, but the folks over at CNET UK have a few tricks of their own to keep you from becoming a statistic. As you may or may not be aware, gadget theft in Britain is out of control, and the methods were devised after a CNET UK editor was mugged, not too dissimilar from a situation of our own. The gaffer tape method consists of taping the iPod to your body -- using 15 rounds of tape -- so that your assailant gets frustrated with the challenge and hopefully gives up pursuit, while the paperback method throws back to secrecy of old by suggesting you remove an inner chunk of a novel to let your iPod reside, and since most thieves don't care about bestsellers, you'll likely avoid a tragic conclusion. For owners living in really sketch areas, the Christopher Walken method is nearly foolproof: for Pulp Fiction fans, the iPod's hiding location comes as no surprise. For more clever disguising options to keep you and your Apple tagalong safe, be sure to hit the read link for CNET UK's suggestions, complete with "Anti-mugger" ratings and all.

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