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Gesundheit Radio sneezes away the dust [Video]

By Chris Davies on Monday, Feb 8th 2010 No Comments

One thing we didn’t see when we visited Texas Instruments last week were the fruits of the company’s Attenborough Design Group, the experimental research group who, in 1972, designed this Gesundheit Radio. Of course, that’s probably because there was no such group; the radio – which incorporates a set of bellows and sneezes periodically, so as to remove dust from the sensitive microprocessors – is actually the handiwork of design student James Chambers, who felt a comprehensive back-story could only help his project.

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DIY WiFi radio based on OpenWRT

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Jan 19th 2010 No Comments

WiFi radios have fallen to a price point where you have to be pretty DIY-obsessed to bother making your own rather than picking one up off-the-shelf, so we’re all the more impressed by Gary Dion’s effort. Starting from an ASUS WL-520GU wireless router, he threw in a USB audio adapter and a VFD display together with a custom enclosure to match the rest of his A/V setup.

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Naim Audio UnitiQute audiophile’s WiFi radio/streamer

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Jan 7th 2010 No Comments

Naim Audio have pushed out a new all-in-one audio system at CES 2010, the Naim UnitiQute, a combination radio, internet radio, DLNA streamer and media player. The UnitiQute packs an FM radio, together with DAB in markets where the service is broadcast, along with both ethernet and integrated WiFi connectivity for UPnP streaming of audio from local and internet network sources.

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Pure Sensia touchscreen WiFi radio hands-on

By Satsuki Then on Wednesday, Jan 6th 2010 1 Comment

Pure’s radio range has been taunting would-be US buyers for a while now, so it’s good to see that the company is finally bringing some models over to North America. We grabbed some playtime with the Pure Sensia at CES 2010, first announced in Europe back in September 2009 and now delivering its 5.7-inch touchscreen, WiFi b/g and FM radio, web-widgets and more to the US market.

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Sanyo unveils DMP-P1 and DMP-692 iPod clock radios

By Shane McGlaun on Wednesday, Oct 7th 2009 No Comments

Accessories for iPods are certainly plentiful on the market today and one of the most prolific is the iPod clock radio. These are devices you can set at the side of your bed or on your desk to get the time, charge, and play music from your iPod all at once.

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Revo DOMINO DAB+, Last.fm and internet radio iPod dock

By Chris Davies on Monday, Oct 5th 2009 No Comments

UK radio manufacturer Revo have announced their latest model, the DOMINO D3, a DAB/DAB+ digital radio with integrated iPod/iPhone dock and internet radio streaming. The DOMINO D3 also supports Last.fm streaming, and the whole thing has a soft rubber coating that, while stopping short of making it waterproof, at least does make it fetishistically touchable.

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PURE Sensia WiFi and DAB radio packs Facebook, Twitter & more

By Chris Davies on Monday, Sep 21st 2009 No Comments

PURE have already been pushing their WiFi and DAB radios for some time now, but their latest Sensia model really deserves to tip them over into prime-time. The PURE Sensia couples both a DAB/DAB+ digital radio and WiFi streaming into a single model, complete with a 5.7-inch 640 x 480 capacitive touchscreen and social networking plug-in apps including Twitter, Facebook and Picasa.

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iPod touch 3G teardown: space for camera, WiFi ‘n’ & FM chip found

By Chris Davies on Friday, Sep 11th 2009 1 Comment

Consider us surprised that, while we expected the most interest out of the iPod nano 5G teardown, in actual fact it’s Apple’s updated third-gen iPod touch the guts of which that are prompting the most intrigue. iFixit have been doing their usual job of stripping the new PMP down to its constituent parts, and in the process they’ve discovered not only a space where a nano-style video camera would fit perfectly, but signs of faster networking too.

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Apple iPod nano gets video camera, FM radio, more

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Sep 9th 2009 1 Comment

Apple have announced a new iPod nano, and as predicted it includes a video camera. The new iPod nano fifth-generation has a larger, 2.2-inch display and a new polished anodyzed aluminum casing, and as well as the camera the Cupertino company have managed to squeeze in an FM radio, pedometer with Nike support, speaker and microphone.

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Altec Lansing MIX Boombox promises input confusion

By Chris Davies on Friday, Aug 28th 2009 No Comments

It’s hard to imagine the sort of arguments Altec Lansing’s MIX Boombox iPod speaker system might inspire, hooked up to so many different PMPs as their eye-catching press shots suggest. The chunky boombox not only has a universal dock for your iPod, iPhone or iPod touch, but dual aux-in ports, a digital FM radio and a side-mounted 5.25-inch subwoofer.

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