This Bluetooth speaker system is overly reminiscent of the Apple Hi-Fi, but black, with cool sound graphics on the front, and Bluetooth. I have to admit, the black box with red LED graphical EQ is something I am a bit of a sucker for myself.
Does it use some proprietary Bluetooth technology to transfer the audio? Nope, A2DP, which means you, might already have a phone that works with the speakers.
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Recently Tim Gideon Of PC Magazine rated the iPod Touch “The clear frontrunner in the flash player division”. After many companies have now started to stray away from the hard drive based player to a flash based memory player. He feels the Touch makes the best of this situation His made his decision after getting to use many of the leading flash players.
The main reason he gave it this title was the elegance of the device. He stated it was beautiful with the glass front to all of the features of the device itself. He also likes how it offers the top storage of any flash player currently in the market with 16 GB, and how apple takes all of this info and puts it into the design of their devices.
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While the iPod historically may have been the most popular audio player, Apple’s introduction of video capabilities - culminating in the iPod Touch with its super-accommodating widescreen display - has given the PMP a new role as entertainment device for those users hard of hearing or deaf. Adding closed-caption subtitles to video content, however, can be a time-consuming task, and as such few pre-prepared clips are available. MacCaption, by the Computer Prompting and Captioning Company, aims to change all that; it can add on-screen text to new and existing videos without needing to go through the lengthy re-compression processing traditionally adding subtitles would demand.
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The famous site owned by AT&T has been customized to work with the iPhone/iPod Touch browsers right down to dialing a phone number link if you are using an iPhone. They were even kind enough to fix it up to work well with WAP browsers too.
You can search by location, category, or name and your results will net you a name, number, and directions. Like I said, if you are using an iPhone you can just click on the phone number and whammo, you are dialing and asking whatever it is you deem it necessary to know.
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With a screen so delicious as that of the iPod Touch, the hunger for new and glossy content to display on it can easily become a ravenous need. Sadly the lack of even a Mac client for the BBC’s TV download service “iPlayer” means that you’ll have to wait until Christmas before you can even view Auntie’s shows on your MacBook (and even then it’ll be streaming, not true downloading). However, don’t be surprised if some of the UI is familiar: it turns out that the head of the BBC’s Future Media and Technology unit, Ashley Highfield, is particularly taken with the iPod Touch, and hopes to bring some of its intuitive interface to future iterations of the corporation’s software:
“I am a deep lover of Macs. I have had one in the past. I got the iPod Touch in New York before they were here … I think the iPod Touch is a beautiful piece of design. If everything could have that intuitiveness of use… and certainly in terms of the BBC iPlayer, I aspire to it being that easy to use”Ashley Highfield, BBC
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