Sure, you could buy yourself a nice portable speaker system for the iPod, but there are times when their size, weight, and fragile nature make for a less than optimal experience. Enter the Tembo Trunks ($40). These nearly indestructible, collapsible amplifiers use your iPod’s or iPhone’s included white earbuds to create sound up to 80dB, or more than enough to offer satisfying audio whether you’re by the beach, pool, or campfire. source  Read More →

I love retro hi-fi’s and I’d love to bring the days back when your sound system was also a piece of furniture in its own right.  Brionvega has brought back the 60′s with the very far out groovy RR226 man. The RR226/RR126 first took the stage in 1965 and was the work of Italian designers Pier Giacomo and Achille Castiglioni.  The new version is faithful to that look. Those speakers can be worn to the side or on top of the unit.  I am digging... 

A Danish company called Davone has released their second model of Ray speakers. They have a nice shape wrapped in walnut veneer that gives them a home alongside the Eames lounge chair. I’m all caught up in the beauty of these speakers but could only justify saving for these if the sound was exceptional. The speakers use an 8″ woofer and a 1″ tweeter with a rated frequency response of 38Hz – 20kHz. The impedance is 8 Ohms, with 89dB/W/m... 

“Slip the BONE Horn Stand onto your iPhone for lo-fi amplification simplicity. Using old-fashioned acoustical science, this silicone stand adds 12 decibels of sound pressure to your iPhone’s speakers without asking for an erg of battery juice. You can also use it to prop your iPhone into a vertical or horizontal viewing position. For iPhone 4,  3G or 3GS. ” Green, Black or Bone: $24.95 (iPhone not included).  Read More →

With all the bags you own, it’s probably been quite some time since you had a hard suitcase. You’re not the only one that occasionally needs to squish things under a seat or in the overhead just to get stuff across the country, so there’s a surplus of vintage hard-sided suitcases ripe for the picking by Mr. Simo. Once he gets his hands on the cases he proceeds to turn them into some of the most creative boomboxes we have ever laid our eyes... 

Do you like making bootleg concert albums?  Me too!! Logitech has just made it that much easier for you. The Logitech LIC-iREC03P is an adapter for iPod or iPhone that also functioning as voice recording device. Logitech offer unusual recording system because this tool can produce stereo voice by using 2 microphones. The records come in WAVE format, then can be transferred to your computer using iTunes. As the battery source, this device take power...