We’ve heard about diamond-encrusted earphones, a million-dollar cellphone spangled with glitter, an MP3 player of diamonds and gold and even a Kodak V570 digital camera festooned with $20,000 worth of shiny rocks. But this one takes the cake, the million-dollar fishing lure from MacDaddy’s Fishing Lures. It’s made of three pounds of gold and platinum,…
Bluetake i-Phono PLUS Bluetooth Headphones Reviewed (Verdict: Makes Colin Farrell Sad)
Our brother in nerd-dom Adam over at Lifehacker took the Bluetake i-Phono PLUS out for a test listen. The result? These are nothing you’d ever want to wear if you’ve still got use of your eyeballs. While the functionality is decent, letting you listen to music, make phone calls and control playback, the low…
Koss Cobalt Bluetooth Stereo Headphones
These Koss Cobalt headphones look like the perfect headphones for travel, as long as you’re not traveling on a plane. The around-the-ear style headphones fold up for easy storage, and come with a USB dongle for your computer and a headphone dongle for your non-Bluetooth MP3 player. The Cobalt allows you to go up…
Mobile Edge SecurePack: Keeping Thieves at Bay
We’re always looking for the Next Big Thing in backpacks, and this Mobile Edge SecurePack has an innovative design that may keep those sneaks with sticky fingers from stealing your valuable stuff. Milling around in a crowded situation, it’s all too easy for thieves to slip something out of your pack without you even knowing…
Turtle Beach ANR-10 and ANR-20 Noise Reduction Headphones
Two noise reducing headphones from Turtle Beach, the company that trailed Creative in the sound card business as far as we can remember. Their ANR-10 and ANR-20 puts their extensive sound expertise into helping make that loud “foreign” couple on the plane just a little bit more bearable. The ANR-10 are of the wrap-around…
Elecom Ear Drops Earphones: Cheap Hookers Listen to Music, Too
These Ear Drops Earphones from Elecom are sure to delight that young lady in somebody else’s life; they’re spangled with crystals and fully decorated with that certain esthetic that’s so appropriate for that pound-shop Cleopatra who lives next door. And no, we’re not going to use the word “bling.” Cheapness aside, we’re all for…
JVC XA-F52 Digital Audio Player
JVC rolled out its XA-F52 digital audio player, a 512MB trinket that plays MP3s and WMA files, and has a built-in mono microphone for voice recording. It can also directly record from analog devices with its audio line input. Apparently aimed at the iPod shuffle, its necklace-like form factor has headphones attached to a lanyard….
Saitek Notebook Optical Mouse: Purdy Colors, 800dpi Precision
The Saitek Notebook Optical Mouse borrows a styling cue or two from Apple’s single-button clear mouse from a couple of generations ago, but now it’s updated with an 800dpi optical sensor, a rubberized scroll wheel, and of course, more than one button. Saitek has some pretty stylish-looking peripherals, and this one is no exception. Made…
iPodweek - The Best of iLounge
This week at iLounge: Everyone knows that the 5G iPod just isn’t comfortable for long stretches of video watching. Now, following our full review of the iLuv i1055 7-inch screen and DVD player add-on, two more video display docks have materialized. Sonic Impact provides an exclusive hands-on look at its new Video-55, with an…