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Category: Portable Audio

Jeep Liberty Limited Urban Terrain Stroller Lets Adult and Baby Listen to Music from iPod

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMy wife Kathleen and I got a Jeep Liberty Limited Urban Terrain Stroller at Kathleen’s baby shower a few weeks before our son Jimmy was born. Now that Jimmy is over two months old, he can support himself well enough to ride in a stroller built for a large baby or…

August 11, 2006
T-Mobile Sidekick 3 Reviews Say It Isn’t As Big An Improvement over the Sidekick II as Expected

Reading Time: 2 minutesMartin O’Donnell has been sending me reviews of the new T-Mobile Sidekick III, the long-awaited successor to the T-Mobile Sidekick II. Operation Gadget has covered the Sidekick II since it debuted in 2004, and we’ve always been pretty impressed with it. Martin uses a Sidekick II on an everyday basis, in the…

June 29, 2006
Personal Electronics Power Station is a Good Central Point for Charging Most Handheld Gadgets

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe other day, my brother Scott Aiello tipped me off to a device that can be used as a convenient one-stop place to charge all of your handheld devices. It’s called the Personal Electronics Power Station and it’s available from several vendors on Amazon.com. The Personal Electronics Power Station is an…

June 5, 2006
Nike and Apple Announce a Music-Centric Approach to Fitness Gadgets

Reading Time: < 1 minuteNike and Apple team up to create a running computer that consists of a pair of shoes, a motion sensor, and an iPod nano. [ Photo: Apple Computer, Inc. ] On my son’s birthday, Nike and Apple announced a collaboration that will initially allow a pair of Nike running shoes to…

June 2, 2006
How to Listen to Race Radio at the 2006 Tour de Georgia

Reading Time: 2 minutesKevin Ward asked: Do you have any ideas on listening to the “Radio Tour” Channel, 450.8875 MHz at the Ford Tour de Georgia? I am going to try a NASCAR type scanner from Radio Shack. The scanner I have will also decode the CTCSS quiet code so that I can listen in…

April 18, 2006
Old Music Formats Return to New York Thanks to HD Radio Technology

Reading Time: 2 minutesEven though I live and work in Bucks County, PA, I still listen to New York City radio stations whenever I can. Most of them are flat out more entertaining than stations of the same format broadcasting from Philadelphia. One drawback of listening to New York radio stations as much as I…

January 24, 2006
Howard Stern Does His Last Show on Traditional Radio; Next Stop Sirius

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Associated Press reports that Howard Stern bid his terrestrial audience fairwell today and encouraged them to tune in to him on Sirius Satellite Radio on January 9, 2006. According to the article, Stern began his show by saying, “Good morning, and welcome to the last show on terrestrial radio,” while…

December 16, 2005
Ion iTTUSB Turntable Helps You Turn Your LPs and 45s into MP3s

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMy father-in-law has gotten back into LPs lately after the family got him a stereo with an integrated turntable. When he got it, the thought crossed my mind that someone who has a big vinyl collection and liked the sound would have all kinds of trouble ripping those tracks to their…

December 8, 2005
Cingular Deploys BroadbandConnect 3G Wireless Service in 16 U.S. Metro Areas

Reading Time: < 1 minuteCingular BroadbandConnect HSDPA 3G Service is rolling out in 16 U.S. metro areas. [ Image: Cingular Wireless ] Cingular Wireless announced yesterday that it launched BroadbandConnect, a third-generation high speed wireless data network using HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) technology. According to the Cingular 3G Network Press Release: Cingular BroadbandConnect is a…

December 7, 2005