Filed under: Portable Audio

Put your accessory fears to rest Creative fans, there’s a speaker dock available to swaddle your Zen Stone or new Stone Plus. Priced at just ¥3,980 (about $32), the TravelSound Zen Stone speaker is primed for all the itty-bitty, 0.2W x 2-channel thimble thumpin’ action you can handle. Better yet, it’ll annoy the audiophile in your family for up to 21-hours off battery. Available Amos ‘n Andy or Martin ‘n Lewis. Think about it.

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In case you haven’t noticed by now, we’re just a bit smitten by iriver designs ’round here. Can you blame us? Still, we’re not sure what to make of the device photographed above and presumably on display at the SEK2007 exhibition in Korea. Problem is, the forum jockey over at iriverfans.com failed to provide any descriptive text. A geeky lapel ribbon worn to commemorate the fight for Bluetooth audio? We don’t know. No worries, more than likely we’ll track down the truth before the days is up. Until then, get to it readers… what do you think it is?

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

Filed under: Digital Cameras, Transportation

David A. Czech is crazy upset about tickets, so he’s suing the city of Northwood, Ohio, its police department, and an Arizona-based maker of red-light cameras (which automatically snap photos of traffic violations). The suit alleges that the cameras are part of an “unconstitutional ordinance to extort money” put in place by the city, and Mr. Czech (on behalf of himself and 20,000 other “offenders”) is asking for a $3 million payback and an injunction barring use of the cameras. This isn’t the first case of its kind that we’ve seen — and it undoubtedly won’t be the last, considering the recent spate of these systems being utilized across the nation.

[Thanks, Simon]

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Filed under: Portable Audio

Ok Fair Use advocates, listen up. EMI senior VP Lauren Berkowitz has just given her initial sales report following their much ballyhooed DRM-free launch on iTunes Plus last month. The results? Well, “good” is the word she used to summarize sales. During the first week of availability, sales of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon were up 350 percent. Even now, after all the initial excitement, sales remain 272 percent higher. To a lesser degree, other EMI artists are also riding the DRM-free, download bump; even while their respective CD sales have tailed off. For example, downloads for Norah Jones’ Come Away with Me are up some 24 percent while CD sales have dropped 33 percent. Still, the DRM-free tracks were launched only three weeks ago which is far too early for any kind of proper trend analysis. We also don’t have any correlating data to demonstrate an increase (or decrease) in piracy — something the record labels will likely weigh in equal importance. Things do look promising though, eh?

[Via Ars Technica]

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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

It looks like the streets of London will soon be getting an extra dash of advertising courtesy of BT, which has begun the roll-out of some fresh new payphones, marking the first redesign the company’s done in more than 20 years. Designed in partnership with advertising firm JCDecaux, the so-called Street Talk 6 kiosks boast illuminated scrolling advertisements on the rear and no walls or doors, with only a small plastic hood provided to protect the cellphone-less among you from the elements. Apparently, the payphone’s cost BT about £2,000 (or close to $4,000) apiece, although we somehow doubt they’ll have much trouble making that back a few times over. Look for the first of the new payphones to hit the Richmond and Ealing boroughs of London this week, with the roll-out presumably set to slowly expand throughout the rest of the U.K. shortly thereafter.

[Via Channel 4]

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