03.06.08 - 02:33pm
iPod bags have been sprouting up on the backs of school kids everywhere. Easy to use and great for listening while carrying your books down clogged hallways, a good iPod bag is essential in todays electronic world.
The iBlaze iPod Intelligent bag features a built-in waterproof silicon control panel in the strap that allows users to turn on/off their iPod, skip tracks and adjust volume all with the iPod tucked safely away in an EVA thermal pressed pocket where hot and cold won’t effect it. Retractable earbuds are also in the strap and can be rolled back through cables when not in use.
The rest of the bag will hold a 17” laptop in a padded compartment, two A4 ring binders with two additional pockets insideand two more showcased on the front. There is a waist strap which helps support the bags with heavy loads and foamed straps to provide extra comfort for the user.
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06.06.07 - 11:43am
I keep expecting it to get up and start awkwardly walking around while it flips through the music and for $820 you would think it would!
Alas that is not the case, but you do have an iPod case made out of nothing other than titanium, which has the highest strength-to-weight ratio of any metal, with a 3000 degree Fahrenheit melting point. Nothing’s getting through this baby!
It is also corrosion resistant. So even if your James Bond and get acid streamed at you, you could protect yourself by blocking it with your titanium iPod case!
Made at the Kiwami Studio in Japan, the case has access ports for normal operation of your iPod. It is compatible with the Nano.
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04.30.07 - 12:08pm
The iPhone has an incredibly slick design look, but word is the slick not only applies to the look but to the grip as well - something not so great in a $600 phone.
The last thing you want is the phone to go sliding out of your hand as you are walking down the street, for when phone meets sidewalk… - who do you think will win?
Ah well, at least the battery is now being pronounced good with a five hour talk time. And if the phone is super slippery (reported okay until you get past the 15 minute mark - must be when your hand starts to sweat) that just means that accessory makers will have a new item to build a business around.
I imagine that iPod case makers are working on designs for the iPhone as I type, of course this takes away the iPhone look but then again it also makes it uniquely yours and when it is dropped you don’t have to see $600 flash before your eyes.
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04.30.07 - 10:55am
Street robberies of iPods climbed 8 percent for the last 13 weeks of 2006 to 26,600 in the UK and Home Secretary John Reid wants something done about this. The iPods are seen as easy targets for muggers and Reid wants Apple and Sony to incorporate technological solutions into their devices that would make them obsolete to robbers.
“If I had one piece of advice it would be to ask the manufacturers to design in features which reduce crimes,” he told the BBC.
Reid wants the music makers to put in a system similar to what cell phone manufactures have put in. Called International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI), the system causes cell phones to be deactivated the next time they are logged onto the network if they are stolen.
“That knocks the bottom out of the market because, if people steal these phones, increasingly they recognize that they cannot sell them,” says Reid.
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03.21.07 - 09:15am
It’s always really, really lousy to drop your iPod and hear that “crack” of the screen shattering into pretty little zigzags. Which is why we always recommend you protect your iPod, however in case of an emergency Fastmac is there to help with the repairs and their “Just say no to crack” program has been expanded to include the second generation iPod Nano.
Fastmac will either send you a video tutorial as well as all the tools needed to replace your cracked iPod screen yourself or they will do it for you and get it back to you within 24 hrs.
Prices begin at $29.95 and they work with iPod 4th gen, ipod mini, ipod video, ipod Nano and now iPod Nano 2nd gen.
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03.09.07 - 01:03pm
Case-mate and Dr. Bott have announced the release of the Clip, an iPod Nano holster that grips the Nano and allows it to be clipped onto clothing as well as about anything you feel like, for example your purse.
The Clip is also ideal for accessing a docking station or voice recorder - as you don’t have to remove it to gain access. It also has an ultra-slim design.
It is available in black only and is designed exclusively for the 2G Nano.
The Clip retails for $9.99.
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02.28.07 - 01:25pm
You know that whole Nike+iPod security flaw which recently had bloggers everywhere sending out warnings of how easy it
would be for a stalker to track a runners movements through the device, perhaps making it much easier to do them harm, even if you change your route daily? Well they no longer have to create the device they can instead simply buy it from Spark Fun - their new USB Adapter.
The USB adapter will not only track the ID Nike+iPod you’re looking for, it will show you all the runners out running within range of your little tracking device. The website specifies, however that this is not what it is designed for, except of course to “allow easy creation of proximity based projects and running/workout research.” Since, naturally you need to know others workouts to make your own better - of course - rather than ask Candice how she stays so thin I will secretly monitor her workouts. Spark Fun also says they want it to be used for cat ID’s saying “We really want to attach these to our cats and make an ID controlled cat-door-lock system. ‘Are you Carlos? No? You can’t come in.”
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02.27.07 - 04:44pm
And just in case you haven’t heard of the latest in iPod thefts, robberies, and all out shooting mayhem, here’s a recap of just a couple of the stories: a teacher in Philadelphia had his neck broken in two places after he took a students iPod, and a shooting in Portland just happened at a sweet sixteen party, where a kid took another’s iPod and got shot in the hand and leg over it, and now a warning from Bart - The San Francisco Bay Area Transit.
Bart has just issued a press release asking that while on their trains or in their stations, hide, or disguise your favorite little music maker - a “just be safe” warning as 11% of the robberies a month on the public transit system involve iPods.
In the release they write “Don’t be a target: use ear buds other than the standard iPod white, or other aftermarket headphones”
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02.26.07 - 11:19am
All right folks, we know the iPod is sweet, great, awesome, fun, extremely hip and everything else cool - but breaking a teachers neck cause you wanted to take to listen during class! That’s taking things a little far don’t you think. Especially a 60 year old teacher, how absolutely utterly despicable.
It’s exactly what happened in Germantown, a neighborhood in Philadelphia, when a 15-year old and a 17-year-old assaulted Frank Burk, a 60-year-old math and photography teacher, after he took the iPod away during class. After class the 17-year-old student roughly demanded the iPod be returned, then the 15 year-old joined in the struggle. One pushed him and the other threw a punch. The teacher hit head as he fell.
The result was two broken bones in his neck, which fortunately did not result in paralysis.
“You could hear it break. You could hear when he fell on the ground,” said Synquetta Reid, a student who saw the incident. “He fell … on his face. After that, they turned him over and there was all this blood.”
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02.19.07 - 02:26pm
Show it off - Keep it in control or Hide it - descriptions for the new Nano belt buckles showcased at $59.95.
All you have to do, is belt your pants, slip your Nano inside and you’re ready for one wild night on the town! - and if you don’t like what the DJ’s playing…. You can dance to your own rhythm.
The Original - is the show it off - showcases playlist and click wheel, the Full Moon - is the keep it in control - showcases the click wheel, and the Full Metal Jacket - is the hide it - where the nano is covered by a silver buckle with the words TUNEBUCKLE.
All but the Original are currently available. The Original is set to be out soon.
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iPod bags have been sprouting up on the backs of school kids everywhere. Easy to use and great for listening while carrying your books down clogged hallways, a good iPod bag is essential in todays electronic world.
