We've grown accustomed to exercising with music -- dating way back to a walkman, and continuing though the era of the MP3 player and now the smartphone. But strapping the increasingly large screens to our side or arm is becoming more difficult. Today's five inch screens simply aren't conducive to this. This year at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las
Moxytronix's CordCruncher earbud headphones are the latest attempt to defeat that bane of modern life, knotted and twisted audio cords. These tangle-free headphones solve the problem by using a secondary rubber tube to retract and hold the cords when not in use. Cunning. The headphones come in a small pack, with three pairs of different-sized interchangeable earbuds. I would imagine that
While it has not been largely publicized, Amazon has a deal going on right now for Android customers and music lovers. The online retail giant is offering a trade-off -- buy an app and get a free song. The deal is not exactly temporary either. It began back on February 13, 2013 and will run through December 31, 2013. Customers need
Custom-fit earbuds and headphones can be scarily expensive because the price often includes high quality sound drivers as well as the custom moulding. Advanced MP3 Players have come up with a product that solves this problem by adding a molding to already-owned earbuds - the Sharkfin Self-Molding Earbuds. Inside the somewhat Spock-esque package are two small pots of self-molding silicone that
Amazon Cloud Player has been available for Android devices since it launched, but today Amazon announced that the music app is now available for iPad and iPhone. That's great news for iOS owners, especially given that the other big player in this field, Google Music, is also not available for Apple's mobile platform. Amazon Cloud Player offers 5 GB of free storage
If you're a DJ, you probably know the name Stanton, purveyors of DJ hardware. If you're not a DJ, you probably still know the parent company, Gibson, of the guitar fame. Either way, we're in good company here. Todd and Steve mix it up with Darrin "B-Side" Young from Stanton. On show is Stanton's SCS.4DJ Digital DJ Mixstation, a self-contained
Courtney introduces her favourite "party-in-a-pocket", the Lil' Wiz. It's a mini vibration speaker that converts any flat surface into a loudspeaker. There are two Lil' Wiz models - the first is a basic MP3 player and takes microSD cards ($79). The second has Bluetooth and will stream music from any Bluetooth-equipped smartphone or tablet, both iOS and Android ($99). Both