MB101 Xtreme: Rattle your bones with the $180,000 home theater

Welcome to the world of Rich Audiophiles. There is always that extreme part of the market which is out of the reach for 99% of the people. You have to change your mind about the Corvette and the Porsche you were buying for your garage to have this addition to your Home Theater, or if you already have those in the garage and many more and are tired of splurging on the wheels, here’s something else that would love your greens. This is the way to go, MB 101 Xtreme, with their totally hot and exclusive omni-directional technology. They sure are stacked with four 12″ sub woofers to rattle your bones. If you later think about the car then I would like to tell you that this is also composed of the basic elements I mean the earth, water, wind and fire of sports cars,.i.e. Steel, Aluminium, Carbon Fiber and Wood. All this time I have been talking about extreme, so how can I not mention it’s price which is also ofcourse one of a kind, at $180,000. It takes a month to build this made to order speakers. Oh c’mon, Mr.Moneybags, it’s a far shorter wait than your Ferrari which takes 6 months to be at your disposal. (AkSh)

Via audiojunkies / Gizmonistas.com

Amazon’s Kindle: A revolution in archiving your favourite read-ups

Of all the technology that we keep hearing about these days, eBookreaders seem to be the things we hear most about. But no technology reaches its peak of recognition untill a major techno-giant launches one of its own right? Maybe that’s what Amazon’s new eBookReader would do to the market segment.

The Kindle, that it is officially known, was announced today. What does it have to offer? 30 hour battery life, direct download with Sprint ( no computer would be required) and weighs just 10.3 ounces. Read more

Strike: Still no deal in Hollywood Labor dispute

Striking movie and television writers failed to reach a deal with producers after meeting into the evening Tuesday on a second day of renewed contract talks. Striking movie and television writers failed to reach a deal with producers after meeting into the evening Tuesday on a second day of renewed contract talks.
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Ad-Supported Music Deserves a Look

The music industry is broken. Any business whose main product is stolen far more than it’s bought can’t be considered anything else.

But how to fix it? Online and mobile music sales are still in their infancy; and it’s still unclear whether the vast majority of people will be willing to buy songs for their iPods they can simply download from their friends’ hard drives. That’s why ad-supported music deserves a look. The very idea probably seems heretical to music purists. But how obtrusive is putting banner ads on a music site? Even putting short ads in front of songs is not as unseemly as we might think; that, after all, is essentially what radio is. Imeem, a fast-growing social community built around music, video and other media offers a hint of what music’s future might look like.

You can stream as much copyrighted music as you want for free. Banner ads by Discover, Microsoft Live Search and other advertisers help cover the royalties Imeem pays every time someone listens to a copyrighted track.

The concept has taken Imeem from zero to 18 million unique visitors a month since March 2006.

“We’ve signed three out of the four major and stream their entire catalogs,” says Director of Business Development Ethan Applen, who is speaking Tuesday at iHollywood @ AFM in Santa Monica. “Our entire business model is built around given them a share of the ad revenue.”

Users who wish to download music are directed to iTunes or Amazon to buy; Imeem gets a percentage of the revenue.

Labels or studios may also choose to pay for ads themselves to call attention to an act or movie. Members can also place their own material for free on the site. If enough users enjoy it, Imeem posts ads on the page and gives the content creators a share of the ad revenue, too.

Undoubtedly, you could poke plenty of holes in Imeem’s business model. But isn’t it nice to find someone in the music industry besides Apple who actually has one?
Topic Tags: Amazon, Imeem, iTunes, Music, online advertising, online music, social networks
by Michael Stroud

PC Piano: A Novelty?

Definitely a weird and useless computer mod for me, the PC Piano that is currently making its round in eBay has caught the attention of many geeks. Just when the PC and Mac worlds are developing mini-computers, here comes the computer piano. It’s not a piano connected to a computer but rather a computer installed inside a piano.

Whoever did this must love music so much that he’d choose a piano over an ordinary computer table. The 1904 Chickering piano was made into a Windows XP computer with an impressive 26″ LCD panel,1GB RAM, and 500GB of hard drive space.Buy Now price at eBay is US $19,998.00. I wonder when this will sell and who will be the weird one to really buy such.

Source : Geardiary.com

Using your cell phone as your credit card? Sounds spooky yet cool

Remember all the hype and hoopla about someday being able to use your phone as your credit card, your bus ticket purchases, security door opener et all? Looks like time has passed swiftly coz from what we see, those days are hear already. The Nokia 6131 NFC, although not the most attractive phone is already using such great technology to help you crunch your whole world into your cell phone. Read more

Pricey but cool: Philips 9FF2M4 LCD Photo Frame

This is a pretty terrific - but somewhat expensive - idea that needs according to various testers just a bit more refining. The Philips 9FF2M4 Photo Frame looks like any framed photograph but the picture is actually an LCD screen that displays any or all of the 90 or so pictures loaded into the device’s memory or plugged in by way of a memory card. It takes most popular cards. You can have this operating within minutes - thanks to super easy instructions and intuitive controls comprising three buttons and a joystick, Read more

USB Flash Watch: Who said only James Bond’s got style?

We sure believe that the most utilitarian watch is made by Omega and only for MI6 agent 007, although there is a big demand for such a thing in the consumer market, so much so that even the Patriot Act in America would not let us touch it. They don’t want the general public to be that cool. But the good news is that there are alternatives, so sit back and relax Inspector Gadget and enjoy this USB Flash Watch with data storage up to 1 GB. So now you don’t have to worry about the USB drive that you loose every semester of college. That’s not it; this thing also has style, there is a variety of them available too. The only thing you got to worry about is to choose between all these watches.
The transfer is at speeds of 1.1 and 2.0 (USB of course); it is also water resistant up to 3-10 ATM. One thing I noticed is that Read more

Louis Vuitton USB Flash Drive : Total Bling

Louis Vuitton, home of luxury leather luggage from a French designer, will soon be releasing a USB flash drive for the fashionable geeks. No word on the price yet but I think this is the closes I can get to owning an LV. Or so I think. I am expecting that will cost more that the price of an ordinary laptop simply because it’s Louis Vuitton. The luxury USB flashdrive is designed by Fred de Garilhe and will be available in yellow or white gold. There will be 4 variations to this fashionable gadget :

• White gold and LV logos with digital clock, yellow diamond on white gold key
• White gold, ostrich leather, yellow gold chain and key, blue sapphire diamond
• White gold satin polished finish, white gold chain and key, pink sapphire diamond
• White gold, black alligator leather, black PVD treatment on white gold (chemical pulverize on it), mechanical clock that you can arm behind the US Bijou, and a green sapphire diamond

Adding total more ‘wow’ factor is its 40Gb of memory space. Now that’s impressive. Question is : will hardcore geeks and fashionistas dig this? No. Just make that : what will fashionista and LV fans make use of 40GB of USB?

VIA : Newlaunches.com

iMacTV: Buy a new iMac, get the Miglia TVMini2 for £1

Miglia, a U.K. based manufacturer of digital media products, announced the introduction of the TVMini2 for the bargain price of £1 with every sale of an iMac. The offer is a cooperation between Miglia and Apple Premium Reseller’s.

This great offer is not only available in the UK but in France too, here they are offering a TVMini2 for just €1. The UK promotion will run for 6 weeks from Nov 5th - Dec 16th inclusive of these dates and the French version from November 24th, this offer is available exclusively through Apple appointed Apple Premium Reseller’s . Read more

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