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From Bando comes this weird, weird device - the Leisure Eyes Cover.
It’s designed to be comfortable, cover your eyes and provide you music via the two built-in speakers.
It’s for relaxation, plane journeys and the like. It even looks like it could be quite comfortable but design-wise it leaves a lot to be desired.
Out now for [...]
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It’s no surprise when fashion brands, music and technology mix and another textbook display is this admittedly pretty nicely packaged Hysteric Glamour set of earbuds.
What is a surprise is the $77 pricetag. Unless they’ve got some serious hardware inside you’re really paying a lot to get the brand on your green or black headphones.
via chipchick
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They’re not the prettiest headphones we’ve ever seen but the Beyerdynamic DTX910 use something they call ‘Direct Push’ to boost the sound quality. They use strong neodymium magnets and Mylar diaphragm technology and large diameter cells for ‘powerful bass and clear treble performance.’
The transducers by Dynamic Works’s open frequency response is 15-23,000 Hz, 32 ohm [...]
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It might be flat but it’s got balls. The makers of the CardSpeaker claim “puts most every mp3 accessory to shame with its good looks and crisp fidelity.” We all know the general quality of the run of the mill flat speaker that’s jammed into PMPs, so they must have really done their homework to [...]
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With pretty distinctive looks, the Hong Kong designed Iaiwai W device II H-657 is a pretty interesting looking mini-speaker.
Good for laptops and MP4 players, the device costs 139 Yuan / $20
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Launched in Japan is this pair of sturdy looking headphones, the latest from Audio Technica.
The Solid Bass ATH-WS50 are their new Closed Type Headphones which feature a newly developed “Double air chamber mechanism” which apparently provides better and deeper bass and reduce sound leakage.
They have a frequency response of 10Hz-24,000Hz, an impedance of 40 Ohms, [...]
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They certainly sound nice but the test is in whether they sound nice.
The latest in ear soft marshmallow earphones is the HA-FX35 series which are due out in February.
They come in blue, black, orange, pink and white and have a frequency response of 8Hz-23,000Hz, and output sound pressure level of 102db/1mW, a impedance of 16 [...]
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Born out of a relationship between a radio company and a high-end audio equipment manufacture, these nice looking Japanese Thulhu Caine headphones are simple enough to not be garish but unique enough to get noticed.
All that and given the manufacturing credentials, these should shape up to be a pretty impressive pair.
Italian vegetable tanned leathers wrap [...]
Sharp’s update into the 21st century might be iPod specific but it’s pretty swish.
The ‘twenty-ten’ is a 2.1 system with integrated subwoofer, HDSS, video out support and SRS WOW.
Also known as the KD-AP8P, it will be released in the UK this month at around £100 ($162).
via ubergizmo
Live Nation must have seen how well Monster Cable are doing with their rapper/pop star endorsements so have jumped on the bandwagon with a series of custom earbuds, the first of which come from acclaimed rapper Lil Wayne, or Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. to his mother.
By ChipChick’s account they sound pretty good, feel good (with [...]
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