Archive for the ‘Gadgets’ Category

Neuros

Thursday, December 4th, 2003

Okay, so I’m reading through a comment by my friend and compatriot Joshua Beall about an MP3/Ogg Vorbis player that is available from Neuros Audio. Pretty cool that it has its own transmitter and what not, and the cool amber background screen is pretty cool as well. So basically you’re getting an MP3/Ogg player for $200 that comes with a base station that will let you broadcast on a whole bunch of radio frequencies. The only short coming I see in this is the weight and the interface. It’s a whopping 9.4 oz and uses USB 1.1. I give you none other than the Neuros HD 20GB MP3 player.

I look at it and I think that it’s a pretty cool item, but I can’t see myself buying one soley for the reason that I already have an iPod :-)

Portable Music…oh the bliss :-)

Wednesday, November 26th, 2003

Like many others in the United States of America and the world I decided that I wanted to be able to tote around my 300+ CD library. So, after doing some researching and wheeling and dealing and wondering why I didn’t jump at deals on TechBargains.com, I finally went out and purchased a 20 gigabyte iPod from J and R for under $300. How did I do this you ask? Well, I jumped on a deal they had with Audible.com for $100 off the iPod with a year subscription to Audible — two books on tape for $20 a month? You can’t beat it :-)
So what am I doing with my iPod you ask? Well, downloading MP3 sermons from IBC’s Sermon Site, downloading books from Audible for my long car trips and my music library and playlists for going to the gym, driving around, and riding the metro.
Now, you might say, “Did your parents buy this for you?” No.
I bought my iPod before Thanksgiving and have been loving having it around since. I highly suggest the new 3rd generation iPods, you should check them out :-)