Audio Gadgets

This is an innovative gadget radio that lets you tune into more than 16,000 radio stations around the world through the power of WiFi.

Perhaps you have travelled to many other countries before or you speak several languages.  This internet enabled radio lets you listen to news and other radio from all across the world easily.

I gotta tell you honestly I am a bit tired of just getting my news from MSNBC.  There are millions of other news organizations across the world with much broader perspective.  It seems this CC WiFi helps you tap into that source.  It has 99 memory presets a remote control, alarm clock and a WiFi Signal strength indicator. It does require a broadband internet connection.

Source: CCrane

This is the CC witness.  A digital MP3 recorder player with an AM FM radio on board as well.

You can record radio programs, your voice and music as well.  It also comes with a timer to record programs in advance.  Convert AM/FM radio programs into MP3 format on the fly.  Also record music from internet radio and separate it easily from the other recordings you have.

• 2 GB storage space
• Stereo Recording from FM Band or Mic/Line Input
• USB Charger
• Built in Calendar
• Recharges in about 4 hours
• Record 500 songs at 128kbps or hundreds of hours of talk at 32kbps

If you are heavily into AM radio shows, this is actually a great way to keep track of and record your favorite ones.  I used to listen to the art bell show a lot which was broadcast in the early morning hours on the East Coast between 1AM to 5AM so you can imagine how convenient it would have been to have a gadget like this to record his shows for later listening.

Source: CCrane

This retro radio gadget has been issued a “Royal Warrant of Appointment”. That basically means that it is provided to the Royal Family in England.

This radio has the look and style that is exact opposite to most radios I have seen on the market today.  Most radios today are either black or silver and have a million tiny buttons on them.

This retro radio really looks kind of cute and would probably brighten up any living room or even kitchen for that matter.  This looks like the kind of radio you get your Mom or Dad as a gift.  It seems like it is one of those gifts you get that makes you never really forget that it was a gift and how special a gift it was.

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I was going to leave a blank subject line for this gadget and see if anyone could guess what this thing actually is.

Well the cat is out of the bag… and you know by now that this is a rock speaker that plays rock music… or actually any kind of music you wish to play on it (I was trying to be funny ).

From OEM systems, this rock speaker can be placed directly on ground or partially buried.  It has a stainless steel inner mesh to prevent bugs from getting inside it.  It has a sloped front design so that the sound field is directed upwards for better listening.

It has a 3/4” dome tweeter, 75 watts nominal power handling, 35–21,000Hz freq. response. 

I like this outdoor rock speaker gadget.  Imagine how much fun you could have impressing your neighbors when you invite them into your backyard (assuming they like music).

Source: HomeControls

With all the gadgetry floating around in the world today when you are out in public, how can you ever be sure that your quiet private conversations truly are private?

Well with the J1000 Audio Jammer you can be sure that they are private no matter how many hidden microphones and other spy gadgets are embedded in your surrounding environment.

I think I am going to call this the ‘anti spy’ gadget because more or less that is what it is.  It is like a gadget designed to fight against other gadgets. What a concept!

• It generates a random masking sound which desensitizes any near by microphone.  It is effective against tape recorders, RF transmitters, hard wired microphones and shotgun microphones. It also protects against microwave or laser reflection pickups.

One unit protects up to 150 square feet and for larger rooms it is ideal to get two units. Powered by one nine volt battery, the unit measures 4 inches x 2.5 inches x 1.5 inches.

Source: StartechOutlet

I just got this digital flash memory voice recorder from Sony.  It is the first one I have ever owned and I must say I have been having loads of fun with it over the last few days.

These digital voice recorders are definitely not new.  Perhaps they are new in the sense that they have all gone to flash memory storage now instead of the old method of cassette tapes (eek! what are those?).

But anyway this ICD-PX720 from Sony can record up to 280 hours of audio content at the lowest quality setting and 12 hours at the highest quality setting.

It has been pretty simple to operate so far.  I didn’t even open the instruction manual and just started playing with the control buttons to try it out.  I have been using it to record daily ‘to do’ lists and also for uploading GadgetGnome podcasts here on the site.

After you are done recording what you want to record, you just plug in the USB cable into your PC and you can set it to automatically save the files you just recorded to your desktop so that is a nice feature.  The quality of the recordings has been outstanding.

On the top of the recorder there are two inputs, one for a microphone and the other for a pair of headphones.

There is a ‘hold’ button on the left side so that it does not automatically start playing if it is in your pocket or something (this actually happened to me at work. I forgot to set the hold button and it was in my pocket.  I was talking to my boss and it accidentally started playing some things I had recorded. So be sure when you are not using it to set it on hold so it does not automatically start playing).

P.S. Want to record phone calls? you can do that too with Magic Jack and other phones.