The JVC N-BX3.
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Like to recharge your iPhone overnight? Listen to tunes while getting dressed? Set the mood during a romantic evening? Are you, perhaps, a fan of monochromatic art-deco furniture?
Also, do you have more money than you know what to do with?
JVC has the product for you: the N-BX3 iPhone /iPod nightstand speaker. No, it’s not a speaker that sits on your nightstand; (more…)
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There are retro gadgets and then there are retro gadgets.
A contemporary take on a 1950s-style vacuum tube radio is one thing, and we suspect its monophonic sound is a warm and cozy delight. But an entirely acoustic iPhone dock–kitted out with an antique gramophone amplification horn–takes things back to another century. And the sound seems to be tinnily tantalizing.
The (more…)
iOS hacker and developer – Adam Bell a.k.a b3ll has released a new
called Overflow in Cydia.
Overflow brings a dynamic ‘Coverflow’-esque style to your iOS dock.
Give your iOS dock a little style! Overflow lets you add a dynamic ‘Coverflow’-esque style to your dock, all while keeping things both elegant and fun to use.Overflow also takes full advantage of chpwn’s Infiniboard, and animates when you scroll your dock, so be sure to purchase Infinidock (more…)
Behringer, makes of all sorts of audio equipment, took CES 2012 by surprise with a gigantic 10,000-watt iPhone speaker dock. Dubbed the iNuke Boom, this is easily one of the largest
made, and naturally quite expensive.
AT CES 2012, Behringer showed off the iNuke Boom, possibly the world’s loudest iPhone speaker dock.
The massive speaker measures 8 feet wide, 4 feet tall, and weighs over 700 pounds. Not only that, it outputs at over 10,000-watts. (more…)
devices. These docks got the “docking” part right, however un-docking was a task that took more than five seconds and couldn’t be done with just one hand.
The Elevation Dock, a new Kickstarter project, aims to solve this by not only make the un-docking process a lot smoother, but also making the dock compatible with all cases.
Simple to use, quick undocking, and it works with or without a case. We didn’t stop there – It’s beautifully precision (more…)
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Your power management could be getting a whole lot smarter. Apple has just been granted a patent that details an intelligent dock connector able to properly adjust power levels for multiple connected devices from a single outlet source.
As with other power-related patents that Apple has applied for in the past, the technology involved here seems to be exactly the kind of thing people, including (more…)
I can most definitely hear you now.
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We’ve seen iPhone speaker docks that look like boom boxes, Angry Birds, and even a steering wheel. Now there’s an iPhone dock for Luddites, the MegaPhone by Italian design firm en&is.
There’s no need to plug in the MegaPhone or charge batteries. Just set your iPhone at the tip of the horn and let the natural acoustics of the creation take over.
Altec's portable iMT630 comes in multiple colors and includes a rechargeable battery for $149.99.
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Altec Lansing)
Altec Lansing has added another new portable iPhone /iPod speaker to its growing lineup with the $149.99 inMotion iMT630 Classic and Sport.
Continuing with Altec’s trend of creating more distinctive-looking speaker docks, the iMT630 has a slim yet curvy design, a built-in rechargeable (more…)
Apple .pro
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Although the dock connector is almost similar to the first and second generation iPad models, what differentiates it from current models is the color of the actual connector portion. It is white in the leaked component as opposed to black in the
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Apple .pro
includes a 90-degree turn while the one in the iPad 2 is entirely straight. The website also talks about the component number of the part which has updated from 821-1180-A to (more…)
According to the site, the tablet will have two dock connectors to allow the device to be docked in either portrait or landscape orientations. This should allow the device some flexibility when docking with 3rd party accessories, avoiding awkward cable positioning.
It would be really nice to have the option to also dock the iPad in landscape mode.
Patently Apple has also identified a port next to the 30-pin connector, which it believes could be (more…)
