Year: 2010

GEAR4 announces new AlarmDock Reveal for the iPod, iPhone

GEAR4 (http://www.GEAR4.com) has announced the US$69 AlarmDock Reveal alarm clock radio for iPod and iPhone. Available for purchase in the U.S. by Oct. 1, the compact device provides an alarm clock, an FM radio and a way to charge your iPod or iPhone.
 
AlarmDock Reveal features a 12 or 24-hour clock with a dimmable LCD display. The alarm can be set to wake up by buzzer, radio or your personal music library on your iPod/iPhone.When you can’t roll out of bed, AlarmDock Reveal’s entire top panel is the snooze control, eliminating the need to hunt for the snooze button to sleep in.

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‘MacVoices’ talks with ‘The Mac Mommy’

On the new “MacVoices” (http://www.macvoices.com), Melissa Davis, aka “The Mac Mommy,” and co-host of “Moms Gone Geek,” talks about her tech background, including time served in the educational technology space, and why she does and doesn’t consider herself a “mommy blogger.”

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SoundOrb Aurora speaker system will light up your life

GEAR4’s US$349.99 SoundOrb Aurora docking station (http://www.GEAR4.com) is a cool looking and decent sounding speaker system. But is it worth the manufacturer’s suggested retail price of US$349.99?

The company claims the polar white SoundOrb is the first “made-for-iPod and works-with-iPhone” speaker system to feature a separate wireless sub-woofer, and I can’t dispute that. It incorporates DSP (Digital Signal Processing) technology that has two psychoacoustic sound algorithms, allowing you to listen to your music and movies in Virtual Wide Stereo or Virtual Surround Sound modes.

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