Oakley Split Thump Sunglasses With Built In MP3 Player

I saw an impressive pair of sunglasses during my daily jaunt around the Gizmodo website. When it comes to tinted specs nobody does it quite as well as Oakley, but with the Split Thump glasses they seem to have managed to go one better than their usual inimitable style by combining gadgets with good looks.

The gadget is a built in MP3 player which does nothing to hinder the class that the glasses exude. A USB port enables you to download any and all of your music onto the player, which is available in 1GB and 2GB capacities.

The Gizmodo website also gives a link to the and a (possibly) handy tool that lets you upload an image of yourself and then try the glasses on your image. Just in case you’re not sure whether they’re “really you”, you can even print the picture off and show it to your friends.

The 1GB and “GB Split Thump glasses with built in MP3 player cost £164.99 and £255 respectively, which is expensive as a pair of sunglasses and expensive as an MP3 player but these aren’t any pair of sunglasses (they’re Oakley) and the overall look of the glasses really don’t suffer with the addition of the MP3 player.

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Sing And The World Will Sing With You

At least, your mobile phone might join in. It will if it’s a Nokia 5320 XpressMusic. One of the latest Nokia handsets, this includes the Nokia Say and Play software. The rather intuitively titled program enables you to pick a song just by speaking the title. It could make for some fairly embarassing situations involving bad music tastes – although it may not, of course.

All in all it’s a pretty nifty piece of kit for music lovers on the go. Quick downloading of tunes is enabled through HSDPA and USB 2.0. Up to 8GB external memory is offered through the microSD card slot.

Nokia has also announced that its “Comes with Music” phones will include 12 months access to their as yet undefined music download service. Its perhaps a little odd that the 5320, and similar 5220, don’t include access to this service but perhaps something bigger and better is planned to coincide with that announcement.

For those who don’t know – the Comes with Music product was announced in December last year. At the time of the press release, the service was being billed for a mid 2008 release and would include millions of tracks. Consumers could download an unlimited number of songs that they would be able to keep even once their subscription came to an end. Could be promising, and we will try to dig up a little more dirt on the service and its expected release details but we can tell you that Universal Music Group International and Sony BMG are already lined up for the release of the service.

Competition for iTunes?

Iphone Missing – Presumed Sold Out Ready For 3G Version

The Apple iPhone has been something of a phenomenon since its release. There’s no doubting its incredible looks and the existence of a touch screen that actually works as intended had many a technophile salivating at the very prospect of ownership.

However, the £269 price tag was far from accessible for the majority. Partially in light of this, prices were reduced by £100 to a much more attractive £169. The end result is that both the providers Carphone Warehouse and the network O2 have indicated that they only have very limited supplies of the iPhone left in stock.

A more cynical, although potentially more accurate, view is that the price drop was offered in order to clear stocks in time for the release of the 3G iPhone in early June. Citi Analysts have taken the price drop, along with other factors, as a clear indication that Steve Jobs will announce the next generation of 3G iPhone (as well as a new iPod) during his keynote speech. The speech will take place during the Apple Worldwide Developer’s Conference on June 9^th.

The Developer’s Conference has been something of a hot bed for new releases in recent years and if a 3G version of the iPhone is imminent then Steve Job’s keynote speech is the most likely time to make an announcement.

500,000 GB MP3 Player On The Horizon

Room for one more track? According to researchers from Glasgow University, you’ll have plenty of room soon. Professor Lee Cronin and Dr Malcolm Kadodwala have completed research that means a single square inch of memory could contain as much as 500,000 GB, instead of the current limit of approximately 3.3GB.

That should have ISPs in a bit of a panick, following news that they want the BBC to pay more because of the popularity of the BBC iPlayer. Imagine the number of downloads that you would need to manage in order to fill an iPod Nano that can hold over 100,000 times more songs.

The change in technology could mean even smaller MP3 players and other portable devices although it may not be worth getting your hopes up just yet. While the technology has been proven, Professor Lee Cronin admits that they have “yet to solve the fabrication and addressing problems.”

If a 5GB MP3 player holds around 2,500 songs, this could mean the advance of an MP3 player that would house an astonishing 250 million tracks. That’s an awful lot of Cliff Richard in anyone’s book.

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Red Zune 80 coming to stores soon

Some of you may of noticed already, The Red Zune 80s are making their way into retail stores, Red Zune 80 will soon be available for purchase at retail stores. The Zune Red 80 has a 3.2″ LCD screen meaning for the Zune Red 80 has nearly double the screen size of the iPod equivilant.

Resolution for both units is 320×240 pixels. The new Zune pad is both a d-pad and a touch sensitive surface. New software allows the Zune to sync wirelessly with the PC. No dock is required to initiate sync, but transfers are much slower than USB 2.0 (about 6x slower).

Zune to Zune file sharing is still possible. for DRM Haters, One great thing about the new zune is the file transfer zune to zune, micrsoft have removed the 3 day restriction on shared tracks.

200 Million Song Pod coming soon?

After IBM’s recent announcement of their non-volatile memory technology, researchers at the University of Glasgow (Scotland) have upped the ante by several hundred percent Operating at fractions of a nanometer, functional nanoclusters shift electrons and act like switches which can increase storage capacity without increasing size.

Professor Lee Cronin from the University’s chemistry department proudly exclaimed, “This is unprecedented and provides a route to produce new a molecule-based switch that can be easily manipulated using an electric field.” At that point I became uninterested in the science and started considering how long it would take to download 200 million songs. In an age when HD space is barely an issue for the average consumer, and online storage options like Flickr for photos, Youtube for video, and Google for anything, what overall effect would this have on our daily lives?

Non-volative memory implies the lack of moving parts, but how secure will this new nanotechnology be centered around electric fields? Will I need to become a moving Faraday cage to keep my data from frying out in the elements?

iPhone ‘Style’ Media Player Showcased

Ramos Digital recently showcased their new V8 PMP in China. Though, still in development stages the company have released the designs for their new PMP (Portable Media player) which looks to have a extremely stylish GUI (Graphical user interface).

The new portable media player will support Mp4, Avi, DivX, RMVB, and also MP3, WMA, and FLAC file formats and includes TV output and a text viewer. Just like the Apple iPhone, the portable media player automatically detects rotation of the device and changes the on-screen imagery in accordance to which way round
the device is held.

Similar to switching from portrait to landscape mode. which is great for viewing windscreen movies, images and media. There is still no information on screen resolution, but would appear to have a 4.3” display and touch screen technology.

Although the price is still a mystery, I’d make a bet this will be a must have gadget for 2008 with its ultra stylish interface and array of supported file formats.

Building Brick MP3 Player

I wrote about the coolness of Lego the other week and I have found a gadget that is made to look like the iconic brick.

This cool gizmo is actually an MP3 player, sure it doesn’t have a screen but what it lacks in modern features is made up in style!  The songs are accessed by using the buttons on the front of the player and songs are stored on an sd card with a maximum size of 2 GB. At the low price of $46 you be mad to miss out on this cool MP3 player.