The Sony PCM-M10 digital audio recorder. (Credit: Sony) Sony makes some damn fine portable audio recorders. Its PCM-D50 , released in March of 2008, has a cult-like following among audio professionals and still stands as one of CNET’s highest-rated field recorders . But Sony’s pro-audio...

Product names like "Atomic Bass" are a dead giveaway. (Credit: Radius) If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve owned at least one MP3 player in your lifetime, and anyone who has used a portable audio player knows the earbuds that come packaged with these devices are–for...

By Shane McGlaun The iPod is the most successful and popular digital music player by a huge margin. With the raging popularity of the iPod a world of accessories are available from speaker systems to car chargers and all sorts of gear in between. iLuv is one of the makers of many accessories for the...

By Ian Chiu Samsung’s P2 from 2007 has been universally praised as the most successful MP3 player in the history of the Yepp series. One can only expect a follow up to the formidable flagship touch-screen player. Well, the wait is over. The YP P3 has arrived with a number of improvements over...

Nan Hawthorne, a successful historical novelist, was born with Stargardt’s Disease, a form of macular degeneration that causes the deterioration of a person’s vision over time. Nan has been partially blind her entire life; now with 20/1200 vision, she has learned to live with the disease...

A Missouri mother should serve three years in prison for her role in a MySpace hoax on a 13-year-old neighbor who committed suicide, federal prosecutors said in court documents filed Wednesday. Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Krause outlined the government’s position while requesting the maximum sentence...

By Shane McGlaun There are tons of bicyclists riding around my town. Typically, you see them in big groups clad in spandex and weaving in and out of traffic. Sometimes you see them in singles though and they are often wearing earphones. I always wonder how they will evade some wanker out to prove the...

By Evan Ackerman This is Mashimaro. It’s supposed to be a rabbit, but it’s called Mashimaro because it looks like a marshmallow or something. It is, I guess, Korea’s defense against Hello Kitty, in that it supposedly has some kind of anime series behind it (that “puts a humorous...

An interesting sidenote on the intersection of music and commerce: Billboard reported last week that the iTunes Store’s new variable pricing plan has had a bit of an impact on sales rankings on individual tracks, giving $.99 songs an advantage over their $1.29 counterparts. According to the magazine,...

Look at that will you, just look at it. That’s a pair of $50 iFrogz EarPollution DJ Style (heavy on style, light on the DJ) headphones we’ve been testing for the last week. As you can tell by the colors, graphics, faux-chrome accents, and over-the-top bulk, these headphones are meant to...

We’re not totally sure here, but it sounds like Sprint employees are now being trained on the anxiously awaited Palm Pre . Over at PreThinkin g, they seem to have gotten their paws on an internal Sprint email that says that “employees can expect training to start in April as well as multiple...

Remember all the fun everyone had watching Palm and Apple’s legal wordplay regarding multitouch patents? If you missed it, Apple delivered a very thinly veiled threat to Palm, flouting how it had touch-sensitive intellectual rights up the wazoo to protect itself from the competition. Apple, though,...