These awesome disco brothers can’t shake their booty but the glorious sounds coming from their frizzy, fluffy afros will give you that night fever and keep you going all night long. Simply load them up with batteries and attach one to your music player for an instant disco or attach them both to your computer or Hi-Fi for stereo sound. Bring back the Shiny 70s and recreate the legendary Studio 54 with these Saturday Night Speakers!
You can hook them up to external music sources via a 3.5mm mini jack and is powered via USB or batteries. The Saturday Night Speakers retail for £19.95 from PrezzyBox.
Ion Audio has rapidly become one of my favorite gadget companies. First, they created the ION ITTUSB Turntable which allowed Baby boomers to take their vinyl LPs and rip them to digital mp3s. Then, Ion expanded that with the Tape 2 PC – which does the same thing for cassettes, a VHS version to capture old video home movies, and just about every other gadget in between. Now, they’re creating the next in that line with the SLIDES 2 PC, which allows photographers who have boxes of slides and negatives to digitize and archive generations of photographs and turn them into 5 megapixel digital stills. And do it at the simple touch of a button.
With the ability to connect directly into a computer via USB, the Slides 2 PC uses a special rail which houses multiple 35mm slides or a strip of negatives which can be read, scanned and saved one at a time. It uses a four glass optical element and automatically compensate for exposure and color correction. And the cost is a very affordable $100.
When you consider the memories lost by people in both New Orleans (during Hurricane Katrina) and Galveston (during Hurricane Ike) it becomes ever more important to take those stills and slides and get them into a format that can not only stand the test of time, but the elements as well. And the Slide 2 PC gives anyone the tools to ensure those Kodak moments stick around forever.
Hat Tip – The Giz
Retro gadgets are always creating new twists and quirks in newer technology. The latest design is this Nomad Traveler Speaker. Which is made to look like an old radio. It is actually inspired by vintage luggage and based on a design from the 1930s. Although it is a larger design, it is supposed to be lightweight. It also has the handle on top so you can wander into public with it hooked up to your iPod. Although, I’d imagine it’d look best sitting in your home. The speaker features SRS resonance enhancement and is said to offer a rich sound.
It also has an antenna for improved reception and a dial tuner display. Which means you can choose between either listening to the AM/FM radio or listen to whatever happens to be playing on your iPod or laptop. It also has the nice option to either be powered by plugging it into the wall or by popping some batteries into it and using it that way. Since it can be battery operated and has a radio, it make a nice radio for when your power is out and you need to check on local storms. It uses 4 AA batteries to be specific and is being sold on Urban Outfitters for $72.
Source: NerdApproved
