Archive for the ‘Media Players’ Category

eyeSight unveils world’s first mobile phone music player with hand gesture control

A company called eyesight has announced interesting new MP3 player software that allows the user to control the music on their device using hand gestures. The player is called the Moove MP3 Player and is an app that can be downloaded from the Ovi Store right now. The only catch is that the app will [...]

Good-bye CDs: Digital downloads overshadowing physical sales

If Steve Jobs could see the figures for digital downloads today, there would be a big sheepish grin on his face. After promising to reinvent the music industry with the iPod over ten years ago, that promise is now ringing true. For the first time in the U.S. physical sales have been overshadowed by digital [...]

Sonos PLAY:3 official: cheaper entry to the streaming music club

Sonos has officially announced the Sonos PLAY:3, the company’s latest streaming music speaker, and the smallest all-in-one from the firm to-date. Already spotted earlier this week in a premature Amazon listing, the PLAY:3 (aka the S3) packs three speakers – a single tweeter and two mids – each with its own Class-D digital amp, and [...]

Sony unveils cool CMT-CX5 audio system that wall mounts

Being able to hang stuff on the wall is cool at times because it will get things off your counters or cabinets so you have more space for other junk in the home or office. TVs and even home theater gear is often wall mounted today. Sony also has a new wall mounted audio system [...]

Sony Must Announce the PlayStation 4 ASAP

Earlier this week, reports surfaced suggesting Sony would be launching the PlayStation 4 next year. Almost immediately, Sony fans jumped for joy at the news, while Microsoft fans scoffed at the idea. And along the way, Sony hasn’t said for sure what might happen. Even so, I’m here to tell you (and Sony) that the [...]

Amazon Android Appstore breathes (video)

Yesterday, Amazon launched its new on-device and Web-based Android application hub, the Amazon Appstore. As a direct rival to Google’s own Android Market, the Amazon Appstore features a wide range of Android games and applications. Amazon is also touting the exclusive availability of Rovio’s new app, Angry Birds Rio. Free for a limited time, Angry [...]

Firefox 4 hits the streets (video)

Mozilla just made Firefox 4 available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux computers, and features a redesigned UI, a new panoramic tab manager, improved security and privacy controls, integrated Firefox Sync services, tab grouping, an optimized JavaScript engine designed to improve Web app performance, GPU-accelerated page rendering and plenty more. The new version of Firefox [...]

21st Century Jukebox by TouchTunes Virtuo SmartJuke (video)

For decades, jukeboxes were at the very center of popular music, and their modern descendants can still be heard in watering holes the world over. TouchTunes Interactive Networks and frog design have teamed up to re-ignite the social spirit of vintage jukeboxes, in an updated device designed to engage a generation used to on-demand digital [...]

Sony Blu-Ray Players will ship with VUDU

Sony’s 2011 network connected 2011 Blu-ray player line-up will now ship with VUDU instant movie streaming service built-in.  The models include BDP-S280, BDP-S380, BDP-S480, BDP-S580, BDP-S780, BDV-E280, BDV-E580 and BDV-E780W. VUDU is a subscription free service that provides instant streaming of 1080p movies with Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound.  They claim to have the most extensive library of [...]

Flash 10.2 coming to Android March 18th (video)

On March 18th, Flash 10.2 will be arriving on Android devices, according to Adobe.  The updated version will support Android 2.2 (Froyo) and 2.3 (Gingerbread) devices which meet the Flash Player hardware system requirements, and a beta release is scheduled as well for Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) tablets. However there are some interesting things to consider. [...]