Lego Speakers (and More) for Your iPod

If you want to dress up your iPod, you might want to consider one of the hottest technology gifts out there this season. It is an itty-bitty desktop speaker that works with your iPod Classic, Nano and Mini. The speakers resemble Lego blocks and come in all sorts of bright colors, such as yellow, pink, green, white, blue and black, There is even a new speaker that is a bit large and resembles a stack of blocks in red, white and blue. The super compact little stereo is said to have great sound for its size; the speaker was even … Continue reading

Logitech Speaker System $35 after Rebate

My husband is a musician. He has a fantastic ear for melody. He also is easily annoyed by distortion. In order to hear things right, we have higher end speakers on everything from the television to the computer. They vary in quality from the BOSE dock for his iPod to the old-but-trusty Lansing Altechs on the kids’ computer. The Logitech system on my computer is in the middle. It’s a sufficiently excellent system that he’s able to listen without picking up errors. It’s of good quality. There’s a similar system on sale right now at Amazon. Its list is ~$160. … Continue reading

Portable iPod Speakers

I have done a lot of traveling in recent months for work. One thing that always seems to be absent in every hotel room is a CD player. For some reason it never occurred to me before that most hotel rooms don’t come with any sort of music playing device inside them. Music, more and more has become a huge part of my life, so these past few trips the absence of a CD player has becomes rather obvious. I have an iPod, so I have been listening to it late at night with ear phones in often dreaming of … Continue reading