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Roth Audio has introduced what gets our vote for the coolest-looking iPod dock in the world. The Music Cocoon is a tube-amp iPod dock that also works with a CD player or any mini-jack audio device.
“We can guarantee that the amplifier will add a real warmth and dimension to the music which other amplifiers are [...]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs posted a surprising statement on the company’s site yesterday, challenging the music industry to abandon DRM (copy protection) on digital music downloads.Jobs outlines three possible futures for digital music:

Continue as is it is now, with each manufacturer competing freely with their own “top to bottom” proprietary systems for selling, playing and [...]

Blendtec, a company that makes heavy duty blenders, is destroying iPods to sell $400 blenders.
Blendtec makes hardcore blenders - not something that most people would think they need. Ask someone if they’d like to watch a video demonstration about a blender, and they are liable to run for the door. Create a vlog about a [...]

Listening to iPods for as little as 5 minutes a day can cause hearing loss.
Researchers Brian Fligor and Cory Portnuff estimate that a typical person could safely listen to an iPod for 4.6 hours at 70 percent of full volume using the supplied earphones without greatly increasing the risk of hearing loss.
However, listening to an [...]

Apple today announced it has teamed up with Ford Motor Company, General Motors and Mazda to deliver seamless iPod integration across the majority of their brands and models, making it easy for iPod users to enjoy and control their iPod’s sound through their car stereo system. With the addition of these models, more than 70 [...]

The Mayo Clinic warns that portable music devices put your hearing at risk.
“With the older devices, like the Walkman, if you turned them up all the way, they sounded very bad, so people didn’t do it. Now, they don’t sound bad at maximum volume, and that could pose a problem,” says Jodi Cook, Ph.D., director [...]

Chrysler has announced that it will be the first American automaker to provide full iPod integration as an option in most of its 2006 models, with over three million 2006 Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge models offering iPod integration, beginning this spring. Drivers will be able to listen to their iPod through the car’s audio system, [...]

A new set of iPod speakers from Hammacher Schlemmer features audiophile tube-based electronics, and comes with a luxury price.
The $3,999.95 system, developed and built by German audio technicians, consists of an aluminum-encased amplifier housing four powerful Class-A tubes which glow gently as they generate sound that is virtually distortion-free.
According to the company, the tube amplifier [...]

iPods seem to be showing up everywhere, but this seems to be a first. Not the half-naked guy playing air-guitar, but underwear for music fans.
Play Underwear has introduced the iBoxer - iPod-ready underwear.
The Play iBoxer is a cotton/spandex blend button fly boxer, with a discreet front pocket which is perfect for holding an iPod, other [...]

Apple has announced that it will replace iPod nanos with defective screens, but does not plan to do anything about reports that nano screens scratch very easily.
“Any user with a defective screen should contact Apple … and we will replace it for free,” an spokesman said. “It’s not a design issue.”
“It is a real, but [...]