Blue Ant X5 Bluetooth Stereo Headset
If you're juggling an audio player and a cell phone, here's a combination that can bring them together. The X5 Bluetooth Stereo Headset ($140) works simultaneously with your Bluetooth-equipped cell phone and any audio player, switching from tunes to talk when you get a call, and back when you hang up. It connects directly to audio devices that support Bluetooth's A2DP (Advanced Audio Distribution Profile), and for those that don't, there's a Bluetooth transmitter module that connects through the player's headphone jack. (It also works with a PC for wireless stereo and Skype calls.) The headset microphone is removable, and the headset and transmitter both recharge through a USB port or AC. A marriage made in technology heaven.
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Altec Lansing inMotion im11
This portable speaker unit for iPods isn't the biggest, bassiest box in the world, but then, it isn't the size and shape of a beach ball, either. Altec Lansing's inMotion im11 ($100) is small enough to carry with you (with the iPod dock closed, it's 8.5 x 4.3 x 1.4 inches, plus an external AC adapter) and big enough for life's boom-box moments. It weighs 14 ounces and runs on four AA batteries (or, of course, AC), and comes with a travel bag. The point of having a portable player, after all, is to keep it portable, isn't it?
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Sirius Stiletto SL100
There's a contradiction inherent in satellite radio. While it seems like it should set you free, loads of channel choices everywhere, it also ties you to the receiver, which may work only in your car, or only on a desk near a window. For Sirius satellite radio customers, the Stiletto SL100 ($350) means liberation.
You can carry it with you like an audio player, because it stores programming recorded off the air or downloaded from a PC. This newest model captures up to 100 hours worth of Sirius programming and plays downloaded MP3 and WMA files. And indoors, where satellite signals don't penetrate, you can use the Stiletto 100's built-in Wi-Fi to connect to the Internet. Optional car and home adapters connect the Stiletto to speaker systems and recharge it.
Stocking Stuffers
If you need some stocking stuffers for your audio-loving fellow cubicle dwellers, there are several that would be suit. The Macally FM Cup ($60) fits in your car's cup holder and provides a dock connector for your iPod. Connect the cord to the cigarette lighter socket to power the FM Cup (and recharge your iPod while it plays). Do you somebody who has to take their iPod everywhere? The H2O Audio for iPod ($90)
is the perfect gift. It's waterproofed for long walks in the rain -- and with optional waterproof earphones it can even submerge to 10 feet. Other housings are available to fit other iPod models. And you can save your loved ones the 10 minutes a day they spend untangling their earbud cords with the Cordgo (two for $10) -- just snap this plastic spool around the cord, and reel and unreel it with one hand.
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