Philips Streamium MCi298 wireless micro hi-fi system cuts a dash

Looking rather dandy with its shiny black control panel and matt black speaker gauze is Philips’ new Streamium wireless micro hi-fi system.

Looking rather dandy with its shiny black control panel and matt black speaker gauze is Philips’ new Streamium wireless micro hi-fi system.

Looking so cute you almost want to pat it on its head is the new iPod nano, which has just been announced this evening.

As expected, Apple’s iPod touch has received a sprinkling of fairy dust, with Steve Jobs announcing a shiner, all-new, revamped version today.

We’re a pretty hard-nosed, cynical bunch here at Wirefresh, but Arcade Fire’s Google Maps interactive video mash-up got a few jaws dropping around the office.

Sure to set audiophiles salivating with desire is Denon’s DP-A100 direct drive turntable, released as part of the company’s 100th anniversary celebrations.

Only spotty intern reporters from the Lower Grimthrope Weekly Gazette still use tape recorders for interviews because digital is where it’s at baby- and to underscore that point, Olympus have just shunted out their latest voice recording gizmo, the LS-5.

So, you’ve bought the latest 200g audiophile vinyl pressing of Art Pepper’s alto saxophone explorations, and delicately placed it on your Clearaudio Innovation Wood/Universal/DaVinci V2 turntable.

Just spotted strutting into the UK Argos catalogue is Philips’ new GoGear Connect portable media player, a fully-featured Android-powered device available in 8GB and 16GB flavours.

When it comes to playing back audio on laptops, the sound quality is – at best - pretty shonky, but MSI is hoping to hook in audiophiles with its beefy new GX660 laptop which promises a veritable orgy of aural pleasure.

The US’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has been trialling real-time translation systems, one of which uses a Google Nexus One handset to do real-time, spoken language translation from Pashto to English, and vice versa.

Android users annoyed at the ability of their iPhone-owning pals to annoy other folks with Auto-Tune ‘singing’ can rejoice: MicDroid, is here.

We attended the Christmas Technology Press Event put on by the major UK retailer John Lewis today, and amongst the feast of insider tech information on offer was the snippet that Apple is “likely” to be selling an updated iPod Touch packing some of the features seen in the new iPhone 4.
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Billed as a “a tiny camera with huge possibilities,” Swann’s diminutive ThumbCam video camera is a mere whisp of a thing, measuring just 2.2” x 0.8” x 0.8” and ideal for all your nefarious recording needs.

If your pockets are vastly deep and you have a penchant for audiophile sound, then clear some space on your desk for the Eclipse TD508II-UD reference-class desktop speaker system.

Slicker than the black seas around BP’s rig in the Gulf of Mexico, DoubleTwist for Android is a new, fully featured music and video player vying to replace the built-in player.
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