Peter Max Designed iPod Dock and Radio for NPR

Did you know that NPR is celebrating it’s 40th anniversary? To honor this milestone legendary pop artist Peter Max has designed a pair of audio devices by Tivoli. The radio “Songbook” shown above which is ideal for use as an iPod speaker or a travel alarm clock and just hanging out listening …

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Cardboard Radio Review

We got a Cardboard Radio to review and our first thought (and probably yours) was “cardboard?” Yes. Sort of. The mechanical and electrical parts of the radio are made of metal and plastic like a normal radio but the outside is made of eco-friendly recyclable cardboard. Besides the uniqueness factor and clean …

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Grace Digital Victoria Internet Radio has Classic Retro Styling

People say they don’t make ‘em like they use to. But now they sort of do. The Grace Digital Victoria Wireless Internet Radio harkens back to radios of the 1940s with it’s rounded styling cues and wooden cabinet. But it’s updated for today’s modern technology with wireless capability allowing it to receive …

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iPhone Becomes Part of the Clock with iLive’s Clock Radio Dock

iPhone docking alarm clocks are a dime a dozen these days. But this one is very unique because your iPhone/iPod Touch actually becomes part of a giant analog clock. The ILIVE iCP391B Clock Radio uses a free App that lets your phone become the 12 and the hands of the analog style …

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Gear Shift Radio Clicks but Doesn’t Clack

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Believe it or not that gear shifter above is actually an FM radio. You “shift” the gear to control all the radio functions. Unfortunately there’s no dashboard on this one to tell you what gear (station) you’re on so you’ll have to use your ears. As someone who can’t drive a manual transmission ...

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USB Shortwave Radio

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The USB powered shortwave radio is not really all that crazy as a gadget itself, but what is crazy about it is the fact that it plugs into a computer- the very thing that could conceivably wipe out shortwave radio. Shortwave radio operates on certain bands and frequencies that enable anyone- even amateurs, ...

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Q2 Radio Cube is Controlled by Tilting and Flipping

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A radio can be a simple device as far as controls go- it’s basically just two knobs and with some creative engineering using control rings and such it could be made with just a single knob. Yet designers of internet radios are still trying to simplify it even further to get that clean ...

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Used as Read Electronics Concept

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Here’s an interesting concept for electronic devices called “Used as Read”. The devices are in the shapes of the words that they are (yeah that was an awkward sentence but I’d rather just write this little blurb than go back and try to figure out a more eloquent way of saying that). So ...

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