An Egg-celent Speaker

For some reason egg shaped objects induce an autonomic “awwww” response in my brain. Yea it’s cute but this Egg is more than meets the eye. ‘Crack’ the shell and two pieces become your satellite speakers while the base acts as a subwoofer.

The base also provides a dock for your MP3 player. It recharges via induction and when portability is a must - comes with a cool neoprene jacket. Do want!
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Coldplay Achieve 2 Million Downloads

Coldplay's new single, 'Violet Hill', has been downloaded by 2 million people since its release last week. The track was made available as free download from the band's website for seven days only.

'Violet Hill' is the first taster of the band's new album, 'Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends', which is scheduled for release on June 12.

A spokeperson for the group described the volume of downloads as "staggering" while pointing out that 'Violet Hill' would have outsold the whole of the Top 40 singles four times over.

Coldplay are set to play a number of free gigs to coincide with the release of the album including a performance at London's Brixton Academy on June 16. Details of the gig are available from Coldplay's website.
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Download The Charlatans' New Album For Free!

Xfm are offering you the brand new album from The Charlatans absolutely free. Plus a great competition to win a rare vinyl copy.

You've already feasted your ears on two phenomenal singles: title track 'You Cross My Path' and 'Oh Vanity', and now the time has come for the whole album 'You Cross My Path' to be made available to download for free. Yes you did hear us right, the album to have and to hold for nowt, zilch, zero, zip.

Speaking to Xfm frontman Tim Burgess revealed "We always knew this album was gonna be given away for free, even before we started writing so we wanted to make it the best album we've ever made. This isn't a case of left over tracks and b-sides, we wanted to give our fans a quality record."

Manager Alan McGee agreed: "I completely mean it when I say this is their best record in year, their best since 'Telling Stories'. I think for ten years they've been a brilliant band but they haven't fulfilld their full potential until now."
Download The Charlatans 'You Cross My Path' (full album) (zipped file)
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Barry Adamson, 'Spend a Little Time'

Being a Bad Seed has rarely been so good. Like some nasty Leonard Cohen alter ego, the veteran bard plays blues-folk as something dark and gruff on "Back to the Cat."

The trade of melancholy for something more bitter and less ambiguous is, after all, what rock is all about.
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Lightspeed Champion, 'Everyone I Know Is Listening To Crunk'

"My best friends are all listening to crunk" has to be among the best recent articulations of indie-folk despair. What could make a Saddle Creeker more apt to throw in the towel?

Dev Hynes shouldn't give up just yet: He's letting Team Omaha escort him straight to Oberst-dom.
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Galactic, 'I Got It (What You Need) ft. Lyrics Born': Free MP3 of the Day

Which is the better reason to listen to Galactic--the impossibly groovy funk-jazz jams, or the A-list MCs rhyming along to them? The combination is almost unfairly good, but we'll keep quiet.

With artists from Juvenile to Mr. Lif on board, it's a utopian redefinition of "instrumental hip-hop."
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Plug & Play - Wireless Speaker System

In the future, homes will have a wireless network for all products. To bridge the technology gap until then, the PLUG + PLAY wireless speaker system makes all ones music available, regardless if it is stored on cell phones, PCs or MP3 players. The transparent speakers deliver high sound quality and blend into most interiors. Audio files are transmitted from ones device to PLAY by small PLUG elements.

The plugs were to be plugged into many different mp3 players, computers, cell phones etc.. it needed to be comprehended as a part of the system. The result is a system of speakers with bluetooth receiver, and plugs with bluetooth sender.

The plugs dock into the side of the speaker for charging, and in the speaker has a transparent LCD-display in the glass, providing information about song title, equalizer, etc.
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Music Vortex - Water Speaker

Bronze prize winner of the Chinese design competition Soundbox held by speaker manufacturer 3Nod, designer Eric Zheng created the Music Vortex. A speaker system that produces vehement vibration of water via resonance.

It works by having a built-in metronome which enlarges music rhythm to stable vibration and producing pretty ripples through the vibrating perch in the middle. Volume is adjusted by turning the 3nod switch located in the middle as well.
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New Onda VX777: Wifi and WebRadios

Onda has just presented the VX777, which is the big brother of the VX767 recently announced. Identical side design, this new model is different, because it has WiFi with the possibility to listening of Web-radios.

With regard to its specifications, it embarks a touch screen LCD 16:9 260k colors of 4,3″ (480×272px), an extensible capacity of 2Go with 16Go via a slot microSD, a tuner FM, a microphone with function dictaphone, an exit TV, 7 EQ, the posting of the words and plays.

It offers a support of formats MP3, WMA, WAV, FLAC, RM/RMVB, AVI, FLV, ASF, MP4, MPG, MOV, WMA, WMV, 3GP, SWF, JPEG, BMP, GIF and png. USB 2.0/UMS, the autonomy announced by the manufacturer is 30 hours in audio against 10 hours in video reading.
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