Tag Archives: dock

iPod dock in an Atari 2600

Posted on June 16, 2009 by Rob Beschizza

Creator Byron Casebier, at Gizmodo: Here is my weak (and slightly unfinished) Atari iPod Dock. I thought sharing may create interest for someone that can do this better. As far as specs, I gutted a broken, iPod clock radio and … Continue reading →

SpongeBob SquarePants eyeball speaker dock. You know… for kids.

Posted on November 18, 2008 by John Brownlee

It is hard to imagine a more grotesque children’s cartoon character than SpongeBob SquarePants: a buck toothed idiot man child incarnated into a cube of gasping, asexual jelly. That such a surreal horror could become an icon of cuteness just … Continue reading →

Video Review: Griffin AirCurve iPhone Dock

Posted on October 23, 2008 by Joel Johnson

In short, it’s bad. Don’t buy it. AirCurve dock product page [GriffinTechnology.com]

Griffin’s Simplifi iPod dock crams in card reader, USB hub

Posted on September 29, 2008 by John Brownlee

Griffin’s new Simplifi gorgeously converges a card reader and a USB hub with the opalescent plastic brick of an iPod or iPhone dock. It’s simple, but it takes what is usually a wasteful, unnecessary block and actually makes it useful, … Continue reading →

Skullcandy Pipe iPod / iPhone dock looks like a femur

Posted on August 5, 2008 by John Brownlee

I’ve never really tried Skullcandy’s sepulchral range of ear buds, mostly because of some uneducated assumptions that they must sound like crap if they look so neat for such a cheap price. The Skullcandy Pipe iPod / iPhone dock generates … Continue reading →

iPhone 3G dock as evidence of Apple’s new love for swoops

Posted on July 18, 2008 by Joel Johnson

I think this image from iLounge showing the last three docks for Apple media players — iPods, the iPod EDGE, and the new iPhone 3G — is a concise indicator of where Apple’s industrial design is going. Less basic geometric … Continue reading →

Krell introduces the KID: the Venus de Milo of iPod docks

Posted on July 9, 2008 by John Brownlee

Behold, the Krell Kid. Don’t let its nickname — “The Papa Dock” — fool you: although the Krell’s branding attempts to associate itself with a certain hard core gangsta rapper from Eminem’s 8 Mile, what you are looking at here … Continue reading →

Cute little battery-powered iPod dock

Posted on July 1, 2008 by Rob Beschizza

Surround Xi is a tiny little speaker tube with a USB port. Simply plug in a thumbdrive with MP3 songs on it, and play them. It’s about $15 and it’s great. Surely originating from the same distant, nameless factory, an … Continue reading →

JVC HDTVs with built-in iPod Dock

Posted on June 25, 2008 by John Brownlee

JVC’s new LT line of televisions marries that chic-est and most useless of gadgetry fashions — the iPod dock — to its slim HDTVs. Starting at 32″ and 720p and going up to 52″ and 1080p, you’re looking at way … Continue reading →

The einö portable iPod dock

Posted on June 13, 2008 by John Brownlee

I rather like the this portable Japanese iPod dock by einö. No idea on the sound quality, of course (my guess is rather tinny, just by dint of being portable), but it has a certain allure in the combination of … Continue reading →