Audio & Video Gadgets

CEIVA Digital Photo Frame

CEIVA offers the world's only connected digital photo frames. With a digital photo frame, you can display photos from your digital camera as if they were regular photos, except that the frame can bring your pictures to life in a full-color slideshow.

CEIVA frames can receive photos through the internet (no computer required) directly from friends and family anywhere in the world. New photos can also be sent directly to the frame from camera phones.

CEIVA Digital Photo Frames are on sale now with a number of special offers to choose from.

Shure E500PTH - The Ultimate Sound Isolating Earphones

While these may the most expensive earphones ever, except perhaps for those with gold plating and diamond studs, the Shure E500PTH Sound Isolating Earphones are pretty much the earphones to drool over.

Sound quality is, no argument, the best in the market.

I normally hate ear bud style headphones, but the comfort of these can't be beat. They feel like nothing is there.

And one of the nicest features - push to hear. Most noise-isolating earphones do just that, isolate the outside noise so that all you hear is your music. And then when someone talks to you, or you actually want to hear something outside, you have to pull them off. The Shures have a switch that causes them to reverse the sound isolation, so that you hear what's outside and not what's playing.

They include a carrying case, and the "push-to-hear" switch can be removed for increased portability. You can't go wrong with these, as long as you can afford the steep price.

Digital Picture Frame

Why stare at the same photo all the time? This 8" digital picture frame has 64 MB of built-in memory allowing you to store up to 100 6-megapixel photos. It can be positioned in six different ways for optimum landscape and portrait viewing, and is wall-mountable. Built-in speakers can play music while it plays a slideshow of your photos (remote included). New photos can be loaded via USB 1.0 or 2.0, or via various digital camera flash memory card formats.

The Digital Photograph-to-iPod Transfer Device

Never run out of storage space on your digital camera again! This simple portable device transfers digital photos from your SD memory card to your iPod without the use of a PC. The connector can send up to 20 pictures per minute to your iPod using the handheld player's control panel, with no extra wires, batteries or special software.

Superior Surge Protector

I hate it when I can only use half the outlets in a surge protected power-bar because the power bricks (or AC-adaptors if you want to call them by their real name) are so wide they block they outlets next to them. Here's a nice solution: A surge-protector with each outlet on a flexible connector. It not only protects against electronics-killing power surges, but also filters the electricity for a cleaner signal with less electromagnetic interference. There's a reason it won an award at the Consumer Electronics Show - it's a great product!

An iPod in the Kitchen?

I love to listen to music while I cook. Unfortunately, I'm not a big fan of catching my iPod earbud wires in the blender. Enter the Under-Cabinet iPod Dock and Radio.

Most under-cabinet radios have an AM/FM radio, and sometimes a CD player. This one houses any docking iPod (and charges it too!). Listening to your favorite songs, you won't mind spending all day in the kitchen. It even includes a cooking timer and a handheld remote, which can control both the radio and the iPod.

Transfer CDs to your iPod directly - no computer required!

So you've bought the LP to CD Converter and created CDs of all your old Elvis 78s, but now that you have a taste of modern living, you want to go all the way? Forget the CDs, you need an iPod!

But how do you get all that music from your CDs onto your iPod? With the handy-dandy iLoad CD-to-iPod Music Transfer System of course!

This is the only device that lets you load a CD directly onto any type of docking iPod without the need for a computer or internet connection. An entire CD takes only 8 minutes to convert and transfer.

Bring your old vinyl records back to life

Remember when music came on plastic discs? No, not CDs - LPs! Those 12" pieces of black vinyl that skipped and popped and scratched and now you have a cupboard full of them and you don't want to re-buy all your music... Well now you can do something with them - convert them to CDs with an LP-to-CD Recorder Stereo System!

This tabletop unit will convert 33s, 45s, and even 78s (for those real oldies) to digital audio CD-R or CD-RW. You can even pause the recording while you flip the record, skip songs you don't like, or change records to make a mixed compilation.

For those who like to Zoom Zoom

Canon's new Powershot S2 IS digital camera has what you want. Check it out: 12x (!) image-stabilized optical zoom, 5 megapixels, all kinds of manual and automatic control, and a USB 2.0 interface so you can download your photos in seconds.

Samsung SCX105L MPEG4 Sports Camcorder

Featuring a durable, rubberized water resistant body, the Samsung SCX105L is a camcorder made for sports. With a 10x optical zoom, and an image stabilizer to ensure smooth footage even in sub-optimal conditions, you can get close to the action without worrying about your hardware. Video is stored in MPEG4 format in the built-in 512MB of memory. An extra sports camera module provides hands-free shooting capability and can be mounted on a helmet or other stable surface for extreme-sports recording.

Arcade Legends Full Size Game System

Asteroids®. Centipede®. Missile Command®. Tempest®. More than 30 classic games return to life in this full size upright console that recalls nostalgic days spent in an arcade mastering the challenges of video games that were the forerunners of today’s digital imagery.

Handheld DVD/CD/MP3 Player

This lightweight handheld DVD player is no bigger than a traditional portable CD player.

Weightless Headset Phone

You’ll forget you’re wearing this cordless, hands-free headset phone until it rings, and then you can answer at the push of a button.

TV-Top Shelf

TV top shelf instantly adds space for DVD player, VCR, cable box or other component. When there’s no media stand available, or your stand is full, here’s a simple storage solution.

Progression Wake Up Clock

More gentle than the jarring noise of traditional alarms, this clock uses a gradual increase in ambient light, stimulating aromas, and peaceful sounds from nature to awaken sleepers. Thirty minutes before wake-up, the clock’s light begins to glow softly, subtly brightening over the next half hour. As the light increases, the warmth from the lamp releases faint aromatherapy scents into the air. Fifteen minutes before wake up time, the clock’s speaker generates soft nature sounds, and at the set wake up time a buzzer sounds to finish the cycle. Sound selection includes Nightfall, Thunder Storm, Zen Melody, Mountain Stream, Songbirds, and Ocean Surf. Four packets of aroma beads (Energy, Morning Café, Stress Relief, Lavendar) are provided or use your own oils. As a sleep aid, the clock operates in reverse, gradually diminishing light, scent, and sound for relaxed sleep.

Buttkicker

Furniture and floor-shaking home theater audio, named as one of the best inventions of the year by Time magazine and used in Walt Disney World's Epcot Center. This virtually indestructible home theater enhancement system literally moves the furniture and floor with ground-shaking realism. Watch the iceberg collision in Titanic and you'll literally feel the ocean liner's steel frame straining beneath you. Combine the Buttkicker with the 1000W Audio Amplifier for a premier sound experience. This amplifier features all modular internal construction with LEDs for signal, clip, protect and power. This amplifier has one of the fastest output stages on the market today, making the sound much cleaner than that found with other amplifiers. (Depending on your needs, both the Buttkicker and the Amplifier are also sold separately.)

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