Archive for the ‘Radio and MP3 Technology’ Category

Sony Launches DAB Walkman

Wednesday, March 30th, 2005

Sonys new pocket DAB radio The world’s smallest DAB radio with a nifty little feature that allows you to capture the on-screen text, useful for capturing the name of song you’ve just heard.

It’s also compatible with European DAB stations as well as trusty old FM.

I’d love one…

Sony’s Pocket Perfection

BBC Radio Alerts Widget

Wednesday, March 30th, 2005

BBC Radio Desktop ReminderWhilst wandering round the BBC’s radio pages I came across this nifty little widget.

It alerts you about up-and-coming radio shows on the BBC about twice a day. Problem is I can’t seem to figure out how to get it to alert me about the stuff I’m interested in not the stuff they seem to want to push my way.

BBC’s desktop alerter

Found on Flickr

Tuesday, March 29th, 2005

Red Pepsi FM RadioFound on Flickr a beautiful red FM radio:

BBC Radio on-demand

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005

What would become possible if every episode of every program that the BBC broadcast had a unique ID and URL?

Interesting idea:

BBC Programme Information Pages: An Architecture for an On-Demand World

My little DAB

Monday, March 14th, 2005

I’ve been using the radio in my phone a lot over the past year or so and getting increasingly annoyed at the quality of FM.

So when I came across a really nice portable at Maplin’s recently I had to have it:
MY DAB portable
The radio is very similar to my Pure Evoke in terms of ease or use. It scans all the available stations automatically and orders them either alphabetically or by hopw much I listen to them. You can select stations by using the little joystick on the top left.

What really attracted me to the radio was that I could use rechargeable batteries and this is the best bit – recharge them by just plugging in the supplied power pack – genius and really useful.

Sound quality is good and I particularly like the supplied headphones – they are really comfortable to use.

All-in-all a great little radio.