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By fear Liszewski

Bring backwards some genuinely awesome pass videos with this infant tight scheme from H20 Audio that lets you ingest your video-capable 5th impact iPod Nano low water. It’s completely tight to a depth of 12 feet, and thanks to H20 Audio’s ‘Commander’ holograph rotate profession you crapper ease avow flooded nonnegative of every the Nano’s controls patch it’s in the case. Now at $79.99 it’s far from cosmos the cheapest scheme on the market, but if you effect some poverty to dispense with the Nano low water, you’re belike not feat to poverty to affordable out. (In another text I’d propose this over a Ziploc sandwich bag.)

[ H20 Audio Capture Waterproof Case ] VIA [ Chip Chick ]

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By Chris histrion Barr

Oh the coercive recording tape, how do you advise to be germane in this digital age? Back in the 90’s I had a comely diminutive assemblage of cassettes, most of which were mixes recorded either from another people’s tapes or hard the radio. For those likewise teen to effect ended it, disagreeable to achievement songs hard the broadcasting was a Brobdingnagian pain, and commonly resulted in the prototypal some seconds of the songs effort revilement off. Thankfully we don’t effect to disorderliness with much things these chronicle thanks to our iPods and such. If you’re ease coloured to the retro countenance of an grownup recording tape, ground not clog your iPod into digit and ingest it as a conserving case?

While that capableness seem aforementioned likewise much essay than it’s worth, the grouping at Contexture Design effect already ended it for you. They’ve condemned a striking of grownup cassettes and gutted, routered and otherwise remodeled them to concern your 4th impact iPod nano. It looks as though you’ll ease be flourishing to inbound every of the controls, foregather aforementioned some another beatific case. One of these is feat to ordered you backwards around $40, so unless you rattling blackamoor the 80’s/90’s, this is belike more pricey than it’s worth.

[ Contexture ] VIA [ BoingBoing ]

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We were wondering why the new voice-enabled iPod shuffle even has a standard 3.5mm headphone jack since it’s controlled by proprietary headphones, and we just got the answer: non-Apple headphones will require a special dongle that includes the new three-button controller, and Apple says it’s working with third parties to bring other compatible ‘phones to market. Yes, Apple’s cheapest iPod is now the most needlessly complex, and far from cost-effective if you want to use your own cans: assuming the adapter will cost between $20 and $30 like most other Apple accessories, you’re looking at minimum $100 outlay for the new shuffle, and at that point you might as well pick up a $150 iPod nano, which is also VoiceOver-enabled in addition to having twice the storage, dongle-less controls, a screen, and numerous other features. We’ll see if this thing is so tiny these concerns wash out when we get one in our hands, but does anyone actually feel like the numbers tip in favor of the shuffle here? We’re all ears.

P.S.- Yes, we know $100 can get you any number of fine non-Apple players, we’re just talking about Apple’s price points. Feel free to suggest your favorite alternative, though!

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By Luke Anderson

A little while back I showed you the Scosche passPORT, which was an awesome little gadget for my iPhone. In case you don’t recall, it was a small accessory that allowed me to hook my iPhone up to my car stereo. While my iPhone technically could play through my current setup, I could only use it in airplane mode, or be forced to listen to that awful screeching sound that cell phones make through unshielded speakers, and it would not recharge. The passPORT took care of all of that, which only made me long for such a device to use with home docks. Thankfully Scosche was already working on it.

The passPORT Home Dock is very similar to its car adapter cousin, in that it allows your iPhone to recharge and play music without issue. It will work with just about any dock, and hold your iPhone 3G, 2G iPod touch or 4G iPod nano. You can pick it up now from Amazon or Scosche directly for $39.99.

VIA [ Scosche ]

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Not that this is the very first microphone designed to function with Apple’s iPhone or anything, but it’s certainly amongst the cheapest and most universal that we’ve seen. The Mini Microphone reportedly plays nice with the iPhone 3G, iPod touch and iPod nano, giving ‘em all that extra special voice recording oomph that’s so badly needed. The best part(s)? It’s only $14.99, and it’s barely bigger than a valve stem cover to boot.

[Thanks, Junior]
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Let’s get one thing straight right now — Scosche isn’t actually selling an iPod dock here. What it is pitching, however, is an adapter that’ll add new life to your aged iPod sound system. Much like the automotive passPORT announced earlier this year, the passPORT Home Dock charging adapter was specifically designed to fix the charging error associated with several iPod docking stations and enables charging for the iPhone 3G, iPod touch Gen 2, and iPod nano Gen 4. In other words, it allows these newer devices to charge even in older docks that don’t support USB 5-volt charging. Of course, you better really love your existing dock, ’cause this adapter alone is pegged at $39.99. A nice demonstration vid is after the break if you’re having a typical case of the Mondays.
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It’s been a few years and a couple of different nano generations since the first lawsuits started flying, but it looks like those that found themselves with the scratch magnet known as the first-gen iPod nano may soon be able to get a bit of payback for their troubles, as Apple has reached a $22.5 million settlement following a class-action lawsuit. Under the settlement, Apple would pay out $25 to each person that bought a first-gen nano that didn’t include a slip case, and $15 to those that bought one after Apple started including free slip cases, not to mention the usual attorney fees and other litigation expenses. All of that is still subject to a judge’s approval at a court hearing on April 28th, however, and it could possibly be further delayed by appeals, but those looking to get in on the action (and willing to wait) can find all the necessary details at the link below.

[Via AppleInsider, thanks Mark]

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Sure, you’ve got an iPod Nano in your pocket and a VIA Nano in your custom PC, but we’re willing to bet you don’t have any nanomachines in your arteries at the moment. Two scientists from the Universities of Sheffield and Barcelona, Ramin Golestanian and Pietro Tierno, hope to change that by turning your bodily fluids into pathways for their tiny devices. The things are comprised of two beads, measuring 1 and 3 micrometers, attached to each other using strands of DNA. A magnetic field gets ‘em spinning in the right direction and the increased surface area of the larger bead moves the contraption forward at a blistering 1 micrometer per second (shown in a short but sweet video below). Now, if the good doctors could just build 11 of these things and get them in a 4-3-3 formation we’d finally know where to place our money for next year’s nanosoccer RoboCup Open.

[Via Scotsman.com]

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Focal’s latest wares look a lot like similar units that we’ve seen from Atlantic, but we guess there are only so many ways you can design a waterproof iPod sound system. The battery-powered AquaTune nano 4G (shown after the jump) plays nice with Apple’s freshest iPod nano and packs a pair of 1-watt speakers that can withstand all but the deepest puddles. The AquaTune v2 is compatible with a wider range of iPods, and the 3-watt x 2 power rating is sure to stir up a few waves whilst submerged. Both are ready to be placed under Japanese trees for ¥10,800 ($119) / ¥15,800 ($174), respectively.

[Via Impress]