Portable Entertainment Accessories

Now that manufacturers have automated focus, exposure and stabilization, what’s left? How about not having to frame your subject with your video camera, yet still being able to capture all the action 360° around you?

Hi-fi specialist Onkyo has unveiled a pair of speaker docks for iPod and iPhone and a bass-enhanced dock for iPod, iPhone and iPad. The former are expected in November; the latter is available now.

Now, you can mount your iPad or iPad 2 anywhere you go, including your automobile, with scarcely a glance in the rearview mirror. Enter Vogel’s, a company in which bundling everything you need into a kit takes a back seat to no one.

Choosing between the newly arrived Gorillamobile Ori and the Gorillamobile Yogi is a matter of lifestyle. Both Gorillamobiles are from Joby, the company that re-imagined mini tripods with trippy, twisty legs and colorful accents.

Wearing heartfelt music on your sleeve—your tablet’s sleeve that is—may be the best way to spread the beat when retreating to earphones won’t do. The iLuv iSP210 MusicPac Portable Stereo Speaker Case for iPad in black, blue or pink embeds amplified stereo speakers in a tablet-size zippered case.

We’ve all seen the seemingly endless racks of headphones and earphones at retail stores. What makes each pair different? How should you go about choosing which pair is best for you? In this B&H buying guide, we’ll get down to the bottom of headphones and earphones, so you’ll know what to look for.

Mobile devices won’t work without power, yet we often forget to recharge them. That’s why having a dedicated place to reinvigorate all your devices is a sensible way to keep your phone, music player, notebook, tablet, camera and more, well fed while you sleep.

With the launch of the Reader Wi-Fi PRS-T1, Sony has effectively doubled the battery life over the discontinued Reader Touch PRS-650, shrunk the weight to 5.9 ounces from 7.5 ounces, added Wi-Fi connectivity and simplified gestures by enabling two finger-control. And the T1 is priced 35 percent below the 650.

Universal remote controls are not new and exciting pieces of technology, but what if you could control your TV, Blu-ray player, stereo and cable box with an app built into a tablet computer? If this sounds compelling, the only tablet that’s capable of this is the new Sony Tablet S.

If you play guitar and you own one of Apple’s world-dominating iPads or iPhones, then you should plug into a Jam by Apogee. Jam is a small device that enables you to plug a guitar or bass directly into one of those handsome Apple gadgets.

Here’s one iPad accessory that the average person might find strange and unusable, yet it’s a dream come true for heavy-duty MIDI fanatics. The new Yamaha i-MX1 offers a painfully simple way to connect one of Apple’s popular iOS devices to a MIDI-capable external piece of hardware. It’s compatible with the original iPad, the iPad2 and the iPhone.

You’re probably aware that Apple’s iPad, iPod touch and iPhone have zillions of uses. Were you also aware that there are oodles of accessories for these things that enable you to harness their power for your recording studio? 

The new Fostex AR-4i offers a complete solution for improving the sound quality of the high-definition videos that are shot on Apple’s wildly popular iPhone 4. You slide an iPhone 4 into the cradle of the AR-4i, and it gives you multiple microphone inputs, line-level inputs, level meters and improved A/D converters which enable the phone to capture pristine sound quality.

The iPhone 4 is a revolutionary device that’s capable of recording impressive looking, high-definition video (especially considering that it’s a telephone). But there’s one thing that the iPhone doesn’t have an app for: providing a way to improve the sound quality of its built-in mono microphone.

Are you on the lookout for a dock or powered speaker for an iPad, iPod or iPhone? Audiovox has an armada of models flying its Acoustics Research brand, about to moor.

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