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iRiver Concepts Feel Straight Out of Terry Gilliam's Brain
Posted by Jesus Diaz at 10:00 PM on August 31, 2008
Apart from their Spinn 70s-retro analogue goodness, iRiver had two beautiful concept products in their IFA 2008 stand which had a design that looked further into the past, as far as the beginning of the 20th century. As you can see in the video, both their Clix speaker--inspired by the shape of cathode ray tubes--and their pipe music player--which you can blow to mute (insert joke here), and connect it to a speaker resembling a phonograph horn--look both intriguing and beautiful. [More IFA 2008 Coverage]

Apart from their
One more IFA, one more gallery of absolutely crazy PC mods by nutty Europeans. The best of the lot was, without a doubt, this menacing Unreal Rocket Launcher. But there are others, each of them more silly, pointless, and horrendous than the previous one.
We already saw
The Zune 120 and 16GB models are
I love the new analogue controller in the iRiver Spinn as much as I love its simple brushed aluminium design, the old radio-inspired user interface, and the whole packaging. While I'm still partial to direct touch interfaces--which the Spinn has as well, although it's not multitouch--the Spinn rolling thingie feels great, giving it a heavenly 70s analogue feeling.
With Bill Gates' part time transition in full effect, Steve Ballmer will be picking up Keynote duties at 2009's CES, but only for the pre show speech. Opening night honours go to the charming and witty Sir Howard Stringer, who is like Sony's CEO answer to Benny Hill. I'd say I'm satisfied with these two as speakers, considering how entertaining they've been on previous occasions. [
The RED camera's Jim Jannard mentions the next generation Mysterium "Monstro" sensor, which be offered as a free upgrade to the Mysterium-X piece shipping in the
Since I already have the
I got to play for quite a long time with the