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cmon, iPhone still no EQ?]]>Aug 5th 2009 8:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/iPod...

not that it is any good, but it is there.]]>Aug 5th 2009 9:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/
I want independant controls, NOT Apple APProved presets... (ROCK, CRAP, TREBBLE, CRAP and CRAP)

At least bury it into the menu so deep that the morons that don't know how to use it will never find it...

Seels to me most people that use APple crap cant count past the number 3. So 4 levels deep in the UI should thwart off the nubs!]]>Aug 5th 2009 10:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/Aug 5th 2009 8:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/Aug 5th 2009 8:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/Aug 5th 2009 8:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/Aug 5th 2009 8:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/Aug 5th 2009 8:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/Aug 5th 2009 9:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/Aug 5th 2009 9:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/Aug 5th 2009 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/Aug 5th 2009 11:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/Aug 5th 2009 8:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/
LOL!]]>Aug 5th 2009 8:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/It's a perfectly promulent gadget!

You make it sound like this is a BAD thing!


Cheer up, little blog writer. Things'll get better.]]>Aug 5th 2009 8:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/Aug 5th 2009 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/Aug 5th 2009 8:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/Aug 5th 2009 9:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/
Not loud.]]>Aug 5th 2009 9:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/
granted it depends on how close you are to the speaker as well hince the use of a Logarithmic scale.



not very loud at all. An average computer speaker is about 5-10Watts]]>Aug 5th 2009 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/Aug 5th 2009 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/]]>Aug 5th 2009 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/Aug 5th 2009 8:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/Aug 5th 2009 9:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/

If you're gonna dream, dream BIG.


]]>Aug 5th 2009 10:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/Aug 5th 2009 8:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/
Charge an extra $10, add a small screen and maybe a little internal memory and if nesseary, drop the remote, and you'll have a nice cheap little stereo. As it is, I'm not seeing it.]]>Aug 5th 2009 8:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/Aug 5th 2009 8:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/
Or it could be a black and white LCD readout like on a calculator, and it would cost pennies. It doesn't need to be a TFT or OLED screen, it just needs to say the track number, time, maybe track name, maybe total number of tracks, and a series of bars to indicate volume.]]>Aug 5th 2009 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/Aug 5th 2009 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/Aug 5th 2009 8:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/Aug 5th 2009 8:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/Aug 5th 2009 9:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/Aug 5th 2009 9:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/Aug 5th 2009 9:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/Aug 5th 2009 9:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/Aug 5th 2009 9:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/]]>Aug 5th 2009 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/Aug 7th 2009 2:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/There are a variety of power inputs on the back. The box, which is the only manual, says DC5W. The back of the unit says DC6W. I'm waiting for a reply from USBGeek about that. But, as the picture shows, it comes with a USB adapter cable. Also, it doesn't say whether or not the thing needs to be charged before it is played. In the meantime, it makes a nice conversation piece.]]>Aug 25th 2009 1:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/
Aside from my power supply concerns mentioned above, I DON'T KNOW WHEN TO UNPLUG THE USB STICK! I'm so used to "Safe Removal" in Windows and Eject on the Mac. I'm not sure if I should pause, turn the unit off or what prior to unplugging.]]>Aug 25th 2009 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/Jun 2nd 2010 10:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/Aug 5th 2009 9:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/Aug 5th 2009 10:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/Aug 5th 2009 10:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/Aug 5th 2009 11:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/Aug 5th 2009 11:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/Aug 5th 2009 11:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/Aug 5th 2009 11:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/usb-retro-wooden-speaker-escapes-the-crap-pile-by-the-slimmest-m/Aug 5th 2009 12:24PM