Enter, button-less MP3 player Anand Parthasarathy
Looks like a futuristic piece of drawing room decor; control depends on the direction of push Techno chameleon: The Aigo Omnisphere MP3 player has no buttons and changes colour with volume and beat. Bangalore: You can no longer tell an MP3 device by just looking at it. These iconic music players come disguised as artifacts, table lamps - anything except a boring piece of technology. Aigo's Omnisphere F 529, a made-in-China offering that has just come to India, looks like a futuristic piece of drawing room decor. a smooth and glowing cone whose see-through head dances with colour with every change in volume and tempo of the music it belts out. Colours galore They claim 4096 colour combinations - but we did not count! Clearly aimed at the average untechnical dummies among us, it has no buttons: the top of the cone can be swivelled - and acts as the play-select-stop control depending on the direction you push. Its shape makes its sound omni directional and the 5 Watts it produces is rich and clear. The built-in 1 gigabyte of storage is good for about 500 songs but at a pinch can be used as simple storage for files, videos or whatever: a USB-type slot tucked away in the base, allows you to link to other devices such as a PC or music system to exchange files, while a memory card slot allows you to extend the built-in storage by a GB or two. Distributed in India by BridgeOne Technologies, the Omnisphere costs Rs.5,200 and if you like a music player that will instantly become the first talking point of every guest coming home, this might be something for you. http://www.thehindu.com/2008/03/09/stories/2008030955061100.htm Vikas Kapoor, MSN Id:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Yahoo&Skype Id: dl_vikas, Mobile: (+91) 9891098137. To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
