Hasta La Ideas

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pHere’s a rather strange, ill-conceived product design from Sony: Their A HREF=”http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=ensl=jau=http://www.sony.jp/active-speaker/products/SRS-V500IP/ei=XXt7TMPcMsWN4gbf_bTaBgsa=Xoi=translatect=resultresnum=1ved=0CBsQ7gEwAAprev=/search%3Fq%3Dsrs-v500ip%2Bsite:sony.jp%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den” SRS-V500IP/A is an iPod dock holding a cylindrical speaker equipped with a “diffuser panel” that spreads the sound in 360 degrees. So far so good. Here’s the weird part: The detachable speaker is touted as being able to fit in your car’s cup holder, so you can use it while driving. /p

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pUm…don’t most cars these days already have stereos, often with iPod hookups? A detachable speaker would make sense if it had its own rechargeable power source, yet this one apparently needs to be plugged into either its home dock or a car’s cigarette lighter to get juice. Doesn’t make much sense to me, but perhaps the Japanese-market-only product loses something in translation./p

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