It’s ‘universal’. That means it works with everything.
That’s right. Every single kind of iPod.
Because there’s only one company making MP3 players in ‘the universe’.
I vote we test its docking capabilities by running a huge ocean-going cruise liner into it. See how it bears up under that sort of force.
Put the Macally FMCup in the cup holder in your car, plug it into the cigarette lighter and there you go: A wireless FM transmitter and iPod charger.
Don’t most car radios feature FM anyway? Mine does and my car doesn’t even feature anything as exotic as a cup holder. If I had the FMCup it would be hanging by its power cord from the cigarette lighter. It could be worse, I suppose. Some people’s cup holders might necessitate the wiring passing across the driver. That can’t be safe.
If you ask me, the high water mark in in-car sound technology was the tape-on-a-wire that you used to plug modern devices into primitive car audio systems. That was ingenious. A TAPE! AS A SORT OF PLUG! I have no idea how they did it and I don’t WANT to know. I’m happy in my fawning awe.
What an invention.
All Intempo’s products look weird. That’s okay. It makes life interesting.
In my head, this is a space hopper for your iPod. iPods can seem a bit serious at times. They’re a bit too knowingly cool. It must be exhausting for the poor devices. Well what better way to let your portable music tool off the leash than to give it a quick blast on a space hopper. Everyone loves space hoppers - even glorified memory sticks with headphones stuck in them.
It’s an iPod dock. I’ve still got nothing to say about iPod docks, as you can probably tell.
On first glance, this is quite pleasing. It’s just a box with a hole in. That appeals to me.
There’s no design here. It’s not even a self-conscious ‘design that’s not a design’. At least I don’t think it is. I don’t really know how you tell, but to me, this is just a box and not: ‘Look at me. I don’t go in for design. My iPod dock’s just a box.’
You may think there’s no difference between those two concepts - after all, you still end up with the same thing. There is a difference though. It’s the difference between a box because it never occurred to anyone to design it any differently and a box because the manufacturers have gone through all the other designs and think that ‘a box will say more’.
The fact that there’s no space in ‘BodyRocket’ rather indicates that maybe I’m wrong and this is the bad kind of box. But I’m feeling generous.
I think iDS stands for iPod Docking System or somesuch. That’s what it is anyway. In truth, I only decided to feature it because I saw the name in the Argos catalogue and thought it sounded good. ‘Intempo’.
As you might expect, I was a bit disappointed to find out it was just an iPod dock. What do you say about an iPod dock?
I think I might be fundamentally against iPod docks. Their main role is to help portable, personal audio devices function as stationary ones that everyone can listen to. I can see the use, but I just feel it’s a bit too ‘all your eggs in one basket’. What if someone accidentally smashes your iPod into pieces with a hammer? You can’t guard against an eventuality like that.
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