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    Monday
    Jun272011

    Low Tech, Low Price, but I works.

    Eh?? Whadda say? I can’t hear you. Speak into my horn! This is a strange gizmo that harkens back to the old phonograph that used a big horn to amplify the music. Or the horn someone put in their ear so they could hear you better. It’s about as simple as technology can be. You just slip the BONE Horn Stand speaker onto your iPhone for some good, old low-fi amplification. Yep, it just uses old-fashioned acoustical science. The silicone stand is said to add 13 decibels of sound to your iPhone's speakers without a battery or power source in sight, because none is needed. It also serves as a iPhone stand and will hold your iPhone in a vertical or horizontal position. Great for watching movies or video podcasts (like the Weekly Daily Giz Wiz) when you want a bit more sound. It’s also fun-looking. And as you’ll see in the web ads for the BONE Horn Stand Speaker, iPhone is not included. It fits the original iPhone, iPhone 3G/3GS & iPhone 4. I tried it on my iPod Touch and it works pretty well, especially for the price. And what is that price? If you do a web search you can find it from about $6 to $30!!! It’s available in colors, and for some reason lime green seems to be the cheapest and black the most expensive. I haven’t bought anything at the link below, but they sell most colors for about $8, plus S&H.

    http://www.amazon.com/Bone-Collection-Portable-Amplifier-iPhone/dp/B0048YB5B2

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