However, not all experts are convinced that MP3-player headphones pose a hazard to heart implant patients.
The company has also created controls for an MP3-player on the sleeve of a jacket and a soft keyboard, which can be connected to PDAs and cell phones.
Spend a bit more for an MP3-like player called Pzizz that plays music, voices and tones geared to helping you fall asleep.
When MP3 rolled around and Sony's walkman customers were clamoring for a solid-state MP3 player, Sony let its music business-unit run its show: instead of making a high-capacity MP3 walkman, Sony shipped its Music Clips, low-capacity devices that played brain-damaged DRM formats like Real and OpenAG.
According to Mr Krebs, who has blogged extensively about the various kit used by criminals in the US to target cash machines - they can skim the data contained on that magnetic strip just by using a cheap MP3 player - although more complex software is then required to decode it.
Also on display are the slick new E50 MP4 Player with 52 hours of continuous playback, the E100 Season II, a revamped version of the original E100 Multimedia MP3 Player, and the truly eye-catching Mplayer Eyes MP3 player.
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Standard onboard features include the Audio 20 with a 14.7 cm colour screen, a twin tuner, an MP3-capable CD player and a USB connection.
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Other manufacturers like Palm Computing (nasdaq: PALM - news - people) have picked the technology for a forthcoming MP3 player add-on for the PalmPilot, and more are sure to follow.
Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people )'s new Zune mp3 player uses Wi-Fi, so friends with Zunes can share tracks over the air.
The company failed to do the same with Zune, an ill-fated MP3 player.
SonicBlue (nasdaq: SBLU - news - people) opted to go with SanDisk 's (nasdaq: SNDK - news - people) smaller Multimedia card, which holds 64 MB, for its Nike-branded MP3 player.
It's the first year Minneapolis-based Target has done a camera card, though it has created MP3 player cards and music-playing keyboard cards in the past.
Ericsson made some interesting accessories for the T28, like the "CHA-10 Chatboard" (a QWERTY keyboard for text messaging), the "MP3 hands-free kit HPM-10" (an MP3 player with an MMC card slot and standard 3.5mm headphone jack) and the aforementioned "Bluetooth phone adapter DBA-10".
Huaqi claims that Aigo is China's biggest-selling make of MP3 player, as well as the leader in mobile storage (memory sticks and portable hard drives) and number four or five in digital cameras.
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The Register is reporting that in a private demo at CES, Neuros revealed that its upcoming Video Recorder (the Recorder III, pictured, for those of you keeping track) and Neuros III DAC MP3 player will be Linux-based and feature dual-core TI CPUs.
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And Apple, we all know you're dominating the whole MP3 player, selling music thing- but it's not cool to actually say it like that.
We noted in May the availability of Panasonic 's SV-AV10--a small and sleek MP3 player and camcorder in one which stores data on tiny Secure Digital memory cards that certainly don't hold as much as a 20-gigabyte hard drive.
With the portable storage market approaching saturation, the portable MP3 player market is showing lots of promise--and lots of competition.
Everything's in there: MP3 player with stereo speakers, a 5-megapixel camera, DVD-quality video, GPS maps, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, high-speed cellular, spreadsheets, e-mail.
When compared with its closest competition, a portable MP3 player connected to something like the Altec-Lansing inMotion speakers, the PSS110 is more convenient.
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Instead of a few silly pixels wasting your time with unrealistic demands, the EGGE is a low-maintenance digital media player that supports MP3, WMV, MPEG, and AVI formats.
However, if your vehicle doesn't have a factory-fitted USB port, connecting your MP3 player can often result in a maze of wires, inferior sound quality, and no remote control function.
They were also digging its capable audio player -- with support for MP3, WMA and AAC files -- along with the unit's decent battery life, which clocked in at just around four hours.
Simple it may be, but the music player can deal with a handful of common formats including MP3, WMA, AAC and MP4 -- all can be set as your ringtone or system sounds within the player.
And Brin reportedly has a solar-paneled rucksack to power his phone and MP3 player.
There's also an MP3 player and photo printer coming under the e-wear brand.
Additionally, customers who have purchased AutoRip CDs at any time since Amazon first opened its Music Store in 1998 will find MP3 versions of those albums in their Cloud Player libraries - also automatically and for free.
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One main reason: The company had a history of religious devotion to proprietary file formats, and took years to release a digital audio player that could handle the ever-popular MP3 format.
O2 has sought to counter cost complaints by touting the phone as a feature-packed device with a top of the line MP3 player and Internet browser, not just a mere cell phone.
Iomega's HipZip is a portable MP3 player that uses disks about the size of a half-dollar coin to record songs from the Internet.
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