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Ion iTTUSB Turntable

ION has created the world's first USB turntable allowing you to convert your grandparents' old vinyl collection of big band music directly to CD or MP3 with the included recording software. No special drivers are needed for either Windows or Macintosh.

D-Link's DSM-120 MediaLounge wireless music player

Network music players have evolved quite a bit in the last two years, and now D-Link wants to take them a step further with its DSM-120 MediaLounge Wireless Music Player. This allows you to listen to music stored on your desktop PC's hard drive as long as you remain close to a Wi-Fi wireless network access point.

The DSM-120 MediaLounge also can connect via a wired ethernet connection or via a USB connection (a USB flash drive, USB hard drive, or really, any device/handheld that identifies itself as hard drive when connected via a USB cable). In addition, the player has a compartment for adding a 2.5-inch internal hard drive for a accessing stored tunes when the PC is turned off.

R.I.P. CDs

They're overpriced, ugly and don't even make good rearview mirror ornaments. Now that we know they are also potentially poisonous to personal computers, thanks to Sony BMG's rogue copy-protection technology, there's really no reason to buy another compact disc ever again.