If you’ve been getting bored with that stale version of DoubleTwist you’re sporting, get ready for a breath of fresh air. The company has announced the next major version of its music player now awaits Android faithul in the Marketplace — and will hit the Amazon Appstore later in the week. New features include a new grid view for album art, premium EQ (if you’re running Android 2.3 or higher), an AirSync storage location option and a new playback screen which enables sliding to see previous / upcoming tracks. If you’re still not impressed, DoubleTwist promises another update in December that will be similar in stature. Take a look after the break for a few more screen shots, should you need more convincing and get ready to show off all of those Ben Folds album covers.

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Klipsch has quietly introduced the Mode noise-canceling headphones, and boy they look good. These headphones have earcups made from “high-grade” leather and provide noise cancellation for up to 45-hour on a single battery charge. Each earcup contains a 40mm woofer with Klipsch’s signature focuses on bass and mid-range as well as a separate 15mm tweeter to catch higher frequencies. The Klipsch Mode noise-canceling headphones feature a 20Hz – 20kHz frequency response, a 32-Ohm of impedance and a 97.5dB signal-to-noise ratio. The headset will arrive in fall 2011 with a very whopping price of $350.

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20,000 songs? Nowhere near enough for your terabyte song collections. $24.99 a year? Way too pricey for storage. How about unlimited storage and $20 a year? Now that’s a little better, at least, and that’s what Amazon just moved to.

Taking a step up from its previous $20 for 20GB plan, the former bookseller is now letting new subscribers get any amount of storage they want for that price — unlimited for .mp3 and .m4a files, anyway. Naturally this means any songs purchased through Amazon MP3 will also be stored for to an infinite extent, not counting against your all-important quota.

This is of course a “limited time” kind of deal, so if you’ve been on the fence now’s the time to click that cart, but there’s another new feature that isn’t going away: Cloud Player for Web on iPad. This lets you play your cloud tunes through Safari and that, combined with the whole unlimited storage thing, should ease any nagging feelings of regret you’ve been suffering since budgetary pressures talked you into the 16GB model.

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Sony’s got a reputation for pumping out forwardly-designed wares, but its new G-Series micro HiFi systems are a blast from the past — at a glance, anyway. Both rigs are MP3 and iPhone / iPod-compatible via USB and will be available in two different configurations. To start, the CMT-G1BiP / G1iP feature 60 watts of RMS power with DAB packed into the former for those who find only having AM/FM is passé. Next up, the CMT-G2BNiP / G2NiP add WiFi for getting your stream on from the Web or a PC and can be remote-controlled with a free iOS app. The “HiFi” moniker mixed with iPod connectivity might have audiophiles raising a brow to sound quality, but the brushed metal console and its piano-gloss satellites are lookers none-the-less. A single variant is currently listed on the Sony UK site, although there’s not a squeak regarding cost or release dates.

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For those Android smartphone owners that love the Metro UI style of the Windows Phone 7, we’ve got good news for you. Previously you can have the home screen replaced to look like Windows Phone 7 by using the LauncherPro Launcher 7. But now you can also have Windows Phone 7’s Zune player in your Android device!

The look and functionality of the Zune player is present in a remarkably full featured interface despite its early alpha status, complete with features like scrobbling and playlists. The only thing it’s really lacking so far is a name, and obviously any Zune software integration. The thing also works on Honeycomb for those Android tablet owners.

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There has been a lot of media-players mushroom-ing out there, and many claimed of full support for 1080p playback with support for MKV containment. Buffalo has also joined in the fun with the introduction of their LT-V100 media player. Set to replace your HTPC, the LT-V100 is capable of streaming videos with support for DTS, Dolby Digital 5.1, as well as format supports of MPEG-2, MPEG-4 SP/ASP, MPEG-4 AVC. It can also play slideshows of your videos with standard formats like jpeg, bmp, png, gif, tiff, WMA, Mp3, WAV, OGG, FLAC and LPCM.

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The Uplink Audio Strap System is a weird concept. Now why would I say it’s weird? Now for start, it gives those joggers another option to listen to music on the go, if they hate the plug-in ear buds. That means it’s a great stuff for nerdy joggers who love to show off their latest gadgets. But then, the concept from Adam Hammerman has a very high-tech ultrasound speakers, which can connect to nearly all your mobile devices and portable music players. It’s so high tech, that no matter how loud you blast the music, only you can hear the sounds. Others by-passers won’t be able to hear a single hum from this new toy. But if you’re going to show off this to the whole world, why restrict the sounds to only yourself? Totally redundant!

But of kush, the tech doesn’t stop there. This new concept is trying to make you go green with the integrated solar panel, which is flexible. Though it’s just a concept, but I wonder how long you can power up the player with such small solar panels.

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Samsung has released their new MP3 player called IceTouch. It can play common music files as well as DivX, MPEG4, XviD, H.264 and WMV videos. The IceTouch is equipped with DNSe sound technology for the 5.1 support and comes with awesome transparent 2” AMOLED screen. This MP3 player will be sold with 16GB of memory. It does looks like the SE Pureness. More shots after the break. Read more…

SANWA SUPPLY has released 8 colorful speakers. They are the MM-SPP4 series, can be used on iPod, MP3 and PCs. It has a built-in amp that gets your good quality sound. It is powered by 2 AAA batteries which last for 7 hours playback. I like the green one. More pictures after the break. Read more…

The TruePower UCS power socket comes with two USB ports and two standard three-prong power outlets. Yeah, most gadgets (mobile, iPod, iPhone, PDA, MP3, PSP, MP4 player) we use today requires USB port for charging. Now with this socket, we can charge them without turning on our computer. The TruePower UCS power socket will be available in early 2010 for $9.99.

[via Techeblog]