Waterproof MP3 Juke Tower

Juniper Foo | May 22, 2007

Launched just last month in the land of weird and wondrous gizmos, this journo had the opportunity to hop into creative life store Tokyu Hands in busy Shibuya to ogle all the tech toys not coming to the rest of Asia. One of these is the Juke Tower. Limited only to Japan, this N-et Corp device is a sleek cylinder that would blend in on the shower mantel with the rest of your toiletries. That is until you hit the On switch. Its gut packs 2GB of RAM and, despite a mono speaker, a sound reflector dispenses happy tunes equally in the shower. A display shows time, folder and track number as there's no ID3 tag support. We'd have preferred mains to the three AAA batteries, though that's not such a smart idea so close to water. Still, at 12 hours of continuous playback, that's longer than you need to primp yourself in the little room.

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Price: 10,500 yen (US$88)
Availability: Japan
Device: MP3 player for the shower
Specs: 55mm mono speaker, output 0.5W × 1ch , 78 x 183mm, 300g

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