You can’t turn around without stubbing your toe on another iPod dock. We’ve seen the solar-powered, the flat-panel and last week a gentle alarm with soothing light and sounds of the forest. But today’s dock is simply a cool-looking slab of technology meant to pump up the volume for your playlist. The Onkyo ND-S1 is for iPod and video home theater fans why a costly tricked-out stereo was to vinyl audiophiles.
The device takes tunes from your iPod, transforms them into a 16-bit analog equivalent and sends them to your stereo. The ND-S1, due out sometime this fall, also connects via USB to your computer and will also massage your iTunes collection.
No price was announced.
[Via Gadget Labs and Akihabara News]
Ed Sutherland is a veteran technology journalist who first heard of Apple when they grew on trees, Yahoo was run out of a Stanford dorm and Google was an unknown upstart. Since then, Sutherland has covered the whole technology landscape, concentrating on tracking the trends and figuring out the finances of large (and small) technology companies.
