Glow away in blue with this USB LED light tube speaker

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There’s no shortage of things you can plug in to a spare USB port these days, but this looks a little more classy than a humping dog, and it plays your tunes, too.

Brando’s USB LED Light Tube Speaker offers stereo sound, a built-in blue LED tube (funny that), and is powered from the USB port, so no need for mains power. Use the audio lead to plug in to PC, laptop, or MP3 player, and you’re away…

Create MP3 files from Internet radio stations with MP3videoraptor 3.0

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I’m not sure what relationship RapidSolution’s MP3videoraptor 3.0 has to a bird of prey or a dinosaur, but this intriguingly-named software allows you to download audio from Internet radio stations and save it in MP3 format, for playing at any time on your computer or portable music player.

MP3videoraptor 3.0 works by scouring the Internet for songs and music videos based on search criteria you enter. It utilises several web sites which already exist solely to create customised playlists — in this way, users don’t have to wait until a song is played live…

(Only!) Half the music stored on MP3 players is stolen

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According to a survey from British Music Rights, only half of the music on the iPods/Zens/Sansas of the nation’s 14-24 year-olds had actually been paid for legitimately.

The average musical youth has 1770 tracks stored on their MP3 player of choice, but half of that lot’s been nicked off the internet or, more likely, copied from the hard drive…

Listen to tangle-free music with the Music And Sons headphone-jack t-shirt

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Gym-goers should appreciate this product, a graphic t-shirt which has an inbuilt pocket with headphone jack, where you can pop your MP3 player.

The headphones hook in at the collar, which means those 45-minute sessions (ok, 4 minute sessions, I know you too well) on the cross-trainer won’t actually half-garrote you like they currently do.

Keeping your blood supply firmly in your neck’s veins does come at a price though – $70, I’m afraid, gym-goers…