Holiday Gear Sneak Peek
Tech firms got a jump on the holidays this week in New York where they showed off cool new tech toys they hope will be big hits with gift givers. Here are some of the product highlights from the event sponsored by ShowStoppers.
Tom Spring, PC World
New and Improved Slacker Portable Device
Love streaming music so much you wish you could take it with you? If you’re a Slacker.com streaming music fan you can. The Slacker G2 is a portable device that prefetches your Slacker.com personalized streaming music playlists and puts them on a portable player so you can take your streaming music with you wherever you go (no Net connections needed). Slacker is selling a $200, 25-station 4GB model and a $249, 40-station 8GB model. Downloading and listening to Slacker.com streams is free, but ad-supported. The premium ad-free service costs $10 a month.
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