The idea: take the Chromecast concept (tap a button, send a video to your TV and control it from your phone) and make it audio-only, letting you add some Wi-Fi-enabled smarts to any stereo system you've already got wired in your house.
Can you make it play audio when you land on a block?
It's an audio recorder optimized to make it easy to capture audio even when you're half asleep.
The new version has features that make it possible to transmit audio and video as well as the ability to serve as a user interface for applications that run on a centralized server computer and are linked via the Internet.
Advanced video acceleration for MPEG-2, MPEG-4, WMV9, VC1 and DiVX video formats, a VMR capable HD video processor and 8-channel HD audio make it a highly media rich mini-notebook platform. .
These movements, or social cues, along with spacial audio make it easy to identify which person is speaking, even if 30 users are present.
Participants' answers with a nod were verbalized to make it audible for the audio recording.
Official Comedy is using the expertise and relationships it's developed running its home on YouTube to make it easier to find funny audio.
The Complete Short Stories of Muriel Spark, read by Juliet Stevenson, Amelia Fox and Richard E Grant (17½hrs unabridged, Canongate, download only on Audible, £9.33) At last, more than a decade after it came out in print, this glorious collection of 41 stories written between the 1950s and 1990s has finally made it into audio.
It's a small point, but it's also worth mentioning that Audio Bones make it much less disgusting when you want to share your music player's output.
The phone is also able to change the frequency of audio to make it easier for older ears to hear.
