Brando SATA HDD Dock Station Combo Stereo Speaker + Hub
Posted on 15 April 2009, at 8:40 am, by Federico Cervelli
You hate to trash all of your old gadgets, don’t you?
You have a shelf full of dusty Hard Disks, now useless because of the new 1 TB monster you already installled in your main PC, right?
Maybe Brando has a solution to sweep away the dust and transform your bare HDs to cool “new” gadgets.
The “Brando SATA HDD Dock Station Combo Stereo Speaker + Hub” is a dock for your spare S-ATA 2.5” and 3.5” hard disk drives, but can also be used as a USB hub and stereo speaker system, able to play your music.
From the producer site:
Standable
Supports both S-ATA 2.5″ HDD and 3.5″ HDD
PC connection: USB 2.0
Built in volume control and mute button
Built in 2-Port USB Hub
Built in Stereo Speaker (speaker output power is 3W)
Built in USB Audio Sound Card
Line-in function (let the HDD dock be a standalone speaker system)
Microphone in and Speaker output function (let you connect it with a headset and therefore access easily to the VOIP applications, such as MSN, Skype, Google Talk)
Support Windows 2000/XP/Vista, Mac OS 9.X or higher
Dimension: 134 x 117 x 56 mm (approx.)
Weight: 285g
It seems that you could fill an unused HDD of MP3 files and play them from the dock, cool!
Via: Gadget|Blog.it
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April 15th, 2009 at 10:17 am
Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but it doesn't look like this thing could play music all on its own. I think it simply functions as a HDD/Flash dock, on which you could store your music; a USB sound card and speaker, with which you could listen to your music; and what appears to be some buttons for controlling the playback (play, pause, stop, etc.).
You'd still need a PC to read the music files, decode the MP3s, and send the output back to the device as audio.
But I could be wrong.
April 25th, 2009 at 5:01 am
You are right.
The dock does not allow you to play music on its own; itsull needs a PC.
April 25th, 2009 at 5:02 am
Ehm, instead of:
“itsull needs a PC”
please read:
“it still needs a PC”