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Loading ...The Pitch: Never mind tinny built-in PMP speakers; the TuneBug can turn just about anything into a speaker, whether that be your desk, the window, or even your bike helmet. A combination MP3 player and sound “exciter,” it can store up to 2GB of music and free you from the tyranny of earphones.
Pros: An audio input means it’s not just the on-board tunes that can be played, and the sturdy ABS plastic construction should survive getting tossed in a bag, unlike your namby case-loving iPod. It’s pretty cheap, too, at $79.95, and your friends are unlikely to have seen anything like it.
Cons: A microSD slot is great, but not when the TuneBug can only recognize up to 2GB of storage. Still, without a display, you’ll probably not want to navigate any more than that, and the five-hour battery life isn’t going to give you long to run through your music collection. Perhaps the biggest turn-offs are sound quality and size: face it, if your helmet was meant to sing, you’d be strapping Elton John to your head; after all, the TuneBug is nearly as stout as Sir Elton.
Recommendation: Neat idea, but dreary sound quality, hockey-puck looks, and trifling storage add up to a PMP that’s less Portable Media Player and more Perpetually Mediocre Player. Even the cheapest of portable speakers will give you better sound quality than shivering your windows. The TuneBug sadly falls by the wayside.
