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iRoc plans to turn your iPad into a car stereo

A car audio startup in Texas is hoping to capitalize on the tablet boom by creating an aftermarket stereo that you control with your iPad.

Last summer, Jackson Electronics launched its iRoc stereo, which uses the driver's iPhone mounted on the deck's face. The Austin-based company recently announced that it's working on a special adapter that will enable drivers to mount an iPad on the head unit, according to an article in CEoutlook.

The iRoc stereo is equipped with a 40-watt amplifier and six line-outs for subwoofers and speakers. The unit is controlled by the iPhone's touch screen, and works with all of your favorite entertainment and navigation applications on the handset. With the iRocEQ iPhone app, available to download for free on iTunes, you can control advanced equalizer settings for the deck. … Read more

Skullcandy Roc Nation Aviator headphones review: Jay-Z-approved

Skullcandy continues to pursue its youthful listening-device niche with the Aviator headphones, a collaborative effort with Roc Nation, a music publishing and entertainment company founded by hip-hop mogul Jay-Z.

The Roc Nation Aviators are the first set of headphones we've seen from Skullcandy with a subtle aesthetic--the rest of the company's offerings redefine the meaning of words like "bulky" and "overbuilt," but the Aviators bring an elegant flavor to the product lineup with three color choices (Black, Brown Gold, and White) that feature a pliable leather headband and light branding on the silver connection … Read more

Crave giveaway: Skullcandy Roc Nation Aviator headphones

For this week's giveaway, we have a hot one: Skullcandy's spiffy Roc Nation Aviator headphones, which come in three colors (winner gets to choose one headphone in any color).

This is what our colleagues over at ZDNet have to say about them:

With the stamp of approval from Roc Nation co-founder Jay-Z, the Aviator headphones sport a retro design and complex construction. The exterior is made from a stainless steel/aluminum hybrid, while the ear cushions are made from polycarbonate and memory foam. Also toting "tangle-free" nylon cables and 3.5mm gold-plated plugs, each Aviator system … Read more

Aviary launches free online loop creator

Creating digital audio has long been one of the best arguments for using locally installed software rather than a cloud service, but that's beginning to change. The latest entrant, launched Thursday, is a program called Roc, which lets you create simple 8-beat loops from a library of hundreds of sounds, all without leaving your Web browser.

Roc is the latest creation from Aviary, which offers a free set of Flash-based online applications for creating and editing content. Most of Aviary's tools are for graphics, but in September it launched the Myna audio editor, which lets you record and … Read more