I just had two new Powerbook goodies delivered: the Boostaroo and the iGo Juice 70.
The Boostaroo boosts the audio output of my headphone jack on my Titanium Powerbook. Recently, hanging out in Starbucks, I have found that I cannot quite drown out the combined din of inane chatter (housewives debating romance) and the soundtrack of the latest Starbuck CD. (Not that the CDs are bad, just not always what I want to listen to at the time.)
In any event, the Boostaroo seems to boost the signal quite significantly. So much so that I had to change headphones as the boosted signal seemed to cause some distortion in the first set (I suspect that they were an inferior design as they came with my Archos Jukebox). My first test will be the plane on the way to the UK. This device is powered by 2AA batteries and has three output jacks. So it was easy to test my headphones against one another and see which set were superior.
That leads me to the second purchase, the iGO Juice 70. This is a speciality power converter that allows me to plug my laptop into the plane's onboard power.
When I rode over on an American Airlines Airbus a couple of years ago we had cigarette-lighter-like jacks under all our seats. I don't know what BA flies, probably Boeing, maybe Airbus. American neither sold nor rented the adapters--aren't they missing a serious revenue opportunity here?
I'm just hoping that this converter works and that I can pass the time with my laptop rather than a book. I've got a slate of DVDs to watch and a bunch of code experiments to finally do.
Posted by artandscience at April 26, 2004 09:35 AM