Panasonic's new D-Dock is simply slick and beautiful

Some may say that our new D-Dock SC-HC4/HC3 revived B&O influence in its design, but personally I don’t care that much here as I am quite fond of this new D-Dock.

Specs-wise nothing breath taking, the SC-HC4/HC3 offers a 2x20W output at 6Ω, can be connected to the entire iPod line-up, has a FM and AM Radio tuner, a CD player, a SD Card reader and supports AAC, MP3 and WMA files.

Finally, only the SC-HC4 version will be capable of transferring or ripping any CDs into SD or SDHC cards at a speed up to 8x.

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Four New Types of Card Readers from Elecom

This morning Elecom released four new types of card readers that support, depending on the model, 20 to 40 kinds of memory cards (including the card type by itself and various speed classes). Two of the card readers are designed to be as compact as possible, the other two (pictured below) can be attached to a metallic surface thanks to their magnetic bottoms.

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