James Albarn presents all the latest gadget news and tests two DAB Digital Radios
Monday, December 26, 2011
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Evoke Flow Internet Radio
!±8± Evoke Flow Internet Radio
Pure EVOKE Flow Portable Internet and FM Radio... Use it to listen to internet content (thousands of stations, podcasts, and PURE Sounds), FM radio and music streamed from your computer. Whether it's worldwide news and sports, music, entertainment or education, by location or genre, EVOKE Flow makes it easy to find content that's relevant to you. All Flow products feature FM with RBDS, so you can listen anywhere, even without Wi-Fi. Add a ChargePAK rechargeable battery pack for complete go-anywhere listening. And if you're out and about with no music to stream, just connect your iPod or MP3 player to EVOKE Flow's aux-in connector. Great throughout the home, EVOKE Flow includes an alarm and touch-sensitive SnoozeHandle for bedside listening and a stereo out jack for easy connection to your hi-fi. Wherever you listen, EVOKE Flow sounds great with its custom-tuned speaker and bass port. And it's easy to use too, with a large graphical OLED display, simple controls, FM station presets, and unlimited internet favorites via its companion website thelounge.
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Thursday, December 15, 2011
Charismatic Communication - Words and Emotions
A speech or appeal without emotion is like a Car without an Engine. People may well like its outlines, but it isn't going to take them anywhere
Media research reinforces how emotions drive viewing and listening choices in selected audiences in radio and television. Even 'Hate Radio', as we know it, gains its audiences by pressing the emotional Hot Buttons of targeted audiences: outrage buttons, disgust buttons, anger buttons, despair buttons, particularly in upper demographics.
Emotional stimulation reinforces a hate radio audience's pre-existing emotions and may even give them pleasure.
Feelings drive actions: the action media operators are most concerned about (and as a speaker so should you be) is encouraging listeners to commit the act of choice in favour of their products and services - in other words, tune in, and stay tuned in. The same thing applies in presentations to groups - you need your listeners to tune in and stay tuned in if your message is to be heard fully.
The challenge then is to decide the kinds of emotions you wish to evoke in your audiences: emotions which drive listeners to act and choose to listen to you and your message. They don't have to be negative emotions like fear, hate, jealousy or outrage, although on some occasions they can legitimately be associated with your message.
They can be emotions that are more useful to people's everyday lives. They can be emotions which stir people to create a better future, generating optimism, hope, humour, strength, control, curiosity, and so on.
So, if people think-feel and then commit the act of choice to listen or not listen to you, what kind of emotions could you stir ethically? Below is an incomplete list that you may like to add to:
curiosity
confidence
exhilaration
enthusiasm
shock
humour
self-control
empowerment
desire hope
expectation
anticipation
titillation
thrill
scepticism
suspense
belonging
sense of knowing
sympathy
empathy
discovery
happiness
joy
material desire (greed?)
status
triumph (winning)
pleasure
concern
motivation
comfort
encouragement
re-assurance
disbelief
courage
passion
certainty
Content is all about positioning. If the content of your message regularly stirs a range of the above emotions, people will associate you with the generally useful emotions evoked. This is what is meant by gaining a 'Share of Heart'.
By tapping appropriate emotions you can associate pleasure and stimulation with what you're doing. The linkage of pleasure and stimulation to the experience of listening to your presentation greatly enhances the possibility of your message being taken on board by your audience.
Only Giving Head?
The other part of the thought-feeling dyad is thinking, and the myth that thoughts and feelings can be separated. This myth gives rise to the idea that you can have a discourse, debate or just a plan old conversation and not feel anything at all.
Much of the rhetoric in which many speakers engage, particularly professionals and politicians, is based on the spurious notion that you can separate thoughts from feeling. This reveals itself in interesting ways:
" 'Hard heads' who suppress the music and emotion of their voices believing it gives them "credibility" and "balance".
" Stories told in abstract language, which removes the 'life' from the story.
" Real serious discourses with 'analysis', but without real life examples in which to embed an audience's experience.
" Speakers sounding as if they have the world on their shoulders and every word uttered must be spoken with gravity.
" Presenters with personal phobias that reflect a fear of so-called trivialisation.
" Discourse using language that removes the speakers or moderator from the 'dirty world' of human emotions.
" Conversations conducted in 'surface rhetoric', such as econo-speak, pollie-speak, or in-house shorthand.
You might be interested to know that the pre-scientific notion of separating thoughts from emotions was revived and championed by a philosopher called Descartes, who lived a couple of hundred years ago. The notion had been around since biblical times, but he picked it up and ran with it. He proclaimed that somewhere, he wasn't quite sure where, there existed absolute 'truth'. His method of finding that somewhere was to somehow lapse into "pure rationality", take a "a God's Eye view", in the hope that all would be revealed. He failed.
In many ways, the assumption that there is such a thing as objectivity, pure rationality, non-bias or dispassion still governs much of the practice of so-called rational debate and discourse.
Rational debate, by its very rules, demands that you separate thoughts from feelings and engage in "unfeeling" dialogue. This happens in some pockets of academia as well as business and the media. Interestingly, modern psychology has a name for people who have stopped feeling for others, or can't think-feel in the concrete realm any more. They're called sociopaths.
(c) Desmond Guilfoyle 2006
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Saturday, December 10, 2011
Pure Digital Avanti Flow radio
Last year digital radio maker Pure Digital branched out with its first internet radio. Over the past few years the quality of stations in terms of what they broadcast has improved immensely and Pure filters the list to get rid of the dross. There are still thousands of stations available. Read the full article at www.computeractive.co.uk/2237335
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
PURE S-1 Flow Additional Speaker compatible with PURE EVOKE Flow
!±8±PURE S-1 Flow Additional Speaker compatible with PURE EVOKE Flow
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Add this additional speaker for high-quality stereo sound from your EVOKE Flow. Features a matching full-range 3 inch drive unit, is base-ported and has a 10ft cable. Designed to match your radio in style and finish.
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Friday, December 2, 2011
PURE EVOKE-1S, Luxury Portable DAB/FM Radio
www.amazon.co.uk EVOKE-1S is the third generation of the iconic EVOKE family of digital radios, and delivers a host of new features and improvements over its predecessors. We've added more station presets, an input for your iPod/MP3 player or portable CD, PURE's revolutionary Intellitext and textSCAN, and FM with RDS. The optional in-unit rechargeable ChargePAK gives hours of portable listening between charges, so you can enjoy your favourite stations wherever you want. A striking new OLED display offers crystal-clear readability from any angle, and manual or automatic brightness control for optimum clarity. Of course we've kept all of the features that made EVOKE-1XT a multiple-award winner, including class-leading audio, an easy-to-use kitchen timer, USB upgradability, an optional stereo speaker and real maple or cherry veneer casework.
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