Team Geared Up

ZURICH, SWITZERLAND (Team Geared Up) - Multimedia players are great! Just load up whatever media you want and take it on-the-go for your audio/visual pleasure. There’s just one downside. Batteries. Wouldn’t it be great if you didn’t have to recharge the sucker every few hours only getting maybe a few episodes of a show or one movie or a few hours of songs and then you are stuck. Not anymore! Behold the first Eco-friendly outlet independent media player. This is the perfect player for any outdoorsman that wants to get away from it all but still have some audio/video entertainment and not have to worry about jacking-in to recharge or any hippy that worries about battery disposal and energy consumption. The Trevor Baylis Eco Media Player ($346) features an 1.8 inch LCD screen, 2 GB of internal memory and a SD Memory Card slot for external memory. Its no iPod so screen quality and storage take a bit of a dive but if you ever get stranded on a barren island at least you can watch The Office and 24 re-runs and listening to Foo Fighters till you get rescued then talk to a lifeless volleyball. Shut up Wilson, Jack Bauer’s on!

The Eco Media Player plays music, video, fm radio, and also functions as a torch, sound recorder, photo viewer, mobile phone charger, ebook viewer and data storage device, all in one palm sized package. What’s really clever though, is that it can be charged without being anywhere near a traditional power source, due to the windup mechanism situated on the back of the device, with one minute of winding giving up to 40 minutes of play time from the device.

The Eco Media Player comes out Aug 27 is is available for pre-order.