14 DAY TRIAL // Now, the following gadget is totally cool, since it can provide you with endless hours of fun and it will certainly become the main attraction on your desktop: the iBoogie Speaker and Dance Machine. "Machine" could sound a bit too technical especially as the iBoogie is in fact a very humanized piece of technology aiming to reproduce one of the world's favorite activities – dancing. And to make things even cooler, it will react to your music.
There are a ton of desktop dancer pieces of software, from modern to traditional dances, showcasing common figures and even "barely dressed" dancers, but they are very impersonal and have a strong artificial aura about them.
The iBoogie is different, though. It is a purely digital character and maybe that's why people feel better about that, pretty much like the relation between a Tamagochi character and its owner. OK, we all know it's a digital pet but we develop very natural feelings for it; the iBoogie is a succession of lights on a screen, yet this little guy has already become our desktop friend... that's how it goes.
The Speaker and Dance Machine can be easily connected to absolutely any music source capable to accommodate a 3.5mm jack; this means all sorts of MP3 players, CD/DVD, your computer and even iPods can be hooked up to this gadget for a lot of fun. Besides the obvious speakers, the iBoogie comes with a LED screen on which you can watch the dancing performance of a stick figure-like guy.
No less than 50 different choreographic dance moves are available and this character isn't shy to try them all. The beat-responsive circuitry will make the LED dancer move pretty much to the rhythm of the beat and thus create a very coherent visual performance that goes well with the tunes played back. The push-button will let you turn the dancing on and off with ease while the 2 AA batteries the gadget works on will give you prolonged operating time.
The iBoogie will set you back only $19.95 and what makes it even neater is that you can learn some dance tricks to impress your buddies with on the Saturday night dance floor. It makes for a great and terribly funny gift, also; yet it would be very interesting to know how the LED guy would dance on some deathmetal music.
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