Gear Diary Olive Unveils ONE Home Music Player Powered by the Crowd photo

For almost as long as I can remember, “home entertainment centers” have only gotten bigger as we’ve marched down the years, at least the audio portions of them.  Then, sometime around 1980 so with the advent of the DVD (and a push from the WalkMan), stuff started shrinking.  Now, of course, you can pack movies, TV shows, and your whole library of songs into a gadget the size of a pack of cigarettes.  (Not that anyone smokes any more.  But I digress.)  And the Olive One is an attempt to put your old home entertainment system, music-wise, into one place:

KEY FACTS ABOUT OLIVE ONE

All-in-One
Enjoy all your music. From Spotify to Pandora to YouTube.

Wireless HD Docking Station
Play music from your smartphone, PC or Mac

Stunning touch-screen interface
Swipe and tap your way through your entire
music collection

Gear Diary Olive Unveils ONE Home Music Player Powered by the Crowd photo

Amazing sound
High Definition DAC and dual HD amplifiers

Your personal Home Cloud
Built-in hard disk drive (optional) stores
up to 6,000 albums

Multi-room music
Play the same or different songs

Hand-built in the USA
With the finest aluminium and glass materials

Gear Diary Olive Unveils ONE Home Music Player Powered by the Crowd photo

Only $399

Sound interesting?  Surf on over to IndieGoGo and check it out.  The last day for funding is 2/1/2013.  And if you participate, please be sure to let us know what you think below!

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Doug is a nerd from way back, falling for a Commodore PET at the age of 15, and never looking back. Riding the nerd wave, he got a Computer Science degree and entered the tech industry at a young age, deciding after a year and a half of front-line phone technical support that he should try something, *anything* else. He settled on technical writing, and has been cranking out documentation for companies like Unisys, SGI, Cisco, Juniper, and many others ever since. He is nothing short of ecstatic to be working for H-P from his home base in Austin.


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