Travelling can be a nightmare, especially when you’re trying to sleep with fiddly headphones jammed in your ears. The iDream Speaker Pillow can resuce you from all of that. It’s an extremely comfy, soft and colourful cushion upon which to rest your weary head, but the inbuilt speaker can be hooked up to your iPod or MP3 player. This lets you snooze your journey away to an ambient playlist of your choice. There’s a little pocket in the side of the pillow that hides a lead that will allow you to connect your iPod or MP3 and it even has a volume controller which is handy. Plug in your iPod and drift away while these tiny cushions play you into a soothing snooze.

Available online at www.iwantoneofthose.com for £19.99

Blast out your tunes with The Big Bang Speaker. We’ve seen loads of iPod and desktop speakers in our time but none of them have looked as cool as this. It looks like an Inspector Clouseau style bomb and when it comes to sound it packs a mighty punch. It’s been designed acoustically so that its two high quality speakers deliver clear and crisp sounds whether you’re hooked up to your MP3 player or laptop. You can connect practically anything with a headphone socket to this little ball of explosive sound using the leads provided and it can be powered by USB or taken on the go with 4 AA batteries.

The Orbit iMT237 a portable MP3 player speaker is light-weight, shock resistant, robust, ultra-portable and small enough to be carried in your handbag.

The speaker delivers a surprisingly clear, 360-degree field of full-spectrum sound without distortion. It can connect to any digital audio device including MP3 players or laptops, and you get 24-hours of continuous play from 3 included AAA batteries.

The Orbit is great for festivals, camping etc and comes with a handy case so it wont get damages.

Available online, priced at around £30. For more information check out www.alteclansing.com

 Turn your iPhone into a mini sound system with the Aircurve Amplifier by Griffin. It’s so cool, it just amplifies the sound through its funkily engineered wave design with no need for batteries or a power supply!

Simply slot your iPhone into the dock and play your tracks on your speakerphone and the sound travels through a coiled wave in the base. It really is so simple to use and is great way of listening to your choonz without the need for headphones or powered speakers, perfect for taking on hols.

Features

• Acoustically amplifies the sound of your iPhone
• Unique wave design requires no power
• Allows synching / charging using dock cable
• Compatible with iPhone 3G and iPhone

This is geekchic at it’s best. Check out this iPod dock from designer Philippe Starck.

Its pretty stunning looking and comprises of a pair of wireless speakers, each one is about two and a half feet tall and designed to provide 360 degree sound. The iPod dock is housed in the top of the speaker and they are also compatible with the iPhone for music playback.

There is the option to stream music wirelessly to the speakers from your PC over WiFi or via Bluetooth and they are expected to go on sale next year retailing around £1000.

Seems expensive but then again you wouldn’t expext something by Philippe Starck to be cheap now would you!  Love it or leave it?