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Do you need a speaker system that is driven by Bluetooth or WiFi? Do you want a designer speaker for the living room? The Parrot Zikmu by Philippe Starck might be for you.

Todd Cochrane stopped by and put the mic up to the speaker to show off this interesting product. It stands about 2 1/2 feet high and weighs 17 lbs. It’s fully compatible with iPhone, iPod Touch – Nano and Classic. It also has a RCA line-in input for audio analog sources and plays all MP3 and LPCM audio formats. The frequency ranges from 50 Hz – 20 kHz and takes 70W per speaker.

But for this product, you might want to get out your mortgage. $1599 is the suggested retail price. Of course, they are developed by Phillippe Starck – a designer in the New Design style. He recently redesigned the Microsoft optical mouse and was commissioned to design the Spaceport for Virgin Galactic.

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1971 – Intel releases the 4004 mircoprocessor. This is the first single-chip processor and what is concidered a “pre x86 processor” along with the 8008, 8080 and 8085 processors.

The 4004 could run 60,000 interactions per second (0.06 MIP). The clock rate on the chip was 108 KHz and was accompanied by the Intel RAM chip.

Price: $200

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Other Day in Tech History items:

• Corel Linux OS 1.0
• SURFnet and Internet2 Abilene connect via Gigabit ethernet
• Neopets are founded

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