I had a banner Christmas. Aside from my Aeropress, my favourite gift is my OXX Wifi Internet Radio.


Here's me tuning into a classic rock station in Anchorage, Alaska.

I know all of these internet radio stations are available through my laptop- but it's pretty cool to have a dedicated appliance with presets- I can flip from "Sikh Radio Punjab" to "KINE radio Hawaii" with just a button. We had a relative visiting from Ireland over Christmas- and we tuned in on local AM radio from Limerick- to play during Christmas dinner. It's so cool to have basically a radio that tunes in on every station in the world. (not every station of course - there are some exceptions)

The other nice feature is that it has a DAB mode. DAB is a terrestrial digital radio format that broadcasts locally here in Australia. I don't think it exists in the US (?) but it's like XM or Sirius, except free- no satellites involved, and not as many stations. We use this for when we want to just leave the radio on all day- because the Internet radio does chew into my broadband.