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Numark has been making professional DJ equipment for more than 30 years, and now the company is tapping into the iPod phenomenon with its $399 iDJ, a two-channel mixer that lets mobile DJs use their iPods as playback devices.

The 4-pound iDJ features two docking stations that work with any dockable iPod (it even charges the iPods when they’re docked), as well as all the buttons and knobs you could want. The iDJ includes a 1/4-inch microphone input with gain and tone controls and two stereo line inputs (one for each channel), as well as output jacks for master and record RCA, S-Video, and 1/4-inch and 1/8-inch headphones.

The iDJ, which should be available by the time you read this, also provides USB connectivity so you can connect to a computer and load music on the iPods without removing them from the docks—a whole lot easier than digging through crates of LPs. —Peter Cohen