Myine's "TiVo for radio": A local disruptor?

(sings) I love gadgets. Gadgets gadgets gadgets. Get ’em on my shelf… For years, we’ve used DVRs such as TiVo to watch TV and skip the ads. A new radio aims to do much the same thing. Myine Electronics’ Abbee is an FM radio that records from any station and strips out the ads. It then saves the songs as MP3s which you can take with you with the radio’s portable player. Edward C. Baig at USAToday writes up a review, and says it “is targeted at technophobes who find standard MP3 players too complicated, as well as folks who would never spring for a satellite-radio subscription.” There are limitations aplenty – it can only save 100 songs, and – of course – you’re stuck with whatever the radio is playing. Baig doesn’t love the product – saying it takes way too much time to set up (24 hours) and there’s some DRM involved. Still – the product won an award at CES. Local radio probably doesn’t have to fear too much disruption from this particular product, but the concept is interesting.