Internet radio buffs: Now you don't need to hover over the PC

I love spending Thursday evenings listening to Susanna, the thinking person's heartthrob on Boston College's WZBC.

Her show, "Rare Frequency," features sometimes raw and jarring sounds that seem suited to choppy WiFi connections and streaming digital formats.

But listening to Susanna's live stream on a laptop does take the "radio" out of Internet radio. I already spend nearly every waking moment hovering over my iBook. I want to move my eyes onto something more relaxing at the end of the day - a gadget signifying my shift to recreational mode.

It's also a pain managing a list of Internet radio stations on a PC, as if they were tracks in an iTunes library.

Enter the Daisy, from Intempo (intempodigital.com): a sleek-looking Internet radio equipped with a WiFi chip and a microprocessor from a company called CSR (csr.com).

The Daisy promises to make the experience of tuning into BBC Radio 4, or any of several thousand other Internet streams, as easy as tuning your clock radio.

Intempo, interestingly enough, last year released a more attractive, and less expensive, Internet radio and alarm, the GX-01.

The Daisy (about $300) should be available as early as spring.

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