Miss the old days when you had to carry a heavy boombox around for portable music? Well, now you can relive those days, with the Soulra XL, the solar-powered iPod boombox formerly called the Soulra 2. Its eight speakers are said to get very loud, and the company claims it charges twice as fast as its predecessor (just five hours) and lasts five hours on a charge.

It will also charge your phone, too. It weighs seven pounds and will cost you $300. You can pre-order it now.

Are you man enough to rock a boombox that looks like it could be a woman’s purse? Well, if so, check out the Memorex MI2601P TagAlong Portable Boombox. It is now available for purchase on Amazon. It’s designed to be portable, and we are tempted to say that it is strong enough for a man, but made for a woman.

The handle makes carrying and sharing your music easy. It is compatible with iPod, iPhone and other MP3 players via a line-in jack. Other features include a digital FM radio with station presets, a wireless remote control, and an equalizer. The Memorex MI2601P TagAlong Portable Boombox retails for $49.99.

TDK was a big name back in the days of cassettes, but they really haven’t done anything in the last many years, until recently with their retro boombox, and now this portable stereo. And judging by how awesome these devices look, we are glad to have them back.

The Sound Cube costs $300 and is part of TDK’s Life on Record audio series. The 17-pound portable enclosure measures 9.8″ x 9.8″ x 9.8″ and features a pair of 5-1/4″ full-range coax drivers, and the other two sides have passive reflectors that look like speakers. You place it in the center of your room and it pumps sound out.

Still rocking CDs? Star Wars fan? If so, you might like this Darth Vader CD Boombox sitting on your table. This Darth Vader “CD Boombox” with red LED eyes that light up, will make you feel like a Sith apprentice while you are rocking out.

This CD player comes with built-in speakers and you can connect your media player. It also has a built-in FM radio. No word on when it will arrive, but it will retail for $69.99. May the dark side of the force be with you.

This strange looking boombox is designed for street dancers and musicians. Even though it looks like it was made for a Dalek. It’s the new JVC RD-R2 BoomBox, which is equipped with a microSD/SDHC slot, allowing you to store and play music from a memory card of up to 32GB of storage capacity.

The JVC RD-D2 comes with a pair of 2.5-Watt speakers, countdown timer, a USB port, an FM tuner, a guitar input, a KORG/metronome tuner and an automatic hand clapping feature to help with your rhythm. It can also record music through a built-in stereo mic. The JVC RD-D2 BoomBox is compatible with MP3/WMA/linear PCM (WAV) and AAC file formats. It will be released in Japan next month for about $460.

One thing that we all want are speakers. Without the wires. Aluratek has heard our collective plea and launched three new wireless audio products called Bump. Oddly there’s a wired model among them, but whatever. There’s the $49.99 AMS01F, which is a boombox that plays music from SD cards, line-in, or FM and delivers six hours on a charge.

Next up is the $79.99 AUWS01F which uses a signal sent from a 2.4GHz USB dongle in your PC or Mac to play tunes from your machine. Next is the $99.99 AWS01F, which is the AMS01F boombox with the addition of a separate wireless speaker.

TDK is offering their Life On Record line of products, which include a great build quality and industrial design that includes elements like aluminum, a retro look and a graphic equalizer. They can be connected to music players and USB drives.

The three speaker Boombox will cost you $499. All of the items look absolutely awesome. If you want to get all the details, keep an eye on TDK’s website. Their Life On Record page should be up very soon. We hope to see more devices in this style.

Boom boxes are probably best left in the past, but if you want to relive the old days, then check out this Innovative Technology Boom Box. It supports both your iPhone, iPod, or any MP3 player via an auxiliary audio input.

You can dock your iPhone into the cassette deck, and turn it into an expensive cassette tape. It also sports an SD card slot and a USB port so you can record live music from the built-in FM radio as MP3 files.

Turn that trash down! But dad I’m just playing video games. On my boombox. Modder XCKDIY has created the awesomely retro Dreamcast Boombox casemod. The Dreamcast console has been jammed into a portable boombox, and he installed a front-facing LCD as well.

The Dreamcast’s drive has even been integrated into the player’s original drive tray, keeping it all authentic. The four controller ports are in the front, so you can easily hook up your controllers for some multiplayer gaming.

Creative is launching two new wireless speaker systems, the D200 and D100. The Creative D200 claims to have the same “sonic soul” as their ZiiSound D5, but at a lower price and will give you 9 watts RMS over each channel.

The Creative D100 is the entry level model and comes in a wide range of colors, like black, pink, green and blue. It has both mains power and the option of batteries using 4x AA. Creative says that it will give you 40 hours at 75% volume. The D100 offers 2 watts RMS over each channel.

The Santok SMC1000 Boombox iPod dock is a little different than your average dock as it sports a sound-sensitive visual equalizer that’s informative and stylish. Some of the features of the SMC1000 include 12-watt speakers, a line in port, a digital clock, an integrated radio tuner and a touchpad with a remote.

It also sports a sleek black finish, so it will look good just about anywhere in your home. The Santok SMC1000 Boombox iPod dock will cost you £99.99. $150 US.

Pure is known for unusual and elegant radios. Unfortunately they have not been available in the US. Well, now Pure is correcting that oversight with five WiFi radios. There’s the Sensia, shown above which features a 5.7-inch touchscreen, an oval enclosure and access to the Pure Lounge: a portal that gets you into internet radio stations, Twitter and Facebook. There’s also an auxiliary input jack. All for $349.

The $449 Sirocco 550 is like a mini boombox with the WiFi radio capabilities, a USB socket, iPhone and iPod compatibility, a CD player and an SD expansion slot. There’s also the $139 Siesta Flow alarm clock radio and the $249 Oasis Flow, which is rugged and waterproof.

The Rad Blaster will play your music, record sounds and store files, while pleasing you with it’s boombox design. Who doesn’t love a mini boombox?

Rad Blaster also throws in a 1.1-inch OLED screen and 2GB of built-in memory. It’s larger than a shuffle, but for $60 we really don’t care anyway. It’s a boombox! It’s mini! In the old days it was better to have a larger boombox, but that led to shoulder problems and like 40 C batteries a week. Just visit any nursing home. They’ll tell ya.

Audio-Technica’s AT-SPB5 BoogieBox Speakers look like boomboxes that have had a makeover. They sport a rugged design that makes them perfect for going with you everywhere. But they are also packing some power, thanks to a few 70mm full range speaker units and an amplifier.

They sell for $159.99 and feature a battery life of about 10 hours. They come in your choice of red, black or camouflage. Seems a tad expensive, but if you want an “active speaker with street style”, I guess you have to pay.

Check out this totally funkadelic PC case mod that glows like a toxic night-lite. This one comes from modder JJ-Sky5000 and was created for a Coolermaster contest. The Project ‘Cool’ Boombox PC Case Mod. Cool doesn’t even begin to describe it.

Obviously the mod uses an old boombox from 1990s to great effect. I see some groovin’ dude carrying this thing on his shoulder, moving to the music as he strolls down post-apocalyptic streets in search of nothing more than good times.