A reader of this post pointed me at a Griffin Technologies‘ newly announced RadioSHARK, a USB based radio reception device and software bundle that allows you to schedule aural recordings off-air from AM or FM, thereby allowing you to timeshift radio, ala TiVo. Very nifty, and the price isn’t exorbitant. I’ve purchased Griffin stuff in the past, and have always been very pleased.

From what I’ve seen on the product page, it records straight to AIFF, which makes sense for a first-generation product, but is quite expensive from a disk-space perspective. Hopefully a software upgrade will encode to MP3 or MP4 on the fly.

It would be interesting to see how scriptable the software might be, or how hard it would be to hack together a quick plug-in to allow the recorded programs to be streamed. It would be great to hook this up permanently to a Mac at the house, and then stream Rush to my Mac at work or where ever I happen to be.

Might just have to place a pre-order for this gadget.