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Onkyo’s HT-S7300 and HT-S6300 HTIB bundles are totally ready for 3D, man

Admin — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 09:32:00 +0000

Shocker of shockers — Onkyo has outed a pair of home-theater-in-box bundles, and both of ‘em are 3D ready. Crazy, ain’t it?

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Cowon’s V5W PMP: a V5 with 100 percent more WiFi

Admin — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 07:12:00 +0000

What do you get when you marry a V5 with WiFi? Why, a V5W, of course! Cowon’s sexy V5 portable media player — a device we (mostly) loved on back in March — has just gained the primary feature that we argued should’ve been included from the start.

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Cowon’s V5W PMP: a V5 with 100 percent more WiFi

Uplink Audio Strap System offers solar power for runners on the run

Admin — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:50:00 +0000

Designer Adam Hammerman’s concept — the Uplink Audio Strap System — is for all you sports enthusiasts that want to listen to tunes while running but don’t want to be bothered with headphones. It can connect with a variety of different mobile devices, and boasts four ultrasound speakers, meaning that you can hear the music but nobody else can, so you’re not disturbing the peace! For outdoorsy types, of course, it would be a much safer system for things like running, since you would still be able to hear the street noise around you, and the device would also have flexible solar panels which charge the speakers on the go. It’s just a concept for now, but one we’d like to see in reality.

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Burger King uses ‘musical shower’ as latest trick to entice Japanese clientele

Admin — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 06:39:00 +0000

A new Burger King eatery opening up in Japan isn’t usually something we concern ourselves too much with, but this one comes with an interesting new twist. Those umbrella-aping translucent cones hanging over the tables are known as “musical showers,” and their function is to deliver music in an isolated fashion to you and your significant — but not too significant, it’s still BK, after all — other.

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Okoro’s GX series HTPCs ship with SSD, USB 3.0, Core i7 and… an iPad?

Admin — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 06:06:00 +0000

Yeah, it’s true — Okoro Media Systems is shamelessly hopping on the tablet PC bandwagon, and it’s actually bundling an iPad with each GX series HTPC in order to give customers an elegant way to control their multi-zone audio setup (or whatever else you feel like controlling).

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Hacker creates Lego Mindstorms NXT-606 drum kit, just because he can (video)

Admin — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 08:36:00 +0000

If you’ve taken your Lego Mindstorms NXT kit to the Nerd Cup , created a 3D scanner to digitize your Precious Moments collection, and trained it to solve a Rubik’s Cube , you might think you’ve run out of things to do.

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Hacker creates Lego Mindstorms NXT-606 drum kit, just because he can (video)

Prototype car with tactile feedback challenges the blind to drive (update)

Admin — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 08:59:00 +0000

We can already imagine just what you’re thinking — the blind have no place behind the wheel, right? As it turns out, though, cars can steer themselves these days , so there technically no reason why (save a few laws) a computer-assisted blind person couldn’t drive.

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Amazon Kindle Editions with video and audio added to iPhone / iPad app

BlaineSnook64 — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:15:00 +0000

No, Amazon didn’t just release a new Kindle capable of doing full motion video with embedded audio. Instead, Amazon just updated the content for the Kindle app running on Apple gear that gives a few books an inject of multimedia. For example, Rich Steves’ London Kindle Edition with audio/video features walking tours with Rich doing the narration while Rose’s Heavenly Cakes features video tips for…

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Pioneer lowers prices on Elite A/V receivers again, the well-heeled respond with derision

Admin — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:32:00 +0000

Pioneer is introducing a new batch of Elite A/V receivers aimed at making the line more affordable (if less, well, elite). The VSX-30 and VSX-31 feature iPhone and iPod control via Pioneer’s iControl AV app, HDMI 1.4a with 3D support, THX Select2 Plus audio, and an Ethernet port for accessing Sirius XM, Rhapsody, and files off of your home network

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Belkin’s AV360 Mini DisplayPort Converter lets you play Xbox 360 on iMac, costs as much as an Arcade

Admin — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:51:00 +0000

If you’re inhabiting one of those quaint, downtown studio apartments in which your sink, oven, computer, and toilet are all within reach of your swiveling desk chair, and if that computer happens to be a 27-inch iMac , we have good news for you. Belkin has introduced its AV360 Mini DisplayPort Converter, which takes an HDMI input at up to 1080p and squeezes it into a Mini DisplayPort connector at 720p for display on your iMac

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Belkin’s AV360 Mini DisplayPort Converter lets you play Xbox 360 on iMac, costs as much as an Arcade