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IntelliTracks Digital Jukebox

Tim Zastrow — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 04:11:05 +0000

Many of our older reader might remember growing up, throwing an endless amount of quarters into the jukebox at the local pub. No need anymore as the IntelliTracks Digital Jukebox ($4,995) brings the jukebox into the 21st century. The Digital Jukebox utilizes an AMD Dual Core 3800+ Processor, 1GB Ram, Wifi and a 320GB Hard Drive for storage up to 50,000 songs and can access any online music service. An 8in LCD displays artist and track information while a second 15in touch screen LCD gives users access to all their entire music collection. The IntelliTracks Digital Jukebox is perfect addition to any room in the house, especially for those lucky readers with home bars.

Ultrasone EDITION 10 Headphones

Adam Gunderson — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 19:17:58 +0000

Ultrasone EDITION 10 Headphones ($2,749) are made in Bavaria by hand. The total quantity is limited to 2010 pieces. These newly developed headphones provide unlimited air-quality 3-dimensional sound and artfully combined the latest technology with pure luxury. Best materials skillfully wrap their latest findings in technology and equipment for open sound. The creation of an entirely new headphone design is always a promising challenge. The wide range of shapes, materials and technologies opens the possibility of real to design a unique product. Enjoy the know-how and the passion Ultrasone headphones as the specialist in this open edition has incorporated. Any Edition 10 headphones are made with care and provided with its own serial number. Thus, each copy of a limited kind. The Edition 10 is the first open headphones from Ultrasone Edition. The revolutionary design and unique styling has been visually indicate the existing aerial dynamics. The ear capsule development is the shape of butterfly wings to reason, with this lightweight airiness was introduced in the implementation of the design. Ultrasone headphones is also available at this guarantees the best sound and highest quality material selection. Ethiopian fine brown long hair sheep leather is used for the earbuds and the relationship of the headband. This high-quality leather provides perfect day comfort. The ear cups are connected to the precious metal ruthenium-coated finish. The warm colors of this high-quality coating to impress with elegance, but also with very long-lived properties. Hand-crafted inlays adorn Zebrano wood ear capsules in a very special form. The aluminum-Head, designed specifically for the Ultrasone Edition series offers lightweight stability, which provides maximum comfort.

Logitech’s Harmony 900 Universal Remote Dominates The Rest

iRRVi — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:47:24 +0000

About the size of a normal remote but with more features including a touch screen. It also has a RF to IR blaster to control everything at once. The IR blaster goes in front of your massive collection of audio equipment (you DO have a massive collection, right?) and converts the RF signals into IR blasted in every direction. This way you don’t have to have your cabinets open blocking the pathway and even be able to control things behind you. The draw back is that it costs a whopping $400, but if you have that kind of money laying around in change in your room or something might as well get it. Well, get it changed into bills first.

Linksys Media Hub

Adam Gunderson — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:08:52 +0000

The Linksys Media Hub is a streamlined Network Attached Storage. It has a unique and simple user interface, allowing anyone to use and share it. The NAS comes in 500GB ($350, $300 w/ No LCD) and 1TB ($430) sizes; all with and extra bay for another drive, as well as usb port for external drives. All models but the no LCD model come with multi-memory card readers.

CineMassive OmegaPlex

Adam Gunderson — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:12:04 +0000

The OmegaPlex Ultra High Definition Multi Monitor is truly a marvel of modern technology. Optimized for ultra high definition viewing capabilities with an incredible 27.6 million pixels, this setup is something the world has never seen before. Uses for this product are only limited to your imagination, whether it be high definition, gaming or watching movies, your eyes will never be disappointed to look at this beautiful collage of screens. Cinemassive boasts its new low price of $12,999 for the 12 screen setup, including a 3 year warranty to cover anything that could possible go wrong. The OmegaPlex is also fully customizable, easily changing from a family room pleasure experience into a professional workstation. Regardless of the steep price, it is safe to say that this product is the most sophisticated of its kind.

Philips’ Cinema 21:9 HDTV

Adam Gunderson — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:13:26 +0000

Truly a marvel of modern technology, the Philips Cinema 21:9 high definition television is unlike anything the world has seen. Most new televisions on the market today are sporting a traditional 16:9 aspect ratio. Philips’ new product smashes the competition with a whopping 21:9 aspect ratio offering a much higher resolution and more realistic images. The Cinema also has a built in feature to detect ambient light and adjust the brightness, contrast, and color saturation to provide the best possible performance in any room. Retailing at US $5,044, the new Philips Cinema is a must have for any television enthusiast.

Playmate – The Interactive Mirror

Adam Gunderson — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:53:26 +0000

Lit Studios have now taken the production of mirrors to a new dizzying heights. The brainchild of Alpay Kasal and Sam Ewen, is an interactive mirror which uses Human Computer Interaction technology. Using your finger like a mouse you can manipulate the mirror to see what clothes would look like on you, play games, or you can decorate it to match any room. At the moment the only way to get hold of one is to contact Lit Studios as no cost or retail information is available.

ACOUSTIBUDS

Adam Gunderson — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:53:39 +0000

The most affordable and innovative thing at the Consumer Electronics Show this year were ACOUSTIBUDS ($20). They are silicone adapters that fit onto any earphone, and they are acoustically engineered to enrich bass, middle and upper range frequencies. Not to mention they fit your ear better, and are less likely to fall out.
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GenevaSound Home Theater

Adam Gunderson — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:11:14 +0000

The GenevaSound Home Theater is yet another all-in-one tv stand. The sleek piano-lacquered wooden cabinet houses a 700-watt amplifier, 7 speakers, a 12-inch subwoofer, CD player, FM radio, and an integrated iPod/iPhone dock. All that could be yours for a cool $4,000, and yes, it is available in the USA. Black doesn’t match the rest of your house? try it in white.

Authentic Boardwalk Photo Booth

Adam Gunderson — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:17:27 +0000

The Authentic Boardwalk Photo Booth ($11,000) is capable of taking a four-frame strip of pictures in 16 seconds. It used a thermal printer exclusively designed by Polaroid, so there is no ink or chemicals to replace (only paper). The photo booth comes with 2 rolls of film, enough for 3,200 photos.

C. Crane Digital FM Transmitter

Adam Gunderson — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:54:42 +0000

Everyone I know has tried several different ways to transmit music from their MP3 player to their car, yet many of those products fail to live up to expectations. Some reasons why they don’t produce perfect quality audio through a FM reciever are; 1. lack of external power, and 2. lack of antenna. The C. Crane Digital FM Transmitter ($70) has tackled both those obstacles, allowing it to transmit audio from any device with a standard headphone jack to a nearby FM radio receiver in perfect stereo quality. The device even transmits 40 – 70 feet away! Now you can enjoy internet radio, and music from your mp3 player on that legacy audio system. [via]

ButtKicker Wireless Low Frequency Audio Transducer

Adam Gunderson — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:20:32 +0000

All a low frequency audio transducerdoes is turn the boom from your sound system into physical bass you feel. The ButtKicker BKA300 Wireless Home Theater Kit does just that. Starting January 2009 ButtKickers will be installed in select new AMC movie theater complexes, so movie goers will experience movies in “4-D”. You can have the same technology planted under your couch with very simple setup for only $300.

Yamaha POLYPHONY YRS-1000 Theater Rack

Adam Gunderson — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:20:38 +0000

This is not a TV stand that you will find at IKEA (actually you’re unlikely to find this anywhere outside of Japan). Yamaha is jumping on the all-in-one tv stand bandwagon with their Polyphony YRS-1000. Basically its a central hub that efficiently manages all your components. The YRS-1000 is compatible with 46 types of flat-panel TVs and features; two HDMI units, built-in subwoofer, and 5.1 channel playback. So if you’re in the market for surround-sound and a tv stand, you might as well mix them together and get this. Its available now (Japan only) and is a great space saver for smaller living rooms. [via]

NAVist III

Adam Gunderson — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:08:02 +0000

The NAVist III from HS Network is a double-DIN touchscreen GPS system. It features; dual processors, an optical drive, a 2.5-inch SATA hard-drive in a removable caddy, and an SD/SDHC slot. All of this is controlled by a 6.95-inch, 800 x 400 touch display. What would you want in a car stereo? Oh yeah, DivX compatibility, A2DP, and a USB port. Its has all those and more! [via]

Lenovo ThinkPad W700

Adam Gunderson — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:11:51 +0000

Don’t get me wrong… You can put together some awesome laptop system, they will run games smoothly, and your programs will fire up very fast. But if you are like me and spent the past week doing some serious graphic designing, you may be interested in a laptop that has more than power to offer. Lenovo’s ThinkPad W700 notebook notebook intended for graphic design, photography, and CAD professionals. It features: a built-in Wacom digitizer, WUXGA screen with 400 nit brightness, auto color-calibration sensor, 3.0 GHz Core 2 Extreme quad core processor, up to 8GB DDR3 RAM, 1GB NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700M graphics and dual HDD Bays configurable in RAID 0 or RAID 1. The whole package starts at $3,000, but with options like BD-ROM and SSD you can expect to pay a lot more. [via]

Lenovo Unleashes PC Beast on Mobile Workstation Market with ThinkPad W700
Delivers Industry’s First Built-in Digitizer and Color Calibrator Along with Ultimate Power, Multimedia and Display Technologies

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC – August 12, 2008: Lenovo today introduced the ThinkPad W700, a 17-inch widescreen mobile workstation engineered with game-changing technologies and innovations to exceed the demands of the most data and graphics-intensive users. Lenovo brings the industry’s first built-in digitizer and color calibrator to a mobile workstation and combines these innovations with first-in-market technologies such as new NVIDIA® Quadro FX mobile graphics and supporting the upcoming Intel® mobile quad core processor. Other features such as optional dual hard drives with RAID configurations, up to 8 GB of high speed DDR3 memory, a range of wireless connectivity options and excellent multimedia capabilities including an optional Blu-ray™ DVD burner/player make the ThinkPad W700 mobile workstation the standard-bearer for power and performance in a mobile workstation.

“Lenovo has engineered a new breed of mobile workstation with the ThinkPad W700,” said Peter Hortensius, senior vice president, Notebook Business Unit, Lenovo. “No other PC manufacturer has a mobile workstation that delivers the sheer power, performance and cutting-edge innovation that Lenovo has packed into the ThinkPad W700. The ThinkPad W700 mobile workstation flat out delivers the command performance our customers demand at the desk as well as in the field.”

According to IDC, the compound annual growth rate for the worldwide mobile workstation market has been more than 60 percent per year since 2002.1The ThinkPad W700 mobile workstation extends Lenovo’s commitment to workstation users, complementing Lenovo’s W500 mobile workstation and ThinkStation S10 and D10 workstations. As workers in fields such as digital content creation, computer-aided design and manufacturing, digital photography and science fields including the oil and gas industries become increasingly mobile, they are demanding the full-featured performance of a desktop workstation in a mobile workstation.

First-in-Industry Engineered Innovation
The ThinkPad W700 mobile workstation takes customer driven innovation to a new level with an optional built-in palm rest digitizer and color calibrator. Lenovo and Intel collaborated to integrate the color calibrator and digitizer into the ThinkPad W700 mobile workstation. Designed for digital content creators and users, the mobile workstation’s digitizer helps them easily configure an image, either mapping it to the entire screen or to an area defined by the user. High performance users, especially digital photographers, will benefit from models with the built-in color calibrator as color continues to play an important role in their work. The calibrator automatically adjusts the display’s color in up to half the time of many external calibrators and with higher accuracy, resulting in the most accurate, true-to-life images in an integrated package. Together with the upcoming Intel® mobile quad core processor, multimedia designers and animators now have outstanding quad-core processor performance and true color replication that is critical for realistic digital creations and workflow efficiencies.

Super-Charged Performance Unleashed
Supporting the latest Intel processor technologies including the upcoming mobile quad core processor, the mobile workstation can be configured with up to 8 GB of memory with an additional 2 GB of Intel Turbo Memory. Lenovo also offers models with Intel® vPro™ technology for complete manageability. The mobile workstation can be equipped with dual internal hard drives, including solid state drive storage. The ThinkPad W700 mobile workstation offers both the NVIDIA® Quadro® FX 2700M and 3700M Open GL graphics processors with up to 1 GB of dedicated video memory for exceptional graphics performance in a 17-inch mobile workstation. The hard drives can be configured for RAID 0 to help users access and save their data faster than traditional disk-writing methods, or users can choose RAID 1 for mirrored data redundancy.

The mobile workstation includes WiFi wireless connectivity. Additionally, users can connect to other devices wirelessly using mobile workstation models featuring Bluetooth and ultra wideband technology. Models supporting WiMAX will be available later this year.

New Heights in Display Technology and Multimedia Excellence
As the company’s first product with a 17-inch display, the ThinkPad W700 mobile workstation delivers an unparalleled viewing experience with a combination of leading technologies. Its optional 400-nit WUXGA display provides up to twice the brightness of earlier ThinkPad mobile workstation models, and the 72 percent wide color gamut provides more than 50 percent greater color intensity. The high resolution, extreme brightness and wide color gamut coupled with the NVIDIA Quadro FX MXM graphics solution results in a user experience unequalled in a mobile workstation today. For external connectivity, the ThinkPad W700 mobile workstation provides support for Dual Link DVI, Display Port and VGA. A 7-in-1 multicard reader, and five USB ports give users flexibility in transferring and accessing digital content. Additionally, the workstation comes with an optional compact flash reader and Blu-ray™ DVD burner/player. An optional mini-dock extends the mobile workstation’s capabilities with eSATA and digital audio ports as well as convenient cabling for power, external monitors and peripherals.

Packed for extreme performance, the mobile workstation also features BIOS/port disablement and an optional fingerprint reader, a smartcard reader and hard drives with full-disk encryption. It will carry more than 20 certifications from independent software vendors.

“Our engineers use Lenovo ThinkStation workstations to help them design the next-generation Williams – Toyota FW31 race cars, aiming to make them faster and more agile, with greater performance than the competition,” said Chris Taylor, IT manager, AT&T Williams. “We’re
thrilled to see Lenovo deliver the workstation performance we’ve come to rely on – now in a mobile, portable solution.”

Pricing and Availability2
The ThinkPad W700 mobile workstation will be available beginning in September with models starting at $2,978. It is available through Lenovo Business Partners and www.lenovo.com.

Logitech Squeezebox Boom

Adam Gunderson — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:35:31 +0000

The Logitech Squeezebox Boom ($299) is Logitech’s latest in wireless sound products. The Squeezebox Boom features; two built-in, amplified speakers, 6 button online radio station presets, VFD display, 10/100 Ethernet/wireless 802.11g connectivity, IR remote, 1/8-inch stereo input. My favorite feature is the support for SqueezeNetwork music access, which includes; last.fm, LIVE365, MP3tunes, Pandora, Radio IO, Radiotime, Rhapsody, Sirius Internet Radio, & Slacker.

Creative Zen X-Fi

Adam Gunderson — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:36:07 +0000

Creative’s latest PMP the Zen X-Fi features; wifi, IM capabilities, SD card slot, built-in speaker, FM tuner, and 9-way d-pad. It also includes software which will allow you to stream media from your computer. We do not have any details on price or when it will be available. The X-Fi will come in 8GB, 16GB, and 32GB flavors.

Mitsubishi LaserVue

Adam Gunderson — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:10:38 +0000

Mitsubishi won the race to the market by being the first to release a laser projection television. The LaserVue series will come in 65-inch and 73-inch varieties, both 1080p. They are built to preform better than plasma and LCD, they will also be prices about the same. Some people may not be so happy having to pay the same price for a 10-inch thick TV that they would for one that is less than half the size. Mitsubishi has not released any price or spec info yet.

Chatterbox XBi

Adam Gunderson — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:20:54 +0000

The XBi with Bluetooth from Chatterbox ($179) is an excellent motorcycle communication system. It features stereo sound from up to 2 devices at the same time (ex. iPod, Mp3, satellite radio, GPS, cell phone, radar detector). SMART technology in the headset automatically prioritizes the transmissions of paired devices. The XBi can even stream music from one module to the other. Chatterbox XBi also includes: a Li-Pol battery rechargeable battery with 6-8 TRUE hours of power, 1 hour express charge, noise suppression, Hi-Fi headset, and a compact aerodynamic module design.

Sony HDR-TG1

Adam Gunderson — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:37:33 +0000

Sony is debuting the smallest HD camcorder measuring in at just 1.3-inches wide by 4.7-inches tall by 2.5-inches deep. The full-featured camcorder can record 1920 x 1080 HD video and 4-megapixel digital photos directly to a Memory Stick PRO Duo™ or PRO Duo Mark2 media cards. It has a titanium body and comes with a 4GB PRO Duo Mark2. The HDR-TG1 even has a great price, $900. Pre-Order begins April 4 and ships in May.