Speakers Archive

  • Need to boost your iPhones volume? Grab a cup.

    Need to boost your iPhones volume? Grab a cup.

    Posted on January 14, 2010 | No Comments
    There are hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of D.I.Y articles on the internet, some more useful than others. I read maybe a dozen or so a day, solely for the sake of expanding my knowledge bank of obscure solutions. Every once in a while, one sprouts up that is just so damned simple, so face-palmingly [...]

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  • Toshiba to roll out REGZA TVs with built-in Blu-ray players

    Toshiba to roll out REGZA TVs with built-in Blu-ray players

    Posted on January 14, 2010 | No Comments
    Toshiba's first Blu-ray recorders are on their way, and the company also announced [JP] new TVs with built-in Blu-ray players today. While these TVs are nothing new (in Japanese stores, at least), it's the first time for Toshiba to offer devices like this. A recording function would have made sense, but you can only watch Blu-rays on the TVs. At least, it's possible to connect external hard discs via USB and record video on those.

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  • Denon’s S-5BD combines a BD player and 5.1 receiver for fun and profit

    Denon’s S-5BD combines a BD player and 5.1 receiver for fun and profit

    Posted on January 7, 2010 | No Comments
    All-in-one solutions are nothing new. Hell, Walmart sells them, but that term is generally reserved for lower-market products, not something from a top-tier audio brands. Denon doesn't care about that stereotype though. The companies new S-5BD is a Blu-ray player and high-end audio receiver. All-in-one!

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  • Edifier Luna5 Speakers: Giant and bulbous

    Edifier Luna5 Speakers: Giant and bulbous

    Posted on January 5, 2010 | No Comments
    Speakers galore tonight. The Luna5 iPod dock sounds pretty good but looks great. That big weird thing on top is the speaker itself and it blasts out quite a bit of noise when you need it to. More pics after the jump.

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  • Quick Look: ASUS NX90

    Quick Look: ASUS NX90

    Posted on January 5, 2010 | No Comments
    The ASUS NX90 looks like a monster. It has a full sized keyboard surrounded by a field of polished aluminum. There is no visible trackpad – just the metal – and you have another trackpad on the right side. The Band & Olufsen heritage is abundantly clear: this is a high end machine with quite [...]

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  • bdporter: Sony Music’s roll-front cabinet with integrated Blu-ray player and projector

    bdporter: Sony Music’s roll-front cabinet with integrated Blu-ray player and projector

    Posted on January 5, 2010 | No Comments
    Sony Music Japan has announced a pretty unusual product today, the so-called bdporter [JP]. It's essentially a roll-front cabinet with a set of devices that's geared toward home theater fans who look for a unique piece of furniture. Buyers will get a Sony Blu-ray player, a WXGA projector, surround headphones, active speakers and a 60-inch projector screen.

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  • RCA’s 2010 HDTV lineup

    RCA’s 2010 HDTV lineup

    Posted on January 4, 2010 | No Comments
    The RCA brand is still around thanks to TTE Corportation and is ready for 2010 with a full-scale HDTV assault. Most of the nine upcoming models are a snozefest, but a few stand out from the rest with with modern specs, Energy Star 4.0 ratings and presumably low prices.

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  • The Known Universe by the AMHN put to the music of Muse

    The Known Universe by the AMHN put to the music of Muse

    Posted on December 31, 2009 | No Comments
    It’s New Year’s Eve and you’re stuck in front of a computer. Sorry, bub. You might as well turn your speakers on and zen out to the American Museum of Natural History’s The Known Universe video put to Exogenesis by Muse. The somewhat boring, but also high-def, original video is after the jump if you [...]

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  • Bari Bari: New exploration and rescue robot (video)

    Bari Bari: New exploration and rescue robot (video)

    Posted on December 18, 2009 | No Comments
    Japan is prone to large-scale earthquakes, so the fact that researchers in this country are constantly working on the development of highly specialized rescue robots. And the so-called Bari Bari IV is a particularly clever model, as it can help people who are in danger, for example after a building has been destroyed, by being more cautious than other robots. It's one of the robots developed at the Kitagawa-Tsugoshi Lab at Tokyo Institute of Technology. The Bari Bari solves the problem rescue teams encounter at the scenes after an explosion, accident or natural disaster took place: People buried under rubble.

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  • JVC has two more sound bars from you to pick from: TH-BA3 and TH-BS7

    JVC has two more sound bars from you to pick from: TH-BA3 and TH-BS7

    Posted on December 14, 2009 | No Comments
    Didn't Nickelodeon used to give away JVC boomboxes and whatnot on its game shows back in the day? (I'm primarily talking to twenty-somethings here, yes.) Imagine you were a contestant on Double Dare, and you manage to find the flag inside the big nose filled with goo, and you win this, the TH-BA3. It's a sound bar, which are a heck of a lot easier to incorporate into a small space than a complete surround sound system.

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  • Castoven: Microwave with built-in YouTube player (video)

    Castoven: Microwave with built-in YouTube player (video)

    Posted on December 7, 2009 | No Comments
    Two researchers from Japan's Keio University (which yours truly attended just until recently by the way) have developed a kitchen appliance aimed at the total web geek in you, a YouTube-powered microwave. The so-called Castoven [JP] is based on a conventional, unbranded model of "good quality" but sports a 10.4-inch LCD screen in the door panel.

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  • Daily Crunch: Wrapped In Sound Edition

    Daily Crunch: Wrapped In Sound Edition

    Posted on December 5, 2009 | No Comments
    Here are some interesting stories from yesterday: “A Parallel Image”: a novel way of transmitting a video signal Review: Gunnar ‘MLG Legend’ Glasses Review: The GBoard keyboard for GMail

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  • D’Egg: Egg-shaped speakers for $3,580

    D’Egg: Egg-shaped speakers for $3,580

    Posted on December 4, 2009 | No Comments
    Here's the right thing for all audio freaks out there who happen to be ready to shell out a lot of cash for a very unique product: Japan-based tech company BifrösTech (what a name) is selling egg-shaped speakers [JP] that are priced at $3,580 for a pair. The so-called D'Egg TGA-2R1 is sized at 140×140×235mm and weighs 2.6kg (including the stand that's included in the price).

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  • CrunchDeals: 28-inch monitor for $250

    CrunchDeals: 28-inch monitor for $250

    Posted on December 1, 2009 | No Comments
    Costco has a pretty stellar deal on a big 28-inch monitor at just $249.99 with free shipping. That price is good until January 4, 2010 too, so start saving up if you haven't already.

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  • Samsung to unveil Bada on December 8th in London

    Samsung to unveil Bada on December 8th in London

    Posted on November 27, 2009 | No Comments
    I’m still a big bag of mixed reactions when it comes to Samsung’s new mobile OS, Bada. On one hand, Samsung has always proven themselves to be pretty bad at the software side of things (Need proof? See the hot mess that is the Samsung Behold II). On the other, that’s nothing that a bit [...]

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