Audio, video or TV product related news, reviews and articles.
VUZIX iWear (reviewed by Julie in 2008) is designed to give you a large-screen video experience without all the equipment. Or real estate. This is an interesting concept to me not just because it is cool, but because my eye sight has deteriorated over the past 50 or so years and it’s getting harder to […]
In today’s plug-and-play, wireless, streaming, hi-definition world, it’s not uncommon to find products geared towards the fusion of technology and media. TVs are now equipped with integrated wireless services, and, as Jay mentioned earlier this week, even the home telephone is receiving the tech-treatment. Micca has decided to enter the digital media fray with their
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MacBook owners are familiar with MagSafe, the breakaway magnetic plug design that prevents damage if the power cable is yanked away from the laptop. Replug can help do something similar for 3.5mm headphone jacks. It features a flexible elbow and a non-magnetic breakaway plug tip that can protect your device from undue stress. Available in
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Ears. Everybody has them, and everybody’s are different. So different, in fact, that it has been suggested that our ears might be suitable as a basis for biometric identification. So if our ears are as unique as our fingerprints, why is it that our earbuds are not? Yurtopia is a company that was started in
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Your Saturday freebie is WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe from Digiarty Software. Normally sold for $49.95, WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe is the first video converter that supports converting multitrack HD Videos such as BDAV, M2TS, MKV, AVCHD, HDTV, MPEG-TS video movies to AVI, MP4, H.264, MPEG, WMV, FLV, etc. It enables users to choose
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A couple of years ago, I moved from a desktop computer to a laptop. I love everything about my laptop – except for its speakers. Those things must be smaller than my thumbnail, and they sound muted and muddy. They also aren’t capable of producing any volume, even when I peg the volume level at
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It seems like there’s a new media center/player introduced every week, so there must be some interest out there. I had the opportunity to try out the Cirago CMC2000 TV Platinum unit, one of the latest offerings from this Company. If you want to record video, stream music and photos or listen to Internet radio, this could be
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Ah tax-refund time, when a geek girl’s fancy turns to thoughts of LCD HDTVs… Seriously, my husband and I are looking to replace our ancient (in electronics years) floor-model rear-projection TV with an LCD TV. We have to also have a new TV stand, so I’ve been looking at a lot of web sites to
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Sony have just announced details on their new BDP-S470 and BDP-S570 Blu-ray players – the company’s first commercially available 3D players. The entry-level BDP-S470 will be upgradeable to 3D Blu-ray via a software update, however the BDP-S570 will come 3D-ready, straight out of the box. All you need to do is connect either up to a 3D TV and they’ll deliver full
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The Flashlight Hidden Camcorder with Nightvision from Brickhouse Security allows you to capture snapshots and video (with audio) up to 8 feet away. It can capture images at 1600 x 1200 resolution and video at 640 x 480 @ 30 FPS. Save content on the included 2 GB Micro SD card that can hold over
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I am a TV junkie and whenever I accidentally miss one of my favorite shows, I use various methods to download the video file so I can watch it. I don’t watch the shows on my iMac or iPhone though. I stream them to my 65″ RPTV so I can watch them in my living
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Yurtopia, makers of Yurbuds—soft, rubber-tip earbud enhancers that slip over existing earbud-style headphones—has recently released the Size yur Ear! app for iPhone. It allows users to snap iPhone photos of their ears, submit the photos and order a set of earbud covers that are custom-sized for their ears using patent-pending yurScan™ technology. The earbud enhancers
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When I got my iPod touch, I was excited that I’d be able to watch videos on its “big” screen. And I have a history of problems with finding comfortable ear buds, so I was happy that the touch had a built-in speaker so I could listen to music without using ear buds or external
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Philips have recently announced that their all new GoGear portable media player will be hitting the shops within the next couple of months. The all new Philips ‘Muse’ will come with all the features of the GoGear Connect, but will also have HDMI – complete with 720p video output, all packed into its sleek aluminum casing. There’s also a 3.2inch
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A plethora of portable sound projection devices are available in a multitude of shapes and sizes. Several have piqued my interest, but the Yubz MAGNUM is somewhat unique, mostly for its factor. Because it looks like, well…a log. Yep, just like the classic Ren & Stimpy commercial. So how does this particular portable speaker system
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I think there must be something unusual about the shape of my ears, because I have never been able to find a pair of ear buds that I can stand to wear for more than a couple of minutes. The ear buds that come with iPods sound okay, but they hurt my ears so much
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You can receive and record local HDTV broadcasts on your PC using the USB digital tuner from Hammacher Schlemmer. It comes with an antenna, and the ATSC tuner (the same as the ones used in full-sized HD televisions) supports up to 1920 X 1080 resolution. You can also receive and record FM stations. The included software
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I’m always futzing with the wires on my earphones and am always on the lookout to free me of that task. (I’m not into Bluetooth [shudder].) I bumbled onto this MiniWinder thang by Skylab Products (via SlipperyBrick) and thought “hmmm”. It apparently has a mechanism to auto-wind your earphone cables, though I can’t tell how
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Ahhhh, the 80’s….back when big hair, bell bottoms, disco, and soul-pounding boomboxes were all the rage. Thankfully most of the trends of the 1980’s have fallen to the passage of time. Over the past two decades since, how we listen to and travel with our music has certainly taken huge evolutionary steps. With the advent
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Your pets are now able get their groove on without the fear of hurting their fuzzy little ears. Pet Acoustics announces the My Pet Speaker, a sound system designed to support the special hearing sensitivities of dogs, cats and horses. Our pets can hear frequencies that are much higher and lower than what our own
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