Most movie tie-in speakers are a logo slapped on a generic plastic box, rushed out while the film’s still in theaters. Klipsch went the other way with its Klipsch x The Odyssey Limited Edition. The company built the whole design around one prop, the sword of Odysseus, and capped the run at 2,500 units worldwide. […]
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LG just handed the karaoke crowd a real reason to pay attention. On July 3, the company introduced the xboom Stage 501, a portable party speaker tuned by will.i.am that can pull the vocals out of almost any track on the fly. There are no karaoke files to download, no subscription to keep active, and
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Cheap Bluetooth speakers used to mean tinny highs, no bass, and a battery that quit before the afternoon did. That is not the tradeoff anymore. The budget end of the market got quietly competitive, and the best speakers under $30 now bring genuine low end, IPX waterproofing, and 20 plus hours of playback for the
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Most portable Bluetooth speakers quietly gave up on real stereo years ago. They drop one driver into a can, lean on processing to fake the width, and call it done. Andover Audio, a Boston hi-fi brand better known for turntable systems, just made the opposite bet with the FreePlay, its first portable speaker. It’s a
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Got a phone, a laptop, maybe a tablet. What you don’t have, yet, is a speaker that goes where those go. A Bluetooth speaker follows you from the kitchen counter to the campsite, from a hotel shower to a backyard grill. The trick is picking the right size, the right sound signature, and the right
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Here’s the thing about a great block party: the food, the music, and the lights all run on power, and the second something dies, the energy dies with it. A high-output setup keeps the speakers loud, the drinks frozen, and the grill hot long after the sun goes down. These seven gadgets are built to
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The best Prime Day deals usually don’t show up on Day 1. They show up on Day 3, when the flagship banners have sold through and the picks left standing are the ones that earned their spot on price, not placement. We’ve been tracking Prime Day 2026 all week across the Day 1 deals, cameras,
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The fireworks aren’t the hard part of July 4th weekend. It’s the logistics: dragging a loaded cooler across soft sand, keeping a phone alive at the lake, and finding music that survives a splash. Prime Day runs June 23 to 26 this year, so the gear that fixes those problems is cheaper right now than
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Prime Day’s deepest audio discounts hide the same truth every year. Half of the flagship “deals” are last-gen overstock the brand needs off the books, and the budget picks that actually survive your first month are the ones no marketing team is pushing. The headphones still in your bag in October aren’t always the ones
The Beosystem 3000c has worn one finish since it launched. This week, Bang & Olufsen finally gave it a second. Price: $30,000 Where to Buy: Bang & Olufsen The new Dune Grey Edition pairs matte aluminum with dark walnut on the turntable and dark oak on both Beolab 8 speakers. It costs the same as
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Google just gave its smart speaker lineup the reset it’s needed for years. After a six-year gap, the new Google Home Speaker arrives June 25 with Gemini built in, a fresh 360-degree design, and a $99.99 price that undercuts much of the competition. It’s the clearest sign yet that Google wants its hardware to lead
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Amazon Prime Day 2026 officially runs June 23 to 26, but plenty of early deals are already live. For the kind of practical tech shopping that actually matters for a household, Prime Day and Black Friday are the two moments a year worth planning around. If you’re hunting for a gadget upgrade and you don’t
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Most people shopping for a wireless speaker assume the good ones come with a catch. Pick a brand, then live inside its app forever. That trade has felt normal for so long that almost nobody questions it anymore, and one new speaker is betting you’re tired of it. Price: $299 Where to Buy: Amazon The
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ASUS has launched the Adol PO102 portable Bluetooth speaker in China, and the spec sheet reads like a JBL Go 5 challenger built by someone who checked the price twice. It ships with Bluetooth 6.0, an IP67 dust and water rating, a 2,600 mAh battery rated for 10 hours at 50% volume, and a carrying
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Graduation is a transition gift moment. Most Class of 2026 grads are about to swap a dorm for a first apartment, a campus shuttle for an actual commute, or a high school routine for a college schedule that punishes them for every dead battery and lost charger. A good grad gift under $100 isn’t a
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Toy Story 5 lands in theaters June 19, 2026, with the most Gadgeteer-adjacent pitch Pixar has ever made: Toy Meets Tech. Bonnie unwraps a new tablet called Lilypad (voiced by Greta Lee, scored by Randy Newman), Lilypad decides she knows what’s best for the kid, and Woody, Buzz, and Jessie spend the back half defending
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If you’ve been waiting for a new Google smart speaker, congratulations: you have outlasted a pandemic, four generations of AirPods, and a complete reinvention of Google’s AI strategy. The last time Google launched a standalone smart speaker, the Nest Audio in September 2020, Gemini didn’t exist yet, and AI assistants were still mostly novelties. Nearly
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The Xiaomi Desktop Speaker Pro Set has just landed on UK desks at £79.99 ($107), and on paper it looks like one of the more interesting sub-£100 PC sound systems of 2026. It’s a two-piece kit: a tilted main soundbar plus a wireless subwoofer, with RGB lighting baked into both, five EQ modes, and three
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Every year, our “must-have” lists fill up with the obvious headliners: the new iPhone, another foldable, a flagship pair of earbuds. The launches are loud, the unboxings rack up millions of views, and three months later most of us go right back to using the same handful of tools we already trusted. The gadgets that
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Memorial Day weekend is here, and the speaker you bought three summers ago probably won’t make it through another season. IP67 is now standard at the $50-and-up tier, newer Bluetooth speakers hold connections past 100 feet outdoors (premium picks like the Bose Flex still cap around 30 feet), and the under-$100 tier finally sounds good
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