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Music just isn’t the same without a host of flashing colors to go with it, right? iHome , at least, seems to think so. Its first Glowtunes speaker tower, the new iP76, comes packed with LEDs in seven different hues that can fade, pulse or strobe as your playlist requires
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iHome iP76 LED color-changing speaker indulges your love for pretty colors
Everyone’s favorite microcontroller has been a boon among hobbyists and advanced amateurs, but it’s also found a home among the brilliant projects at MIT’s Media Lab , including a groovy instrument called DrumTop.
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MIT gets musical with Arduino-powered DrumTop, uses household objects as a source of sound
I’m really tired of cords and wires. I’m also tired of gadgets that purport to be wireless, but then turn out to not truly be. But I think the Big Blue Studio Wireless Bluetooth Speaker is actually wireless and can actually go anywhere.
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Big Blue™ Studio Wireless Bluetooth Speaker
Logitech has just rolled out yet another audio-centric device today – by announcing the Logitech UE Air Speaker which will be compatible with Apple’s AirPlay standard. Basically, this means one is able to stream uncompressed music from iTunes or an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch that is hooked up to your home’s Wi-Fi network to a Logitech UE speaker
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Logitech UE Air Speaker plays nice with AirPlay
Are you a fitness freak? If you had answered in the affirmative and actually hit the gym just about every day, then you might want to consider swimming as well.
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Water Rocker Wireless Speaker
Most stuff, when miniaturized, tend to look extremely cute – which is why you have tons of toy breed dogs out there, not to mention everyone going bananas when they first watched “Honey, I Shrunk The Kids” all those decades ago. Well, in the 21st century, technological advancements have certainly made it very possible to churn out its fair share of miniaturized devices that are cute as a button – case in point, the £19.99 Music Monsters that comes in a choice of the Black Ninja, Blue Monster, Hellboy or Smiley Panda.
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Music Monsters make pipe-in music more fun
We’re chillin’ out at Griffin’s booth at CES as it shows off its slate of products for early 2012. The Griffin Twenty is a white brick you can dock with an Airport Express to create a wireless amp. Add a pair of speakers and you’ll find yourself with a natty wireless HiFi.
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Griffin Twenty hands-on (video)
Remember that Rukus solar-powered Bluetooth sound system we just told you about a few minutes ago ? Well, we just got a little bit of hands-on time with the thing. The speaker set was plugged in, of course — there’s not a heck of a lot of natural lighting in the Venetian hotel, here in Vegas.
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Rukus solar-powered Bluetooth sound system hands-on
What’s got Bluetooth, big solar panels and an e-ink display? Not a heck of a lot of gadgets prior to today’s introduction of the Rukus portable sound system from Eton .
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Rukus solar-powered Bluetooth sound system thinks you should rock more in direct sunlight
While 3D video is already running rampant throughout the latest HDTVs, another new bullet point feature is 3D sound, and naturally LG’s newest home theater systems have it. LG will have four new home theater systems on display this week at CES, but the first one it’s showing off is the BH9420PW, which uses “3D Sound Zooming” to match the positioning of sounds with 3D video being displayed on one of LG’s TVs
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LG home theater system adds vertical speakers for 9.1 surround sound
Virgin Mobile’s feature phone arm just added a third tier, delivering unlimited talk and texting, along with 50 megs of web access for $40 per month. This offering joins Sprint’s other payLo budget offerings, including an entry-level option that includes 400 minutes of talk time for $20 per month, and a $30 monthly plan that delivers 1,500 minutes, 1,500 texts and 30MB of data
(Credit: Blizzard Entertainment) One week after its release, Diablo III remains the only PC game anyone is talking about .
Nuance, of Dragon TV fame announced today that it was licensing Rovi’s (formerly known as Macrovision ) metadata for its talky-TV platform .
If you’re tired of bananaphones that just make calls, the crew at Gadget Gangster now has a homebrew project to use them for musical escapades. A custom-coded (and appropriately named) Adafruit Propeller board turns a bunch of bananas into the Bananaphone TouchSynth, a synthesizer using the same capacitive touch principles that let a MaKey MaKey turn anything into a controller
Bicom, makers of the Corian -hewn playGo USB will unveil a new AP1 AirPlay device, but only you if help fund it.
Matilda Ceesay, a Cornell fiber science and apparel design major from Gambia, adjusts the anti-malarial garment on model Sandy Mattei. Who knew mosquito nets could be so fashionable?
Plants , like pets, need to be constantly cared for, but not everyone’s blessed with the requisite green thumb. So, for those of you imbued with what we’ll call the bad, brown touch, Swiss outfit Koubachi’s got a cloud-based solution to sidestep those negligent ways and keep your window garden thriving. Dubbed the WiFi Plant Sensor, this wireless peripheral nestles into the soil of any potted flora or fauna, sending relevant vitality data off to the company’s servers where it’s then analyzed and beamed back to your handset (via iPhone app) or online account with care instructions in tow
The HTC 4G LTE will finally land in Sprint customers’ hands this week.
Pentax didn’t wait long after a rather conspicuous leak to make the details official: welcome the K-30, the company’s spiritual successor to the long-serving K-r . The camera makes its biggest numerical jump in sensor size, from 12.4 megapixels to 16, but you’re primarily shelling out for a much tougher body that’s both resistant to rain as well as to dust and temperature extremes; one of the cheapest cameras to do so, if you go by Pentax’s word. We’re slightly down on the light sensitivity being unchanged from three years ago at ISO 100 to 25,600, though you can now shoot video at a much higher 1080p at 30 frames per second — and that French catalog was wrong about a drop in burst speeds, which still top out at a healthy 6 fps.
