Connectivity and interoperability are all the rage at CES, with everyone making their new products interact and share broad levels of capabilities with the latest and greatest smartphones. Alpine announced two new products: the budget priced CDE-HD148BT and the higher-end INE-W927HD. Here are some basics: The first announcement is for the CDE-HD148BT, which is a [...]
Tag Archives: Audio Visual Gear
Hisense Announces Several New televisions and Concept Technologies
When I was a kid, there weren’t a lot of electronics stores. Heck, electronics as an industry was really in its infancy. So, the only place to see gear that we would consider “tech” nowadays was at department stores. And, whenever my mom or dad dragged me to a Sears, I wanted to go to [...]
Pioneer Announces Enhanced iPhone 5 Compatibility Kits for AppRadio Mode Products, Smartphone Connectivity for All
The release of the iPhone 5 and Lightning connector has sent manufacturers scrambling to provide updated compatibility with the popular phone and their devices. Pioneer is the latest entry, with new compatibility kits to help the iPhone 5 work with 13 different in-dash products. Here are some details: Digital AV Solution The CD-IH202 connectivity kit [...]
Sony Electronics Announces New TVs, Digital Imaging, Personal Audio and Home Theatre Products
Many of the companies at CES have one or two big products that they are announcing and showing off. Even a large company – look at Apple, for example — tends to only announce a few new products at one time. But Sony is a ginormous Japanese zaibatsu, and they want you to know about all [...]
iLuv Announces New Bluetooth Speaker Lineup at CES
Bluetooth technology has become more than just a way to use an earpiece for a cell phone. Audio played through Bluetooth speakers from mobile devices has become my go to listening choice. While most speakers will not sound like a dedicated hi-fi speaker system, the sound quality of these wireless speakers has definitely improved as [...]
Sennheiser launches sleek MOMENTUM Black headphones
I admit that I’m a sucker for audio equipment. I have been since I was a kid, honestly; my dad bought an amplifier kit, and assembled the durn thing himself. I was totally fascinated by all the glowing vacuum tubes and knobs and dials and what-not. And it only got worse when I moved in [...]
Rock On! Native Union “Gets a Grip” on CES with New Portable Speaker and iPad Cases
It may not seem so when you’re wandering around the floor at CES (or reading our posts about same), but it’s really not all multi-hundred (or thousand!) dollar gadgets on display. Nope, folks just looking for some good gear for their iPad, or a decent new Bluetooth speaker that won’t break the bank, are also [...]
DISH Introduces Hopper with Sling and Hopper Transfers
Oh CES, you bring us so much tasty tech goodness! Not just new gadgets, but new and improved ways in which existing gadgets and software can work together. For example, if you remember the ol’ Slingbox concept, you might have wondered to yourself, “Self, in what way could this be improved, maybe with some cleaner [...]
The Monster Products Press Conference
This morning Monster welcomed us with a list of speakers and special guests that ran the gamut of popular sports stars to other easily recognizable names. I heard a guy joke behind me, in the line as we waited to enter, that it seemed more like an awards show than a press conference. Perhaps… Noel [...]
Griffin Expands Their Audio Lineup at CES
It is always exciting to see what new gear is on the horizon during CES. One of my favorite categories is audio accessories. Whether it is new ways to create audio and music or new ways to consume it, there is always something fun and interesting being released. Griffin always has a fresh lineup of [...]
Invoxia’s All-in-one Dock Now Compatible with All Devices
In case you thought I was exaggerating with my other post on power tech being a hot item this year (Okay yes, I admit that I have a well-deserved reputation for exaggeration . . .), here’s another one by Invoxia. In a smart move (in my opinion), they have made their docking station compatible with [...]
Drift Innovation Introduces New Shoulder Mount with Harness
Due to an inflamed nerve and subsequent surgery following some skeet shooting with my Pop a decade ago, I can’t do anything remotely “extreme”. No skiing, skateboarding, snowboarding, or what have you. And even when I was skiing a lot, I was not the level of skill where I might want to capture my ineptitude [...]
StarTech.com’s Wireless HD Extender Kit enables connections up to 100ft
In a world where you can stream stuff from a cloud server pretty much anywhere, and where you have an Apple TV unit or some other box that converts the incoming bits and sends ‘em to your TV, the big thing is bandwidth and range, right? The last thing you want, when you’re used to [...]
QP Optoelectronics to Launch CloudView™ – World’s First DLP® Ultra Short Throw Pico Projector – at CES
According to legend, Abraham Lincoln did his school lessons on the back of a shovel using a lump of coal to write. If you read books written before, say, 1930, you’ll see mention of “slates”, which (I think) were basically a piece of a chalkboard that was held in hand while lessons were etched onto [...]
Building a Budget-Friendly Home Theater PC
Hello again, friends and tech-lovers. Today we are going to talk about building a Home Theater PC or HTPC for short. More importantly, building a budget-friendly HTPC. In one of my previous posts, I talked about the Ceton inifiniTV 4 tuner, a great way to turn your PC into a set-top box for your cable [...]
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