Some manufacturers of consumer-grade speaker systems are scrambling to make their products compatible with Apple's wireless features.
So you're one of the 49 million Americans who own a flat-panel TV. Great! But unless the sound measures up to the visuals, you're only halfway there.
The Ultrasone HFI-2200 headphones have a dark brown outer casing, while the earpads are colored with a golden-brown, velvet-covered cushion. At the top of the headband is another cushion that matches the same color combination.
Computer maker Lenovo has announced a whole new brand of consumer-oriented laptops and desktops. Called IdeaPad and IdeaCentre, the lines are intended to complement the company's flagship business-oriented ThinkPad and ThinkCentre lines.
If you're one of those people who don't want to "live with wires and boxes all over my living room," Yamaha's Digital Sound Projector series of single-speaker surround systems may be exactly what you're looking for.
Home-theater-in-a-box systems (HTIBs) provide a turnkey surround sound solution on the cheap. But with a few exceptions--usually large, bulky component-based systems--they're generally not known for their flexibility or wealth of features.
Toshiba's Qosmio line is known for high-end home theater features and high prices, and like the flagship 17-inch Qosmio G45, the 15-inch Qosmio F45-AV412 offers a wealth of multimedia extras, from an HD DVD drive (although not the recordable HD DVD drive found in the G45) to a subwoofer to media control jog wheels.
In the 1970s, Cerwin-Vega was a big name in the speaker business, but it fell off the radar a while back.
Sony's 2007 Bravia home theater in a box (HTIB) systems represent something of a departure from the company's popular Dream systems.
Talk about smart cars: These new auto electronics, shown at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, make for one sweet ride.
Money Magazine: Sound Checkupdated: Sat Jul 01 2006 00:01:00
Some iPod users are leading a double life. When they're on the go they have their portable player by their side, but at home they're still dealing with a collection of loose CDs. If only they knew ...
Apple's cavernous booth at San Francisco's Macworld Expo contains snazzy new computers, software galore -- but no iPods.
Yeah, yeah, I wish all that stuff magically appeared in my house too. But if money were no object, my dream house (all 30,000 square feet of it) would be a full-on geek paradise: video and audio a...
Business 2.0: Gizmosupdated: Sun Jun 01 2003 00:01:00
Body of Light
T-MOBILE COLOR SIDEKICK Danger Inc. and T-Mobile have released a greatly improved, color version of their hip PDA-wireless-phone-camera-game-mail-and-messaging device (expected to be around $300, p...
Even midlevel computers these days are being pitched as multimedia machines capable of playing audio CDs, MP3 music files, videogames, Internet radio stations, and DVD movies. To keep costs down, h...
Personal computers are displacing books as the main repositories of knowledge on college campuses. But you need to do some homework. Check with the admissions department to find out if the school r...
Money Magazine: Aprilupdated: Mon Apr 01 2002 00:01:00
Sound upgrade Even as the war over digital music rages, Americans download. In fact, according to research firm Ipsos-Reid, by February of this year nearly 25% of Americans over the age of 12--abou...
Fortune: Plastic Fantasticupdated: Mon Oct 29 2001 00:01:00
Made of genuine wood-grain plastic that's supposed to resemble rosewood, Harman Kardon's new Champagne Special Edition three-piece computer speaker set is designed for PC-using executives who want ...
Combat veterans of the two great format wars of the late 20th century, Betamax vs. VHS and Macintosh vs. Windows, may still be suffering from post-traumatic technology stress syndrome. Brace yourse...
SOUND CHOICE Watching a movie on a PC can be unsatisfying: Tiny speakers and a small monitor isn't the way DVDs were meant to be seen. But Dell's done something about it: the THX-Certified Dimensio...
When it comes to computers and peripherals, you continue to get more for your money. More speed, more power, more style, more choice. To help you sort through the at times overwhelming options, we'...
Digital-video-disk players have finally hit critical mass. Once the kind of cool but expensive toy that only serious cinemaphiles would consider buying, DVD players, as they're commonly known, have...
Walk down the halls of a college dorm, and you'll hear music at all hours. Enter a room, and you'll probably find that the noise isn't coming from a stereo--but from the occupant's computer. The bi...
Driving a new Pentium III computer is like slipping behind the wheel of a souped-up Porsche. It's great to see the world whiz by, but it's questionable whether you need all this horsepower just to ...
You can always tell when a good magician has bamboozled his audience--each spectator turns to his neighbor and says, "How'd he do that?"
If you bought a PC in the past 18 months, you may have noticed a couple of mysterious little slots on the back. The slots tap into a set of circuits inside your PC called the universal serial bus, ...
Does this sound familiar? You saw a movie in a theater and loved it, so now that it's out on video, you've invited friends over to see it in your living room. Everyone gets comfortable, you dim the...
IT'S AN ORDINARY Sunday night, and you've rented Jurassic Park again to keep the kids entertained while you pay bills. As the opening credits roll on your large-screen TV, quiet jungle sounds fill ...
Close your eyes and remember your last picture show: the screen stretches mesmerizingly wide, the sound effects are shiveringly real, and you sit back and sink your toes . . . right into the gummy ...
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