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64 Speakers Aim to Make Dolby Atmos The Most Realistic/Terrifying Surround Sound
Dolby Atmos Dolby Dolby Laboratories announced a new audio system this week, called Dolby Atmos, that the company calls "an entirely new viewing experience for theatergoers." It's kind of a...
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Jawbone Big Jambox Review: Triple the Size, Triple the Sound
Jawbone Big Jambox and Little Buddy Dan Bracaglia Last year, we declared the Jambox by Jawbone the "best, tiniest wireless speaker" with good reason. The six-inch brick produces an unreal amount of...
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The Goods: May 2012's Hottest Gadgets
Physical Apps TheO Ball Courtesy Physical Apps View Photo GalleryThis month's roundup of The Goods includes a bowling ball for your smartphone, a reshapeable webcam, a tennis racket designed for...
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How 4K Resolution Will Bring Movie-Theater Quality Into the Living Room
The Bigger Picture Quick stats: A DVD has about 345,600 pixels per frame. Blu-ray? 2.1 million. 4K? A whopping 8.8 million. Alison Seiffer Since the first high-definition televisions came out in 1998,...
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Review: A Serious Speaker, Amp, and DAC in a 2.5-Inch Cube
NuForce Cube NuForce Our buddies over at Sound+Vision just posted a review of a gadget we've been excited about: the NuForce Cube, an absolutely tiny (2.5 inches!) cube of audio power. They seem to...
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Pop Review: V-Moda's VAMP Gives Your iPhone Audio Superpowers
V-Moda VAMP Dan Nosowitz Putting the V-Moda VAMP on your iPhone is like watching it change into its superhero audio costume. It's outrageously expensive, but there's also nothing quite like it.What is...
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Five Reasons Why I'm Excited About Google's Nexus Q
Google Nexus Q Google Google (probably accidentally) leaked some details of the Nexus Q before today's I/O event even started. It's a streaming...I almost said box, but it's actually more like an orb....
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Parrot ZiK Review: Pretty Much the Fanciest Headphones You Can Buy
ZIK Parrot Sam Kaplan It's pretty easy to understand why the ZiK headphones turned heads when Parrot debuted them early this year. Striking design (courtesy of Philippe Starck) aside, the cans pack...
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Kyocera Tissue-Conduction Audio
The Cellphone That's Audible Anywhere Courtesy Kyocera Conventional cellphone speakers are easily drowned out in loud rooms. Kyocera has developed an alternative: a system that passes sound waves...
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To Pinpoint Audio Evidence, UK Police Record 7 Years Of Background Noise
Audio Recording Forensic Informatics Biometric Repository Metropolitan police in London have been recording the hum of the nation's electrical grid for the last seven years, the BBC reports. And not...
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Raid Your Kitchen To Build This Potato Chip Speaker
Potato Chip Speaker Courtesy William Gurstelle In 1921, two scientists made the first modern loudspeaker out of magnets, wire, and paper. Now manufacturers use synthetic fibers and even ferrofluid....
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Raytheon Wants To Give Military Pilots Superhuman Hearing
Sound Wave wikimedia commons Directional sound is awesome. Long a feature of cinema and state-of-the-art home entertainment systems, directional sound uses several focused speakers to create sound...
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The BBC's New Radio Can Alter Broadcasts Based On Who's Listening
Upgrade Radio AlfvanBeem via Wikimedia CommonsBBC's Future Media North Lab has created a responsive radio that's capable of changing the broadcast you hear based on your location, your proximity to...
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That Norah Jones Song Playing In Starbucks Could Trigger Malware On Your Phone
Hack With Light via UABResearchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have discovered a new, subtle way for evildoers to take control of your smartphone: through ambient sound and light....
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Why Can't Firefighters Hear Alarms In A Burning Building?
A Cool Firefighter Wikimedia Commons Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin are trying to answer an odd puzzle: why can't firefighters hear the super-loud emergency alarms they carry with...
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Putting the V-Moda VAMP on your iPhone is like watching it change into its superhero audio costume. It's outrageously expensive, but there's also nothing quite like it.
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It's pretty easy to understand why the ZiK headphones turned heads when Parrot debuted them early this year. Striking design (courtesy of Philippe Starck) aside, the cans pack all the buzzwords you...
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Metropolitan police in London have been recording the hum of the nation's electrical grid for the last seven years, the BBC reports. And not just for fun: fluctuations in…
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In 1921, two scientists made the first modern loudspeaker out of magnets, wire, and paper. Now manufacturers use synthetic fibers and even ferrofluid. Why stop there? Your…
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