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The $400 B&W Zeppelin Mini also has a USB port to connect directly to your Mac or PC. [B&W via TechDigest]

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<![CDATA[This Man Is Extremely Dedicated to Live Network Television]]> This intriguing dude is watching a black-and-white TV, with a DTV converter box, in a Starbucks. Hey, it's not his fault Hulu doesn't carry Jeopardy!, right? [Kansas City Blog via Boing Boing Gadgets]

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<![CDATA[Meet Ken, The Amazing Dancing Audiophile]]> There are the snobby, deluded audiophiles who troll internet forums all day arguing about the merits of acoustic cryocoolers and adaptive spectral perceptual entropy coding, and then there's Ken.

Call his rig a ripoff if you want (his speakers, Bowers & Wilkins 802Ds, probably set him back over $15,000), but don't impugn his enthusiasm. For these ten decreasingly-appareled minutes, Ken the Audiophile is the happiest man in the entire world, and he only has B&W, Keith Richards and his predatory loan officer beer to thank for it. —Thanks, Jonathan

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<![CDATA[Study Finds the Color of Dreams Dependent On the Color of Your Childhood TV]]> Further evidence that media's placating massage fingers mine even the deepest jelly regions of our brains, a new study has claimed to prove the long-thought notion that the type of TV and film exposure during youth drastically affects the color of dreams, even much later into life. In the study, only 4.4 percent of those who grew up with color TV reported dreaming in B&W, but those who were raised on Howdy Doody and other monochrome entertainments had colorless dreams nearly 25 percent of the time.

Respondents to the survey kept a dream diary, which was found to match their general conception of the types of dreams had closely. And in an intersesting and somewhat depressing side note, most research shows that before the dawn of TV and films, most dreams were in color.

I distinctly remember asking my dad when I was young if the world was all in black and white when he was a kid—black and white and full of jerky sped-up motion and with everyone wearing suits and hats. The medium is the message, even in dreams. [Telegraph, image: Robert Frank, the Americans]

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<![CDATA[B&W Liberty Is First 8-Channel Wireless System]]> The Bowers and Wilkins Liberty claims to be the world's first wireless entertainment system to offer 8 channels of audio—full 5.1 and an extra 2 channels for wherever the hell you want. But even more promising, maybe, is that while streaming your CD or DVD audio to its bundled speakers the Liberty will automatically adjust to wireless interference, tweaking its transmission on the fly for less delay and greater clarity. Given that wireless audio is far from perfected, B&W's approach could be more successful than that of others. Check it out this fall for an unnamed price. [audioholics via audiojunkies]

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<![CDATA[B&W Tube Clock Gets You Laid]]> Did you ever want to be Marty McFly so you could get your hands on the flux capacitor, not for time travel, but instead so you could use it as décor for your abode? Well friends rejoice, B&W has released the Tube Clock. The set up consists of six smoke domes encasing red LEDs, all mounted on a stainless steel and wood base. Although it is unlikely it will take you back to 1985, it will make you look like a stylised don that should be wearing an Armani suit.

The contrast between your geek factor and the clocks chic factor shall put ladies in an extremely confused state of mind. Hopefully, this 'confusion' will render them helpless to your otherwise pathetic advances. There you have it, not only will this clock tell you the time, right down to the second it will also get you laid. If the above is not reason enough to relieve you of your $200, I don't know what is. [Product Page via Technabob].

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<![CDATA[B&W Zeppelin iPod Dock Blasts The Real Zeppelin]]> High-end speaker producer Bowers & Wilkins (known on the street as B&W) is going all Hindenburg on your iPod dock. Named after its obvious inspiration, B&W's Zeppelin is a two-foot-long black ellipsoid with a bundle of goodies hidden inside, including a 5-inch subwoofer, four speakers and an amp that can pump out 100 watts of power. It'll also handle the classic iPod dock jobs like streaming pictures and videos to a TV. For $599, the least B&W can do is guarantee that it won't burst into flames and crash land in your living room. [Sci Fi Tech]

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<![CDATA[Sennheiser BW900 Bluetooth Headset Finally Available]]> We thought the BW900 Bluetooth headset from headphone company Sennheiser was available last year, but apparently it took another year for it to actually make it to maker. Reader Jonathan got one and unboxed it.

Jon says the unit has a 100 meter range (it's Class 1, Class 2 is only 10 meter) that can connect to multiple devices simultaneously. This means your desktop phone, your cellphone, and your PC can be toggled between. Lots of ports, and has "24 hour operation".

Sure, it's almost $300, but if you need a heavy duty Bluetooth headset this seems like the way to go.

Sennheiser Communications BW900 Unboxing [Schalliol]

Thanks Jonathan!

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<![CDATA[B&W XT Speakers]]> B&W must be real proud of itself, releasing these svelte-looking XT speakers that would look great pretty much anywhere. There's four models in the XT series and they each serve different purposes. The XT4 is a three-way speaker; the XT2 is a two-way speaker; the XTC is a two-way center channel speaker; and the PV1 is a subwoofer, which may or may not fit in your low-rider.

Each model comes with the high quality components that you might expect from Bowers & Wilkins. The XT4 has a Nautilus tweeter located on the top, which is supposed to provide "wider dispersion for a better image stability." The XT2 also has its tweeter up top, but is a little smaller than the XT4. Meanwhile, the XTC can be used vertically so as to function as front speakers and not just a center channel. Finally, the PV1—that's the one that looks like a bowling ball—performs as admirably as a subwoofer can be expected to. It produces 500 watts of "ICEpower amplfication" and can accept both speaker and line level inputs. The PV1 can be had in a number of different colors, including silver or gray, and the other three can be gotten in the silver you see here in the picture.

The XT4 costs about $3,129 per pair; the XT2 costs $1,287 per pair; the XTC is $1,011 and is sold singly; the PV1 is $1,749, also sold singly.

Product Page [Bowers & Wilkins UK via Tech Digest]

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