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The Yamaha NX-BO2 provides wireless streaming audio from any Bluetooth-enabled device. Utilizing the Enhanced Data Rate standard, it provides the fastest Bluetooth 2.0 connection available. Powered by either A/C adapter or 4 AA batteries, we doubt it will rock your socks off, but Yamaha claims their 2x5W amplifications sounds pretty good. We’ll support the product…
Amazon will probably launch its DRM-free music store in the next few weeks, according to sources in the New York Post, joining Wal-Mart and others in posing the first real threat to the iTunes Music hegemony. As Ars and others have reported, Amazon honcho Jeff Bezos adopted an MP3-only strategy so that the music Amazon…
They said it couldn’t be done… and they were totally freaking right. EarthLink is pulling the plug on its San Francisco Wi-Fi build-out, says the AP, while developers in Chicago and Houston are having similar crises of faith. Bizarrely, MuniWireless.com reports that currently 455 cities and counties are interested in building Wi-Fi projects, up from…
Screw THX, we’re rocking hi-fi baby! No, we were not sucked into a German time warp depositing us into IFA 1975. Yamaha is releasing a new high end stereo amplifier. The slick, retro aluminum front hides beefy “floating balanced” circuitry that separates and balances the path of the two audio channels for optimum signal clarity,…
At yesterday’s Blu-ray keynote, the BDA promised the press that Hitachi would be making a major Blu-ray announcement today. It got a few of us excited. After all, this is the company that is releasing the world’s first Blu-ray camcorder—whatever this device could be, it would be a potential milestone. https://gizmodo.com/blu-ray-conference-kicking-ass-putting-people-to-sle-295150 The announcement? It WAS…
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Like you, I suffer from jealousy of Jamie and Adam’s high-speed cams, so I’m all jazzed that a new Casio Exilim can pull off 300fps at VGA quality thanks to a new high-speed CMOS. As the translated press release puts it, “the high speed animated picture photographing function…catches the movement discernibly.” You can say that…
Jesus, Ad and I will be bringing you the best hungover coverage we can from the floor of IFA in Berlin today and through the weekend (and a bit after). So other than pictures of me eating large sausages, what else would you like to see during our IFA coverage? Is there some gadget you’ve…
There are plenty of media streamers out there with a little DivX logo, but the D-Link DSM-330 HD Media Player is the first one that’s branded DivX Connected. It looks like DivX got tired of just licensing its name, and realized that not enough was being done with its format. The DivX Connected brand launching…
Close your eyes, think “Crayon” and the first thing that occurs to you isn’t the bright yellow box but the smell: part puke n’ earwax, part unbridled creativity. Now you can wear that essence, in the form of Demeter’s Crayon Cologne. At $19 an ounce, you better hope the message you’re giving off is Raw…
Humans aren’t perfect, therefore human waiting staff aren’t perfect—as you’ll know if you’ve ever had hot soup spilled on you, or the wrong meal brought out. To err is human, after all. However, diners in Nuremberg, Germany, won’t have to put up with imperfection anymore because a new restaurant there is staffed entirely by robots.…
The Tenori-On is a musical sequencer from Yamaha—basically a grid of LED-lit rubber buttons that lets you create musical loops and melodies. It may look like a prop from a 1970s sci-fi series, but it’s actually a really intuitive and capable instrument that looks simply amazing. Have a look at it in action after the…
Most cell phones now come with media playback features, but designers still seem to think that a wide range of proprietary headphone connections makes more sense than using a standard 3.5mm jack. This colorful invention gets around this problem, converting various manufacturers’ connections to a standard headphone socket. This solution to a problem-that-shouldn’t-exist is available…
Yesterday while winding our way through the show floor (which was still very much under construction), we stopped to appreciate one of the more impressive booths we’ve seen: Toshiba’s. We really dig the curved screens and tasteful graphics. They’ve managed to catch your eye without becoming Vegas gaudy. More pics after the jump.
NBC Universal is ending its iTunes support, meaning no more “Heroes,” “The Office” or “To Catch a Predator” in the iTunes store after December, when the current contract expires. What makes the rift somewhat serious for Apple is that NBC is iTunes’ biggest video supplier, pulling in about 40 percent of downloads. On top of…
Looking vaguely like an alien life-form from Lost in Space, the “Rocking Wheel Chair” is a concept rocking chair created by designer Mathias Koehler. With spindly alien legs and an ever-important overhead light, the rocking chair manages to be simultaneously hip and terrifyingly ugly — which is ironically what I look for in a woman.…
OK, Ford, to me and many of you, is not the future. But Jalopnik got a tour of the voice command system’s final release and it’s pretty damn cool. Apparently, It can play MP3s off a thumbdrive, and search for artists by voice command. Nuts! And you can receive and send preset text messages by…
Knives are so passé—it’s time for us to be able to make steak with a lightsaber. The guys over at Instructables have put together a tutorial on how to cut and make a delicious steak with a laser—or, more specifically, how to cut the words “PETA” out of a delicious steak with a laser and…
The Gear Juice gadget charger is the latest in a trend for electronics — portable chargers that are rechargeable themselves. Using USB or any of the six supplied adapters, you can connect around 100 devices (cellphones, iPods, etc…) to Gear Juice and it will transfer power from its own Lithium Polymer battery into your gadgets.…
Flickr user ninecormorants has a great collection of amateur photos from the 1964/65 New York World’s Fair. See also: Transportation Exhibits at the New York World’s Fair (1964) To The Fair! (1965)
