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Lightning Review: i2i Stream Wireless Music Sharing Device

The Gadget: Aerielle's i2i Stream allows users to share audio from any source between two or more i2i devices using a wireless 2.4 GHz frequency. Just plug in a set of headphones and listen to the music your friends are broadcasting on their i2i Streams (up to 7 audio sources). More »

3:40 PM on Tue Jul 8 2008
By Sean Fallon
1,851 views, 3 comments

Latest by BugDude10: @jeepingeek: You're tellin' me -- my GF's vibrator operates in 2.4 GHz, so every time she gets off, the cordless more »

speakers

Sony Sountina Glass Speaker Rocks You for $10,000

Sony's sci-fi looking 6-foot glass speaker is turning into an actual product: the Sountina NSA-PF1—designed for larger rooms and halls—will give you a 50Hz to 20kHz frequency response, analog and digital audio inputs, and a blue, amber or purple-lit 3-foot organic glass tweeter for just $10,000. [AV Watch]

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5:10 AM on Wed May 28 2008
By Kit Eaton
7,929 views, 28 comments

Latest by MagnoliaBoy: @se.blackheart: Dude, you can't smoke weed out of my $10,000 bong. Are you Kidding me?! Use Ole Stoney, more »

speakers

Submersible Speaker Looks Like Sci-Fi Prop, is Wireless, Illuminating

Looking like something Kubrick would've had lying around on the deck of his movie spacecraft, this speaker is designed to add some tunes to your poolside frolicking. Submersible down to 9 feet for up to 30 minutes, it's also weatherproof so can tolerate exposure to the elements. It connects wirelessly to a powered transmitter-dock with an audio-in for an MP3 player, has a range of 150 feet and around a six hour battery life. One transmitter can even support up to 10 speakers. Each speaker also has four ultra-bright LED lights: adding a little moody illumination to your nighttime skinny-dip, perhaps? Available now for $149.99 for base and a speaker, extra speakers are $99.99. [NeimanMarcus via 7Gadgets]

8:50 AM on Tue May 27 2008
By Kit Eaton
3,589 views, 19 comments

Latest by Curves: @zenpoet: Great movie, and having thought of that, I will walk around talking in my PeeWee Herman voice all day, more »

home entertainment

How to Disarm Violent Audio Explosions on Beefy Surround Systems

So, you dropped all of this money on a home theater system only to have it burst your eardrums, break your dishes and create a shockwave that can be felt 100 miles away whenever Bruce Willis blows up a helicopter with a police car. For some, this can be a good thing. After all, if you have a system with a dynamic range of sound you might as well get what you paid for. However, if you live in an apartment or quiet neighborhood you may want to check out a handy how-to guide on diffusing "big audio dynamite" (wasn't that a band?) put together by the guys at Sound & Vision. More »

4:40 PM on Thu May 15 2008
By Sean Fallon
8,007 views, 33 comments

Latest by N@tedog: @ripfire4: I did. What are you gonna do about it? more »

home theater

Homes With Hidden Home-Theater Tech Dazzle Us With Luxury, Expense

The folks over at Electronic House have been running a Homes of the Year feature, and they've turned up a bunch of luxury homes with amazing entertainment systems that are cunningly disguised in the design. The array includes an entire old-style velvet and starry-ceiling home theater with an entrance door concealed behind a mirror; a luxury bathroom with his-and-hers vanities with concealed mirror LCD TVs and a temperature-controlled wine cellar with glass walls and adjustable color lighting system. Check out a selection of photos of these luxury installations in the gallery. More »

11:45 AM on Thu May 1 2008
By Kit Eaton
13,920 views, 19 comments

Latest by wonkydonky: What is with the seemingly-Monstrous distance between the rows of seats? -Have they cloned Shaquille O'Neal 8 times??? And why do more »

radio

Radio to MP3 Recorder Looks Old-Style, Has Docking MP3 Player

While yesterday's radio-to-MP3 recorder reminded us of a modern Chumby, this one's style cues are more last decade. It's basically a digital-tuner radio, with FM, AM and short wave reception, but with a built-in, un-dockable portable MP3 player that can record to its own 256MB memory. More »

4:23 AM on Thu May 1 2008
By Kit Eaton
1,712 views, 7 comments

Latest by maven2k: The only thing that I can think of to do with this thing is to use the fm transmitter on more »

home entertainment

NEC Lui WiMax Media Streaming System Gets Release Date, Price

We alerted you to NEC's fancy media-streaming home server last year: it's an "on demand" system that'll send your media content to Lui devices around your home and beyond. NEC has just stumped up the release schedule and pricing in Japan, and "Life with Ubiquitous Integrated solutions" systems isn't cheap. The pocket sized player and laptop-like device are around $495 and $890, while the desktop PC will be $2,100. Topping it all off, the main home server costs a whopping $3,700. If you're in Japan and like the idea of accessing your audio and video remotely using dedicated devices, it's available from April 24th. We don't have timings on a US release. [AV Watch]

4:38 AM on Tue Apr 15 2008
By Kit Eaton
1,383 views, 5 comments

Latest by kevman90: @giyad: @Heartwork: My bad. more »

speakers

MartinLogan Spire Speakers— $8,500 of Electrostatic Sound

These new electrostatic speakers from MartinLogan have some fancy-sounding tech built in, and are hand built too. There's the ultra-rigid "AirFrame™" Curvilinear Line Source XStat audio transducer, and a selectable 35Hz equalization option— to better suit your room acoustics. The cabinets come in a variety of woods including maple, wenge, and rotary-cut bubinga. It's a shame I'll never get to hear what the sound quality is like, though: they are $8,500 a pair. For that you do get 200W of sound with apparently "flawless precision." And a pair of very good looking floor-standing speakers. Available soon. [MartinLogan via Ecoustics]

5:57 AM on Fri Apr 4 2008
By Kit Eaton
5,481 views, 36 comments

Latest by greggar73: I've been an audio enthusiast for 20 years and Martin Logans are the best speakers that I've heard so far. From more »

spooky

Earliest Audio Recording Resurrected, Scares the Genitals Off Us

Audio historian David Giovannoni and scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have discovered and brought back to life the first audio recording ever made, 17 years before Edison's patent. The ten-second snippet was made on a phonoautograph, a device that only recorded sounds but didn't play them back, so they had to do some voodoo to resurrect it and play it back. And after you hear it, you will agree on the voodoo part. More »

1:35 PM on Thu Mar 27 2008
By Jesus Diaz
65,664 views, 61 comments

Latest by man in gauze is king ramses II, actually: @jdhuck: The headcrab? And sweet picture, where's it from? more »

question of the day

Question of the Day: Do You Use Expensive Cable or Generic Cable?

The debate between expensive cable and generic cable has raged on for ages now, with the manufacturers of high-end products receiving quite a bashing for their high prices. So, even with all of the negative press about expensive cable being a waste of money, we have to ask: Do you use expensive cable or generic cable? More »

8:15 PM on Tue Mar 25 2008
By Sean Fallon
31,267 views, 102 comments

Latest by lizardw: old post but definitely generic cables for me. My HDMI cables aren't name brand but they're very high in quality. more »