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This innovative speaker disguised as a white wheel can be rolled around anywhere. The Freewheeler cordless stereo speaker producing high quality stereo sound is apt for indoor as well as outdoor.
The Freewheeler speaker offers 52 - 21,000 Hz of frequency response, battery life up to 8 hours, 112dB output and an in-built FM receiver. It equips a pair of coaxial speakers that are mounted inside the lacquered wood enclosure providing true stereo sound.
The receiver inside the wheel picks up the signal and filters it. This signal Read more… »

Revive your memories on the HDTV with the new Kodak Theatre HD Player. You can wirelessly access your favorite videos, music and pictures from your PC, camera as well as online sharing sites.
The Kodak Theatre HD Player uses Wi-Fi to access online content and navigate through the content with its wireless remote. You can easily insert a memory card as well as plug in your USB storage device or Kodak EasyShare Digital Camera. Connect it to your PC and download your favorite music, images or videos.
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As part of Sharp’s recent efforts to shove itself to the forefront of solar innovation, the company is showcasing a prototype of a 26-inch LCD Aquos TV that can be powered entirely by the sun. Now even the 1.6 billion people on earth without electricity won’t have an excuse to miss the next season of Lost.
The set has a contrast ratio of 10000:1 and a 20mm thick display panel. It requires about 30% less power than regular LCD TVs and gets its juice from one of Sharp’s Read more… »
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The YSP line is my favorite soundbar because of the sonar-inspired tech it borrows from cold war subs. The YSP-3050 is a new 23-driver model, second best compared to the 42 driver YSP-4000. The upgrade from the 3000 now has a front mounted minijack in, and HDMI upscaling. Like the higher end models, these will provide glorious surround, but unless you wall mount, the speaker blocks a few inches of Read more… »

Watching movie or playing games on a screen as large as your two stretched hands is a dream. When a company provides such a superb television, the dream-come-true situation takes you to could number nine.
LG has enhanced its prestige by launching the large size high-definition TV, dubbed Xcanvas David LED (47LG90QD). This 47-inch HDTV boasts to offer a contrast ratio of 1,000,000:1 and a 120 Hz refresh rate.
Users will appreciate the superior moving-image clarity due to its superior features. The latest HD television comes equipped with Aurora LED backlight with eyeQgreen function. It has been created with the help of high-quality wood Read more… »

Engineers at Eyebeam, a New York arts and technology center, are drastically reducing the cost of ownership for multitouch tables by taking them open-source. Schematics for the Cubit, a multitouch tabletop display, are available online for people who want to make a scaled-down Microsoft Surface for one tenth the Surface’s price.
The Cubit is a boxy tabletop with a clear surface. All a potential multitouch table owner needs to get started is a webcam with an infrared filter and a small image projector. Plug in the webcam, Read more… »

The Myka is what many Torrent fans have been waiting for—a device that makes it easy to download torrents and play them on your living room TV. You can connect to the internet via LAN or WiFi, it has HDMI, Composite, S-Video and SPDIF ports (nice), your choice of 80, 160 or 500 gigabytes (and USB expansion) and the Linux OS with pre-installed BitTorrent software. You can even transfer videos directly from your computer. Read more… »