Tag Archives: Home Entertainment

Mars levitating Bluetooth speaker promises better sound all round

With the Bluetooth speaker marketplace becoming increasingly crowded, designers are looking at their products from new angles to gain an edge over the competition. For Honk Kong-based startup Crazybaby, this included the speaker’s underside, with the t…Read More…

Eyeteq is claimed to improve TV viewing for the colorblind

There may soon be help for red-green colorblind TV viewers. University of East Anglia spinoff company Spectral Edge has announced its Eyeteq system, which reportedly “allows color-blind viewers to better differentiate between red and green when watchin…Read More…

  • By Ben Coxworth
  • December 3, 2014
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • Also tagged Ben Coxworth, color blindness, , University of East Anglia, Vision

TEAC ushers in a new vinyl dawn with the TN-300 turntable

Despite what some might say was a shaky start (the first ever CD album being Billy Joel’s 52nd Street), the Compact Disc quickly replaced vinyl as the music lover’s format of choice. When digital music players hit the street a few years later, it looke…Read More…

  • By Paul Ridden
  • December 1, 2014
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • Also tagged , Hi-fi, Music Player, Paul Ridden, Turntables, Vinyl

Review: Google’s Nexus Player

Google’s attempts to stake its claim in the living room have been a little hit and miss. Google TV didn’t exactly get things rolling the way Google would have hoped, and the Nexus Q slated for a 2012 release never eventuated. But it had better luck with the well-received (and cheap) Chromecast and now it’s…Read More…

  • By Brian Burgess
  • December 1, 2014
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • Also tagged , android tv, Brian Burgess, , nexus, Streaming

HeadFoams Pro: Adults get nearly-indestructible headphones too

When we were introduced to HeadFoams headphones earlier this year, it was as a kid-centric product which promised to survive whatever your little ones could throw at them. But now accident-prone adults can also get in on the nearly-indestructible headp…Read More…

  • By Simon Crisp
  • November 21, 2014
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • Also tagged , Rugged, Simon Crisp

Review: Archt One is tops for all-in-one Bluetooth sound

Last month, Gizmag reported on the Archt One (pronounced “ark-one”) Kickstarter kick-off and its promise to fill a room with consistent, high quality omnidirectional sound via its warhead-shaped wireless speaker. Since then I’ve had the opportunity to …Read More…

JVC’s biggest 4K TV promises best color reproduction on the market

JVC has thrown its hat into the “huge UHD TVs” ring with the announcement of the Diamond Series DM85UXR. At 85-inches, it’s the company’s largest UHD TV to date. JVC also claims that it delivers the most precise color reproduction on the market. .. Continue Reading JVC’s biggest 4K TV promises best color reproduction on…Read More…

BTunes brings wireless freedom to existing headphones

It can take quite some time to sift through the many quality headphones available to the mobile music lover and, if you’re anything like me, once you’ve discovered the model that’s right for you, there’s little that can shake you away from your faithful pair of personal audio throwers. Having to deal with a daily…Read More…

Review: The Woojer wearable woofer

About this time last year, the Woojer hit popular crowdfunding platform Kickstarter to raise production funds. Rather than merely massaging or enhancing the output from a mobile music player with the aid of a headphone amp, the so-called wearable woofe…Read More…

  • By Paul Ridden
  • November 13, 2014
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • Also tagged Digital music, Paul Ridden, Transducers, Wearable

Beats by Dr. Dre rolls out new Bluetooth wireless headphones

The tech world has had an eye fixed on the Beats by Dr. Dre audio brand since Apple acquired it back in July. We’re now getting our first glimpse of the Apple-owned Beats, as the Dr. Dre stable has just announced its first new product post-purchase jus…Read More…

  • By Nino Marchetti
  • November 13, 2014

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