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PS unveils world’s first HRX optical disc reader
Dec 29, 2008 at 6:49 amPS Audio, the 35-year-leader in innovative audio products for Consumer Electronics, unveils the world’s first CD transport capable of directly playing high resolution WAV files recorded on both DVD and CD at the 2009 CES. The CES event will feature PS Audio’s ground breaking PerfectWave Transport Memory Player, the PerfectWave DAC, and Reference Recordings’ high-def HRX format DVDs, played for the first time directly in a player at 24 bit 176kHz.
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Audioengine iPod wireless setup
Dec 26, 2008 at 3:54 pmIf you want to stream music from your iPod Touch or iPhone, now there's a wireless way to do it. Audioengine released its Audio Engine W2 for $169 that comes with a transmitter and receiver. If you are using an iPhone or iPod Touch, it's like having a mini music server in the palm of your hand. Or plug it into a pair of powered speakers and you have a reasonably good sounding music system.
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Cloud computing is the future
Dec 26, 2008 at 10:38 amCloud computing is a general concept that incorporates software as a service (SaaS), Web 2.0 and other recent, well-known technology trends, in which the common theme is reliance on the Internet for satisfying the computing needs of the users. For example, Google Apps provides common business applications online that are accessed from a web browser, while the software and data are stored on the servers.
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PowerPlay utilizes Cloud Computing in a first of its kind
Dec 26, 2008 at 10:25 amPS Audio, the leader in innovative AC power products for Consumer Electronics is now shipping the world's first Cloud Computing based line of power conditioners. PowerPlay, first introduced at the 2008 CEDIA Exposition, is the first and only web controlled power conditioner to utilize Cloud Computing for access and control through the company's GlobalNet™ system.
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Panasonic buys Sanyo
Dec 23, 2008 at 5:23 pmThe deal is done. $6 Billion dollars, and Panasonic has purchased Sanyo. The purchase would create an electronics giant, and Panasonic has been trying to buy stakes from Sanyo's top three shareholders, including Goldman. Goldman rejected Panasonic's two earlier offers as too low. The other two -- Daiwa Securities SMBC and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking -- already indicated acceptance.
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See through computer chip might be the future
Dec 20, 2008 at 3:22 pmWe just reported about a new see-through touch screen, now there's a see through computer chip that could be embedded right into the see-through display, television or monitor for an ultra thin see-through computer or remote control for an AV system. The possibilities are fascinating.
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Scientists discover new benefits to listening to music
Dec 20, 2008 at 3:00 pmResearchers have found that music can affect people, animals and even plants in many ways. Now, several small-scale studies suggest some surprising benefits of listening to music, from the brain down to the blood vessels. The researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging to gauge activity in 18 people's brains as they listened to obscure 18th-century symphonies.
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Tiny touch may be the future GUI
Dec 20, 2008 at 2:53 pmEarlier this week, the humble computer mouse celebrated its 40th birthday. While surprisingly little has changed since Doug Engelbart, an engineer at Stanford Research Institute, in Palo Alto, CA, first demonstrated the mouse to a skeptical crowd in San Francisco, we may have already seen a few glimpses of the future of computer interfaces. If so, over the next few years, the future of the computer interface will likely revolve around touch.
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Gas memory could transmit data anywhere instantly
Dec 20, 2008 at 1:50 pmQuantum entanglement, which Einstein dubbed "spooky action at a distance", would be the perfect way to communicate data – if technical hurdles could be overcome. The method involves linking the quantum properties of two objects such that a change to one is instantly reflected in the other – offering a whole new way to transmit information from opposite sides of the globe instantly.
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New internet radio tuner for Apple
Dec 20, 2008 at 1:40 pmNow there's an even easier way to tune internet radio from all over the world with your iPod Touch or iPhone and it's software from Rogue Amoeba. It's called Radioshift Touch and it's pretty cool.
