Tag Archives: bluetooth

Deals to start the weekend right: AirPods, an LED flashlight and Mellanni bedding

It’s the weekend before the big game — how are you spending your time? If you’re browsing the web looking for reviews of Picard, dogs playing football and a few good deals, I’ve solved all three of your problems with a single article. First and foremost: eBay has refurbished AirPods for just $101. And if you …

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Sonos ending software updates for older devices this May

Streaming music player manufacturer Sonos will stop sending out software updates to some older devices after May 2020. The devices will still work, they just won’t receive regular feature updates. Sonos says the affected devices were on sale from 2004 and include: Connect  (pre-2015), ZonePlayer ZP80, ZonePlayer ZP90  Connect:Amp (pre-2015), ZonePlayer ZP100, ZonePlayer 120  CR200 Play:5 (Gen 1), ZonePlayer S5 Sonos Bridge, ZoneBridge …

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Add a Yamaha YAS

What’s 2 inches high, 35 inches long, includes two tweeters and a pair subwoofers and looks like a large, black tongue depressor? If you were expecting a joke, I’m sorry to disappoint you: It’s the Yamaha YAS-108 soundbar. And while this speaker package ordinarily sells for $200, you can now nab the Yamaha YAS-108 for $158.25. That’s close to it’s …

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Logitech Ergo K860 changed how I feel about ergonomic keyboards

Ergonomic keyboards and mice are the lightly dressed raw kale salad of computer accessories. They’re good for you, you know you should be using them, but they can be unpalatable and soon you’re right back to the meat and potatoes of your traditional keyboard and mouse. Logitech’s Ergo K860, on the other hand, is a tasty meal of a keyboard …

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This LED backlit wireless mechanical gaming keyboard is now under $18

If the only kind of keyboard you’ve ever used is an off-the-shelf budget model, the one that came with your new PC purchase or the one built into your laptop, then you only know membrane keyboards. And while they’re cheap and quiet, they’re terrible. Just terrible. They’re soft and mushy and imprecise, which is bad both for touch typing and …

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LG’s portable 4K UHD CineBeam home theater projector is $400 off

I had a projector in my home theater for about a decade, and I loved it. A projector elevates any content to a cinematic experience and displays an enormous picture — often larger than what you might be able to fit with a traditional flat screen TV. Most home theater projectors are meant to be mounted on the ceiling, but …

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The biggest takeaways in gaming tech from CES 2020

This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. My favorite gaming irony of CES 2020: Everyone’s declaring that consoles are dying — gaming belongs to the cloud now! — but some of the biggest gaming news of the show was Sony’s unveiling of the new PlayStation 5 logo with …

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Save $50 on the new Xgimi Mogo Pro portable 1080p Android TV projector

The perfect portable projector has yet to be invented, but the new Xgimi Mogo Pro comes close. I’ll explain why below, but first here’s the deal: For a limited time, you can save $50 on the Mogo Pro 1080p projector with promo code 2020MOGOPRORICK. That brings the $550 price down to $500 — still a lot, I know, but keep …

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LG’s roll

This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. The biggest sensation in TVs for the last two years at CES was arguably LG’s incredible rollable TV, a 65-inch OLED television that’s flexible enough to roll up and down. The screen will roll down and disappear into its cabinet when you’re …

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Could round smartphones be the next big thing? Cyrcle hopes so

This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. In a sea of rectangular black smartphones, the Cyrcle concept phone at CES 2020 immediately stands out for its novel design. Though not in its final stages (the encasing I saw was literally rough around the edges and printed by a …

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