Sonos’ next set of speakers may be ones you put on your head. The multiroom audio company is looking to add headphones with an integrated voice assistant to its existing portfolio of wireless speakers, Bloomberg reports. According to the report, Sonos has approached overseas manufacturers about producing headphones to compete with models costing $300 or more. …
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Another AirPods alternative? Hear me out. (Hear. See what I did there?) I’ve written ad-nauseum about the BlitzWolf BW-FYE1, a personal favorite and a steal at around $35. But I’ll admit they’re lacking in the bass department because they merely rest inside the ear instead of creating that all-important seal. (AirPods are the same, just for the record.) Want something …
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Motorola’s spilled the whole caboodle of photos and specs for its upcoming Moto G7, G7 Plus, G7 Power and G7 Play phones ahead of the official Feb. 7 launch. CNET en Español discovered the pages on the company’s Brazilian web store for Motorola employees (the site 404s). Motorola has since taken the site down after our colleagues let the company know that …
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You may have bought yourself a TV to watch the biggest game of the year, but as any sales-floor employee will tell you, the picture is only half of the story. It’s not just hyperbole: there’s no way a tiny TV speaker can communicate the roar of the crowd, the dialogue of those must-see Super Bowl ads, or the slam …
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Like my colleague David Carnoy, I hear the name “Tribit” and immediately think of those fuzzy little Star Trek creatures. But that’s not what endears this product to me — it’s the unbeatable value. For a limited time, and while supplies last, the Tribit XSound Go portable waterproof Bluetooth speaker is just $21.44 when you clip the 5 percent off …
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Ikea and Sonos want you to think about sound as part of the home. In a promo video from Ikea posted by Variety on Friday, the furniture giant reveals the Sonos-powered Symfonisk speaker line will be available in August. “We can actually inspire people to think about sound as part of the design of their home,” says Sara Morris, product …
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Watch out Sonos: Polk said Tuesday that its Command Bar will be the first third-party sound bar to support Amazon’s multiroom music (MRM) ecosystem. Amazon announced at a press event back in September that third-party speakers, such as Polk, would soon get MRM capability. As far as we can tell, the Command Bar is the first such non-Amazon speaker, period …
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Mixed-reality headsets like the Magic Leap One and Microsoft HoloLens cost thousands of dollars. Even smart glasses like the Vuzix Blade cost around $1,000. At prices like that, it’s hard to imagine augmented reality (AR) headsets ever taking off. Rokid, a China-based AI company that launched a pair of somewhat glasses-like smart glasses at CES 2018 called the Rokid Glass, showed a prototype …
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Bluetooth turntables have been with us for a while now, with brands like Crosley, Ion and now Sony combining the two most millennial ways of listening to music in one (budget) unit, but no one has ever done one quite like this. The Cambridge Audio Alva TT is a high-end “all-in-one” turntable which also happens to include aptX HD Bluetooth. While …
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At CES 2019 we’ve seen superthin laptops, laptops with impossibly slim bezels and big-but-thin laptops. We’ve even seen desktop hardware crammed into a laptop. So why not a desktop gaming PC that’s smaller than a laptop? Enter the Mek Mini — a $1,500 gaming powerhouse that measures roughly 10 by 10 by 5 inches. It’s smaller than a 12-pack of beer …
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