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Klipsch Light Speakers – Wireless Light Bulb and Speaker Combo Plugs into Light Fittings

by Jay Garrett on January 5, 2010

The future is now!

Who hasn’t dreamed that they could do away with speakers that clutter the floor or wall but still have music piped into every room?

Well, the Klipsch LightSpeakers could be for you my friend.

These speakers screw into your light fittings and before you say: “Great; I get sound but no light” these also pack LEDs!

The LightSpeakers fit 5 and 6 inch screw light fixtures so you can replace the usual bulbs you use with a set of these Klipsch ones, which will last for 40,000 hours – or there abouts.

They can even be dimmed for those more moody moments.

Sound comes thanks to a 20 watt 2.5 inch wide dispersion driver.

The LightSpeaker kit comes with a transmitter, which connects to a PC, CD player or iPod and sends the audio to as many as eight of the light bulbs with two separate zones.

For two LightSpeakers, transmitter, remote and the necessary cables cost $599 and then it’s $249 per extra LightSpeaker.

These curious things will be available at the end of the month.

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A Real Computer in a Plug – The Sheevaplug From Marvell

by Jay Garrett on July 6, 2009

plug-sized-pc-designed-marvell-0This is Sheevaplug.

No, it’s not some hippy power-sipping appliance lover but a computer in a plug!

Dreamed up by Californian-based Marvell and it has  everything you need in a computer – cpu, memory, network connectivity and USB ports.

More specifically, it’s packing a 1.2GHz CPU, 512MB of flash memory and 512MB of RAM, along with a gigbit ethernet port, USB and mini-USB ports, and an SD card slot.

Alright – it does fall down once you notice that it lacks any kind of video output – but that’s solved by shoving in some kind of USB video adaptor!

It should be able to tackle a cut-down Linux distro and work as a web server and add into the equation that it does actually just sip at 5W of power it starts looking good again.

It wont hurt your pocket to purchase either at $99 for a developer kit, which includes the plug, as well as all of the software tools needed to develop applications for the platform.

If you want one that comes with all the stuff you need pre-installed though, then might need to hang for a while longer.

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Apple Hides Biometric Scanning in iPhone and MacBook Patent

March 28, 2009 Click to read more →
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Apple has sent in a patent that AppleInsider have pounced on like a hungry wildcat.
The diagram shows how the fruity one plans to hide fingerprint scanners in future iPhones and MacBooks without the need to ruin those minimalist lines that fanboys and girls love.
Their idea is to slip the finger scanners under the MacBook trackpad [...]

Sony RHT-G950 and G550 TV Stands With Hidden Cinema Surround Sound

March 19, 2009 Click to read more →

I have brought you speaker-loaded stands from Onei and Evesham already but if you want something a little more….how should I say it?
Subtle.
Then have a butchers at what Sony are bringing to the party.
The Sony RHT-G Series will give you home cinema surround audio and somewhere to shove that Bravia of yours.
You get a choice [...]

Fitness Cube – Workout Furniture

December 7, 2008 Click to read more →

My fitness bench is still in bits in my Dads garage since I moved to London – at the moment getting a place with enough room to house my music gear as well as a weights-bench is still a ways off.
The Fitness Cube is a 30-in-1 exercise machine “disguised as a high tech piece of [...]

Marks and Spencer iPod Back To School Range

August 15, 2008 Click to read more →

Saw this and though WTF!
I know kids are rocking iPods and mobiles as soon as they’ve stopped bottle-feeding but c’mon!
Teachers have a hard enough time keeping the pupils focused and, while it scares me, stab-proof hoodies and kevlar school-bags serve a purpose but Marks and Spencer have gone and released a new line of school uniforms [...]