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New Nook Tablet Aims to Snuff Kindle's Fire

Hands on with Barnes & Noble's new tablet
- By Karl Tennant
- Posted November 8, 2011
Look out, Amazon: Barnes & Noble went right at Jeff Bezos and co. today in a product unveiling meant to take the spotlight away from its Kindle Fire tablet this holiday season. The new Nook Tablet, an improved version of the current Nook Color (whose price drops to $199), competes directly with Amazon's color tablet. Both are set to debut next week.

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Atari Arcade: Hands on With Retro Classics

Discovery Bay's appcessory takes you back to the '80s, minus the roll of quarters
- By Michael Berk
- Posted November 2, 2011
When Atari's Greatest Hits made its way into the App Store this past April, retro-oriented gaming geeks worldwide — especially those who'd never been quite geeky enough to seek out ROMs to run on the open-source MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) — rejoiced.

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Tangled Up in Bluetooth

As smartphones replace iPods, will Bluetooth speakers replace iPod docks? We give five contenders a long listen.
- By Brent Butterworth
- Posted October 27, 2011
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The iPod just turned 10, and I sure feel sorry for my old standby. It’s still working fine, but I know I’ll never own another one. Since I got my Motorola Droid Pro smartphone, the iPod lives in a drawer.

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Curvaceous Docks: Monitor Audio i-Deck 100 and 200, Now Available

Curvy design and engineering twists for a pair of new iOS docks
- By Michael Berk
- Posted October 25, 2011
British manufacturer Monitor Audio has a deserved reputation for well-designed, high-performing speaker systems, and the latest offerings in the company's line of iOS device docks, the i-deck 100 and 200, follow in those footsteps. And now they can be yours.

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Win a Peel Universal Remote

Help us out again, and get your home theater under control with a little help from Peel's pear-shaped widget
- By Michael Berk
- Posted October 21, 2011
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The Peel universal remote is a combo platter including a transmitter and receiver that keeps in touch with your home network via ZigBee and passes on commands to your gear via IR, operated via a free app for

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$*!t Your Home Theater Says

Saving the A/V industry: Am I a genius or what?
- By Ken C. Pohlmann
- Posted October 20, 2011
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The iPhone 4S was released last week. Of course, people were camping out at Apple stores to buy it. Of course, Apple sold a zillion of them in the first five minutes. Of course, you already have one, and you're probably reading this blog on it.

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Beats by Dr. Dre Holiday Preview

Monster unveils custom colors, a pop-up-shop, a boombox, and a nifty new headphone (or two)
- By Michael Berk
- Posted October 12, 2011
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S+V dropped by the Beats by Dr. Dre/Monster Cable holiday product preview last night, to check out what the company had to offer to follow up on the Beats Pro headphones we looked at in this month's headphone shootout.

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Klipsch S4A Brings a Touch of the iPhone to the Android Platform

The Android update to the venerable in-ear turns one button into three.
- By Michael Berk
- Posted October 4, 2011
Along with a couple of other choice items — the Mode M40 noise-cancelling full-size headphones and the G-17 AirPlay dock — Klipsch has released the S4A, an Android-friendly incarnation of the popular S4 in-ear headphone.

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The Sound of One Battery Clapping

If a Volt crashes into a tree in the forest, does it make a sound?
- By Ken C. Pohlmann
- Posted September 23, 2011
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Ah, the irony. Unwanted traffic noise is a bane of modern existence. Countless engineers have spent entire careers laboring to reduce vehicle noises from engine, exhaust, tires and aerodynamic turbulence. Most drivers and passengers prefer quieter cars; for starters, it makes it easier to listen to music.

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Totally Wireless: iHome's iW1 Portable AirPlay Speaker

It may have been a long wait, but iHome's the first to market with a battery-powered AirPlay speaker
- By Michael Berk
- Posted September 23, 2011
Been looking for a portable speaker system to go along with your iOS device? iHome's long-awaited iW1 battery-powered AirPlay speaker is finally here. The iW1 was one of the first announced AirPlay speakers — and while it was slow out of the gate, it's now set to be the first available truly wireless AirPlay device.

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Zoom H2n Handy Recorder: Pint-Sized Powerhouse

Want to carry around a recording studio? Now you can.
- By Daniel Kumin
- Posted September 21, 2011
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We’re still waiting for the future: the flying car; the self-cooking dinner. But the shirt-pocket recording studio is a reality – I have one here right now.

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Contour Score

The Flip is dead. Long live the little camera that can.
- By Gary Dell'Abate
- Posted September 19, 2011
My 13-year-old son is an avid skier, skateboarder, and longboarder. From time to time, he’ll document his activities with a Flip camera.
There are two issues with the Flip, however. First, you have to hold it in your hand. Second (and more important), Flip is out of business.

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