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IKEA smart blinds are now available online
It's easier to work from home when you can sleep from home.
Need to Know: Sprint customers
Now that the merger is done what's next for Sprint customers?
Sonos will release a new app and operating system in June
Sonos says the new platform is necessary for hi-res audio support and more advanced features; will further isolate legacy products
Sonos walks back Recycle Mode
Here's why and here are six affected devices, and what you can do about it if you are willing to isolate or brick them.
Digital Signage to the Rescue?
Ad revenue on ride-share roofs may help struggling drivers expand their businesses, or not.
WATCH: Japan’s Super Nintendo World Theme Park to Open This Summer
Super Nintendo World is an upcoming theme park area under construction at Universal Studios Japan and Universal's Epic Universe that is based on Nintendo favorites, such as Super Mario.
xlStudio turns Excel into a DAW
Dylan Tallchief made a drum machine in Excel; now he's made a DAW and you can use it too.
Roland Taiko drum is an electronic update on an ancient classic
The Roland TAIKO-1 is a modern electronic take on the ancient Japanese Taiko drum(s) with a compelling assembly of features for what looks like peak fun.
hip-dac USB DAC/headphone amp looks like a hip flask
Cool design and an audio boost for your pocket.
Microsoft Surface Hub 2X cancelled
A great idea that has always suffered on execution gets complicated--again.
IKEA speakers and lights launch as the Frekvens modular light and sound collection
After two years of work with Teenage Engineering, the pieces are ready and it's a lifestyle product.
WATCH: Ring Always Home Cam demoed at CES, release date delayed
Ring says 2024 is the earliest the drone could see a wide release
Microsoft adds push-to-talk Walkie Talkie feature to Teams
FYI Microsoft is adding a new push-to-talk Walkie Talkie feature to Microsoft Teams. It will be available in preview in the coming months; the feature will turn smartphones or...
Lenova is readying a VR headset package for education
The company has publicly announced that Lenovo VR Classroom 2 package will be available this year
Will your next screen be a contact lens?
The future of video display could be in the eye of the beholder.
AV in Cars: Speakerless Sound
In the future, will you need speakers to hear sound? Continental, and the audio experts at Sennheiser, have developed a new sound system that can emit sound from various...
Apple’s rackmount Mac Pro is now available
Rackmount works for AV; fully loaded could be as much as $54,000
Glove-free: Warm hands without gloves
The U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine (USARIEM) is developing a way to have warm hands without gloves.
Solid State Logic debuts two inexpensive USB desktop interfaces
The SSL 2 and 2+ are pitched at the amateur/consumer/home producer but could be an option for small school or church studios too. Or your home studio.
Bluetooth SIG intros Bluetooth LE Audio
The biggest update to Bluetooth in its nearly 20-year history incorporates the Low Complexity Communications Codec (LC3)
Pianos of the future
As Roland debuts The Facet let's look at the runners up in the company's piano of the future design competition.
CES: Royole shows a speaker with a wraparound display
A speaker with a wraparound display. No word on why. Just more action on the flexible, foldable, wraparound-able display frontier.
CES: Filmmaker Mode is coming to 2020 TVs
The UHD Alliance, which helps define display standards, announced that Filmmaker Mode, which is designed to show films with as little motion smoothing or post-processing as possible, will be...
CES: TCL debuts soundbar that uses acoustic reflectors for Dolby Atmos audio
The Alto 9 Plus uses what TCL calls Ray-Danz reflector technology to provide a wide soundstage that delivers powerful sound across the entire room.
CES: LG rollable TV has finally arrived and will likely be $60K
Remember last year, when LG made some big waves at CES with the rollable TV? It was expected to launch mid-2019. It didn’t, and it didn’t arrive by the...
CES: Samsung unveils bezel-less 8K QLED
Bezel-less, 8K QLED with 9.1.4 sound and picture-in-picture and side-by-side configurations will also be one of the first to be certified by the 8K Association (8KA)
CES: Samsung 49-inch QLED monitor is extreme curve
The Odyssey has 5120x1440 resolution, HDR1000 rating, 240Hz refresh rate, 1ms response time, and both FreeSync 2 and G-Sync compatibility
Apple Patents a Virtual Acoustic Audio System
The patent for a "System to move a virtual sound away from a listener using a crosstalk canceller" was granted on New Year's Eve.
WATCH: Guardian XO powered exoskeleton is ready for delivery
See the production model in action and imagine yourself suiting up.
Extremely rare Macintosh prototype sets world auction record
The computer sold at New York's Bonham auction house on December 5th, 2019 for $150,575, a world auction record for a Macintosh computer
Ring is expanding into smart light bulbs
Amazon-owned Ring already makes a variety of smart lighting products. According to FCC documentation, the company is about to enter the replaceable bulb market dominated by companies like Philips...
WATCH: Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance ridethrough
Last week Disney opened its second flagship ride of the decade. Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance is an interactive ride (part of it is trackless); guest can have...
WATCH: Insights on Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance
David Niles of Theme Park Insider talks onsite with Walt Disney Imagineering Executive Creative Director John Larena
Samsung announces $11 billion investment in dedicated Quantum Dot display manufacturing facility
The company will switch the existing 8G LCD line into a QD line between now and 2025
WATCH: AR digital signage at London bus shelter
Digital OOH content creator Grand Visual was clearly an early pioneer in AR and in the trend called "prankvertising". You'll see why.
Cows are happier in a VR world
Farmers in Krasnogorsk northwest of Moscow strapped custom-modified VR headsets to cows to see if looking at a simulated summer field with properly tuned colors would improve their mood,...
Behringer’s RD-8 is an emulation of Roland’s classic TR-808
Behringer has rolled out a lot of synth clones, but probably the standout is the emulation of the iconic Roland TR-808, which is now available/ As with all these...
New circuit requires no electricity
MIT engineers create new circuit design that uses magnetic waves instead of electricity.