It’s a rarer occurrence that spotting bigfoot riding the Loch Ness monster, but Grace Digital Audio has just announced a speaker dock designed specifically for the Kindle Fire. You read that right, the FireDock won’t even acknowledge the iPad’s existence.
We’re not saying Panasonic’s SC-AP01 wireless speaker bar is a connectivity snob or anything. But it will only stream your music from an Apple device with AirPlay connectivity. It doesn’t have Bluetooth, a dock, or even a line-in jack.
Parametric speakers aren’t exactly new, but this Kickstarter idea is tiny and practical. The Soundlazer delivers a focused beam of audio in a single direction. Theoretically, you could point it at yourself, and nobody around you would hear your embarrassing music at all.
Building a kick-arse home theatre requires lots of money and space for speakers, amps and other equipment. But THX wants to replace all of that with their new Steerable Line Array speaker system that can discreetly hide under your massive TV.
Building a killer home theatre involves more than just throwing a big wad of cash at your local electronics dealer. It requires planning, finesse and scientific acoustic manipulation. The engineers at THX pioneered a lot of the methods and technologies used in today’s top systems. So we took a trip to their San Rafael, California, headquarters to get a lesson from the masters. Here’s what we learned.
You’ll need to finish the look with a short-sleeve dress shirt and tacky wool tie, but this iPhone transceiver will have you radioing dispatch for backup like a cop out of a Beastie Boys video.
Instead of Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or even a stereo mini cable, iFrogz’ new Boost speaker uses something the company is calling near field audio technology to amplify a given device’s own built-in speaker.
If you happen to have a handful of unused speaker drivers, some fibreglass and a length of vacuum tubes, you too can fashion a three-way speaker out of some IKEA salad bowls.
