These Magic Flute loudspeakers from S W Speakers would look more at home on a fighter jet than in my living room. But that’s entirely my living room’s fault.
Every year product life cycles in the consumer marketplace grow ever shorter. On the audio side, the latest and greatest receivers become yesterday’s news faster than you can say “HDMI 1.4“.
Why does your home stereo system sound like shit? Because it’s not floating on magnets, of course. With the Zero Gravity shelf, your stereo gains powers of levitation that would be better applied to just about anything else.
Each and every year, we here at Giz accumulate a lot of gadgets we don’t need or want. Some of them are review products that never get collected, some are prizes from competitions entered at events, others are part of the obligatory swag bags. This year though, we’re giving those gadgets to you, as part of the Great Giz Xmas Giveaway of 2009.
Mormon crickets are insects with multiple wives who live in Utah, travelling to Nevada to eat crops and play craps—or something like that. I’m not David Attenborough, OK? One real thing: They hate rock music.
Proving that more expensive is not always better, a $US25 “value” stereo system has obliterated $US1,000 equipment from Sony and JVC in a British customer choice award as voted on by 500,000 people.
Boomboxes. Synonymous with hip-hop. Synonymous with loud. Its standing in the cultural zeitgeist has faded over the years, but its past glory and appetite for D batteries will always be loved and adored by me.
