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You Can Now Use Wireless Headphones With Your Nintendo Switch Thanks To This Dongle
If your smartphone of choice has forced you to upgrade to wireless headphones, you probably hate having to swap them out for a corded pair when you want to play your Nintendo Switch with a little privacy. The portable console doesn’t come with Bluetooth, but a tiny dongle called the Genki does, theoretically making it…
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Sony Almost Made The Perfect Commuter Earbuds
Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo) There are two ways of listening to music: you can shut everything out and focus purely on the tunes, or you can use music to enhance other activities in your life. Headphones and earbuds, especially those of the noise-cancelling variety are quite good at the first; you just put some on,…
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This Sound ‘Camera’ Lets You See Noise In Real-Time
CAE Systems’ “SOUNDCAM”, currently making its way through a Kickstarter campaign, doesn’t generate images using only noise. What it does do is show you where sound is emanating from via its rear touchscreen and includes distance info and other interesting data.
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Google Mercifully Now Lets You Pair The Home Mini With Better Bluetooth Speakers
Loving your new Google Home Mini? Hating its tinny sound and lack of auxiliary output options? Well Google appears to have heard your lo-fi cries of anguish, and responded by adding a way to control your third-party Bluetooth speakers using your Google Home device. Nice work! It only took a whole year.