speakers
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This Battery Pack Turns The Google Home Into My Favourite Portable Bluetooth Speaker
It seems inevitable that one day your entire home will be wired so that smart assistants can hear your every request, no matter where you are. But if you mostly rely on a smart speaker, its built-in mic can only eavesdrop so far. Companies like Google would certainly love it if you bought a smart…
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The Sonos One Might Look Familiar, But It’s All New Inside
Sonos has been making smart home multi-room speakers for a long time — I first listened to a ZonePlayer S5 a full eight years ago. But it’s 2017, and smart speakers can’t just be controlled from an app on a phone any more. They need to listen to your voice, and that’s exactly what the…
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LG’s Modular Sound Bar Flex: The Gizmodo Review
All photos: Adam Clark Estes With the new Sound Bar Flex, LG didn’t make the world’s best sound bar. It’s actually a bit of a stretch to call the modular, three-piece speaker system a sound bar at all. And at $899, the (mostly) wireless setup isn’t quite a bargain either. You know what, though? The…
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Here’s How Interior Plastic Trim Panels Can Be Used As Loudspeakers
Lots of cars these days come with dozens of speakers to pump music into passengers’ ears. But those speakers are heavy, and take up lots of space. That’s why Continental just devised a speaker-less audio system that actually uses your car’s interior trim panels to make sound. Here’s how it works.