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Philips launches HTL9100 Fidelio soundbar with detachable speakers
Engadget - 26 Jun 2013 10:00
Philips announced the HTL9100 soundbar as part of its Fidelio lineup at this year's CES, and now it's available for $1,077 (£699) at retail. Like Voltron, the soundbar comes with detachable parts, particularly two wirel...
The Best Home Office Furniture You've Probably Never Heard Of
Life Hacker - 26 Jun 2013 02:00
You can't have a great workspace without a great desk and chair. While we know of the popular options , a lot of inexpensive but awesome office furniture exists that you've probably never heard of. Here's a look at some ...
The Vizelex Light Cannon - Nikon G Lens to Micro 4/3 (MFT) Adapter
The Phoblographer - 26 Jun 2013 15:10
I have, finally, found the product that may help me make the jump to a Micro Four Thirds camera, the Vizelex Light Cannon from Fotodiox. Note, this is not the first of its kind. The Speed Booster, whose Leica R to MFT ad...
How to Improve Your Wi-Fi Signal
Mashable - 26 Jun 2013 14:31
Ah, nature. The birds are chirping, the sun is shining ... and your crappy Wi-Fi signal is preventing you from uploading a really clever Facebook status. It's hard enough for your Wi-Fi connection to reach the four corne...
How A Great Google Workplace Turned Into A 'Nightmare' (Nicholas Carlson/Business Insider)
Techmeme - 26 Jun 2013 01:30
Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: How A Great Google Workplace Turned Into A 'Nightmare' -- One December day last year, an email went out to a group of Google employees and contractors. -- The email explained how, jus...
10 Adorable Interracial Family Photos From 'We Are the 15 Percent'
Mashable - 26 Jun 2013 23:53
The online backlash from a Cheerios commercial featuring an interracial couple inspired Michael David Murphy and Alyson West to create a site that would represent families like theirs The couple created We Are the 15 Per...
Zuck's Adorable Sheepdog Beast Is Now A Facebook Messages Sticker Pack
TechCrunch - 26 Jun 2013 22:59
Now you and Facebook's CEO can unwind in the same way: playing with Beast. The billionaire's Puli dog just got his own Facebook Stickers pack, which lets you forgo typing and instead send friends animated images of Beast...
Listen to Daft Punk's 10-Minute 'Get Lucky' Remix
Mashable - 26 Jun 2013 22:17
Spotify got its hands on an exclusive remix of Daft Punk's "Get Lucky" -- one of the summer's hottest songs. The remix from the electronic music duo is four minutes longer than the original, which arrived in April and ha...
Brit Morin on making it: 'Martha Stewart of tech' raises millions
L.A. Times - 26 Jun 2013 22:17'Kinect'ed Cockroaches Crawl on Demand
ABC News - 26 Jun 2013 21:24
In preparation for the Xbox One, Microsoft has been steadily working on the next version of the Kinect, the company's motion tracking camera. Scientists, on the other hand, have been fiddling with the old Kinect almost s...
CTERA floats version 4.0 of its cloud storage platform
ZDNet - 26 Jun 2013 21:19
When companies consider the costs of acquiring and managing storage, taking advantage of cloud storage services can appear to be a very appealing option. CTERA believes that version 4.0 of its cloud storage platform with...
Sony RX1R and RX100 Mark II Photos and Specs Leaked
PetaPixel - 26 Jun 2013 20:51
Categories: Equipment News Rumors Tags: leakleakedproductphotosrx1rx1rsonysonyrx100markiisonyrx1r Sony is scheduled to announce followups to the RX 1 and RX200 tomorrow, but photos of the cameras have already begun appea...
Does it still make sense to buy a Nook HD?
CNET - 26 Jun 2013 20:38
Barnes & Noble will stop making color tablets, meaning its existing inventory will be sold on the cheap. Is now the time to buy?
Tackle the Most Fun Things on Your To-Do List First
Life Hacker - 26 Jun 2013 18:30
You've probably heard the advice to "eat a live frog" or start with your worst task first . Super-productive writer-producer-director Joss Whedon, however, suggests the opposite approach: Jump start your day with the thi...
Sony Xperia i1 'Honami' poses for family photo
Android Central - 26 Jun 2013 18:04
First leaked image allegedly shows upcoming 20-megapixel Sony 'cameraphone' We've heard a good deal about the Sony "Honami" already -- an upcoming camera-centric Sony smartphone said to pack a 20-megapixel Cyber-Shot cam...
Pioneer's New Soundbar Is Beautifully Simple and Wonderfully Cheap
Gizmodo - 26 Jun 2013 17:12
Pioneer's new SB-PS23W is a soundbar the way most people want it: A simple, relatively inexpensive way to make a television sound louder. In that way, it's cut from the same cloth as the fantastic AirPlay speakers the co...
Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini and Mega now in stock at Clove
Android Central - 26 Jun 2013 17:10
Both phones available in black and white, earliest shipments arrive June 30 Both the biggest and smallest siblings in the new Galaxy family, the Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini and Galaxy Mega (6.3) are becoming available to orde...
Poppy: Surprisingly Sensible 3D for the iPhone
Time - 26 Jun 2013 17:00
For a brief moment in 2011, certain people in the tech industry seemed to think that the next big thing in smartphones might be 3D. But the revolution began and ended with Sprint's EVO 3D, a phone which could capture and...
Fab.com founder accuses Bloomberg reporter of 'Blatant misrepresentations'
ZDNet - 26 Jun 2013 16:10
Fab levels serious charges while confirming facts of the story.
Kodak's Restructuring Plan Approved by U.S. Bankruptcy Court
The Phoblographer - 26 Jun 2013 15:00
Kodak is one step closer from exiting its Chapter 11 protection, under which it has been since declaring bankrupty back in 2012. The post Kodak's Restructuring Plan Approved by U.S. Bankruptcy Court appeared first on The...
Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini gets July 1st release date at Phones 4U, costs more than a GS3
Engadget - 26 Jun 2013 14:44
Samsung's dinkier S4 variant will be available to buy in the UK, starting next week. Phones 4U promises that it'll be posting its Galaxy S4 Mini preorders on Monday July 1st, while smaller phone sellers like Unlocked Mob...
Review: Three widescreen HD monitors that pivot from portrait to landscape
PC World - 26 Jun 2013 12:30
Monitors with wide aspect ratios provide plenty of room for viewing browser windows, documents, spreadsheets, photos, and other applications cheek by jowl. There are times, however, when a vertical orientation is more de...