Electronic House’s Home of the Year 2009
Sure, 2009 isn’t nearly finished yet, but Electronic House’s Home of the Year Award is. Before anything else is said, I’m going to tell you it would be very difficult trying to find a house nicer than this one. With a CinemaScope theater, 7.1-channel surround-sound, intricate TV concealment, extensive automation, and more, this is a pretty nice place.
The residence was designed and built by Temple Home, whose co-owner, Xorin Balbes, has earned recognition for his restoration of famous Los Angeles-area homes. Balbes and architect Paul Ashley brought the vision, and left the audio-visual pyrotechnics to DSI Entertainment Systems. Read more
Pioneer LX01: The Price Of Excellence
This collection of glossy, angular black boxes is simply a complete home entertainment solution that is, at the same time, haute couture. Just what you’d expect for its premium price.
Plug in an HD source via HDMI 1.3 and you’ve got the best image and sound quality this side of separates, with spotless images and uncompressed HD sonics gushing from the satellites.
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Ferrari’s Meridian F80 is quite costly
The Meridian F80 home entertainment system is now ready to be bought. It’s quality and looks are simply the best, as it comes in five colors, yellow, silver, white, black and of course, the famous Ferrari red. As the producers describe it, “the most advanced transportable entertainment system ever made” was created by award-winning engineers with experience in electronics, audio and radio.
Cone-Shaped Aura Speaker Concept
Speaker design has always been a headache for most people that wanted to decorate their rooms nicely. Paul Scarfe noticed that and he started to develop a cool-looking speaker. He drew a cone-shaped concept speaker called Aura and he provided it with hi-tech bass and treble amplifiers. The designer combined metal, plastic and wood in order to make Aura produce the best sound using resonance. Check out the gallery below and I’m sure that you will love this cool speaker.
DIY: Make LEDs From A VCR
I am guessing that many of you are fond of LEDs because they just happen to have a special brightness of their colors. If you were thinking to buy some LEDs, I think that you will be happy to hear that you can do it yourself. You will need an old VCR but if you already thrown those things away, a CD-ROM will be just fine. Charles Palen used his VCR, pinwheels, wiring and some power tools, but it will be better if you watch him in action in the video below.
Have A Good Time With The International Dance Party
Here is a box that will let you know the intensity of your party. The International Dance Party will get started as soon as its radar detects motion on the dancefloor. The machine-box will reveal two speakers producing 600 watts that will make everybody to dance as the rhythm dictates.
The party box features a disco ball, smoke machine, sirens, ground effects and lasers which will increase with the intensity of the dancing. When the activity on the dancefloor stops, the box returns to the crate-shape and it doesn’t play music anymore.
Take a peak at the gallery below and check out the video below if you want to see the IDP at work.
The DNA PC Concept
Many people that buy PCs are frustrated by its design, but now each buyer can customize its own PC. This design is very similar to the human DNA, so they called it the DNA PC. This personal computer is composed of a projector, the keyboard, the power supply and the core module.
The users can customize the color, the shape and the style, but they could also add some useful peripherals or external memory. Every single piece of the DNA Concept measures 60×60x60 mm while the projector measures 40×30x15 mm. Wireless connectivity couldn’t fail to come so that you can access your DNA PC from everywhere you go.
The battery of the DNA features a 50×50 mm photovoltaic solar panel which converts light into energy, but you can charge it by normal plug-in. For a better view of the DNA PC Concept, you should check out the gallery below.
Printed OLEDs Designed By GE Researchers
The organic light-emitting diode or OLED technology is really starting to get under everybody’s skin. They look very cool and they lighten up your house or whatever you want. Now, the first OLEDs were printed roll-to-roll, just like a newspaper and the developers of this project are the researchers from GE who worked four years in order to complete this project. We expect that the commercialization of the printed OLEDs will begin very soon.
2008 CeBIT Brings Minority Report Interface
Eventually CeBIT 2008 was not so boring. Besides all the crazy gadgets and computers, there you could found an interface like the one in Minority Report. This interface drawn everybody’s attention and we were surprised to see that it didn’t. Every single geek that was there could play with it, move it around or resizing. There was no news about this technology or if you may buy it, but I think that soon you will make your own “report” at home.
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Cuppa – The PC Of The Future
I was surfing on the Internet and I came across to one of the most interesting designs for the PC of the future. The PC concept is called Cuppa and is based on the RFID which stands for Radio-Frequency Identification. This method is used by small devices named tags which are integrated in objects in order to be identified from a few meters through radio waves, but there are also RFID versions without chips.
Cuppa could be used by everyone and it can be connected to many devices in your home like a TV or a cell phone and is most useful when you want to access your PC from all around your house. This future-PC was designed to be very portable therefore it will have a width of 266mm, a height of 111 mm and a thickness of 20mm.
The users of Cuppa also might see the informations they want on the TV screen, but they would need some extra chips in order to be able to show the applications on the TV. The Cuppa will also be capable to detect when of his “brothers” Cuppa is near and because is dubbed as the PC of the future the designers say that this device will be environmental-friendly.
Pagani Releases Luxury HiFi Sound System
The supercar producer Pagani, that became famous with it’s Zonda, has unveiled at the 2008 Geneva Motor Show a luxury sound system, made of carbon fiber and blushed aluminum. It’s bass speakers look like Zonda’s exhausts and produce a whopping 350watts.
Along with this sound system, Pagani has also unveiled two turntables, a power amp, stereo amp and a CD player. Everything looks and sounds great, excepting the price.
Cool-Looking LED Spotlights To Light Up Your House
If you were thinking yo light up your entire house with tasteful spotlights, but you don’t want to drill any holes and neither to struggle with the wiring, then here is the perfect solution – LED Spotlights. They are very easy to install, they run on batteries and with a simple click on the light bulbs, they turn on.
The LEDs are available at JML Direct for £7.99 and you also will have to buy AA batteries because these are not included.
Mvix MX-780HD Streams Wifi HD For Cheap
Mvix has just released a HD media streamer with quite usual features nowadays, like a HDD slot, Ethernet and 802.11b/g/n WiFi, along with a lot of supported file formats. The MX-780HD can play DivX, XviD, AVI, MPEG, WMV, ASF, AAC, OGG, AC3, MP3, WMA, JPEG and much more, it sports coaxial / optical audio ports and a front LCD display. It’s price isn’t that high and it seems to be worth $299.99.
Eight-Monitor Mount From Humanscale
A new uber-geek monitor-mount has been unveiled by Humanscale, using eight monitors. I definitely wouldn’t mind to surf using the Paramount Parabolic Multi-Monitor Display, but also it isn’t a priority, especially that the price hasn’t been specified and it will be in the high range.
The Paramount Parabolic Multi-Monitor Display should get released next month and we shall see more specs and price then.
Smallest 1seg Tuner Unveiled By Sharp
How small do you think world’s smallest TV Tuner is ? Just look at the picture above to view Sharp’s latest, that’s even smaller than a ¥1 coin. The VA3A5JZ922 is 35% smaller than it’s competitors, with 5.9 x 5.9 x 0.9 mm. Also the 1seg tuner isn’t extremely pricy, at $185, but you have to wait a bit until mass production is September.
via PMPToday