If you’re in the market for a portable speaker that you can easily toss in your bag on a daily basis, you’ve got quite a few options. The portable Bluetooth speaker market is blowing up right now, and you can get a solid music-blaster for a reasonable amount of cash. We gathered a bunch of different speakers, tested them all out here at the Cool Material offices, and found out which ones are actually worth your money. ... continue reading
What you don’t realize if you’ve never been to CES is, there’s a lot of crap. For every 4K television and awesome new gadget, there are hundreds of junky iPhone cases, cheap docking units, and Sky Mall-esque products that will never even be released. We hit up this year’s convention and dug through all the gear to find the stuff that really got our attention. These are the 11 Things We Wanted To Steal From This Year’s CES. ... continue reading
It might be a rare occasion, but if you have ever dropped your pocket knife in a pond while out camping, you know the annoyance involved in retrieving that sucker. The Cork Knife eliminates any fear of cutting rope on the side of a lake or whittling wood over a creek while you're on your next trip. The cork handle ... continue reading
One day we’re going to look back and laugh at the fact that we were once tethered to our electronic devices. “Cords,” we’ll say. “I remember those! I had one on my rotary phoning device.” In fact, right now we’re transitioning out of the cord-era. If you’re looking to start detaching and living in the wireless world, here are some of the best products to get you started. ... continue reading
There's always that one person on the plane, train or automobile that feels like it's necessary to take their new Carly Rae Jepsen to volume level 11 and let everyone around them enjoy it too. The problem with that, though, is that it's never really loud enough to actually enjoy. If you're going to go the route of ... continue reading
Officially, there are only a handful of days left in the season of fun and sun. That doesn't mean you should stop thinking about how you're going to spend time outdoors because most of the other seasons are fine for doing shit outside, too. Outdoor Tech wants to make everything you do outside a party with their Turtle ... continue reading
We could use this space to talk about how having a funky-fresh wooden boombox would be great for parties, or the fact that we love Kickstarter projects, but we're not going to. Michael Davis-Yates addresses everything you need to know when he waxes poetic about the Jammy! and Lil' Jammer! in his Kickstarter video. ... continue reading
We miss ghetto blasters. Even if we managed to dig one of them up, we wouldn't have any cassette tapes to put in the damn thing anyway. If you've ever dreamed about walking down the street blasting tunes off your shoulder again, or maybe pulling a Cusack and getting vertical with it, you need to check out this Lasonic ... continue reading
The other day we showed off the new Logitech UE Boombox. Now, if that thing was a bit too bulky for you and you fall more in line with the Jambox crowd, there's the Logitech UE Mobile Boombox. A little more colorful and a lot more portable. The minuscule boombox still packs a pretty good punch despite its much smaller ... continue reading
There's no need to hoist this bad boy up on your shoulder while blasting some Run DMC as you stroll the block. The Logitech UE Boombox ushers in a totally new world for the classic large-yet-portable music blaster. The wireless jam machine uses Bluetooth to stream music from multiple phones so everyone can take turns ... continue reading
Anything involving wires usually scares off about half the DIY population. As guys, it’s something that should be embraced rather than feared. We’re not saying you need to get knee-deep in computer parts, but some basic work would be good for you. When it results in a new set of unique speakers too, well that’s ... continue reading
Surprisingly, not everyone wants to hear our music. When we were pumping our LCD Soundsystem mixtape, others in the office said they couldn’t “concentrate” and they “wished we were fired.” For this, and for many other reasons, headphones are an absolute necessity in our daily lives. It was long before Steve Jobs produced white earbuds and Dr. Dre jumped in the game, however, that people began getting tunes pumped into their ear canal. Here’s basically how it all went down. ...... continue reading
There are hundreds, if not thousands, of different ways to get the music on your iPhone into your ears and the ears of those around you. Most of them aren’t anywhere near as convenient or cool as this mini boombox. Designed with portability in mind, the longest side of this speaker is 2.5” and it doesn’t require ... continue reading
Surprisingly, not everyone wants to hear our music. When we were pumping our LCD Soundsystem mixtape, others in the office said they couldn’t “concentrate” and they “wished we were fired.” For this, and for many other reasons, headphones are an absolute necessity in our daily lives. It was long before Steve Jobs produced white earbuds and Dr. Dre jumped in the game, however, that people began getting tunes pumped into their ear canal. Here’s basically how it all went down. ...... continue reading
If you need dead quiet to get some shut-eye, this is probably not the pillow set you want to toss on your queen-size. If you miss the days of jamming #2 pencils into cassette tapes and watching the levels bounce with the beat of Ice Ice Baby, then this Boombox Pillow Set available from Meninos is the perfect place ... continue reading
Even if you're not John Cusack, boomboxes are cool. We gotten past the point of cassette tapes and D-batteries (if they even make these anymore) though, so we need one that works with phones and mp3 players. Unfortunately, finding a boombox that looks as good as the ones from the 80s, and supports modern technology, ... continue reading
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