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If you've been in the market for a mysterious item to put in your apartment that will make guests say, "What the hell is that thing?" ... congratulations. The AlphaSphere will not only pique interests, but will [...]

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Normally we'd say your daily wardrobe shouldn't include more than one piece of denim. You want to rock some jeans with a denim jacket? Okay, but let's not go too crazy now Levi. We will [...]

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There are two types of music fans: The casual fan who is okay listening to their tracks through some cheap-o headphones they got at a convenience store, and those that actually care about the quality [...]

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Spotify has single-handedly changed the way we digest music. We love Grooveshark because the annoying IT guy won't let us install anything on our computers, and it's great for making Mixtapes, but it won't work [...]

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Rocketfish, otherwise known as the Best Buy house brand, doesn't make too many new-fangled gadgets and doohickeys that you haven't seen before. But since they have a name like Best Buy behind them, what they [...]

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When Jawbone decided to make a bigger version of the Jambox, we can only assume that after hours of debating names someone half-jokingly tossed out, "What about 'Big Jambox?'" At that the team, so tired [...]

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Even if you could get perfect sound from a pair of speakers, if they were bright pink and had pictures of Hannah Montana on them (that's what the kids are watching these days, right?) we [...]

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We love bikes. We love music. We would love to be able to combine the two of them so we could feel like Peter Griffin in that episode of Family Guy when his [...]

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As we made our way through the various rooms at The New York Audio and AV Show (you can read about it here), we [...]

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There are approximately one million different ways to amplify the sound coming out of your iPhone to a party-appropriate decibel. Between all the docks, horns, stereo connectors, jacks, brands and prices you could literally spend [...]

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Let's be honest, the speakers on our portable gadgets are garbage. Listening to something on your iPhone without additional amplification sounds like the muffled beats escaping from the headphones of some dude sitting next to you on [...]

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So many of the products we find are simple in premise. We see them and think, "Dammit, why didn't we think of a portable computer so we could swim in gold coins?" Then it quickly [...]

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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 [...]

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We're not going to kid ourselves: you probably already have three different ways of projecting your iPhone / Android tunes throughout a room. If you're going to spend another $300 on another piece of technology [...]

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It seems like product designers and manufacturers are always trying to solve the same two problems with the iPhone: the audio and the fact that it doesn’t stand up on its own. You can buy [...]

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