Wednesday, June 19th, 2013

March 2013 – One of the new products from CES 2013 we got a chance to review was the ACCELL Power Squid 5 outlet surge protector. This unit is targeted at the home office or small office that does not use partition systems with multiple outlets for each occupant to control their electronic devices. The [...]

March 2013 – One of the new products from CES 2013 we got a chance to review was the ACCELL Home or Away travel surge protector with additional USB charging. This unit is targeted at the typical home or business traveler that had to deal with multiple electronic devices in their daily life. The rise [...]

March 2013 – Following CES, we had the chance to test the Lantronix xPrintServer home Edition. The device is a simple to connect print server that does not require any apps or software to allow mobile devices (those with iOS and MacOS) to print on existing USB and network printers. Lantronix xPrintServer Home Edtiion The [...]

February 2013 – We had the chance to test out the STM Jet Roller 17” computer ready roller bag. Unlike most 17” computer cases, this is designed for the typical overnight traveler that needs to take a full high powered mobile workstation with them. While the computing power and display resolution are great in the [...]

January 2013 – In late 2012, Etymotic developed and released to market a new class of hearing protection. Using their knowledge of the ear and hearing from their decades of development and production of hearing aids, they have developed an active hearing protection device called the Music PRO. The overview of the technology is discussed [...]

January 2013 – Headphone manufacturer AudioFly made the long trek from Austrailia to Anaheim for the NAMM 2013 show. Designed by musicians and engineers with a passion for music, the products are targeted towards the high fidelity music audience. At the show, they were showing the early announce of thier pro-series that have enhanced crossovers [...]

Sony’s SpectralLayers Pro offers a new spin on spectral-style audio editing that Sony hopes will move the powerful editing technique out of the restoration lab and into the creative studio. What is spectral audio editing? Spectral audio editing itself is not exactly a new idea; audio restoration and forensics experts have relied on spectral editing [...]

January 2013 – Entering the headphone marketplace with a high performance rocker targeted audience is the Motorheadphone products. The product line with several full over the ear models and several in-ear models was shown at CES with an introduction by the front-man of the band for whom the products are named – Lemmy Kilmister of [...]

January 2013 – The new Neat Receipt Desktop Scanner is a joy to work with. Installation of the software and familiarizing myself with the scanner itself was easy, but the speed of the scanner and companion software was remarkable. Neat desktop scanner I am the type who has typically followed the “shove it a box [...]

Sony thinks not,as it finally brings Sound Forge Pro to the Mac. The Mac has a long and storied past when it comes to dedicated audio waveform editors. Way back at the dawn of the digital age in 1986, SoundEdit, the very first widely used waveform editor was created on the Mac. Since then a [...]