Drop cable? Not without an antenna
The television antenna, a relic from the black-and-white analog era, has become an improbable fighter in the modern cord-cutting movement. Without one, it's not possible to ditch cable or satellite...
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Cobblestone: Squeezing Wi-Fi music streaming out of a rock
Like the mullet (and mullet hems), in-home Wi-Fi audio streaming now belongs to another era. At least it seemed that way after Bluetooth transformed itself from a limited-range mobile technology...
Getting a taste of the latest headphone technology
In any gathering of headphones, the elephant in the room is almost always the planar magnetic models. They don't need a name tag: They're bigger, heavier, less efficient and often...
A battery-powered Bluetooth streamer for less than $15
Want to make a smug, ageist 16-year-old feel old? Tell her Bluetooth-enabled cellphones didn't even exist when she was born. Ouch. Bluetooth, and smartphones, are now standard equipment in most...
Make binoculars a game changer in football season
Watch the birds or the leaves all you want, but a lot of people steer their long-range focus each fall toward humans in nylon-spandex uniforms. It's football season! Whether you're...
Fluance’s Fi50 takes Bluetooth speakers in a new direction: Big
Look what just waddled into the room and dropped itself onto the nearest bookshelf: The Fluance Fi50 Bluetooth speaker. Doesn't this speaker from CWD in Niagara Falls (Ontario) know the...
America’s toilet-tech crisis: Why we’re so far behind
I have spent 155 days of my life sitting on a toilet, spun through almost 2,400 rolls of toilet paper and wiped myself almost 140,000 times. (Thanks for counting, Poop...
How to live with Apple Music for 3 months
Maybe Apple Music really doesn't want to conquer Spotify, at least not this week. Its biggest target now is the newbie who has yet to pay for a streaming music...
Are balanced-armature earphones right for you?
What's inside your earbuds? Beats me. Answer: Probably the same thing that's inside your portable or desktop speaker, a dynamic driver with a voice coil that drives the familiar conical...
Kickstarter kicks: The $9 computer, space selfie, wireless paper airplane
If Kickstarter were a cable television service, it would have more than 86,000 channels — the number of projects funded by close to 23 million pledges. Here's a snapshot of...