Players looking to tap into the sweet sounds of a vintage Vox AC30 amplifier while out and about might plug into one of the company’s excellent amPlug headphone amps and rock out. But now there’s another option, as Vox announces three new headphone variants that have guitar amps cooked in. …
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Fender is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, and is marking the occasion with special editions of its most popular models – the Telecaster, Stratocaster, Precision Bass and Jazz Bass. Originally working in the world of accounting, Clarence Leonidas Fender’s real passion was electronics. In the late 1930s he borrowed …
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Asus has debuted the ZenBeam Latte L1 portable projector as part of its “Be Ahead” product launch at the online-only CES 2021 expo. The mug-sized, battery powered unit with a built-in speaker is designed for streaming YouTube videos or games inside or outside the home. Where portable projectors have previously …
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The original Oculus Quest was one of the technology world’s great game-changers when it dropped in 2018: a totally wireless virtual reality headset you could use just about anywhere with nearly zero setup, coupled with a super-slick user interface that instantly yanked VR out of the realm of geekdom and …
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Usually when we talk about “cutting the cord,” it means disconnecting the cable or satellite feed from the TV and streaming content over Wi-Fi. But Russian startup Reasonance has bigger plans for TV cord cutting. The wireless TV prototype it showed at CES 2021 leaves the electrical cord behind in …
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Though notebook-like devices tend to get most of the attention in the Chrome OS space, mini computers are also available for those who prefer desktop machines that don’t take up too much space. The latest Chromebox from Asus should also be a quiet runner thanks to its fanless design. Chromebooks …
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We’ve already heard about small flying or wheeled robots that cooperate on tasks by working in collaborative “swarms.” Harvard University researchers have now gone a step further, by developing tiny underwater robots that school together like fish. Known as Bluebots, the fish-inspired robots each incorporate two wide-angle cameras and three …
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We’ve barely got into 2021 and the first flagship phones of the year are already here. Samsung just revealed its Galaxy S21, Galaxy S21 Plus and Galaxy S21 Ultra handsets for 2021, following on from last year’s Galaxy S20 series. As is usual with the Galaxy S range, there are …
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If one of the motors conks out on a quadcopter drone, the aircraft usually just crashes. Thanks to new research, however, such disabled drones could soon not only remain airborne, but even complete their trip. Typically, when one of a quadcopter’s four motors ceases functioning, the drone starts rapidly spinning, …
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China’s Hisense has announced that it will launch a full range of TriChroma Laser TVs during 2021. The lineup of ultra-short-throw laser projectors will include a limited edition model capable of throwing a 100-inch image onto the matching screen. Laser TVs are nothing new of course, Hisense launched its first …
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