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Safretti may not be a household name to most, but the Dutch company makes some of the most interesting fireplaces around. They're gas powered, but since they use refillable bio-alcohol
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There are plenty of good movies hitting Blu-ray this week, including a few new releases. December 1st also marks the first day that the 3D version of 'Avatar' will be
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“Through customer feedback,” says Wilson Audio President Mark Glazier, “we identified an opportunity to address both the ultra high-end audio market and installations for large theaters where high sensitivity and
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A new line of HDTVs from Toshiba – Power TV will be equiped with external battery. So, its owners will be able to watch favourite TV shows about two hours after power cut. Not bad, especially during Champions League play-off. Additionally, Power TVs will have two cool features – “Auto Signal Booster” to improve video [...]

Company Xtreamer released its new network HD media player iXtreamer with unique feature. It sports iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch dock which allows to playback media content from Apple devices on your TV. But even you don’t have such devices still iXtreamer can be an option. Except common features such 1080p video playback from internal 3.5″ HDD, [...]

Using application VPlayer it’s possible to watch live stream from VDR directly on the Android-based devices. Sure you should have working streamdev-server to do that. Communication is done via WiFi. Possible use 3G as well but IP filtering in the streamdev-server config file should be define properly. Also don’t forget about possibility to convert VDR [...]

The self-made home automation system demonstrated on that video has GUI similar to LCARS interface from Star Trek. You may see following components in action in that video: Agenda/Calendar, Shopping list (Groceries), Rain radar, Train departure times, Library & Media player connected to home cinema set, Internet browser.

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Looks like the guys at Evoluce have ran with the newly available OpenKinect drivers (freely available for Windows 7, Linux, and Mac OS X) and created a new multi-touch experience that we’ll all soon get to enjoy. A demo of Evoluce’s Kinect-enabled drivers in action are attached below running on a Windows 7 PC, manipulating [...]

The Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) is announcing that the number of DLNA certified printers available to consumers in 2010 jumped nearly 200% since 2009, with the help of market leaders HP, Samsung, and Epson. The vision is to have all DLNA certified devices, either Web or networked connected, be able to print to any [...]

Got an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch and are considering buying a new Apple TV? Stop and have a look at Xtreamer’s latest offering, the 6 iXtreamer networked media player. The device features an integrated dock, with charging capability, for your iDevices that will allow you to play your stored media (app support is planned) [...]