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Silence is golden and Silentium are working hard to achieve this with their active noise reduction technology. Andy and Don keep it down with Yossi Barath. Silentium has developed an active noise reduction system that can be implemented in a single chip. The complex (and proprietary) algorithms programmed into the chip use noise cancellation (destructive interference) to reduce the amount of
As you have almost certainly already heard, one of the big things coming in Windows 8 will be it's support of ARM processors. The main feature of the new operating system, though, is the radical new Metro interface. The Metro Start screen displays a series of "live tiles". These are the apps, some of which come with Windows 8, and
This year at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Verizon unveiled something cool and unexpected - a touchscreen photo jukebox. This isn't what you would expect from the words "Verizon touchscreen". It's actually a touchscreen jukebox with karaoke and a photo booth. all rolled into one large LCD screen. The whole thing runs on the Verizon 4G LTE network
If you are in the market for a home surveillance camera, or IP camera as they are also known, then Samsung has a new one that is worth checking out. Last month at the Consumer Electronics Show is Las Vegas, Jeffery Powers stopped by the Samsung booth to get a look at the newest addition to their camera family. The
MWE Lab has taken all of the elements of an office and compressed them down into one ergonomic object. MWE stands for Modern Work Environment and they spent about three years designing the Emperor 1510 to make it a place that, according to their spokesperson, a worker can spend 10-12 hours without feeling any fatigue. That's a strong statement, so
One of the reasons we dropped the show notes last show was to see what the feedback would be. Two fans complained which was smaller than I thought it would be. We are working on a solution to keep from being penalized by Google when we post 30 links in the show notes without a lot of context.. Tonight we
In this Round Table Jeffrey from Geekazine.com shares his recommendations for wordpress plugins. Todd Cochrane of GeekNewsCentral.com talks about PowerPress 3.0 and the new Meta Marks feature along with an assortment of other new features..
Although not present in the USA and Europe, viewing broadcast TV on mobile phones is very popular in Asian countries and parts of South America. Andy and Don talk to Guy from Siano Mobile Silicon about the technology behind this cultural phenomena. Watching broadcast TV on mobile phones has been very popular in China, Japan and Korea, particularly with people who
If you've never come across a MakerBot before, think of it is an inkjet printer, which instead of printing on paper with ink, prints a three dimensional object with plastic. Andy and Don investigate further with Bre from MakerBot. Announced at CES, the MakerBot Replicator is bigger and better, with an increased volume capacity and the dual extrusion, i.e. able to
Smith Micro is best known for its Mac software and StuffIt! in particular but the company's portfolio is much wider than that. Andy and Don chat to Carla of Smith Micro Software to find out what else the company does. Smith Micro has a portfolio of products in the mobile wireless space, delivering solutions for telcos and cable operators. As Carla
As on-line marketers transfer their cold-calling attention away from land-lines to cell and mobile phones, their calls are becoming increasingly an annoyance when you are out-and-about. PrivacyStar offers a multilayered solution for Android and Blackberry to cut unwanted calls. Andy finds out more. PrivacyStar is a smartphone app to block unwanted calls and SMS texts. At its simplest, user-specified phone
Snowboarders, skiers, mountainbikers, sky divers, hunters - if you want to show off your latest adventures to your friends and enemies, then Contour's new bullet cam is the way to do it. Andy gets the deets from Marie at Contour. The Contour+ was launched back in spring 2011 and quickly gained a following among the extreme sports crowd for the
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