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Mogees Makes Music at The Gadget Show

The Gadget Show has all kinds of tech on display, from mainstream suppliers with latest tablets to niche fun products that bring a smile to your face and Mogees is definitely in the latter camp. Many of us will have seen those vibration speakers that turn any surface into a speaker....Mogees does the reverse, converting any surface or object into

Spotify updates its UI, adds new ‘Your Music’ option

Spotify remains one of the top music streaming services in today’s market, competing with iTunes, Rdio, Google and others. The good thing about this crowd at the top is the simple fact that competition frequently leads to innovation. Today Spotify announces an all-new, revamped user interface, referring to it as "paint it black" in an announcement. An appropriate reference for

Gibson Takes TPN Award at CES

Celebrating 120 years of Gibson, Aljon Go shows Jeffrey and Todd the superb Anniversary Edition of the Les Paul Standard.  It's stunning both in the Ocean Water Perimeter finish, the level of detail and the technology built-in. The sound of the guitar can be changed to mimic the tone of your rock'n'roll hero and Min-ETune will tune the guitar automatically.

Korus Portable Wireless Speakers

Todd and Don interview Nortek's Rob Halligan about the new wireless speaker system called Korus, which instead of using wifi or Bluetooth, uses SKAA, a wireless hi-fi audio standard that won CES Innovation awards in 2010 and 2011. The benefit of SKAA is low latency and greater range, but the downside is that it's not built-in to any smartphone, tablet or media

Philips Golden Ears Challenge

The mp3 digital music format has liberated music in a way that would be totally unthinkable to a previous generation. The Walkman made music portable and the CD digitised music but the revolution came as the mp3 format compressed music to fit into a fraction of its true size. Instead of music collections stretching from floor to ceiling, they could fit into

Minimalist Momentum Headphones from Sennheiser at CES

Sennheiser are usually my headphone manufacturer of choice when it comes to music, so I'm always interested in the latest news from the German team. To be honest, it's not massive news but when the headphones look as good as these, who cares? For CES, Sennheiser have updated their "minimalist urban" headphones, the Momentum On-Ear with three new colours; high-gloss black,

Google Play makes its favorite songs of 2013 free today

Before going any further, I want to wish all of the GNC readers a happy New Year! To celebrate, many services are holding sales and even offering free options on this first day of 2014. If you are an Android user, or simply a customer of Google Music, then you'll want to head into the Play store today. The search