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Mirage Nanosat 5.1

It's safe to say that the Mirage Nanosat 5.1 Home Theater sounds unlike any box-type satellite/subwoofer combination system on the market. While conventional box speakers project sound forward, the Nanosat speakers are designed to produce a ratio of 30 percent direct and 70 percent reflected sound. The direct sound heads...

Tags: Nanosat, speaker, Nanosat speaker, satellite, deflector

Product reviews 2009-03-25

Mirage MX 5.1

Just when we thought satellite/subwoofer systems couldn't get any smaller, along comes the ultracompact Mirage MX 5.1 retailing for $1,200. (Mirage calls it a "Home Theater System," but it's really just a surround speaker package that requires a separate AV receiver/amplifier.) Just how small is it? Each MX satellite speaker...

Tags: speaker, Mirage MX 5.1, deflector, satellite

Product reviews 2009-02-20

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2010 Nissan 370Z Roadster

Photo gallery:2010 Nissan 370Z RoadsterWhen we reviewed the new Nissan 370Z Coupe last year, we applauded the company for doing a sports car model update right. Rather than bloating out the car, Nissan reduced size and weight, at the same time putting in a bigger engine. But the roadster version...

Tags: Digital music, cabin tech, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., Nissan 370Z, car, sports car, Nissan 370Z Roadster

Product reviews 2009-10-14

Ford says its greening paint, regardless of the paint's color

Putting paint onto new cars entails off-gassing, heating, drying, some intensive engergy-use. At least that's how it used to be. Ford says it is now converting plants to a new process that applies three layers one after the other. Simplifies, shortens and fredcues energy needs of the...

Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Ford Motor Co., Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-06

2008 Porsche 911 Carrera 4S Cabriolet

Photo gallery:2008 Porsche 911 Carrera 4S Cabriolet"Taut" became our word of the day as we started to test out the 2008 Porsche 911 Carrera 4S Cabriolet. There is nothing loose about this car--it goes exactly where you point it and evenly distributes power when you push the accelerator. Its...

Tags: Marin County, Porsche 911, Porsche 911 Carrera 4S Cabriolet, navigation system, Porsche AG, Planning

Product reviews 2008-04-08

Battleships Forever 1 (Windows)

Battleships Forever is a freeware tactical Real Time Strategy game that put's you in command of a small fleet of warships in space. Combat and damage mechanics are extremely detailed. Everything is simulated in game if possible. There are no arbitrary "to hit chance" values in Battleships Forever. The game...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Mechanics, Wyrdysm Games, Battleships Forever, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-03-18

Macs and iPhones: impolitic Apple hardware can be hard to hide

Like the Japanese car in the Dearborn auto plant parking lot, Macs and iPhones must create problems for switchers working at Apple competitors as well as companies with a PC-or-die IT policy. The other day, I heard a tale from a longtime Mac user who has worked...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Desktops, Hardware, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-02-06

Samsung LN-T4671F

Samsung's LN-T4671F is the third HDTV we've reviewed to incorporate video processing that smooths out judder, or the inherent choppiness and stutter during motion that can show up most noticeably on film-based video.. Although we're still ambivalent about its effect on most Hollywood films, we really like how it treats...

Tags: Corporate communications, TVs, TV & Home Theater, menu system, Samsung LN-T4671F, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., strip

Product reviews 2007-11-13

Samsung LN-T4681F

Among that tiny segment of the population that cares about the latest HDTV technology, and the even tinier segment that can afford it, the introduction of Samsung's 81 series of flat-panel LCDs is kind of like early Christmas. The first widely distributed LCD HDTVs to incorporate LED backlights--Sony sold a...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Monitors & displays, Samsung LN-T4681F, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., HDTV

Product reviews 2007-11-01

2007 Audi A4 Cabriolet 2.0T Quattro

The Audi A4 is about to get a major overhaul for the 2008 model year, but the 2007 A4 Cabriolet has plenty to recommend it to those not willing to wait until next year. With many of the same technology options as the 2007 A4 sedan we got in earlier...

Tags: Audi A4, A4 Cabriolet, Audi AG, trunk

Product reviews 2007-08-30

Mozilla to ship Firefox 'workaround' for .ANI exploit

Mozilla to ship Firefox 'workaround' for .ANI exploitWhy not just patch?What's the point? Why not just apply the patch, something you should do anyuway?Firefox / Firebug critical vulnerability!! (

Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, Firebug, Mozilla Corp., vulnerability

Discussion threads 2007-04-04

Visolve 4.1.2 (Mac)

Visolve is the software that transforms colors of the computer display into the discriminable colors for various people including people with color vision deficiency, commonly called color blindness. One of its aims is to help people with color blindness guess a normal color. In addition to the color transformation, it...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Color, Ryobi System Solutions, Visolve, Visolve Deflector, Visolve Toolbar, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2007-01-16

2007 Volkswagen Eos

Photo gallery:2007 Volkswagen Eos More than any car to have motored through the CNET garage this year, the 2007 Volkswagen Eos elicited enthusiastic interest from fellow motorists. Whether this attention is down to Volkswagen fans being more effusive than someone lusting after, say, a BMW M6, our car's cheery Eismeer...

Tags: EoS, Volkswagen AG

Product reviews 2006-12-20

Looking inside your brain... without hurting you

Researchers at Stanford University have developed a portable device that captures pictures beneath the living brain's surface with minimal invasive effects. This new 3.9 gram two-photon fluorescence microendoscope can fit in the palm of your hand. It combines optical and mechanical techniques to image brain cells up to a millimeter...

Tags: Document management, fluorescence, photon, technique, molecule

Blog posts 2005-09-05

Firm points to flaws in Windows security update

Firm points to flaws in Windows security updateI think we all expected some flaws in it...There's going to be flaws in it, we all know this. Now if MS goes to work on these reported flaws and has them fixed before SP2 goes public this will be a non...

Tags: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, SECURITY, Service Pack 2, flaw, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2004-08-18

RocketElite ARM 1.05 (Mobile)

RocketEliteBy Douglas Beck Digital Concepts 2000-2002. All Rights Reserved. Published by GameLoft.com. Distributed by Ubi Soft Entertainment. System RequirementsPocket PCs: Supports all color Pocket PC & Pocket PC 2002 devices except the Casio BE-300 and the Hp Jornada 525. Overview RocketElite is an addictive fast-action space-shooter serving up oodles of...

Tags: ARM, Mobile, Digital Concepts, RocketElite, Games, Pocket PC, Personal Technology, Handhelds, Hardware

Software downloads 2002-02-24

RocketElite MIPS 2.0 (Mobile)

RocketEliteBy Douglas Beck Digital Concepts 2000-2002. All Rights Reserved. Published by GameLoft.com. Distributed by Ubi Soft Entertainment. System RequirementsPocket PCs: Supports all color Pocket PC & Pocket PC 2002 devices except the Casio BE-300 and the Hp Jornada 525. Overview RocketElite is an addictive fast-action space-shooter serving up oodles of...

Tags: Mobile, Digital Concepts, RocketElite MIPS 2.0, Games, Pocket PC, Personal Technology, Handhelds, Hardware

Software downloads 2002-02-24