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The Cuddle Couch
Set Yourself Free
The Cuddle Couch, by Elite Home Theater Seating, ain’t your father’s recliner.
“With this chair, you can curl up next to someone, stretch out,” says designer and company owner Bobby Bala. “You can really lose yourself in the movie-watching experience because you’re not restricted to a certain angle like you are in a recliner.”
Belkin FlyWire Wireless HDMI Transmitter
Free your TV
One of the sad realities of flat panel ownership is that you can't hang them on the wall as easily as TV commercials make you believe. Not only is there the power cable to worry about, but also a half dozen or more cables from your DVR, DVD player, PS3, and so on.
Belkin has just announced the FlyWire, which will free your TV from all those cables save one, the power.
Hollandia Elite Bed
Stay in bed
What’s better than a bonafide reason to stay in bed? The Elite Bed by Hollandia—with its DVD/CD changer, iPod docking station, a retractable Bravia 32-inch flat-panel TV and a surround-sound system—is your excuse to do just that.
10 Best Design 2009
Our 10 Best Design Award winners
The year's best designs, from electronics to furniture.
CEDIA Expo 2008 Wrapup
Down from Mile High
Most of the news out of the CEDIA expo this year was of an evolutionary nature. Bigger, better performing, changes in price, those types of things. That doesn’t mean there wasn't plenty that caught our eye.
Make the jump for an overview of what we saw.
Crestron teams up with Agilewaves to help control your power consumption
Green up your Crestron
Say you've got your Creston hooked up to all the lighting in your house. Say it's also tied in to the HVAC, curtains, or any combination of these. Then Agilewaves Resource Monitor will make such sense to you, you'll be surprised you didn't think of it first.
Philips Holidays in June 2008
Philips, at an event this week, showed off a number of home audio, video, and visual products.
Sold in Europe and only now being offered here, the LivingColors ball is a remote controlled LED color wheel/light. You can dial in pretty much any color you want, using an remote controled iPod-like scroll wheel of color.
Change the color and mood of your room (ok, part of your room, they're soccer-ball sized) instantly. It's better to see it working, which you can do here.
Universal Remote Control (URC) releases the MX-450
Programmable remote control, without a computer
One of the challenges with many complex universal remote controls is that you need a computer to program them.
Well what if a computer isn't readily available to the custom installer? Enter the MX-450.