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.”

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.

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Time to ditch all your gear... again.

Just when you got a handle on HDMI 1.3, here comes 1.4. While this is sure to elicit a groan from many, 1.4 has a host of new features that are actually very, very cool.

Starting with the ability to send Internet data over HDMI.

I'll let the gravity of that sink in while you click...

Everybody's doing it.

Lutron has jumped aboard the iTrain with its new iPhone/iPod Touch control interface. The company has also announced a number of new wireless solutions, including a single-room version of its popular RadioRA system and a completely new wireless system called Maestro.

Good things do come in small packages.

With its smooth monolithic looks and multitasking function, Naim’s Uniti All-In-One Audio Player compacts a lot of features into one smooth black box.

Amp, CD player, tuner… and that's not all.

"Mini" Kaleidescape

A complete system for organizing an entire collection of movies and music, the Mini System, from Kaleidescape, Inc., does just that…with one box.

Integrating a complete multi-zone system into a single component, the Mini System is easily installed by connecting to power, the Internet and a TV display.

All the info after the jump.