Cobra Electronics is a respected old-school name in the mobile-communications industry. After all, these are the guys who invented the CB radio if you can copy that. And now, the trusted Chicago-based electronics producer (and maker of many a quality fuzz buster) has released the Cobra Airwave Series, a new line of Bluetooth-friendly wireless speakers. Among […]


22 Nov
Wireless capability, detachable mic & rechargeable battery

You’ve built a true-to-life flight simulator cockpit of a Warthog helicopter from detailed instructions downloaded from some obscure website. You spend time normally reserved for sleep leading tactical teams through Call of Duty missions with Germans you’ve never met before who you now consider friends. You’ve nearly lost your girlfriend because the cost of your […]


29 Aug
6 hours of wireless music synced up to your iPhones & tablets

As awesome as old school boomboxes are (which is clearly, very) they have way too many shortcomings to make them rationally usable, no matter how ironically 80s you want to be. The giant train of D size batteries, the size and weight of the players, the lack of mp3… pretty much everything. Logitech’s UE Boombox […]


14 Dec
Shogun Bros clean up your workspace

In the hopes of cleaning up the unsightly wreckage that is your desktop, Shogun Bros. have created the aptly named Chameleon X-1 — a wireless optical mouse that handily flips over to become a PC gamepad. So instead of cluttering up your desk with a mouse and a gamepad, the Chameleon X-1 combines the two […]


25 Mar
Now in Sorbet Lime, Arctic White and Pearl Grey

Remember those beautiful Philippe Starck-designed Parrot Zikmu speakers? Well now you can color coordinate those 100W speakers in 2010 — assuming Sorbet Lime, Arctic White or Pearl Grey matches your living room, that is. Like the previous black models, you can play music from your laptop via Wi-Fi or from your phone via Bluetooth, as […]


Designed by Philippe Starck, these 100W Parrot Zikmu speakers play music from your laptop via Wi-Fi or from your phone via Bluetooth. Of course there’s also a port for your iPod or iPhone cause we live in the 21st century. The 2.5-foot tall trumpet-shaped speakers are acoustically designed for clarity and bass, but I gotta […]