Articles Archive for July 2010
Lindon, UT (July 28, 2010) – Empire Brands, manufacturers of visually striking headphones, reveals three new collections of fashion-forward headphones: Chill, Reverb and Tour. All three collections sport graffiti-inspired design elements and pack powerful sound, giving Wicked Audio customers a stylish alternative accessory option to enjoy their favorite tunes.
El Monte, CA – July 28, 2010 – NZXT, a company built on realizing the dreams of gamers worldwide, is proud to announce Phantom, the company’s most elegant and intelligent chassis design to date. Phantom exudes sophistication with pristine contours and a robust menu of high performance features that will satisfy the demands of even the most discerning PC enthusiast.
San Diego, Calif. – (July 27, 2010) – Grace Digital Inc., a leading brand of wireless indoor & outdoor audio solutions, unveils a new addition to their line of internet radios, the Tuner Wireless Radio & Media Player. Simply plug it into your current home stereo system and instantly gain access to 30,000 internet radio stations, podcast and on demand Wi-Fi radio content. Like all Grace Digital internet radios, Tuner supports a variety of services including Pandora Radio, NPR on-demand, iheartradio, and SIRIUS. Grace Digital’s Tuner Wi-Fi Radio & Media Player is currently available for $219.99 at GraceDigitalAudio.com.
SAN JOSE, California – July 26, 2010 – Source R&D, a company dedicated to bringing single-chip wireless USB solutions to the mainstream, announced that the Warpia Easy Dock is now available for purchase online. The Easy Dock allows users to wirelessly connect their laptop/netbook/Macbook to any traditional desktop setting: a mouse, keyboard, speakers, and a 15-21” external monitor. Consumers can have both the convenience of a laptop and the comfort of a desktop computer. Easier on the eyes, ears and hands, users will no longer have to squint at a miniature screen, deal with a below average sound quality, or fumble with a tiny keyboard.
El Monte, CA – July 22, 2010 – iBUYPOWER, a leading innovator in gaming PCs, is excited to announce the iBUYPOWER Performance Lab program–the industry’s first game playability buyer’s guide. The new initiative provides iBUYPOWER customers with the frames rendered per second score on three pre-configured desktops and notebooks, while playing some of the most popular and graphic intensive titles like Battlefield Bad Company 2, Modern Warfare 2 and Starcraft 2. This approach allows gamers to know how well their favorite games will run on their new gaming PC before they buy.
Portland, OR – July 22, 2010 – Lensbaby, the manufacturer of award-winning Creative Effects camera lenses, announces today the appointment of Ron Khormaei as General Manager, a role in which he will serve as the leader of its executive staff. Khormaei brings 20 years of broad management experience in Engineering, Operations, and Quality to Lensbaby, and joins the recent executive additions, Director of Marketing Heather Stewart and Senior Vice President of Sales Greg Sharp.
Compact Liquid Cooled LAN Warrior II Features a full Intel X58 setup with up to 4-way Crossfire or SLI in a portable mATX layout.
El Monte, CA – July 15, 2010 – iBUYPOWER, a leading innovator in gaming PCs, is excited to announce a liquid cooled version of the popular LAN Warrior II, small form factor PC. Despite being 40% smaller than most full tower desktops, the newest LAN Warrior features a 92mm radiator liquid cooling solution to keep the LAN Warrior II running at peak performance during even the most …
Elgato, the makers of the award-winning EyeTV product line, today released a software edition of Turbo.264 HD, a versatile and easy-to-use video converter for the Mac. Turbo.264 HD gives users the ability to instantly edit HD camcorder clips without converting them first, and supports nearly any kind of video source format. It uses advanced encoding technology to convert any video file to a very high-quality iPhone- and iPad-compatible format. The interface is extremely easy-to-use and offers pre-installed output formats for iPad, iPhone, YouTube and many others. The software edition of Turbo.264 HD is available for download immediately in the Elgato Online Store (www.elgato.com) at a price of $49.95 USD. A hardware-accelerated version of Turbo.264 HD is also available.
Portland, OR – July 14, 2010 – Lensbaby (www.lensbaby.com) announces today that it is teaming up with acclaimed photographer Kevin Kubota, Founder of Kubota Photo Design and Idea Guy behind Kubota Image Tools, to create a Kubota Creative Tools Pak specifically for Lensbaby images. To kick-off this new partnership, Lensbaby is also announcing The Kubota Contest, a new photo contest for photographers making the best use of Lensbaby Optics. All Lensbaby photographers are being asked to submit two photos taken with any Lensbaby lens (Composer, Muse and Control Freak) and any of Lensbaby’s six optics (Double Glass, Single Glass, Plastic, Fisheye, Soft Focus and Pinhole/Zone Plate), by August 6, 2010 for a chance to win Lensbaby and Kubota Bucks as well as their own copy of the new Kubota Creative Tools, The Lensbaby Pak. The Lensbaby Pak will be available in September 2010.


