$2,500 headphones can blind you
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Swarovski crystals have created a trend in consumer technology.
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People are having to wait up to five years for the latest digital hearing aids, a report has found.
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Bluetooth headsets, the tiny earpieces that make people look like they're talking into thin air when they're on their cell phones, have been a success story despite often being maddeningly difficult to use.
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Fancy a diamond-encrusted cellphone for $3.5 million, or a gold-plated, musical Swiss watch costing more than $2 million?
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It's a bit disorienting: slip on a set of headphones, turn up the volume and, while you move about the room, the music stays put &#151; as if coming out of five speakers stuck on a wall.
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A couple of small--but serious--issues regarding the audio output of the iPhone have been percolating on the Web for the last week or so.  From Crave, CNET's gadgets blog.
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Who could complain about the iPod? But who can cope with it? If you can listen to everything, you may end up hearing nothing.
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I saw an ad in yesterday's NY Times that offered the complete New Yorker magazine archive, including all the cartoons and ads, going back to 1920-something for a bit more than the hard disk would cost. The ad was from J&R, the company that makes the product is Pexagon. $149. Sounds like there might be DRM. I asked for something like this from the music business. A hundred gigs of popular music for $500, all pre-installed on the disk without DRM.  Someone at the New Yorker had this idea too? It's a good one. Bulk content for collector types. Another source of revenue. I want to run my own personal radio station, so having every song of a certain genre or from a certain period makes the diff.
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How much is two months of fashion-forwardness worth? About $200, judging by Apple's precipitous iPhone price cut on Wednesday -- or a whole lot of customer goodwill, judging by user reaction to Steve Jobs' announcement.
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At what decibel level does noise start to do irreparable hearing damage?
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The portable stereos that ruled city streets in the 1980s aren't shipping in high volumes anymore. But some sound artists are finding new ways to incorporate the devices into performances and ad-hoc radio networks. By Elizabeth Biddlecombe.
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Modern marvels like game consoles and T-shirts that make air guitarists' phantom riffs audible further blur the line between the real and virtual worlds. Commentary by Momus.
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Blog: Want to make that music track a ringtone? Get ready to spend $.99 all over again.
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Noise-reducing headphones, more svelte than they used to be, are not just for pilots any more.
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As predicted by Blake's 7... Some UK-based portable media player owners will next month be able to watch videos without the need to squint at a small screen, if PDT's Eye-Theatre video spectacles ship as planned. The 'video glasses' mount a pair of tiny LCDs in front of your eyes and incorporate stereo earphones into the ear-rests.â¦
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This year, high-def audio. Next year, the connected receiver. Before long, we will all be surrounded by sound.
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CSR soups-up headsets with extra processing power Digital signal processors (DSPs) are making their way into almost everything, and now it's the turn of Bluetooth headsets.â¦