Audyssey’s Speaker Is Nice, But AirPlay Is a Wet Blanket
It looks unassuming, but the sound is big and brash. Photo by Ariel Zambelich/Wired Audyssey Laboratories has been around for a decade, making audio hardware and signal-processing software for a wide range of consumer goods — phones, TVs, anything with speakers. You’d be forgiven if you’ve never heard the name before, as the Los Angeles-based company mostly operates behind the...
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Lenovo's new ThinkPad X230 is a thin and light laptop with an Ivy Bridge processor. Photo by Ariel Zambelich/Wired A little over a year ago, just before ultrabook mania got its start, we crowned Lenovo’s ThinkPad X220 a near-masterpiece of ultralight laptop design. The 12.1-inch, 3.3-pound laptop had power to spare, nearly five hours of battery life with the stock 6-cell unit, and a solid...
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Photo: Basem Wasef/Wired Supercars should look like sex. This is what the voice inside my head has been insisting since I was 14 years old, when the very same (if slightly less mature) spirit guide led me to hang a Lamborghini Countach poster above my bed and doodle Ferrari Testarossas all over my Pee Chee folders. But somehow, to my eye, the McLaren MP4-12C doesn’t quite strike a nerve the...
Read MoreSummertest 2012
Instagram + 8-megapixel smartphones = a world full of photographers and the end of lousy vacation pics. Here’s the gear you need to make this summer a visual treat. Photographs by Greg Broom; Illustrations by Josh Halinaty 06.01.2012 Our Favorite Camera: Canon EOS 5D MARK III The 22.3-megapixel Canon EOS 5D...
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