These Sennheisers are not fashion headphones. They don’t have a multi-million dollar marketing campaign behind them. They don’t have legions of rapper endorsements. What they are is well-designed, comfortable, and beautiful-sounding headphones that are currently at Amazon’s lowest historical price. Mario Aguilar reviewed them back in May and loved them: More »
If sitting is the new smoking — that is, it makes you look cool and significantly shortens your life expectancy — then we, as sitting addicts, should choose our brand. People even moderately acquainted with high-end office chairs know about the Herman Miller Aeron, but Steelcase also makes a few premium thrones. In particular, the Steelcase Leap is a widely acclaimed chair. It’s a Wirecutter favorite; here’s Kyle VanHemert’s take: More »
A few weeks ago we got a tip: check Amazon Warehouse after the Super Bowl. The logic goes that lots of folks buy more TV than they can afford to impress their friends, then they take advantage of Amazon’s rather generous return policy. Amazon can’t sell the now-“used” TVs at full price, so they lop 20%-30% off, and sell it on their Amazon Warehouse site. Lo and behold, five business days after the Super Bowl, there are some stellar used HDTV deals. More »
Dropbox gives you 2GB of storage when you sign up. iCloud offers 5GB. While there are plenty of reasons to prefer those services, the storage space they offer is way less than what you can get with Box today. Usually Box only gives you 5GB of storage for free, but if you sign up with a new email address, Box will give you 25GB of cloud storage for life (or until the end of the Box enterprise.) More »
My iPhone recently turned one and a half, and let me tell you, the battery isn’t what it used to be. The battery life isn’t terrible, but it’s certainly flagging. For folks with old smartphones, you know the feeling: you want a safety blanket so you’re not left without your communications hub at the worst time. This tiny Mophie Juice Pack seems like it would fit the bill: it’s a portable 2000mAh battery so you can give your gadgets a little boost. Mophie makes good products — Mario Aguilar relied on a (larger) Mophie juice pack to get through CES. Plus, with this model, the actual battery is tiny, and today, there are two cool sales on it. More »
If coffee’s part of your daily routine, it makes a lot of sense to carefully choose the gear you’re touching on a daily basis. If you’ve got your brewing setup down, that means you should upgrade your mug. And there are few better travel mugs than the Contigo West Loop Travel Mug. More »
Harman Kardon’s Sound Sticks speakers are a bit of a cult item in design circles. Why? There are a couple reasons: they’ve been permanently enshrined at the Museum of Modern Art, Apple design wunderkind Jony Ive designed them, and, well, just look at those speakers. The curvaceous clear body leaves nothing to the imagination, down to the visible tweeters and subwoofer. Originally these speakers were designed to complement the translucent iMac G4 Cube, but since then these speakers have taken a life of their own. More »
Until Apple refreshes the Retina MBP line, the 15-inch rMBP remains the pro laptop to own. It’s a better value than the 13″ model, it has a quad-core processor and discrete NVIDIA graphics, and oh — nobody else has a screen like that 2880×1800-pixel beast. Best Buy’s running a sale on a bunch of MacBooks today — echoing last week’s unprecedented MacBook Air sale — and Amazon’s price-matched. That means a new entry-level Retina MacBook Pro 15″ is a straight $2000 on the dot, matching the lowest price we’ve ever seen. Mind you, a refurb from Apple is still a bit less expensive, but after taxes, you might end up saving a whole bunch on a new one from Amazon. [Amazon] More »
We like to have informal Photoshop contests in Kinja from time to time, and while sometimes you guys come up with amazing work, the vast majority are — to put it kindly — sloppy hack jobs. That’s not really surprising. Photoshop’s not an easy art to master, and while no tool or gadget will transform you into Warhol, using a clunky mouse to alter a photo certainly doesn’t help. For best results, you want a graphics tablet because the pen-and-tablet interface simply allows for much finer pixel manipulation. More »
Switching out an old-school spinning disk to a modern SSD is by far the best hardware upgrade you can do. Shopping for a good SSD price might seem simple —”you just divide the storage space by the price” — but there’s actually a lot of nuance to getting the right SSD. You want one with fast benchmark speeds and fast real world speeds, and it wouldn’t hurt if the maker had a reputation for reliability. For the vast majority of intrepid upgraders, Samsung’s 840 line is the obvious pick. Maximum PC’s Josh Norem wrote about the Samsung 840 Pro back in September: More »
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