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With all this talk about the economic stimulus plan, things might be looking up. Check out Gearlog’s deals for Friday, Jan. 30:

1. Woot is offering a pair of Klipsch RF-25 Floorstanding Loudspeakers for $499 today. The speakers have an MSRP of $899, so you’re saving quite a chunk. Also, get the Klipsch Synergy KSW12 12-inch Powered Subwoofer from sellout.woot for just $219.99. The subwoofer has a MSRP of $549.

2. Barnes and Noble is having an after-holiday sale with 75 percent or more off books, and well as music, DVDs, and video games. DVD box sets are up to 50 percent off the original price. Get “4 Film Favorites” (four movies in one) for just $12.59, including Elvis Presley musicals, Clint Eastwood comedies, or all four “Lethal Weapon” movies. The sale ends on Sunday, so check it out now.

Emo Labs didn’t stir up too much commotion while CES was going on, but apparently it did have a tiny presence in Vegas. The crew at Technologizer was able to listen to a sneak preview of the startup’s Edge Motion technology, and if the demo is indicative of the end result, we could be onto something special. Much like NXT’s SoundVu tech that seemed to fizzle out about as quickly as it hit the scene in 2005, this system creates a so-called invisible speaker by “using arrays of motors to wiggle the edges of a clear membrane.” Gurus at the company are hoping to have it integrated into panels of TVs by the end of this year, though it’ll be a bit longer before the same can happen on space-constrained laptops.

Filed under: Home Entertainment

Emo Labs concocts its own invisible speaker technology originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 27 Jan 2009 02:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The kids over at CNET have got their hands on the new X-mini II portable speaker for laptops, PMPs, and the like — and they’ve been gracious enough to give us the lowdown. The speaker is an update to the X-mini, incrementally larger than its predecessor and packing a 40mm driver. Powered by a rechargeable battery, this bad boy can be juiced up via mini-USB cable (included) and boasts a pretty impressive eleven hours of run time before it needs to be recharged. And if that weren’t enough, several of these guys can be daisy chained together — so if you should find yourself in your dorm room with nothing to amuse yourself but your iPhone, an acoustic guitar, and some Dave Matthews Band MP3s, you can string up a half dozen or so of these things and have an old fashioned grape jam. Look for the speaker sometime in March, with a probable MSRP of $29.

Filed under: Peripherals

The portable, rollable X-mini II speaker gets a refresh originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Swiss company Ewoo, a new maker of high-end audio equipment, has released a line of iPod-compatible products in conjunction with Cabasse, a French high-fidelity speaker manufacturer.

The HandMusic (above) is a dock and remote control for iPods. It lets you browse content from up to 500 feet away, sync iTunes through USB, or search alphabetically through your iTunes on the HandMusic. The HandMusic, however, does not actually play music–you have to hook it up to speakers or a docking station. The remote is simply a way to know what’s playing on your iPod while you’re sitting down, without having to get up to look at your iPod. The HandMusic is $199.99.

More products after the jump.

Is there anything BillionSound won’t put a speaker in? No, no there isn’t. The Chinese company had speakers shoved into just about everything imaginable in their booth at the International Hall of CES 2009–including a mousepad.

The Chinese company’s excitingly named RM-102 sticks a 25mm flat-paneled speaker into a regular really, really thick mousepad. The whole thing is USB powered.