The Speaker Company Introduces Quality Headphones and Earphones Line
March 16, 2009 by admin
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The Speaker Company Introduces Quality Headphones and Earphones Line
Consistent with its mantra of offering Twice the Quality at Half the Price, The Speaker Company recently announced that it now offers a full line of headphone and earphone products beginning this winter. These headphones and earphones meet the performance and style needs, and budget of most every listener.
Mahwah, NJ (PRWEB) March 9, 2009 — Consistent with its mantra of offering Twice the Quality at Half the Price, The Speaker Company recently announced that it now offers a full line of headphone and earphone products beginning this winter. These headphones and earphones meet the needs and budget of most every listener.
Headphones for Many Needs:
From those looking to upgrade their iPod or MP3 player headphones to professional quality headphones and earphones, The Speaker Company has a pair of headphones or earphones that meets many different listeners’ needs.
Headphones and Earphones include:
• IE-3 Earphones - These earphones are good for the listener that is looking to upgrade from their iPod/MP3 player earphones
• IE-5 Earphones - These professional quality in-ear earphones provide amazing sound and quality at an affordable price.
• NC-3 Headphones - These noise canceling headphones are best for the listener that’s looking for over ear headphones and noise canceling functionality
• HDPro-7 Headphones - These over ear headphones provide amazing professional studio sound at a price that you would only expect from The Speaker Company.
“The Speaker Company’s headphone and earphone line provide quality headphones at prices for everyone, from the most discerning listener to the budget consumer,” said Nick Valente, General Manager of The Speaker Company. “Our headphones and earphones can fit most every budget and need, and are perfect for the consumer that is looking to experience true high fidelity from their headphones or earphones.”
Initial customer feedback has been quite positive: “Great value here,” one customer said about the HDPro-7 Headphones; another customer wrote about their IE-5 earphones, “The highs and mids are just so crisp, it’s like when I got my first plasma TV and saw how sharp and awesome the picture now was.” The positive reviews have continued as well.
When you need that new set of stereo headphones or earphones and want quality at an affordable price, look to the Speaker Company. For more information on the headphone and earphone line, visit http://www.thespeakercompany.com/Headphones-C26.aspx.
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Japanese Gadget Controls iPod in Blink of an Eye
The device looks like a normal set of headphones but is fitted with a set of infrared sensors that measure tiny movements inside the ear that result from different facial expressions. The gizmo - called the “Mimi Switch” or “Ear Switch” — is connected to a micro-computer that can control electronic devices, essentially making it a hands-free remote control for anything.
“You will be able to turn on room lights or swing your washing machine into action with a quick twitch of your mouth,” said its inventor, Kazuhiro Taniguchi of Osaka University.
“An iPod can start or stop music when the wearer sticks his tongue out, like in the famous Einstein picture. If he opens his eyes wide, the machine skips to the next tune. A wink with the right eye makes it go back.
“The machine can be programmed to run with various other facial expressions, such as a wriggle of the nose or a smile.”
The Mimi Switch could also store and interpret data and get to know its user, said Taniguchi, chief researcher at Osaka University’s Graduate School of Engineering Science in western Japan.
“It monitors natural movements of the face in everyday life and accumulates data,” Taniguchi told AFP in an interview. “If it judges that you aren’t smiling enough, it may play a cheerful song.”
Some may use the device for relaxation - perhaps by changing music hands-free while reading a book - but Taniguchi said it could also have more serious applications to make people’s lives safer and easier.
“If the system is mounted on a hearing aid for elderly people, it could tell how often they sneeze or whether they are eating regularly,” he said.
“If it believes they are not well, it could send a warning message to relatives.”
The device could also serve as a remote control for appliances for physically disabled people, from cameras and computers to air conditioners, or alert medical services if a person has a fit, he said.
The Ear Switch follows on from an earlier device called the Temple Switch that was small enough to fit inside a pair of eyeglasses and also read the flick of an eyelid.
“As the ear switch is put in the ears, its optical sensors are unaffected by sunlight,” Taniguchi said.
He said he was planning to patent his new device in Japan and abroad, work on a wireless version, and seek corporate funding to market it for practical uses - something he expected might take two or three years.