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Elliptic Labs Uses Virtual Sensors to Make Smart Speakers Even Smarter
SV Staff  |  Mar 07, 2018
Who needs voice control when you can start music playback from your spiffy smart speaker by simply walking into the room? Suddenly, that smart speaker is looking more like a genius.
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Elite’s New 4K Screen Makes In-Walls Disappear
SV Staff  |  Mar 07, 2018
Elite Screens has introduced an acoustically transparent, fixed-frame 4K screen featuring an edge-free design that creates the impression of a giant flat-panel TV.
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Audio Video News
RIP: Tower Records Founder Russ Solomon
SV Staff  |  Mar 06, 2018
Russ Solomon, founder and leader of the legendary Tower Records — arguably the most influential chain of music stores in the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s — died Sunday at his home near Sacramento, California. He was 92.
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Klipsch Museum of Audio History Now Offering Memberships
SV Staff  |  Mar 06, 2018
The Klipsch Heritage Museum Association (KHMA) today announced that it is now offering to the public memberships to the Klipsch Museum of Audio History in Hope, Arkansas.
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LG Announces Pricing for 2018 4K OLED and LCD TVs
SV Staff  |  Mar 06, 2018
LG today announced pricing and availability for the 2018 TV lineup of 4K OLED and 4K LCD TVs it previewed at CES 2018 in January.
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Signals
Should You Invest in Spotify?
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Mar 06, 2018
Today, Spotify is a privately-owned company. But in a few weeks, it will go public. That means you will have the opportunity to buy stock in the company. The question is, do you feel lucky?

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Smart Camera Translates Gestures into Commands
SV Staff  |  Mar 05, 2018
If the popularity of voice-enabled smart speakers like the Amazon Echo and Google Home has taught us anything, it’s that the tech world has fully embraced voice as the control interface of choice through the likes of Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri, and other virtual assistants.
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Haier Smartwatch Doubles as a Micro Projector
SV Staff  |  Mar 05, 2018
Here’s something you don’t see every day: A smartwatch that uses the wearer's hand as a second screen.
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Grace Notes
Coros Omni Cycling Helmet: Safe with Sound
Leslie Shapiro  |  Mar 05, 2018
I know what you’re thinking. This is Sound & Vision Magazine. Why the heck is a bicycle helmet reviewed here? Simple. The Coros Omni Smart Helmet has built-in bone-conducting headphones. That’s why.

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Atomic Blonde
Brandon A. DuHamel  |  Mar 02, 2018
David Leitch is known mostly as a stunt coordinator on big action films like Tron: Legacy, but for Atomic Blonde he steps behind the camera as the big man in charge to direct an adaptation of the graphic novel series The Coldest City by Antony Johnson and Sam Hart. The movie is fairly dripping in neon and ’80s nostalgia. Charlize Theron stars as sexy Cold War MI6 agent Lorraine Broughton, tasked to go into East Berlin and work with embedded station chief David Percival (James McAvoy) in order to find a sensitive dossier.
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