John Sciacca

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CEDIA 2019
Lexicon’s SL-1 Speaker Lets You Steer Sound Around the Room
John Sciacca  |  Sep 12, 2019
Launched at the high-end Munich audio show this past May, Lexicon displayed its new SL-1 active loudspeaker at CEDIA. The flagship system takes a radically different approach to providing either a pinpoint audio image or room filling sound by employing a ring of individually amplified and controlled drivers. The speakers can be freely positioned and use advanced beam steering technology to aim and focus the sweet spot almost anywhere in the room to ensure the best possible sound at the listening position.
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CES 2018
LifeDoor: Tech That Can Save Your Life
John Sciacca  |  Jan 13, 2018
One of the great things about the Eureka Park section of CES is that you can stumble across the cool new ideas that have yet to make it to market. Such is the case with LifeDoor, designed by a former firefighter to protect his family.
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CES 2014
Like Magic: MakerBot Launches Three New 3D Printers
John Sciacca  |  Jan 07, 2014
If you’ve never seen a 3D printer in action, well, then you are missing out my friend. Watching the printer head whizzing back and forth, slowly growing, building and creating a 3D creation, it is just totally cool and like magic. And in the world of 3D printing, MakerBot is at the forefront.

MakerBot’s Chief Executive, Ben Petti, says that his company and product is about unleashing your creativity and to date there are over 44,000 MakerBots in the world. And they see this number growing to over 1,000,000.

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Custom Installation How-To
Linksys By Cisco
John Sciacca  |  Aug 27, 2009
The Short Form
$999 ($1,078 as tested) / Linksysbycisco.com
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CES 2018
Linksys Demos Killer Gaming Router
John Sciacca  |  Jan 12, 2018
Linksys is wowing gamers at CES with a smokin’ router built just for them.
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CEDIA 2013
Linn Delivers High-End Scotch and Audio
John Sciacca  |  Sep 26, 2013  |  Published: Sep 27, 2013
Linn is celebrating nearly 40 years in business, and the original turntable the company produced – the Sondek LP12 – was designed with the philosophy that any information lost at the turntable – the source – was lost. It didn’t matter how good the amp or the speakers, if the information was lost, it was unrecoverable. To celebrate the company’s 40th Anniversary, they partnered with Highland Park to create a very limited edition Sondek LP12 that is crafted from the solid oak casks used to mature Highland Park whisky. There will only be 40 of the turntables made, and each will include a bottle of 40-year Highland Park, also limited to just 40 bottles.
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The Connected Life
Listening for Life
John Sciacca  |  May 07, 2014
Good listening is safe listening. Here are three sets of headphones that add to your (and your kids) enjoyment of music without blowing out your eardrums.
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The Connected Life
Living the Automagic Lifestyle
John Sciacca  |  Dec 17, 2014
Automation describes using control systems to operate equipment or other applications with little or no human interaction. At its simplest, home automation could be a garage door opener or a mercury-filled thermostat kicking on your HVAC system; and at its most complex, there’s virtually nothing an automation system can’t do.

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The Connected Life
Living with Robots (and Gawking Neighbors)
John Sciacca  |  Aug 24, 2016
When you’re constantly surrounded by technology and automation, you tend to take things for granted, just accepting all the cool stuff happening around you as normal. It isn’t until someone who doesn’t live with this stuff on a daily basis comes over and points out all the stuff that happens in our house as different and special that we pay attention to it and realize how awesome it is.
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Other Tech
Logitech Harmony 1000 Touchscreen Remote Control
John Sciacca  |  Apr 04, 2007

My experience, nay, love affair, with Harmony remote controls began four years ago when I reviewed one of the first, the 768 (that remote is no longer available, even though the review still is, at soundandvisionmag.com). The marching orders for developing the Harmony remotes were simple yet groundbreaking, then and now.

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