In recent months, my much-praised, but somewhat long in the tooth, Motorola visor-mounted Bluetooth hands free kit had begun to act like a back-alley counterfeit. It was dropping calls on a regular basis, and when it managed to hang on to a connection there was so much noise and echo at the other end that [...]
In my post about the original Bose SoundDock, I waxed enthusiastic about its stellar sound quality, ease of use, and attractive appearance. Those factors made it my absolute favorite among the many speaker docks available for Apple’s iPod. Still, it wasn’t perfect: first, it only worked when tethered to a source of AC power; and [...]
I’ve never been a big fan of in-the-ear headphones, also known as earbuds. Maybe this goes back to my kidhood, listening to a cheap transistor radio, late at night, through its crappy hard plastic earpiece. Or maybe it just goes back to my mom saying never put anything except your elbow into your ear. Whatever [...]
I’ve never been a big fan of earbuds. Maybe it’s the residual effect of my mother’s admonition, when I was a child, to never insert anything other than my elbow into my ear. (Go ahead, try it. In your ear, I mean.) Or maybe it’s just that most earbuds have, over the years, proved to [...]
There are travelers whose journeys can be described by this T-short slogan: “The Ride is the Destination.” If that shirt is, or could be, part of your wardrobe, you could be among the lucky few travelers who are never lost. For most of us, though, more often than not it’s the destination that is the [...]
As anyone who’s spent time there knows all too well, the use of a cell phone while walking in midtown Manhattan is now mandatory. Or maybe not; but a casual observer could easily to make that inference. Ironically–and this part is true–it is illegal to use that same phone while driving a car on those [...]
What sets the $299 Bose QuietComfort2 Noise-Cancelling Headphones apart from the herd is revealed in their long name. Noise-cancelling technology is, in theory, very simple. Here’s how it works: Ambient sound is captured by a built-in microphone, and the audio equivalent of a mirror image of that sound is amplified and played back through the [...]
