It's being launched alongside retailer Sight and Sound Technology, which specializes in tech for the visually-impaired.
These are all solidly profitable companies with great management teams and sound technology that is hard to compete with.
The latest sound technology from Dolby Laboratories, Dolby Atmos brings a powerful new listening experience with more natural, realistic cinema sound that truly envelops the audience.
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The sound experience is further enhanced by Philips' Virtual Surround Sound technology and advanced spatial algorithms that produce a rich and immersive audio experience from one source.
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This means you're free to buy any Google-powered device to run the UI, which runs as an app overlay, with support and setup help from Sight and Sound Technology.
With its 5.1 Dolby surround sound technology the MediaPad 10 FHD provides theater-quality audio effects even with regular headphones and its dual speaker design provides superior audio performance across gaming, music, and video playing.
As you'd expect, this 10.1-inch Android 4.1 tablet features the same design language as its smartphone counterpart, but it's what's inside that really sells this device: a Qualcomm 1.5GHz quad-core APQ8064 processor, 2GB RAM, 32GB storage, a 10.1-inch 1, 920 x 1, 200 screen (with Mobile Bravia Engine 2), an 8.1-megapixel Exmor R camera, NFC, LTE (MDM9215M radio), microSD expansion and Sony's very own "S-Force" virtual surround sound technology.
With xLoud and Sony 3D surround sound audio technology integrated into the music player, consumers will enjoy a crisp and loud sound experience.
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The overall goal of Honda's efforts is to generally advance intelligent speech and sound recognition technology.
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To counteract this, apt-X sound codec technology has been integrated into the inMotion Air.
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Users can also set up email and push alerts triggered by Dropcam's motion and sound sensing technology.
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Crisp and loud listening with xLoud and 3D surround sound audio technology.
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Audio purists will appreciate the device's new 5.1-channel sound enhancement technology and support for the MP3, WMA, OGG, FLAC, AAC, M4A, WAV and MP3HD audio codecs, and video hounds will love being able to playback MPEG4, WMV, H.264, Xvid and Divx files.
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But more than helping to make consumers healthier, MyFit is a full-featured portable music player that features an FM radio tuner and Samsung's DNSe 3.0 sound enhancement technology, which helps to overcome the inefficiencies and limitations of compressed audio files and generate a more realistic stereo sound.
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Razer's superior sound-isolating technology blocks out undesirable ambient noises and, for moments of truce, the Razer BlackShark comes with a detachable boom microphone for use on-the-go.
While the technology sound like something from a James Bond flick or even "A Clockwork Orange, " Givon insists that passengers will not find the techniques intrusive.
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Bebe Barron didn't compose for a decade, but in 1999 she was invited to create a new work at the University of California-Santa Barbara, using the latest in sound-generating technology.
Built with Sony's innovative digital imaging, sound and TV technology, the latest VAIO Touchworld collection features bright, responsive 10-point multi-touch screens with engaging interactive applications, family computing options and new experiences in mobile productivity.
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Elliptic's ultrasound technology uses sound waves and microphones to detect movement, similar to how radar detects objects.
The technology might sound a little complicated but every major email gateway vendor has long ago adopted the standard and made it easy to use.
That included suing Apple, Sprint, Nintendo, and more than 20 other companies for violating patents on fax-on-demand, paging, cordless answering machines, video game technology and sound synthesizers.
Bric Connect combines Edifier's legendary sound with the latest technology.
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For artists, it is not a disruptive technology, as sound was in the late 1920s, when an entire generation of movie-stars suddenly found themselves jobless.
Inflatable space habitats (as opposed to the hard aluminum-hulled canisters now in use on the International Space Station) may sound wild, but the technology is real.
Take note, though: the two electronics companies can be seriously hurt if there is a marked economic slowdown worldwide, especially in the U.S. That is a risk as well for sound-cards maker Creative Technology.
While managing a photo album might sound a bit trivial, similar technology lives on the industrial side.
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The technology can make it sound as if a bird is flying around your head in a full circle, not just passing from one side of a room to the other.
When we report on the sayings and sound bites of higher ups at technology companies, we tend to cover them from a negative angle because, as you well know, execs are pretty fond of belittling their opponent's products.
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Researchers at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, South Korea, have developed a novel method of turning sound into electricity, and the technology could soon be used to charge our mobile phones with nothing more than the power of the human voice, reports the Telegraph.
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