Denon aims for a wider customer base with the Magnesium AH-D2000 headphones

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Denon’s second pair of high-end headphones, the AH-D2000 model, takes the best features of the pricey AH-D5000s, but thankfully not the £500 price tag. They’re just half the price, at £249.99.

Code-named ‘Magnesium’, the lightweight magnesium closed cans feature an Acoustic Optimiser for adjusting the sound pressure, and boast impressive specs including a frequency…

LG blushes with Scarlet goodies, rolls out the HT953TVP home cinema system

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Looking very similar to the Design Art set-up shown off at IFA last year, LG has added to the Scarlet range of TVs announced at CES in January, with the Scarlet HT953TVP.

Little is known about the home theatre set-up, apart from it containing 5.1 channels to play around with, and it offering Virtual Sound Matrix for simulating a 10.1 audio experience…

B&W collaborates with ex-Genesis frontman Peter Gabriel for Music Club community

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A hardware company launching a music store? Who do they think they are – Apple?

Not Bowers & Wilkins (or B&W as you probably know them), as the high-ish-end audio company has announced their collaboration with Peter Gabriel for the launch of their B&W Music Club, a community offering music fans a DRM-free, lossless album once a month, in exchange for £23.95 for six months of your support, or £33.95 for a year’s membership. That works out to less than three quid an album!…

Napster takes on iTunes by offering six million tracks DRM-free, for just 99 cents

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Napster has gone from strength to strength in recent months, proving that the once-illegal P2P service really does have a place in today’s music industry.

In addition to sampling Scarlett Johansson’s album ahead of the official release, they’ve just grabbed all that nasty DRM from their paid downloads, and flushed it down the toilet. As of today, all of the six million tracks they offer customers will be available in unprotected 25kkbps MP3 form, for only 99 cents. Considering the previous DRM-ridden tracks were just 192kbps, that’s mighty generous of the music giant.

Here’s the best bit though – Napster has managed to pull off the coup of the century, convincing all four major record labels to support them in their attack on DRM tracks. Apple’s iTunes offers…

Facebook lifting 5,000 friend limit is "a fake rumor" according to Loic Le Meur

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This is Robert Scoble. He has too many friends on Facebook as you can see. Many others share similar plights – Jason Calacanis, comedian Jimmy Carr, heck – even Yoko Ono.

French blogger-turned web entrepreneur, Loic Le Meur (see my video interview with him here), whilst approaching that 5,000 friend limit fast, has published a post on his personal blog, drenching water all over that fiery hot rumour of recent times, that Facebook was soon to be lifting the 5,000 friend limit, claiming “it was a fake rumor”…

The Star Wars R2-D2 web-cam is also a VoIP phone, digital camera, remote control…

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R2-D2 has been reincarnated in many various forms before, however this is the first time I’ve seen him as an all-in-one little web-cam. Have you seen it before?

However long it’s been kicking around on the internet for, it’s only just been added to the virtual shelves at I Want One Of Those. In addition to allowing you to show your rude bits at your various IM contacts, it can also be used…