Tefal Body Signal is the first bodyfat scale which allows to follow one’s weight evolution in fat mass or in muscles, in an easy and friendly way. The model on the right is BodySignal Glass with glass platform.

• Automatic ON 
• Gives weight and fat mass in Kg
• 160kg capacity with 100g graduation

Green = positive evolution = you’re loosing fat mass or you’re gaining muscles.

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LG Electronics is shipping the first and only player capable of playing both Blu-ray and HD DVD format discs on the market. LG BH100 ”The Super Multi Blue Player” is about $1200 and that’s the price of one Blu-ray player and one HD DVD player. Besides that, the unit is slower than a Blu-Ray-only unit and HD-DVD-only unit to start discs.

So? It looks like it’s still better to choose a winner for yourself and set your home theatre system up with the format you like the most.

SurroundBar from Polk Audio is a cleverly designed speaker system that employs SDA surround (Stereo Dimensional Array) technology to create the illusion of rear channel speakers without any actual rear speakers. A seperate power Sub-Woofer is still essential.

SurroundBar is not to be considered better than a real 5.1 theatre system but it offers satisfactory performance without having to mount rear speakers or run wires when they can’t be hidden. SurroundBar is for those who don’t have perfectly symmetrical rooms with no obstacles around for a nice 5.1 setup or those who don’t want to share their rooms with many loudspeakers. Suitable for small rooms and apartment suits.

How can a single front located speaker produce surround sound?
The technology used in the SurroundBar® for producing surround sound is called “SDA Surround”. Based on a fundamental understanding of how our ears perceive and process sound, SDA Surround uses a combination of signal processing and acoustic wave front reconstruction (AWFR) to create a soundfield comparable to having dozens of speakers located around the room. The SurroundBar® actually contains 7 active drive units, 3 tweeters and inputs for all 5 channels including surround channels. Multiple drive units positioned the same distance apart as your ears allow the SurroundBar® to eliminate the sound information that tells your ears where the speakers are located and replace it with the correct surround sound information from the original recording. As a result you no longer “hear” the location of the speakers in front of you. Instead, the sounds you hear are essentially the same as if there actually were sounds coming from all around and behind you.

Are you interested in the best of the best speaker ever designed? We really mean the extreme, the supreme speaker there is on the planet earth as of this date. Here it is! 101 e Radialstrahler by MBL of Germany.

It looks like a blender and actually what it does is to blend the sound into your room. The position of the omnidirectional speakers could hardly be found out. Speakers release waves so naturally and perfectly that you can explore new sounds in your favorite songs you’ve listened hundreds of times before.

Due to its revolutionary construction the Radialstrahler is able to produce three-dimensional sound in the living room at home that corresponds to that of a concert hall. In theory, this concept is simple, but brilliant: Like a musical instrument, the Radialstrahler radiates the sound waves in all directions – and not only in one direction like other speakers.

Radialstrahler isn’t a tiny thing. This also makes it a statue, a piece of art in your living room-?

WxDxH= 450 x 500 x 1700 mm (16 x 18 x 67 inch)
Weight= 80 kg (176 lbs)

Price? You better don’t ask! or - expect to hear “only $48,000.00, Sir. Shipping is free!”

B&W’s CM1 The speaker box is finished in natural veneers (Maple, Rosenut and Wenge) and polished aluminum rings to complement its drive units.

• Despite the size, unbelievable bass output
• Nice sound tone color and detail
• Excellent build quality and finish

• Kevlar has properties that benefit the cones of wide bandwidth drivers.
• Flowport uses golf ball aerodynamics theory to achieve lower turbulence distortion in reflex ports.
• Tapered tubes filled with fibrous material effectively absorb the unwanted sound from the back of the drive unit.

With a price tag of about $900 a pair, CM1 is actually a good value for money in its audiophile class of mini-monitor loudspeakers. Suitable to complement your HiFi amplifier.

Here is a stylish home-theatre-in-a-box from Philips. The real beauty of Philips HTS9800W home theatre system is it’s unique DVD unit. The box has three 125 Watt front speakers, three wireless rear speakers (two 85 Watt and one 105 Watt) and a 150 Watt subwoofer. The ultra slim flat panel speakers offer natural and crystal clear sound quality with Omni-directional Neodymium Ribbon Tweeters.

The nifty system offers HDMI (High-Definition Multi-media Interface) port and Video Upscaling up to 1080i to increase the resolution of Standard Definition video signals and is fully backward compatible with DVI.

One of the few 6.1-channel home cinema systems offering Dolby Digital EX decoding.

Marantz SA7001 reads Compact Discs and Super Audio CDs with two-channel layer. With a decoupled chassis, drive mechanism is isolated against vibrations. This Marantz pro-audio player is capable of actively producing warm and smooth high and midband frequency sounds which makes your music more realistic with a deepened sense of enjoyment.

Line-6 Variax can be simply defined as an entire guitar collection in a single instrument. Technically, it’s called a “modelling guitar” which reproduce 25 of the best sounding instruments in the guitar history which were carefully researched and their souls are captured in a single guitar body. Nice, isn’t it?

The legend guitar sounds include:

• 1959 Fender Stratocaster 
• 1960 Fender Telecaster Custom
• 1968 Fender Telecaster
• 1968 Fender Telecaster Thinline
• 1952 Gibson Les Paul “Goldtop” 
• 1953 Gibson Super 400 
• 1955 Gibson Les Paul Special 
• 1956 Gibson Les Paul Junior 
• 1957 Gibson ES-175 
• 1958 Gibson Les Paul Standard
• 1961 Gibson ES-335 
• 1961 Gibson Les Paul Custom (3 PU)
• 1976 Gibson Firebird V
• 1995 Gibson J-200
• 1956 Gretsch Silver Jet 
• 1959 Gretsch 6120
• 1966 Rickenbacker 360-12 
• 1968 Rickenbacker 360
• 1967 Epiphone Casino
• 1959 Martin D-28
• 1967 Martin O-18 
• 1970 Martin D 12-28
• 1966 Guild F212
• 1935 Dobro Alumilite
• Danelectro 3021
• Coral/Dano Electric Sitar
• Gibson Mastertone Banjo
• 1928 National Style 2 “Tricone”

It’s not over! You can even build your very custom guitar with the Variax Workbench software. Select different types of guitar bodies, choose pickups and their placement then tweak more to design unique guitar models. What feels great is being able to physically hold and play the virtual guitar you’ve just created on your computer.

Normally, you can’t expect a real acoustic guitar sound from an electric guitar but this thing just does it like magic. It has even a 12 string model sound built-in.

If you’re into guitars, you must certainly check this one out. The price is only a fraction of the cost of even only one of the guitars it simulates, but so much more fun awaits!

Electrolux Trilobite is the world’s first robotic, fully-automatic vacuum cleaner. It cleans hard floors and carpets without supervision at pre-set times, and can deal with stairs by the help of it’s sensors. Trilobite has the sensors of a bat; using sound to find it’s way around. Ultrasound at 60khz.

One of the greatest features of this vacuum cleaner is that it can recharge itself by finding it’s way back to the station and automatically docking itself on! After recharge, it resumes cleaning. This feature alone makes it first of it’s kind.

Philips’ wireless headphone SBC HC8545 will give you the freedom of listening to your favorite songs cablelessly, within a 100m. radius in your home. It comes handy whenever there’s a reason that makes you keep your 1000 Watt Hi-Fi silent.

Being free of cables is great but the device has that disturbing Auto-ON function. The FM transmitter starts sending signal when it detects a sound signal. The problem is that it delays like more than a second. The other problem is again an Auto “mis”function. Like the Auto-ON function, after a minute or so when it senses there’s no signal input, it switches OFF automatically and when it does this, the headphone speakers make a disturbing shut-off noise. We believe that these issues must be solved before calling these the ultimate wireless headphone solution.