This microphone wraps around to your neck, where it picks up your voice even if you’re speaking quietly or battling hurricane-force winds. Photo by Jon Snyder/Wired Anyone with a smartphone is essentially a super-spy, carrying around miniature surveillance-and-communication technology that would have made Connery-era James Bond so enraged by envy he’d have sipped his martini [...]
Livio’s Bluetooth dongle plugs into your cigarette lighter, giving your older car the powers of the internets. Photo by Jon Snyder/Wired The Bluetooth-enabled Livio Radio car kit attempts to be the Holy Grail of dashboard connectivity devices, marrying smartphones with older cars that lack the hardware to fully support them. The main idea behind the [...]
The Tern P7i is a folding bike made for city commutes. Photo by Jon Snyder/Wired The only reason to consider a folding bike is if you really need a bike that folds. For the general cycling public, they are impractical machines. The tiny wheels, odd weight distribution and freaky frame shape all make for an [...]
The new Impreza 5-door hatchback. Photo courtesy of Subaru of America, Inc. Subaru has always been a bit of a niche player in the US market. Building no-nonsense cars with all-wheel drive gets you a loyal following of snowbound northerners, weekend rally drivers, triathletes and Yankee cranks. Outside of those demographics, Subaru is a non-entity: [...]
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The BaByliss Pro Volare clippers have a Ferrari-inspired motor (and paint job). Photo by Jon Snyder/Wired “Aerodynamics,” Enzo Ferrari once said, “are for people who cannot build engines.” Ferrari built his eponymous brand on the back of exceptional powerplants — a series of small-displacement engines, chiefly V-12s, designed by legendary names like Jano, Lampredi and [...]
The Big Jambox from Jawbone (the red one) is much larger – and louder – than the original Jambox. Photo by Jon Snyder/Wired The Jambox is back. But now, little baby’s all grown up. The Big Jambox from Jawbone (yes, the hands-free headset people) builds upon the success of the company’s original Jambox portable speaker, [...]
Siri is available only on the iPhone 4S for now, but there are other voice-activated valets to do your bidding, no matter what platform you’re on. Vlingo On iOS, Vlingo’s speech recognition seems just as accurate as Siri’s, yet the app still offers up autocorrect suggestions, just in case. It’s great for dictating e-mails and [...]
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Photo by Greg Broom/Wired The deliberate ritual of single-serving, hand-poured coffee works great for a lazy Sunday. But come Monday, most of us reach for a machine. The Bodum Bistro offers artisan-quality brew to the convenience-seeking masses with a shower-head top that sprays the water slowly and evenly. The coffee seeps through a stainless-steel mesh [...]
The 2012 328i. Photo by Basem Wasef/Wired “Something’s different,” my friend grumbles from behind the wheel of my 2012 BMW 3-series test car. He should know. His garage houses a last-gen BMW 330i and the cultishly track-focused Honda S2000. My buddy is cursed with a freakish attention to detail and an enthusiast’s acuity for stuff [...]