It’s hard to expect top-level audio quality while you’re walking down a busy city street, or when you’re jogging in the woods. And it’s just as hard to design audio equipment built for those conditions. The selling point of sports headphones is their highly portable design. But that can put heavy constraints on the kind …
Projectors have countless advantages over TVs. For setting up a home theater, a projector allows your screen to be essentially as large as your wall. The resulting picture puts even giant TVs to shame. And size helps you see more detail. Even with standard 1080p resolution, you’re not going to be able to visually capture …
When you’re looking at a computer monitor, the image you see is composed of small pixels. Those pixels are essentially tiny rectangular lights, which is why everything rendered on your screen has a tendency to look as though it’s composed of tiny rectangles. That problem can be even worse if you’re a gamer, since the …
When you’re trying to listen to something in an environment with little ambient noise, you need little in the way of noise cancellation. Even a common pair of earbuds may provide enough of a physical barrier for adequate noise isolation. But when you’re dealing with more than a little ambient noise, what you need is …
When you need extra storage, a Micro SD card can be incredibly convenient. It’s a ubiquitous format that’s used by phones, tablets, cameras, and dozens of similar small devices. People love them because they weight virtually nothing, they’re about as small as a thumbnail, and portable to match. But at the end of the day, …