Dr. Dre has his own Beats band of headphones, in which the name agency both beats, like in music, and beats, as in the anytime abundant bass beats you in the head. Now Quincy Jones does too, from AKG by Harman.

There are three altered curve of headphones: The Q701 advertence headphones for $480, the abate Q460, on-ear foldable mini headphones for $230, and the Q350 in-ear headphones for $150. The two lower-end headphones are both iPhone accordant with in-line mics and limited control, admitting the top, Q701 is added about authentic complete reproduction.

We'll accept to apprehend them to see how they sound, but Quincy is putting not just his name, but his acceptability on them:

This is the best superior complete I've heard in headphones, ever. And I'm appreciative my name is on them.

All three will be accessible in October. [AKG]

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You can just brainstorm the whistles and bleeps R2-D2 would accomplish as you accidentally blow the abandon of his Hasbro Operation bold body. Or if you ahem up $27 from September, you don't even accept to imagine. [Toywiz via ChipChick via OhGizmo]

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These days, appetite makes accepting old academy consoles absorbed up to your TV appealing unnecessary. But if you accept to play Chrono Trigger from the aboriginal cartridge, the RetroN 3 is a appealing abundant way to do it.

In accession to accepting three armament slots for NES, SNES and Genesis games, respectively, it aswell has ports for all three systems' aboriginal controllers. If you don't accept any blame around, it comes with two all-encompassing wireless controllers.

But really, if you've got endless of old cartridges and wish to accept one arrangement acquainted into your TV instead of three, this is a appealing candied solution. It's accessible now for a simple $70. [HyperKin via Gadget Review via Oh Gizmo! via Gadget Lab]

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Following loads aloft loads of affirmation that the ban on smartphone acceptance during flights is in fact ridiculous, the government will assuredly formally yield up the matter. According to the WSJ, the FCC is now formally because a angle that would acquiesce you to accomplish buzz calls aloft 10,000 feet.

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The new angle comes just afterwards the FAA accustomed the use of cyberbanking accessories on flights beneath 10,000 feet. Maybe the government is activity generous. Like that rule, the FCC angle is continued overdue. In fact, as the WSJ points out, in flight corpuscle buzz use was taken up a decade ago but after alone because flight associates and added whiners complained about audition added humans allocution on the phone. Understandable, but not a acceptable abundant acumen to ban phones altogether. Hopefully now that humans allocution beneath and blazon and email more, the angle will in fact accomplish its way through.

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This would accomplish a lot of faculty in a lot of ways. According to the Verge, the next Xbox will ascendancy your TV, and makes some absolute faculty out of the accounted "always online" affection of the new console. It's aswell arranged with some absorbing new Kinect appearance that could adumbrate the administration Microsoft is headed.

Here's how the Verge break down the TV functionality:

The functionality will plan by demography a cable box arresting and casual it through to the Xbox via HDMI, acceptance Microsoft's animate to bury a UI and appearance on top of an absolute TV approach or set-top box. We're told that this is a key allotment of the next-generation Xbox and that it will go a footfall added than Google's TV accomplishing acknowledgment to Microsoft's partnerships with agreeable providers.

The Wii U has a agnate functionality to this with its TVii feature, admitting that is through a bound amount of providers, like DirecTV, Comcast and Dish Network. The Wii U uses the 5-inch touchscreen on its gamepad to accomplish as a remote, while the Xbox would allegedly use its own accepted controller, accessible limited ascendancy peripherals, and the Kinect.

The Verge says that the Kinect plays a big allotment in the the active allowance arrangement. It will allegedly be able to ascertain assorted humans at once, and agnate to the Samsung Galaxy S4, accept the adeptness to abeyance if you or anyone looks abroad from the TV. This seems like a accustomed pairing, back the capital way a lot of humans use their Kinect is to ascendancy Netflix or HBO Go if their Xbox ambassador is out of sight.

Microsoft's aswell been accounted to be alive on a bargain set-top box for Xbox TV, but chat is that it will not be out until next year, while the new Xbox is accepted some time this fall. [Verge]

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