Dragon Quest’s Slime is like an entity on its own. It can change into any color or any shape or any function, that is if it wants to. For instance, the Dragon Quest Slime Speaker Stand by Hori can act as a speaker and a stand for your Nintendo DS. It can keep your DS upright and free your hands to do other stuff.

The Slime is also an external speaker to boost the sound from your video games to another level. Honestly, some think that this blue thingy is cuter than their boyfriends.
US$58.90 @ NCSX.
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A lot of newer audio technologies have been promising “HD” audio, with features such as “192 kHz sampling”. But what does this mean?
CDs sample 44.1-kHz audio at 16 bits per sample. Considering the standard was defined back in the early 1980s to be played with state-of-the-art technology back then, you’d think this is far inferior to what we could cough up now, right?
Not really. For starters, 44.1 kHz allows the audio to accurately represent any waveforms below about 22 kHz (due to the Nyquist-Shannon theorem). Well, human hearing only extends to about 20 kHz, and less …read more

Like many people, I’ve recently been hearing more and more about this new thing on the air waves called HD Radio. What is it we are talking about here?
Well, first off, the HD does not stand for “high definition” (it seems to stand for nothing — it’s just a marketing ploy), and it doesn’t provide anything like HD quality. The second most important part is that you have to have a special receiver to get these, which are still a tad expensive and aren’t standard equipment on much of anything yet.
What does it give you? It gives …read more