Tag: audio

What if your computer mouse ate a pair of earbuds? Meet Honor’s MouseBuds Pro with ‘skin-like coating’

Honor Choice MouseBuds Pro: on the surface, a mouse Under the hood, it’s hiding two wireless earbuds The mouse itself boasts ‘enduring freshness’ for comfortable, all-day use Once upon a time, a cute little household mouse saw a piece of cheese left out, and nibbled on it. Unfortunately, the owner…

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Struggle to find podcasts that land with you? Spotify’s new prompt tool can now build you a curated pod playlist on topics you want to hear

Spotify has rolled out podcast integration within Prompted Playlists You can generate a playlist of podcast episodes based on your own prompts It’s a fresh way to discover new podcasts, just as you can with music tracks I’ve never been a huge Spotify podcast listener, mainly because the discovery tools…

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Marshall is taking on JBL and other party speaker makers in a ‘very homogenous’ market — and explains why it wants to make models that ‘trigger your senses’

I’ve tested more than 40 Bluetooth speakers during my time here at TechRadar, and I always get most excited to test the party speakers. They’re large, powerful and — for someone who loves house music like I do — ideal for pumping out tunes with impactful and immersive bass. This…

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Miss the headphone jack on your iPhone? These wired headphones are the next-best thing

Apple didn’t get to where it is now without making many great decisions over its 50-year history, but one of its most unpopular moves was to nix the headphone jack in favor of a clean-looking but ultimately frustrating proprietary single-port system. Much like the simmering resentment that still exists surrounding…

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Spotify’s SongDNA is like a musical Wikipedia on steroids — I just can’t stop using it

Sometimes listening to music just isn’t enough, and part of the streaming experience for a lot of music enthusiasts is digging beneath the surface of the songs and albums they love the most, which is why Spotify’s SongDNA is one of my favorite new features to come from the service.…

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How Apple accidentally destroyed the record business — and why I wish we’d stuck with iPods

50 years of Apple (Image credit: Future) We’re celebrating Apple’s 50th birthday with a week of content about the tech giant. It covers everything from personal recollections from our writers to the greatest — and worst — Apple gadgets as voted by you, and you can read it all on…

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