The era of setting up a home theater is changing: wired connections between speakers to a receiver and to an audio or video source is becoming hopelessly outdated. There are now so many easier ways to attain home theater sound and now even video, and none of them involve little white, red, and yellow cables, let alone speaker wire or HDMI cables...

At $7.99/month, the Netflix streaming subscription is a good deal for those who've ditched cable or satellite service. An unspoken perk is subscribers can split and share the cost of their accounts with roommates or family members, since currently the service permits 2 simultaneous streams to accessed at the same time. Now you'll be able to double the amount of users for about $4 more...

Many of us like to listen to music, podcasts, or the radio while we administer our daily ablutions in the bathroom, on that we can agree. But there are a few bathroom entertainment topics which bring out differences in opinion: whether or not we sound good singing along in the shower and just which features our bathroom audio devices should sport.

While there has been some debate over the idea of bringing the television outdoors, we're sure that this guide to bringing tech outside will be met with more joyous sounds - the sounds of music, that is. Today we'll talk about options to bring audio outdoors.

I'm honestly surprised it took this long. I can remember many college days (and nights) spent parked in front of a screen trying to complete a Japanese RPG or action title and pizza was more often than not our go-to dinner to fuel our epic gaming sessions. Kids these days have it so easy...

Fess up...you like to bring your smartphone into the tub, don't you? It's certainly not uncommon for people to listen to music while getting ready in the morning, browse the internet, or even email/text from the bathroom. Muji offers those tempting fate (and humidity) with this splash-proof speaker housing, which augments both sound and water resistance. Audio playback is rated for 30 hours with three AAA batteries, and the see-thru touch panel permits use of the device screen even with damp or wet hands, all in Muji's signature minimalist modern style.

As warmer weather emerges, the backyard becomes the destination where many of us go to enjoy entertaining, grilling, and even escape to enjoy music. Some homeowners are bringing the full home entertainment experience outside, with television sets situated in backyard "living rooms". But weather is no friend of your standard television set...we'll show you how to set yourself up with a TV outdoors safely!

Like countless others, I celebrated Record Store Day with a vinyl purchase this past weekend (don't you love the tinted see-thru 12"?). But in the future, with the widespread adoption of 3D printers, we might be seeing a mainstream return of vinyl  with print-on-demand records being delivered from bands/labels right to your turntable!

I think it's safe to say it has been a really crappy week or so. We could all use a quick drip of happiness right into our jugular. Some say happiness can't be bought, they are probably right. But I'd argue it can be downloaded, Googled and streamed.

Technology has advanced so quickly in the last decade that many of the devices and media we were once accustomed to seeing, hearing, and using have become completely obsolete. There was a time when homes and offices were equipped with loud dial-up modems, the chimes of AOL services, and the mechanical songs of dot matrix printers racing across filled the air. Take a journey back to those good ol' days by listening to some of the sounds that have practically disappeared from the public soundscape in just a decade.