I just flashed back to my first record player. It played 45s, and when it skipped, I put a penny on the arm. Remember doing that? A handle on the side let me carry it around the house to play songs for my brothers — moving music the old-fashioned way. These days, I have a lot of MP3 songs stored on my computer. The Internet also holds a ...

My daughter and I recently took a trip to Europe. While things didn't go so well with the portable power strip I brought along to recharge our stuff, I had a great time using the Panasonic Lumix® DMC-FZ18 digital camera. It was lightweight, easy to operate, and had plenty of settings to work well in pretty much any shooting environment. ...

You know the saying, ''When in Rome, do as the Romans do?'' Well, Romans plug their electronics into funky-looking jacks. I traveled there last week with my daughter, my friend, and her daughter. Between the four of us, we had a cell phone, our camera batteries, and our daughters' iPods and Nintendo DS games that we needed to recharge every ...

I love it when my friends buy new gear and we all get to enjoy the benefits. My best friend’s husband just installed a pair of Klipsch® AW-650 outdoor speakers on their back deck, making it the best place to hang out, by far.   When Jeff chose these speakers for Brandy, he also had her daycare kids in mind. Now they can listen to their ...

My best friend’s husband just bought her a pair of Klipsch® AW-650 outdoor speakers. Brandy wanted them because she loves to entertain, especially when the weather is nice and friends can sit outdoors on her wide, multi-level deck. Brandy’s also a childcare provider. The kids spend a lot of time riding tricycles on the deck and playing in the ...

This picture shows how we used to share music. Then we gave our daughter Abby a portable iPod® speaker. It folds up into a book-shaped package and protects her iPod inside itself (great for trips). And it opens into an A-frame stand with the iPod dock in the center. It only weighs a couple of pounds, so she easily moves it from room to room all ...

Naturally, people around here are always talking about the latest, greatest electronic gear. I have a long list of things I hope to own soon, and I sometimes wonder what my friends at work would love to have. Thanks to a recent informal, open-ended poll we took at Crutchfield, I was able to find out. So what do the people who live and breathe ...