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Sonos is one of those rare high-end home entertainment products that anybody can set up. Plug it in, follow simple instructions, and music players throughout the house link together wirelessly and pull music from the PC. Its only problem, as I pointed out when it launched, is that it can't play the music that I'm constantly buying from Apple's iTunes Store. Today, Sonos became even simpler, and pretty much solved that music problem in the process...
...Sonos 2.0 comes bundled with a 30-day trial of Rhapsody Music Service from RealNetworks. Although the Sonos system was compatible with Rhapsody before, via a PC, the new software lets you run Rhapsody Unlimited without a PC. In fact, as I found in my testing, Sonos no longer needs a PC at all. I can pick up the Sonos remote, scroll and click, iPod style, through Rhapsody's bottomless trove of music, playing whatever I want instantly. Sifting through the list of artists can be daunting, but anybody with a close-to-full 60GB iPod would understand that...
...Apple has issued a recall on several models of Mac laptops because the battery can overheat and catch fire. Experts say a Mac fire is just like a PC fire, except it's more hip and condescending." --CONAN O'BRIEN...
...that should be able to distinguish petting, tickling, scratching, slapping and poking. "To be effective, therapeutic robotic companions must also be able to understand and appropriately respond to how a person touches it," the group's website says. Face recognition technology helps the Huggable recognize familiar faces. Its internal PC will monitor the patient's condition and alert a nursing staff to negative developments...
...adding tracks to an on-the-fly playlist. Admittedly, the design isn't brand-new - Creative had a primitive version of this years ago, and Sonos has a more advanced one (for a more advanced price). Still, the speed with which I could remotely access songs stored on my PC, all alphabetized together despite their various origins, had me feeling that my years-long search for a convenient wireless music system was over...