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Your eyes don't deceive you, Mirage speakers has a new look
We just love the breadth of offerings in speaker design, especially towards the high-end of the market. If bipolar, dipolar and tripolar drivers are enough "polar" for you, you can try out an omnipolar speaker like the ones produced by Mirage. Even though the company is sticking to the unique-looking, top-mounted omnipolar drivers that have been a calling card for years, it is going to live up to its name and revamp the branding and marketing approach. It's comforting to our aged audiophile hearts to see familiar two-channel names make the transition to the modern A/V ecosphere, even if that means more "lifestyle" designs. In the coming months, look for Mirage to introduce its smallest 5.1 speaker system yet (maybe a "Picosat" system beneath the already-small Nanosat 5.1 system?) and compact subwoofers; but we're more intrigued by the promise of a new Omnisat floorstanding models.
NASA, m2mi team up to build space-bound networking system
We knew it! There was just no way a single WiFi router was going to provide coverage from Mercury to Pluto. In order to ensure that all intergalactic beings are given fair and equal access to the intarwebz (and to build a "constellation" that'll act as a space-based network for communication, data storage and Earth observations, too), NASA is syncing up with m2mi. Of course, these two entities have worked together on occasion before, but this go 'round, they're looking to craft (relatively) minuscule nanosats that weigh between 11 and 110-pounds and could be placed in low Earth orbit in order to create a new telecommunications and networking system. As expected, nary a launch date is even hinted at, but while we lowly Earthlings worry over the eventual rollout of 4G services, these two hotshots will be focusing on 5G -- which incorporates VoIP, video, data, wireless and an integrated machine-to-machine intelligence layer. Far out.[Via CNET]
