The Geek Church

When using portable devices like an iPod or a smartphone to listen to music or watch videos, the headphone is the common tool of choice for ensuring sound quality. Headphones can also be used with large, electronic appliances such as television sets, stereo systems and computers. However, a headphone’s effectiveness in providing great sound quality to the user is limited since most headsets come with only two speakers (one for each ear). Thus, your sound experience with listening to music and watching videos is only as good as the quality of the headset you’re using and some brands do give poorer performance than others. So, a Canadian company called Psyko Audio has developed their own unique headset to resolve the problems people tend to have with regular headphones.

Instead of creating a headset for regular performance in sound quality, Psyko Audio sought to take the sound experience with headphones up to another level entirely. The concept behind their specially designed headset is to provide the user with real surround sound quality from the headphones themselves. In their unique design, this company deliberately ignored the conventional practice of only making two speakers for the ears alone. Instead, they developed a headset called the 5.1 PC Gaming Headset System, which actually uses five speakers that are located on top and along the headband. Then the sound is carried through tubes leading into the ear-cups, which spread the sound out over the front and back of your ears. Furthermore, this process of surround sound is also strongly supported by subwoofers built into the ear-cups.

Psyko Audio presented the 5.1 PC Gaming Headset System at the Gaming Expo during CES this past January. I was actually there at the time and had the opportunity to try out their special headphones for myself. It truly is a surround sound experience wearing the headset. The sound itself fills your ears in the headset, cutting off noise from the outside world around you and giving you unhindered performance quality with whatever you’re listening to. This headset is amazing and quite ingenious in its design and execution. The 5.1 PC Gaming Headset also comes with a detachable mic for gaming online and the whole set is available for $300 at websites such as Newegg and Tiger Direct. With the development of such effective headphones, I wonder what other products Psyko Audio plans to release in the near future.

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I have seen video goggles like this Vuzix Wrap 310 before, and I’m really am not certain at what point video goggles will peak in the marketplace.

The Wrap 310 is a 16:9 wearable widescreen display, and it is made for viewing video files on the road. You can attach your iPod to it, and it will sync with any video file on the iPod that you want to select. It can also connect to other mobile devices, and it can also sync with a DVD player or anything with RCA connectors. I was actually able to view 3D footage as well.

You can see my full review here.

I’ve had some interesting experience with 3M’s Pocket Projector line before, such as the MPro120. It was a projector that I tried out and liked my experience, and I was pleased to try out the MPro150.

The MPro150 is able to project whatever is on a cell phone, Portable Media Player (PMP), television, computer, or any other device that it is compatible with. What makes the MPro150 different from the MPro120 is that the user can use the MPro150 as a stand-alone device. It has a mircoSD card reader so you can view PowerPoint, Word, and Excel presentation as well as other formats.

If you would like to see my full specs and read my full review, click here.

I’ve recently had the chance to try out three phones from Motorola, and the Clutch, or i465, is the first. This messaging phone has a full QWERTY keyboard and some other features, but it by no means, a smartphone. It isn’t a dumb phone, either.

Check out my full review here.