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I know this has little to nothing to do with products for the home, but this video is soooo cool. It’s the birthday of the Saturn V rocket. The video below is in slo-mo to really give appreciation of the power of the rocket.

Some facts on the Saturn V:
• At 364 feet high, it was roughly as tall as a 36-story building.

• Its launch weight of 6.7 million pounds was equal to about 2,200 average late ’60s cars.

• Its orbital payload of 260,000 pounds is the equivalent of about 1,500 average people.

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A bit of good news for owners of TiVo Series3, HD, and HD LX DVRs. Netflix began testing its streaming music service on select owners and will roll it out to all customers come December.

The nice thing about this streaming servie is that it comes at no extra charge to those with an unlimited Netflix subscription plan. The plan starts at just $8.99/month.

According to Netflix, the Netflix library includes 12,000 movies and TV shows. Viewers will go to the Netflix site, add programming to their Instant Queues, then view them through the TiVo device, with full TiVo functionality.  Sign up for updates here.

Via Home Theater Magazine

If you have about $3000 to spend on a new home theater speaker system, then you might want to consider the Intimus 5T-DB Hybrid HD, a six-piece system featuring a pair of 5T towers, the 5C center speaker, a pair of 5DB dipole/bipole surround speakers and a remote-controlled subwoofer, the Bravus 10D.

Steve Guttenberg over at CNET sure likes the setup. He was quite impressed of the audio coming out of the speakers during a run through with the Spider-Man 3 Blu-ray. He was quite impressed the way the five speakers “developed vast, wrap-around soundstages.”

The choices for speaker finish are real cherry wood veneer and a classy high-gloss piano-black lacquer. For my money I’ll take the cherry wood finish as shown.

Do you have an iPhone and Sonos owner. Do you love them? I’m sure you do. Well it just got better as Sonos has turned the iPhone into a multimedia remote. Sonos owners can download a free application from the iTunes App Store that lets them control their streaming devices from an iPhone or iPod Touch.

With the application users can controlcan control sound sources, manage music libraries, control Internet radio streaming, and monitor audio output. All the things that come on it’s remote.

Also, Sonos Version 2.7 of its software will add 15,000 radio station feeds.

Via Gearlog

How sweet is it to find some great looking retro furniture for your hi-fi system. The people over at Atocha Design have a great record cabinet that is perfect for holding your records and all of your stereo equipment. This will certainly make your friends jealous and it comes in a variety of high quality woods.

Is Apple’s next step in media hardware domination networked high-definition television sets? It would be a television with Apple TV  built in. Apple is probably barking up the right tree here as they’ve made their equipment user-friendly, and since everyone has itunes on their computer, it would be easy to get people to use the TV’s that makes it easy for them to play their media in the living room. Think the ipod revolution, but with HDTV.

Via CrunchGear

I reported the WowWee Robot Guard a short time ago and now the first reviews are coming in from Engadget. And they are quite impressed by it. The setup seems to be easy and does it’s duties well. And although it looks like it may be one of your kids new remote cars, it isn’t a toy.  Positioned well for the upcoming holiday season, they ease fears that this thing is a piece of junk or doesn’t work very well. So if this is something you really want then it looks like it’s safe to buy one.

So you want a home alarm system, but you aren’t too keen on paying thousands for it, or do you want spend weeks building it yourself. Well, I’ve done some research and have come across some links that you may find helpful:

Dave over at DoItYourself.com has a nice starting guide for those interested in getting that home burglar alarm up and running. He gives the basics on what you need to get started like:

Rovio WowWee

Forget your web cam that can’t do anything but stay in one place, this robot guard dog can move around your home while you are away, checking out your home for trouble, while being controlled by any remote device capable of browsing the internet. Audio and and photos can be emailed to you, or you can see what the bot sees through streaming video. And if that’s not enough you can talk to subjects the bot sees.

I’m not too sure what effect this would have on a dog if you had one, but I assume it would freak him out pretty bad.

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