Jim Bray, CFP Automotive Editor

Recycling Circuit Boards for Fun and Profit

Ever wonder what happens to those old bits of dead electronics after you drop them off at a recycling center?

ICEpower a Cool Way to Enhance Your Sound

There's a better mousetrap being built in the world of audiophile equipment, and you may see it in your audio stand one of these days.

Mazda MX-5 Tops Its Own Act!

Mazda's little bundle of joy was reborn about a year ago, moving beyond the loveable and classic Miata with a new look, new power, and a new, shorter name: just plain MX-5.

Slingbox Lets You Take Your TV on the Road

I don't know about you, but I hate hotel televisions. Well, I mean I hate the type of TV and service you get in the class of hotel I can usually afford to stay at, the generic chains that cater to travelers who don't arrive in Ferraris.

Adobe Creative Suite—Three’s Charming

Adobe's big time creativity suite has been reborn yet again, this time in a third incarnation that brings into the fold new-to-the-suite products that weren't available before.

Video Discs—The Next Generation

Did you know your DVD player is obsolete?

HDMI Switcher Accells in Home Theater Setting

If you want to take advantage of the best in audio and video reproduction these days, you need an HDMI connection. It's an unfortunate fact of life, but there it is.

Personal Coffee Maker Turns Writer into a Caf-fiend

I may never drink instant coffee again. Not that I do anyway, much, except under emergency conditions, but thanks to the people at Braun I've become convinced that individually packaged coffee and tea, and the hardware to brew it, is one of the better inventions of the early 21st century, second possibly to any breakthroughs in cancer research that may happen.

Online Community “Courts” Customers Seeking the “Live” Experience

Do you live in a cocoon? Cocooning is the buzzword for the phenomenon where people stay curled up in their multimedia-enabled home and from there experience all of the delights the world has to offer, or at least all the delights they can access from the comfort of home.

Oppo DVD Player Offers Big Bang for the Buck

Up converting DVD players are pretty well standard equipment these days, even on virtually entry level units being sold as impulse items. These are players that take a DVD's normal 480 pixel resolution output and "digitally fudge" higher resolutions from 720 to 1080 pixels (from the top to the bottom of your screen).