CEDIA: Monster Power

UPS. And I don't mean the guys in the brown trucks. I'm talking Uninterruptible Power Supply. When your AC goes black or brown, shutting down or sagging, it's just not a good thing. Electronic equipment hates it when that happens. To the rescue, Monster introduces the Monster Home Theater HTUPS 2700.

This an all-in-one solution for backup power, power conditioning, voltage regulation and surge protection. Housed in a trim 1-rack unit module, its internal battery provides 1 hour of back-up at 50 watts, or more with an optional external battery. It can keep a DVR recording for two hours during a blackout. In addition to providing backup power when needed, the HTUPS 2700 also incorporates surge protection, HD Clean Power noise filtration and voltage regulation. Among other things, the back-up power will preserve home theater settings, prevent data corruption on media servers, and prevent projector bulb damage.

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Monster's New Beats By Dr. Dre Headphones

After three years of research and months of anticipation since these were announced at CES 2008 back in January, Monster's new headphones are here. And, well, they were worth the wait. Claimed to be the reference headphone for today's digital music, they do deliver.

Monster joined with Dr. Dre to design and tune these headphones to bring out the details in music that are typically lost in translation when listening over earbuds. We were able to give the Beats a listen, and honestly, they're quite good.

What's in a Name?

File this one in the "Are you kidding me?" folder. Monster Cable is acting like Frankenstein's monster — out of control, and creating chaos in its wake. Monster Cable, maker of "high-end" audio and video cables and connectors is suing Monster Mini Golf for their use of the word, "Monster." Again, are you kidding me? 

No more sick touchpanels!

Don’t you hate it when people come over to your house and they get their grubby hands all over your perfectly clean touchscreens? Or if they grab your brand new iTouch and start. . . touching!!! I mean, you don’t know where their hands have been! At some point, they have gone to the bathroom, and do you want to face the bacterial Russian roulette of whether they did or didn’t wash? And let’s face it, no one want to catch Mad Cow from browsing their music collection.

Before you lock yourself away and start collecting jars of urine like Howard Hughes, invest in a bottle of Monster's newly formulated ScreenClean!