Buying Guides

The acronym "PA" stands for Public Address, and a portable PA system allows you to do just that—speak publicly to a large group of people. A portable PA is a compact audio solution for amplifying your voice and music. Before you buy a portable PA system, there are a few questions you should ask yourself first...

If love means never fighting over who gets to dock their iPod or iPhone in the clock radio at night, then Pioneer makes it easy by providing double docks on certain models. Couples who stay together share equal recharge access with a Pioneer Double Dock: the XW-NAC1-K or XW-NAC3-K (left). Both feature black-and-white finishes, an auxiliary input and a composite video output, are Bluetooth enabled and come with remotes.

The Sony Bloggie is a fun and exciting HD video and 5MP still camera with loads of features and a menu system that makes sharing your content with the world incredibly easy. It offers a number of features and functions that lend themselves to the needs of those looking to make quick video clips and upload them to the Web with great facility.

POV, or helmet cameras, are meant to capture all the action from your perspective while being durable and simple to use. The VholdR Contour HD 1080p is the smallest, lightest, and most intuitive HD helmet camera.

It’s usually the case that the more rich a camera is with features, the larger and bulkier it will be. That’s certainly not the case with the Sanyo Xacti VPC-CS1, which can also transmit your footage to a computer, wirelessly, with wireless Eye-Fi SD cards.

When last we looked at B&H as a fashion outlet (Dressing for the Tropics), we seemed fixated on the waist up. People would stop me and say: "But Mike, what about pants?" Everyone needs them, especially pros who benefit from extra padding around the knees and hips, pockets that zip and waterproof, breathable fabric. So, today we visit the changing room, virtual like the rest of our just-try-to-kick-the-tires site.

If local area networks (LANs) were like plumbing, then Ethernet cables would be the pipes and routers the valve switchers. But data bits have a huge advantage over fluids. They don't require conduits to flow through your home or office to still be useful.