The World's Biggest Subwoofer

Royal Device has on its own developed and built in Italy the biggest subwoofer of the world for an Audio/Video room that can be also considered as the greatest AUDIO ROOM for private music listening of the world. The Royal Device audio room belongs to Roberto - the audio designer who made it.

The audio reproduction is focused on the speakers output capability more than electric power output of the amplifiers with no need of KWatts power supply lines, releasing more than 110 dB/1W/1 meter sensitivity starting from below 10 Hz focused on the listening position.





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1951 Atomic Bomb Survival Guide

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Ten Great Tips For 2010

1. Stay out of trouble

2. Aim for greater heights

3. Stay focused on your job

4. Exercise to maintain good health

5. Practice teamwork

6. Rely on your trusted partner to watch your back, and take your time trusting others.

7. Save for rainy days

8. Rest and relax

9. Always take time to smile

10. Realize that nothing is impossible

Thanks Jen!

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NFL Week 17 -- AFC

Updating a previous post, the AFC is a lot more cut & dried than the NFC. This wasn't true before this last week, but the way the games played out, the only things left to be determined are the last two playoff teams, and where they will play.

All 4 divisions are already clinched, and the Colts have locked-up the #1 seed. This also means that the Chargers will be the #2 seed, since they are 2 games ahead of both the other two division winners, the Patriots & Bengals. Patriots & Bengals will each host next weekend's two AFC wild-card games.

There are still 5, yes FIVE teams at 8-7, and all are fighting for those last two playoff spots (Jets, Ravens, Broncos, Texans, and Steelers). Even 2 of the 3 teams who are 7-8 still have a very miniscule chance to grab one of those spots. They are the Dolphins and Jaguars. But if the Jets beat the Bengals Sunday, they solidify one of those spots. The Ravens can do the same thing if they also win at Oakland. Beyond that it gets a little more complicated. Here's why:

It suffices to say that a ton of different combinations of teams could grab these two spots, but Denver hosts the Chiefs. That says a lot right there, as does the Ravens going to Oakland, but that's why they play the games.

Denver needs a win and

either the Jets and Ravens to lose,

the Jets and one of either the Steelers or Texans to lose,

or the Ravens and Texans or Steelers to lose.

or if four of Pit, Bal, Hou, Jax, Mia, or NYJ loses.

That is actually a lot more possible for Denver to get in than it looks like.

Steelers & Texans need a lot more help, remember they've still gotta WIN first: Steelers play Dolphins Sunday, but both the Jets and Texans must lose! Oh and Houston hosts the Patriots. Hence the importance of that Bengals/Jets game!

That's as far as I'm going.. Dolphins & Jaguars both need a win and 4 teams all to lose.

Much of this isn't going to matter. I like the Pats winning their wild-card game against anyone unless it's the Steelers. It's the team that wins their game Sunday AND draws the "honor" to go to Cincinnati next weekend. The Bengals are good on both sides of the ball, but have shown vulnerability lately. Don't be surprised to see either the Ravens or Broncos go into Cincinnati and win. The Jets? Ehh, they have the easiest route to the playoffs of all these fighting for those two spots, and they're the team I'm the least sold on. Mark Sanchez is going to be good - very good. But I don't trust him any further than I can throw a piano right now. Will they win Sunday? I say probably not! Cin 24 NYJ 13

Steelers ruin Denver's parade: Pit 20 Mia 17

Here are my AFC Super Bowl Odds:
Colts - 5:2
Chargers - 3:1
Patriots - 7:1
Ravens - 15:1
Steelers - 16:1
Bengals - 20:1
Broncos, Jets - 25:1
Texans, Dolphins - 50:1
Jaguars - 300:1

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Welcome to 2010

What a perfectly appropriate FIRST-POST for 2010.. (that's "twenty-ten"). Please click the banner image to go see why this is such an important post. Thanks!

From One For The Road

Have a blast, and bring it in with cheer.. but be safe!

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Only in Texas

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How About a Blood Pillow?

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Yep, Sure Do

New For 2010

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Enhanced Ping Pong

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Four-way with hazard

Table for Three

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We All Have to Look Out for #1, But

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16 Anti-Theft Gadgets and Designs to Deter Thieves

We all own many different cool gadgets and items that are important to us either for the utility they provide or perhaps because of an intimate or personal reason. Whatever the reason is, we really hate it when someone comes and touches our personal belongings and worst yet..steals them.

In order to avoid such mishaps and unfortunate events, we have gathered here a great collection of different Anti Theft Gadgets and Bizarre Designs that are meant to help individuals make their devices and belongings less attractive, appealing or desired to a normal bystander. Moreover, there are a few security gadgets and projects that may also interest the more techy of you, who may be looking for some new gizmos to own or security diy to built.

The following aren’t guaranteed to deter thieves or work colleagues from getting at your gadgets but are meant as an additional things to make them think a second time before getting at your personal stuff.

80’s Walkman iPod Case
Although this Walkman iPod Case was made for the classic iPod models, I am sure a different version can accommodate the iPod touch as well. It is a great solution for those that feel threatened by bystanders staring at their new iPods and would rather have them look another way.

This cool case is an ode to old music gadgets by re-using an old Walkman cassette case as a case for a newly innovated gadget. While everyone is walking around listening to their iPods, talking on their iPhones and perhaps even watching a movie on their Zune, you could make sure to remain below the radar, for your music product is just so old…no one would be interested in it. Who even listens to cassette tapes anymore?

Speaking of cassettes..

Fake Cassette Tape Car Stereo
With the innovation of gadgets, let alone music gadgets, most car stereos advance as well, adding CD’s, disc changers, mp3, video and even video games to be played while riding in the vehicle. In order to get thieves to decide to move on to the next vehicle after a glimpse at your stereo dashboard, this cool diy is a funny one.

The Fake car stereo utilizes an old cassette tape deck as a facade that attaches on top of your current stereo deck in your car.

This way, when thieves take a look at your stereo, they would think twice before breaking in for a 90’s car stereo that will be useless in today’s market.

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NFL Week 17 -- NFC

Wow. I love the last week of the regular season in the NFL.

95% of all your "fantasy football" involvement is now gone, and playoff scenarios are getting cut down to about 1/3 after everyone plays a game. And yet this season, there's still tons of things that can happen. Well, in the NFC, anyway.


I won't bore everyone with that crazy total scenario monologue that you hear a little too much, but it's incredibly crazy in the NFC with a week to go, though... and here's why:

Dallas and Philadelphia have both locked-up a playoff birth. But they just happen to play each other in the final week - for the NFC EAST division championship, and at worst a home playoff game... but better yet, each team is also gonna be motivated by the fact that a Minnesota loss gives us a chance at a first-round bye! But of course we gotta win! And a few more chances for something else to happen. But,

The winner is very likely to host the 6-seed in a wildcard game... which just happens to be each other. Oh yeah, and both have as good a chance as any NFC team of going as far as anyone.

DAL 26-17

Almost..

No one takes more advantage of his post-game press-conferences like Brett Favre. Right? Does anyone else go that deep into his thought process? Kurt Warner, maybe, but hey.. don't they get tired?

They.. the Vikings.. have lost 3 of 4 now, and will limp into the playoffs whether or not they win next week, really. But no doubt they'd much rather play at home - in da dome? But we get the Giants? Damn.. I haven't picked this game yet, but nothing would make these G-Men happier at this point.

Packers/Cardinals are both playing very well at the moment, but it could always change. Don't forget Kurt Warner's most important statistic. The Cardinals have at least won three of their last 5, after an eerily similar start as Minnesota. But haven't won more than 3-striaght all season. A season which has been very similar to their last, in which we saw them win those three straight at JUST the right time, en route to the Big Game. I don't think anyone would look forward to playing the Packers, either. But having lost twice in 5-weeks to the Vikings, at least they can hope to avoid them, which is very possible.

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Wait, the other team is the New Orleans Saints. Having already gotten to the 13-0 mark, I think they realized just what they had achieved, and also know exactly what they are doing. Of course, they'd like to have won the last two. But they knew this 2 weeks ago. Maybe a "get it out of your system now" or "these 3 games are meaningless" mind-set. Even Carolina is gonna be a tough win next Sunday, but Saints go into the playoffs with the best, most complete team. Sunday will be a huge key to how this NFC will unfold. But I think this is the team to beat.

Super Bowl Odds after NFL week-16:
Saints - 5:1
Eagles - 7:1
Cowboys - 15:2
Cardinals - 12:1
Vikings - 13:1
Packers - 16:1

I will be updating this! And will also be back for the AFC.

The 15 Most Influential Video Games of the Decade

The 2000s will be remembered as the decade when the videogame industry got flipped on its head.

Going into the year 2000, the general feeling was that the game industry was ready to put away childish things. The era of Nintendo and kiddie entertainment was over, and the videogames of the future were about multimillion-dollar budgets, mind-blowing photorealism and “digital actors” playing out their parts with human realism thanks to “emotion engines,” etc.

Instead, it went down like this: A whole bunch of companies dumped a whole lot of money down the next-gen sinkhole, and the number of publishers that could be counted on to deliver bleeding-edge entertainment without going broke in the process dwindled to just a few.

Meanwhile, many more publishers came to the belated realization that all those simple, accessible games from days gone by weren’t obsolete; in fact, there were untold millions of people playing Solitaire on their computers, just waiting for something better to come out.

Our list of the most influential games of the past decade includes, therefore, many games that made big leaps and defined what would come to be traditional aspects of the big-budget grand adventure, and others that pushed the reset button on game design.

Half-Life 2 (2004)

If Halo is the game of choice for the trigger-happy, Half-Life 2 is the thinking man’s shooter, the game that got our brains churning. Puzzles relied on physics, the well-written story wasn’t spoon-fed, and the protagonist saw the world through prescription lenses. Half-Life 2 ensured that we’d never think about the first-person shooter in the same way again.

World of Warcraft (2004)

The MMORPG had its genesis in the ’90s with EverQuest and Ultima Online. But Blizzard’s World of Warcraft blew them all away, taking MMOs from niche pursuit to mainstream passion. Besides establishing that a critical mass of players will pay $15 per month to play a single videogame if it is sufficiently complex, WoW created a gold standard by which all other massively multiplayer games are measured. By grouping players into alliances and guilds, WoW created strong social circles among its devotees, who are so deeply involved in the culture that they attend the yearly BlizzCon convention. The game has influenced many other publishers to jump feet-first into the MMO genre. Most, so far, have failed miserably.

Grand Theft Auto III (2001)

Few games this decade generated such controversy — or inspired so many other designers. Yes, any game released a month after Sept. 11, 2001, that allowed players to kill civilians and public servants was certain to be controversial. But beneath those attention-grabbing elements was a revolutionary open-world gameplay system. Grand Theft Auto III defined the “sandbox,” a sprawling playground with sports cars instead of swingsets, rocket launchers instead of monkey bars. Players weren’t forced to advance the Scarface-style criminal narrative; they could just amuse themselves in Liberty City. Forget the avalanche of clones: It’s hard to find any third-person action adventure game nowadays that doesn’t crib at least something from the GTA formula.

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I guess on the 1990s list Madden had to be #1, although it's improved so much more since about 2003 than it did right off the bat. I'm also guessing that it's the title of the article "most influential" as opposed to "best". The Madden NFL series has seriously kicked most other sports games well out of commission.

Posterizing the 2000s

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Raiders Suck

..apparently so bad that they can even find ways to lose to themselves!

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Ten Best- and Worst-Performing Stocks of 2009

Given the recession-marred year and the battering the U.S. stock market took in 2008, it should come as little surprise that many of the current year's best-performing stocks are comeback stories.

Also to be expected, perhaps, is the heavy presence of financial companies among 2009's worst performers, given the sector's ongoing troubles that resulted in the failures of more than 130 U.S. bank and thrift failures during the year.


The Best:

Ford Motor Co. up 309%
The auto maker in December reported it sold many more U.S. vehicles in November versus a year ago on strong demand for its fuel-efficient vehicles.

Expedia Inc. up 210%
The online travel site is viewed as well-positioned to continue to swipe market share from traditional competitors.





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The Worst:

Citigroup Inc. down 52%
The banking giant's surprisingly low pricing of a mid-December offer illustrated just how wary investors were about Citi's ability to return to fiscal health.


Eastman Kodak Co. off 40%
The company in early December said it would sell its business that develops screen technology to end a long-standing dispute as it shifts from its fading traditional camera and film business into digital technology.

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