The folks out at Chinavasion have sent over more than a few great and unusual items for us to review, and one of the latest will manage to be both at once. We’re talking here about the 7.1 Channel External Sound Card, and it’s actually a pretty big surprise when you get down to it. [...]

Acer has today shown us their brand new Aspire 8940 18.4-inch laptop, pictured above. This beast will start at $1,350 and include some very enticing specs. Those specs include an Intel Core i7 processor, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, a 500GB HDD, 1GB Nvidia GeForce GTS 250M GPU, Blu-ray drive and 5 integrated speakers for surround [...]

Polk Audio’s new product, SurroundBar, is debuting in this year’s CES Convention. SurroundBar is a two-piece DVD theater system consisting of the SurroundBar 360 multichannel loudspeaker and an electronic console which has DVD player, amplifier, AM/FM radio, USB, video and analog inputs. It came about by consumers’ wanting of a “true surround audio and deep [...]