With football season heading into the final sprint and basketball season warming up, sports fans are heading online in droves to catch the latest news, analysis, opinions while certainly not shying away from wanting to express their own opinions. Fans can always browse to traditional popular sports destinations such as ESPN.com or SI.com, but let’s review what new innovations from the Web 2.0 movement such as social networking and social news has brought to the world of sports news. We’re going to take a look at several sites incorporating more social features while trying to immerse you into their sports community.
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JVC Unfolds Noise-Canceling Headphones
Audio and electronics manufacturer JVC has announced its new HA-NC80 noise cancelling headphones. The NC80s featur dual-mode noise cancellation circuitry which enables users to adapt the noise-cancellation feature to different environments: a “wide” setting cancels frequencies across a broad range (like, say, noise on a commercial airliner), while a “low” mode cancels a narrower set of frequencies (like, say, typical noise in a train or bus). JVC says the noise canceling circuitry can offer up to 75 percent noise reduction; although, of course, the noise cancellation feature can be turned off entirely, leaving the user with the cozy effects of the closed-cup padded earpieces.
