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Powerbag Lets You Charge Your Phone When You TravelCheck out BYTE's review of Powerbag, a laptop bag that lets your charge your gadgets.
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Sennheiser's Superior Quality Bluetooth HeadphonesAudio giant Sennheiser has amped up its line of travel headphones by adding CSR's aptX, an audio codec that optimally compresses the signal and can stream it back in real-time over Bluetooth. In our short experience, the quality was outstanding.
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