Akai LDP projectors

The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) reported today that former CTA Board Member Joe Richter died this past weekend. Richter was a 21-year veteran of Kenwood USA, serving as its president from 1993 to 2002. He left the company as a result of a restructuring effort that merged five U.S.-based ...

The consumer technology industry lost a true legend this weekend. Former JVC executive VP/COO and Akai chairman Harry Elias passed away Sunday evening. Elias, a beloved industry icon among retailers and manufacturers alike, is survived by his wife of 56 years, Gladys, three children, and two ...

More records in circulation means more manufacturers making turntables. Taiwan's Minfort Audio has gone for a distinctly retro look for its new TT8 turntable, but like Sony and Akai, has also crammed in a healthy dose of modern technology – including a built-in amplifier and wireless streaming capabilities.

Some plug-in highlights: FPC is an Akai MPC2000 stand-in that lets you drag samples to the pads on screen. Effector gives you easy effects timed to grid divisions. You can control the size as well as the rhythm division, and it also has a filter you can adjust on the matrix; right-click to create an automation ...

Now, in the station they're in today using bigger projectors for their visuals and crafting bigger sounds, they finally feel like they're realizing their vision. ... It's a more inspired performance now, because you can feel the power of the projector and the lights, and everything feels big and powerful now.

The outside of the LED projector alarm clock shows an LCD display, a rotatable projector, multiple function buttons (on the back), power socket, and a large snooze button on the top. The projector has an adjustable focus dial so that the projected time can be focused correctly depending on the projecting ...

From left to right: Scott Rynecki, Akai Gurley family attorney; Kimberly Ballinger, Gurley's domestic partner; and Hertencia Petersen, Gurley's aunt. The press conference was held Tuesday outside Brooklyn Supreme Court where NYPD Officer Peter Liang appeared for a hearing. Chris Fuchs / NBC News.

Police officer Peter Liang reacts as the verdict is read during his trial on charges in the shooting death of Akai Gurley, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016 at Brooklyn Supreme court in New York in New York. Mary Altaffer / Pool via AP. Liang's apology Thursday comes just one day after Brooklyn District Attorney Ken ...

The panel of seven men and five women took two days to convict the rookie New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer who fired a single shot that bounced off the wall of a dark stairwell and struck 28-year-old Akai Gurley, who had entered from the seventh floor with his friend Melissa Butler.

“We have been, in the last year, working and supporting the family of Akai Gurley to ensure that we win justice for the family." Hertencia Petersen, Gurley's aunt, told NBC News that the march will begin at 6:30 p.m. in front of the Louis H. Pink Houses, where Gurley was shot last November. From there, she ...

As we all expected, the big news at CES this year was Ultra HD 4K displays. It seemed that every TV manufacturer had one, ranging from massive LED LCDs to midsize LED LCDs to midsize OLEDs. We've talked about this before, but now with more info, and definitive product announcements, let me explain in exacting, ...

Akai has been a mainstay of music creation and DJ culture for decades now. The company's iconic samplers have been the building tools of choice for a multitude of artists and engineers in hip hop, electronic music, and the DJ world, and now the company is adding its first headphone pair to its famed MPC ...