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Mothers Day 2010 Gift Guide Mother's Day is coming. This is your chance to plant an audio, video or other gadget into your mom's hand that is sure to level the playing field and restore electronics dignity to the family name.

TapouT Theater Provides Gladiator-Style Enjoyment Punkass is how Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fans know him. He's also known as Dan Caldwell, co-founder and CEO of TapouT, a company embedded in the MMA industry and king of counterculture clothing.

Renovating a Family Room into a Home Theater The owners of this 22 x 18 theater had no intention of updating their 1970s-style basement rec room, but the contractors and interior designers hired for the job couldn't help but bring it up to date.

Installing a Television Over a Fireplace Nothing has come up in local conversations with friends and family as much as what it takes to mount a flat panel television over a fireplace. Be it plasma or LCD, it's a great, big, worthwhile job.

2009 Consumer Excellence Award Winners The Audioholics CE Awards are given to products which serve consumers directly and also improve the business and success of the custom installer. Check out our picks for 2009.

Tips for a Clean HDTV Installation This is a basic guide for cleaning up an HDTV install by routing all of the connection cables between your Cable Box / Blu-ray Player to the display behind the drywall and out of sight.

Using a 103-inch Plasma for Video Gaming At last count, the home had: two Microsoft Xbox 360s, two Sony PlayStation 3s, two Nintendo Wiis and one Nintendo Game Cube... oh, and a 103" Panasonic plasma display system to view them all on.

Inside Segway Dean Kamen's Off-the-Grid Island Home He calls himself Lord Dumpling, and his island "nation" has a zero-tolerance policy for incandescent lights. In fact, he claims to have the first fully self-powered nation. He is Dean Kamen, inventor.

Audioholics 2009 Product Of Year Awards 2009 was much like 2008 for consumer A/V in regards to the lack of advancement in technology as much as bringing existing technologies into more affordable platforms for greater mass appeal.

A Home Theater in Stargate Atlantis A home theater can be a great escape, but how about escaping all the way to the planet Lantea, the fictional home of the TV series Stargate Atlantis? Jacob Yarmuth’s very cool theater does it.