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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.

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.

Paris Themed Home Theater Home theater designer Donny Hackett has always wanted to visit Paris but had never gone. So he decided to bring Paris here. The best attraction has got to be the whopping 154-inch screen...

10 Manliest Man Caves Some guys love power tools. Some love cars. Some are happy with a comfy chair, a remote and something to nosh on. Then there are those who need to go above and beyond—to create a space that men love.

Oddly Shaped Room is Just Right for Home Theater These homeowners had an oddly shaped room, one that wasn’t built to be a dedicated theater like a basement but an old entertainment system that really needed an upgrade complete with a projector.

The New Home Theater PC - Part 2 In this final installment, we'll walk through several scenarios and talk about using the laptop as the New Home Theater PC to enable streaming content and fulfill the promises of the HTPC.

Control4 Demos v2.0 at CEDIA Control4 is probably most well known as the company that woke up the industry and said "Um, why are you guys killing yourselves over this horrendous AMX/Crestron programming language?"

LED Accent Lighting Gone Wild in Multi-purpose Theater Room The team at Ohio-based Audio Video Interiors made sure that this elegant open-floor great room itself was the center of attention. The artistic LED lighting on the ceiling and framing the centerpiece

The New Home Theater PC – Part 1 I think it's pretty safe to say that the traditional Home Theater PC is dead... at least it's dead insofar as it has completely failed to reach the mass market in an accessible and easy-to-use way.

JBL Vintage Speaker Restoration Done Right by Simply Speakers There is an old axiom I love to live by, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. Just because your speakers are old, doesn’t mean they can’t still perform as good and sometimes better than the models…