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DVDO Edge Green High-Definition Video Processor and Connectivity Hub Solution, $499 from DVDO, Sunnyvale, Calif. (www.dvdo.com

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The Icon iDO digital output interface and headphone amplifier from NuForce, $249 improves even the best sound. (Image provided by www.nuforce.com)

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Street by 50 headphones from SMS Audio are meant to reproduce the sound artists hear in the recording studio. (Image provided by www.smsaudio.com)

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IMAGE PROVIDED BY WWW.TDKPERFORMANCE.COM BA200 Dual Balanced Armature In-Ear Headphones from TDK Life on Record fit in a pocket and deliver great sound.

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The kitchen in the Archbold model available at 1801 Foxhall was designed by Lobkovich Inc., a Tysons Corner-based kitchen-design firm. It features professional-grade appliances and a butler's pantry.

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Dan Johnson uses a hands-free device to talk on a cellphone Dec. 14, 2011, while driving in San Diego. Johnson, an operations manager, uses his cellphone while driving frequently for business. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** This undated file photo obtained by the Associated Press shows Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army private suspected of being the source of some of the unauthorized classified information disclosed on the WikiLeaks website. (AP Photo, File)

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Radioactive water pools outside a building with a purification device inside at the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, on Sunday, Dec. 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co.)

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** FILE ** A driver in Brunswick, Maine, holds a cellphone on Sept. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach)

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National Transportation Safety Board Chairwoman Deborah Hersman discusses in Washington on Tuesday the NTSB's recommendation to ban all cellphone use by drivers except for emergencies. (Associated Press)

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National Transportation Safety Board Chair Deborah Hersman speaks Dec. 13, 2011, during a news conference in Washington to discuss the board's recommendation to ban all cellphone and portable electronic device use by drivers except for emergencies. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Motorists pass a billboard encouraging people not to text while driving in Indianapolis. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** A physicist explains the Atlas experiment on a board at the European Center for Nuclear Research outside Geneva on May 20, 2011. The illustration shows how a Higgs boson, an elusive sub-atomic particle, may look like in Atlas. (Associated Press)

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News trucks line the street in front of the Centre County Courthouse on Monday, Dec. 12, 2011, in Bellefonte, Pa. Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, charged with more than 50 counts of child sex abuse, is scheduled to have a preliminary hearing at the courthouse on Tuesday. An order posted Monday says reporters will be allowed to email, send text messages and tweet from their laptop computers and handheld devices from inside the courtroom in Centre County during the hearing. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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In this CD cover image released by Because Music/Elektra Records, the latest release by Charlotte Gainsbourg, "Stage Whisper," is shown. (AP Photo/Because Music/Elektra Records)

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This undated product photo provided by Disney, shows the Disney AppMates. AppMates, is a toy car based on the characters from the company's “Cars 2” animated movie. One car sells for $12.99 while a two-pack goes for $19.99. The free app lets kids drive around on different courses by moving the car across the iPad screen. (AP Photo/Disney)

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This screen image from the UltraViolet website illustrates how the system is supposed to work. Designed to encourage people to purchase movies rather than rent them or subscribe to a streaming service, UltraViolet didn't work as advertised. (Ultraviolet via Associated Press)

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Virginia Tech police officers console one another as they move toward the scene where a fellow police officer was killed in a parking lot on the campus of Virginia Tech, Thursday December 8, 2011, in Blacksburg, Va. A man killed a police officer and another person after a traffic stop Thursday at Virginia Tech, sending a shudder through campus as students and faculty were told to stay inside and police searched for the gunman, school officials said. (AP Photo/Don Petersen)

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** FILE ** In this Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011, file photo and Apple logo is seen during an announcement at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)