niro1.com Products Featured in NowHouse - the Ultimate Digital Demo Home.TORRANCE, Calif. -- NIRO NIRO Neutral Interfaces for Robotics 600 Chosen By CNET (body) CNET - Centre national d'Etudes des Telecommunications. The French national telecommunications research centre at Lannion. Editors as a Featured Surround Sound An audio recording and playback system that uses five or more channels plus a subwoofer channel. See 5.1 channel and 3D audio. System in Clever Homes's NowHouse Demo Home niro1.com USA, Inc., today announced that its NIRO 600, single speaker surround sound system, has been selected by the editors of CNET (www.cnet.com) to be showcased in Clever Homes' NowHouse demo home. The NIRO 600 ($600) is the only surround sound system on the market which delivers 5.1 surround sound from a single speaker box in any environment and without the aid of wall reflections. NIROSON(R) processing helps deliver a surround sound field generated in free space. Technical expertise is not a requirement to achieve optimal performance. The system incorporates five drivers in its enclosure, a new low profile subwoofer A speaker that reproduces the lower end of the audio spectrum. A subwoofer system may include a crossover circuit which switches frequencies at approximately 100Hz and under to the subwoofer, while passing the rest of the signal to the main speakers. and a SPA digital amplifier See Class D amplifier. running NIROSON processing in its onboard DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive (Digital Signal Processor A digital signal processor (DSP) is a specialized microprocessor designed specifically for digital signal processing, generally in real-time computing. Characteristics of typical Digital Signal Processors
"Niro is the wave of the future in surround sound and NowHouse is the future in living environments. It is a perfect marriage of technology for the 21st century consumer," said Boyd Roper, President of niro1.com USA Inc. "This is an exciting opportunity to show how technology can not only enhance our lives but simplify them." NowHouse is a fully functional demonstration home currently being erected in the parking lot of SBC (1) (SBC Communications Inc., San Antonio, TX, www.sbc.com) A large, national telecommunications company that grew from a multitude of local and regional companies, including Southwestern Bell, Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell, into a single, unified brand by 2002. Park in San Francisco. It represents one of the most environmentally friendly and technically advanced homes ever made and available for anyone to purchase. The home, which kicks off with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on October 29, 2004 at 11:00 a.m., will be open to the public through December 20, from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Monday through Saturday. The NowHouse demo home presents a unique opportunity to educate the general public, as well as builders, about the environmental benefits and advantages of building homes made from safe, advanced, green, and sustainable materials. In order to further demonstrate NowHouse as a truly modern, green, and digitally integrated home, Clever Homes called upon CNET, the trusted resource for people interested in enhancing their life with personal technology, and its expert editors to help create the ultimate digital home setup. The NIRO 600 was recognized by CNET as one of the hottest home tech products available today, and will be part of the digital home display in NowHouse. About niro1.com Headquartered in Torrance, Calif., niro1.com USA, Inc. markets high performance surround sound systems for home theater, audio enthusiasts, PC, Mac and gaming markets. The company is a subsidiary of niro1.com, Inc., Tokyo, Japan. Please visit www.niro1.com for additional information. NIROSON(R) is a trademark of niro1.com, Inc. |
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