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Leather Island

English poet John Donne said “No man is an island,” but sometimes a man wants to feel as if he’s on his own private island—especially if that man owns a home theater. He wants to hide from the wife and kids, isolate himself from e-mails and phone calls, and just kick back to watch the big game or enjoy an Ice Road Truckers marathon.

The Privé Island, by Cassina USA, enables any man—or woman, for that matter—to do just that.

6-foot In-Walls

What incorporates two 76-inch all-aluminum cabinets and full back box enclosures per channel? The Sage Series L150i Reference Line, from Wisdom Audio, of course.

The L150i is the tallest line source available.

All the details after the jump.

Thinest for your flat (panel)

Providing the ultimate home theater experience, the Lite Wall Mount, from Memorex (yes, that Memorex), is the thinnest full motion wall mount available for large TV screens.

It features a patent-pending design that mounts LCDs and plasma TVs as close as 1.5 inches away from the wall.

Click through for all the details.

Functional Sculpture

As an engineer’s son in Puerto Rico, designer Reynold Rodriguez was intrigued by
the construction of his toys.

“As a kid I was always taking them apart and making my
own,” he says.

That curiosity eventually led the grown lad to design the TV3 entertainment cabinet.

Sounds A'round

Anyone even casually interested in music knows that loudspeakers come in all sorts of shapes, sizes, and finishes.

So we’re pleasantly surprised when we come across a speaker design not quite like anything we’ve seen before.

Feast your eyes on Orb, from Orb Audio.

Audio, Signature

Blending both aesthetics and performance, the Signature Edition CS2.4SE loudspeaker from THIEL Audio is a limited production version of the company’s CS2.4 floor-standing speaker.  

The rich and luminous finish is called Vermilion Maple and was applied from top to bottom.

But being a THIEL their beauty is, of course, not just skin (veneer?) deep.

No PC Required

The common thread among programmable remote controls is that above a certain level of complexity, you need to use a computer to set up the remote.

Not so with the new R50 from Universal Remote Control. The R50 is the top of the line consumer model from URC, and it's list of features doesn't end with just a "not-that-into-you" attitude with computers.