Do you recognize YOUR living room? The landscape in your family’s favorite room has changed dramatically the past few years as the Internet (as a main source of media content) begins to take over from your old favorite, the traditional cable model.

With these changes come dynamic new equipment options and possibilities. In this post IOGEAR is your fearless guide to help navigate this new media landscape and take advantage of the exciting changes in home entertainment.

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For those who dream of enjoying their favorite YouTube clips, Hulu episodes or other streaming Internet content on their favorite widescreen televisions, Walt Mossberg’s recent Wall Street Journal article How To Watch Video, Wirelessly, on Your TV Set may sound familiar.

The good news: wireless PC-to-TV solutions are officially here to stay! With a growing number of solutions that allow consumers to play Internet media in full TV screen glory on the market, sharing and enjoying Internet content has never been easier.

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No two days in the life of an installer are ever the same. Whether you’re outfitting a raucous sports bar with the latest flatscreen TVs, equipping a family of four with a solution that will work for Jimmy’s playstation, Dad’s high-definition TV AND Mom’s Wii Fit, or simply hooking a customer up with his dream AV set-up, every day is a new challenge.

We here at IOGEAR salute the installers! Without these everyday heroes supporting our every entertainment whim, we may never be able to effortlessly switch between web and TV, wirelessly control several computers or sync all of our AV equipment, all with the help of artfully concealed switches and control centers.

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Congratulations to our lucky February winner, @djh_artist, who will be able to celebrate Earth Day in style this year with a Solar Bluetooth Hands-Free car kit!

For all of you eco-warriors out there who are green with envy, don’t worry – IOGEAR will continue to give away highlights from our green product portfolio until Earth Day. If you had your heart set on getting the Solar Bluetooth Hands-Free car kit, you still can purchase your own via our reseller partners or on our e-store directly.

MARCH COMPETITION ANNOUNCEMENT!!

This month, one lucky Twitter follower will be grabbing our USB Laptop KVM Switch, one of the latest portable innovations from IOGEAR.  Leveraging the convenience of an all-in-one USB cable, the USB Laptop KVM Switch allows you to easily work and switch between two computers on one monitor and file transfer between the two computers connected. Cutting down on unnecessary wires and inflated power bills, the Laptop KVM Switch is a multi-tasker’s best friend!

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This week we watched in fascination as Chatroulette fever took the teen nation by storm.

For anyone not living with a technology-crazed teen, or who hasn’t suffered a bout of insomnia in front of a computer screen recently, Chatroulette is a Russian based video chat service that brings you face-to-face, via webcam, with an endless stream of random strangers all over the world. With a few clicks, you could be talking to music enthusiasts in South Africa, swapping cookery tips with viewers in Paris or just shooting the breeze with new friends in Belgium – all for free!

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With WiFi and 3G (and now 4G) getting all of the attention recently, we don’t think about Bluetooth very often. According to Wikipedia:

“Bluetooth is an open wireless protocol for exchanging data over short distances (using short length radio waves) from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks (PANs). … It can connect several devices, overcoming problems of synchronization.”

The last time Bluetooth received significant media buzz was when several states decided to pass a law outlawing cell phone usage while driving. This sparked a surge in Bluetooth usage and sales, putting the technology once again in the spotlight.

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As Earth Day approaches, we here at IOGEAR have green on the brain and we want to help YOU get leaner, greener and more streamlined this spring! Read on for tips on how to cut down your electronic waste, as well as exclusive competition details where you can win some of our greenest products!

Helping to sustain the environment is about more than just recycling – it’s about making intelligent purchases and streamlining your electronics to avoid waste. Minimizing your eco footprint is easy with products designed to work with your entertainment systems – and IOGEAR provides easy and flexible solutions to keep things simple and cut down on unnecessary waste.

IOGEAR’s commitment to green products is at the heart of our business. From flexible KVM switches which allow the user to control their system using just one keyboard and mouse and reduces energy consumption to the Solar Bluetooth Hands-Free Car Kit for clean, green charging on the go, IOGEAR combines the latest in environment technology with products that work for your everyday life.

EXCLUSIVE COMPETITION!!!!

To celebrate the approach of Earth Day, IOGEAR will be giving away some of our best and brightest green products exclusively to Twitter followers each month until April!

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It won’t have escaped the attention of any outdoor sport enthusiasts that the Winter Olympics have kicked off in Vancouver. While agile skiers, snowboarders and other cold-weather athletes compete fiercely for gold, there’s another army at work bringing you the action straight to your living room – the technology geeks.

What couch surfers might not appreciate is the full weight of technology behind the games. According to reports by CNET, powering the Winter Games requires more than 5,000 kilometers of cabling and 6,000 computers – and that’s before it even reaches your living room.

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Are your holiday gadget gifts still uninstalled? Or worse … still in the box? Have you begun the installations only to find a key cable missing? Are your new gadgets gathering dust alone, dying to be connected and used?

At IOGEAR, we’re here to help! Read on for ideas on how to use our many devices designed to connect, de-clutter, enhance or just help your gadgets reach a new level of cool.

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Following our glimpse of everything great and good at CES 2010, it’s time to cast an eye towards some exciting developments in the TV market. Hot off the heels of Toshiba’s recent announcement of their brand new state-of-the-art CELL TV, the consumer electronics industry is buzzing with speculation on the future of the humble television.

Toshiba’s CELL TV technology promises an enhanced picture quality and precise image accuracy by sampling multiple frames and restoring the native pre-sampling signal curve – put simply, providing more brightness, more contrast, more detail and more 3D capability.

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