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Want a way to listen to your digital music collection in any room of your home? 
The amazing Squeezebox from Slim Devices is your solution! This slim player lets you access your music without ever touching a CD again! Plus you can use it to access a wide range of innovative music services like Rhapsody and Pandora (Pandora has been on Gramophone’s Favorite Things for several months!).
Enjoy,
Brian
Learn more at SlimDevices.com
I’ll admit it: I had never vacuumed the floors at our house. But now I do it all the time, 
thanks to my new Roomba robot vacuum. Okay, so I don’t do the work, but I get the credit for it. Running on a rechargeable battery, Roomba roams around the entire house vacuuming as it goes. It’s small enough to fit under furniture and into tight spaces and its sensors keep it from bumping into furniture and walls or out of places where you don’t want it to go.
Enjoy,
Brian
Learn more at iRobot.com
I’m a TV guy; that’s no secret. But even I recognize that you don’t always want to see a big 
TV taking up space on the wall. The innovative new Seura Television Mirror gives you the best of both worlds. When the television is off, the Seura appears to be just another mirror on the wall. Turn the TV on, and the unit magically transforms into an LCD television right before your eyes. Best of all, Seura features Sharp LCD televisions, which we’ve been a fan of at Gramophone for years.
Enjoy,
Brian
Learn more at Seura.com
This is my favorite “wow” toy of all time. And I use the term “toy” lightly because the Kaleidescape DVD Movie Player is one of the most powerful and well-designed machines we’ve seen at Gramophone.
Kaleidescape is a hard drive that stores DVDs, allowing you to access your library through a powerful and easy-to-use on-screen display. You can sort your entire movie collection right on screen by the DVD jacket, title, director, actors, genre – any categorization you would like. You can mark movies by family member, skip right to the start of the movie, pause and restart exactly where you left off days later. It’s fast, fun and so cool; if you want to make your friends’ jaws drop, you’ve got to get Kaleidescape. We’ve installed Kaleidescape at both Gramophone showrooms so you can come in at any time for a demo.
Happy watching,
Brian
Learn more at kaleidescape.com
If you’re like me, you’ve got a ton of digital music, and it’s mostly relegated to the iPod. 
But now thanks to the Sonos digital music system, I can access my entire digital collection and play it anywhere in my house.
Sonos uses wifi technology to stream your iTunes and digital services like Sirius and Rhapsody to speakers in your home. And you control everything through a cool palm-sized remote with a great LCD interface. Here’s some of the cool thing Sonos lets you do:
• Free up the music stored on your computer to play directly to your speaker system
• Play different music in up to 32 different rooms simultaneously
• Play the same music in all rooms or different music in every room, simultaneously
• Access your music from any room – no “line of sight” needed from the remote
This is one of the coolest and most useful products I’ve seen this year. It’s definitely on my gift list this holiday. You should add it to yours.
Enjoy,
Brian
Learn more at Sonos.com
Lee, the manager of our Columbia showroom, is a wine aficionado. He’s the guy I go to whenever I need a recommendation on a good bottle of wine, so it’s no surprise that 
Lee was the first one to tell me about e-Sommelier.
This incredible software creates an electronic library of your wine collection so you can access, sort and update your collection through a simple touchscreen user interface that can be placed anywhere in your home. Wine can be categorized and accessed in a variety of ways including country, region, variety, year, etc.
If you’re interested in learning more, I encourage you to stop by our Columbia showroom and ask to speak with Lee; he can give you a detailed tour of e-Sommelier.
Enjoy,
Brian
Learn more at eSommelier.net
