Mizco Int'l Expands Ecko Headphones Line 's SMS Audio Acquires KoNoAudio By Lisa Johnston style cord with an in-line mic and controls for use with AVENEL, N.J. — Marc Ecko and partner Mizco Interna- Apple devices. They come in six colors with a travel bag: By Lisa Johnston tional announced they are expanding their headphones white, red, blue, black, pink and purple. NEW YORK — More news has emerged offering with the introduction of six ear buds in the Ecko Finally, the Chain ($39.99) and Zip ($29.99) models are from the ever-popular musician-meets-head- Unltd. line. designed to “merge Ecko’s reputation for street-conscious phones category. Ecko and Mizco first teamed up together late last year, fashion with utilitarian function,” Mizco said. The Chain ear SMS Audio, which has rapper 50 Cent and have introduced as its CEO, announced it has acquired the a variety of CE assets of headphones designer KoNoAudio. products, includ- KoNoAudio founder Brian Nohe will become ing iPhone and iPad president of SMS Audio. cases and charging A line of wired and wireless headphones products. The new and audio accessories are slated to be intro- ear buds will ship duced in the fall from SMS Audio. Features next month under an will include on-board controls and the ability exclusive licensing for four users to listen to the same wireless agreement with Miz- audio from a single source. co’s Digipower divi- From left to right: Stomp, Lace, Chain, Zone and Chaos II In a statement, 50 Cent (Curtis Jackson) sion, the company said. said, “I’m eager for my fans to hear my mu- Six models were announced: buds have a beaded, dog-tag chain cord design and come sic the way it was intended — the way it was The Zone ($12.99) ear buds have Ecko’s trademark in four colors, while the Zip have a zipper cord and come in mastered in the studio. The acquisition of Rhino logo on the earpieces and come in red, green, pink, six colors. Both have in-line mics and volume controls that KonoAudio will enhance our ability to bring yellow, blue and white. Three ear pieces are included. are compatible with Apple and Android devices. the absolute, highest-caliber audio products The Chaos II ($14.99) also have the Rhino design and All of the ear buds have 10mm drivers and silicone ear to the market.” come in pink, purple, blue, red and black. These feature an tips. All but the Chaos II have frequency ranges of 20Hz 50 Cent was made part owner of Sleek in-line mic and controls for the Apple devices. to 20,000Hz. The Chaos II’s frequency range is 10Hz to Audio during International CES in January, Also sporting the Rhino are the Stomp ear buds 22,000Hz. The Chain, Zip. Lace and Stomp have imped- but the partnership between Sleek and his ($19.99), which comes with an in-line mic and controls for ances of 32 ohms; the Zone is 16 ohms and the Chaos II G-Unit Brands licensing company was ter- use with Apple devices and Android smartphones, as well is 18 ohms. minated in the spring before any products as a travel bag. Six colors are offered. Mizco and Ecko hinted in a release that a major product came to market. The Lace ear buds ($24.99) feature a nylon, shoelace- lineup will be announced at the 2012 International CES.

Atlona Offering Range up to 60 KHz. CEDIA Briefs Both the Extender kits and the HDMI Of A/V Setup Devices switchers support Deep Color, HDCP INDIANAPOLIS — Atlona’s Profes- and full 3D, while preserving 7.1-chan- Accell Showing sional division will display a range of nel digital audio, including DTS-HD UltraCat HD Extenders solutions allowing integrators to create and Dolby TrueHD. scalable, customizable solutions for INDIANAPOLIS — Accell will show- customers in residential and commer- case its UltraCat HD Extenders at cial A/V applications. Panamax/Furman CEDIA Expo. New products on display at CEDIA Demos Power Products Accell’s UltraCat HD, a transmitter Expo include the company’s AT-DVI4- and receiver set featuring HDBaseT 100SR and AT-HD4-V110SR DVI and INDIANAPOLIS — Panamax/Furman technology, can deliver uncompressed HDMI HDBaseT extender kits. The will have on display a series of kiosks FullHD digital video, audio, 100BaseT units extend DVI and HDMI transmis- highlighting the company’s line of pow- Ethernet, RS232 and IR control sig- sions up to 350 feet with resolutions er-management systems and solutions. nals over a single CAT-5e cable. The up to 4Kx2K over a single CAT-5/-6/-7 Inside booth 1321 attendees will find extenders are created to support HD cable, while providing bidirectional RS- a kiosk devoted to a hands-on demo video applications, supporting all reso- 232, IR and Ethernet pass-through. station for the company’s BlueBolt re- lutions and video formats, including Atlona will also show its AT-PRO- mote power- and energy-management 1080p, 4K and 3D. 2HD88M-SR and AT-PRO2HD1616M- platform. The UltraCat HD Extenders support SR HDBaseT 8x8 and 16x16 High- By combining Cloud-based control cable runs of up to 328 feet and feature Speed HDMI Matrix Switchers. The with Panamax/Furman power-manage- a data-transfer rate of up to 10.2Gbps. high-speed switchers feature eight or ment hardware, BlueBolt integrators They are the HDCP compliant and com- 16 HDMI 1.4 inputs and eight or 16 can remotely reboot problem compo- patible with the most recent HDMI High independently switchable twisted pair nents to address customer issues im- Speed spec. The extenders support outputs to feed eight or 16 separate re- mediately from their smartphone, tablet CEC functionality and provide an Ether- ceiver modules (included). or computer, the company said. net 10/100BaseTx passthrough, which The units have the ability to equalize, With a wide variety of power and en- is ideal for use with IP-enabled TVs and amplify and reclock the signal to ensure ergy alerts, integrators can be proactive components, the company said. HDMI-accurate signal transmission on service issues with email notifica- The BlueBolt energy-management interface The UltraCat HD Extender featuring through long cables without quality tions when power anomalies occur, and HDBaseT technology is available now loss. Featuring HDBaseT technology, set up budget alerts for tracking system mation systems for maximum functional- with an suggested retail of $499. Ac- the switchers extend HDMI sources up energy usage. Integrators can learn ity, the company said. cell is in booth 3204. to 330 feet at 4Kx2K resolution over a how to use advanced features such as Other kiosks will demo BlueBolt en- The company will also have on dis- single CAT-5/-6-/-7 cable, in addition setting up auto-reboot to automatically ergy-management hardware, the com- play its UltraAV 5x1 HDMI switch as to providing analog two-channel ste- restart network equipment when an In- pany’s power-management audio-per- well as its AVGrip Pro Locking high- reo, bidirectional RS-232, and zone- ternet connection is lost, as well as how formance systems and the company’s speed HDMI cable line. specific bidirectional IR passthrough to integrate power into control and auto- in-wall power-management solutions.

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