The Window Covering Manufacturers Association (WCMA) recently held their annual Product Innovation Awards. The ceremony recognizes important product advancements within the window covering industry. Lutron was given several awards, including the 2010 Product of the Year.

Lutron received four awards, in total

Cary Audio Design has released a new stereo power amplifier that looks like something that came out of Dr. Frankenstein’s laboratory—in a good way, of course. The CAD 120S MKII’s new circuit designs yield significant sonic improvements from its predecessor, the CAD 120S, resulting in increased dynamics, wider soundstage, greater depth, finer resolution of detail and improved micro-dynamics.

Any customer that is looking to purchase any of Linn’s Klimax, Akurate or Majik products will get a free upgrade anytime between June 17 through August 17th. This promotion allows Linn owners to get more performance on their systems for less.

For customers who own older Linn products, this is their chance to upgrade their existing Linn systems with the following:

The BDP-1 is a new digital music player, created by Bryston. The company claims it is difficult to categorize the player because of its unique set of features.

The BDP-1 gives music aficionados the ability to listen to their library of high-resolution files (resolutions of up to 24-bit/192kHz are supported) through a USB storage device, which is directly connected via standard USB cable or thumb drive to the BDP-1 digital music player.

If you're a smart businessperson, you're always on the lookout for new ways to make a buck. All you have to do is wait until it's dark, go outside and look up. There are a plethora of LED / fibre-optic ‘star ceilings' that you can add to virtually any environment, not just home theaters. The better systems include Northern Lights, shooting stars, constellations with astrological overlays and the Milky Way. It's the perfect add-on to new residential or commercial projects. And the pricing is typically not out of the stratosphere so it's a sellable add-on. Just Google "Star Ceiling" and you'll find several manufacturers. Your clients can have their own observatory. Look out Hubble... 

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Do not mistake Savant’s new iPad docks for a mere in-home charging station.  The company has introduced two new iPad dock models: The Desktop Dock and the In-Wall Dock. Now shipping, both docks enable users to take full advantage of Savant’s extensive experience in writing Apple software applications for the home automation market place.

Sanus’ VisionMount series is adding two new mounts to the line: The VLL10 for 30”-60” TVs (up to 125 lbs.) and the VML10 for 26”-42” TVs up to 80 lbs. Now shipping, the mounts are designed to accentuate today’s ultra-thin TVs. They protrude only 0.67” from the wall.
The mounts feature ClickStand technology, which hold the bottom of the TV away from the wall for easy access to cables without having to remove the TV from the mount.

In the iTunes Store ‘Lifestyle’ category, Crestron’s iPhone application ranks number six. This is the only industry iPhone app to reach the category’s Top 30, so it’s ranking is not only impressive, but shows that people want the cool features that Crestron has to offer.

“Our iPhone app is so successful because we’ve put this really cool and popular interface together with the most powerful control system in the world,” said Vincent Bruno, Crestron director of marketing. “Crestron also has the industry’s top grossing iPad app across all categories.