ASUS gives their Cine5 compact five channel speaker bar more officialness today and the buzz has been good as evident by the posts popping up at Crunchgear and Slashgear. It is a rather cool gadget for your desktop audio needs.

Futurelooks covered this product in person way back at CES 2010. Yes, I was there and I even talked to Ives Chiu, one of ASUS’ audio gurus from Taiwan about it. Our interview revealed far more than the official press release was able to give us like a perhaps a potential price point for this very interesting piece of desktop bling. Check out the video after the break…

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Maybe, just maybe, today will be the day the agent from the total loss department of my insurance company will call me and let me know how much they’re going to give me for my car. Maybe. A girl can dream, right? Have a great day!

TrustedReviews rocks the morning with the Roberts Sound MP-53

Phoronix checks out the ASRock M3A780GXH/128M

TechwareLabs spends some time with the CyberPowerPC Gamer Xtreme Si

iXBT Labs presents Five Premium CPU Coolers In Tests

bit-tech takes on Arma II

Technic3D submits its SSD Roundup

ITreviewed tries on the Plantronics .Audio 655

Accelenation points and shoots the Samsung WB550 Digital Camera

GPS Trends finds its way with the Garmin Nuvi 1200

RBMods chills out with the Noctua NF-S12B FLX

Legit Reviews reports AMD DirectX11 White Paper Released

To finish it off for the moment, PCShopTalk takes a look at the TRENDnet TV-IP512WN Wireless N Internet Camera Server

We finally realized that it is never going to cool off again, and the humidity is never going to drop below 75%, so we might as well bite the bullet and just do it. So far today I’ve weeded two planters and watered all the flower beds. After a short break in front of the fan, we’ll be trimming some bushes that are taking over the world and then trying to find and mark where all the poison ivy is growing this year so it can be killed later. I think that’ll probably be plenty enough for one day.

MetkuMods starts us off with an Introduction to 4D Systems OLED Products

TrustedReviews checks out the Asus Crosshair III Formula

Motherboards.org goes inside the In-Win X-Fighter AL-13 Series Case

bit-tech takes on Overlord II

DigitalTrends rocks out with the VTech IS9181 Wi-Fi Internet Radio

ITreviewed spends some time with StarDock WindowBlinds v6.4

TheTechLounge takes a look at the Sapphire Radeon HD 4650 512MB

techPowerUp chills out with the Spire TherMax II

Hardware Secrets presents its 2 TB Hard Disk Drive Battle: Seagate Barracuda LP vs. Western Digital Caviar Green

Overclockers Online examines the Highpoint RocketRAID 3510 SATA II RAID Controller

TweakTown goes mobile with the Apple iPhone 3GS 16GB Smartphone

TechwareLabs tries on the Monster Turbine Headphones

ThinkComputers gets its hands on the Thrustmaster T.16000M Joystick

Planet3dNow reviews the Sharkoon Silent Storm CM 460 W power-supply

And to finish off this selection, Bjorn3D hooks up with the ICY DOCK MB877SK-B

It occurs to me that it’s virtually impossible to shop for another car when the insurance company’s “total loss department” has yet to call me and tell me how much they’re going to shell out for the one I wrecked. It’s not like I have a trade-in any more, and since it’s summer there is virtually no work so I don’t really have much for a down payment, either. They should’ve called me yesterday, but hopefully they’ll get to me today. I need to get moving on this pretty darn quick.

Futurelooks kicks it off with the Kingston SSDnow V-Series 128GB Solid State Hard Drive

DigitalTrends goes mobile with the Nokia N97

TrustedReviews takes a look at the Toshiba Regza 26AV615DB 26in LCD TV

Xtreme Computing goes inside the Spire (SP9007B) SwordFin PC Case

PC World sits down with the Asus Eee PC 1000HE

ITreviewed checks out SlySoft CloneCD v5.3.1.4

Techniz examines the Otterbox iPhone 3G Impact Case

Planet3dNow gets into the Xigmatek Go Green 400W power-supply

Gamepyre gets slimy in the World of GOO – PC

TweakTown presents its Home Theatre PC and Ripping Station Guide

Bjorn3D hooks up with the Icy Dock MB876SK

BigBruin shares its thoughts on the Kingston HyperX PC2-6400 SODIMM Memory Kit

Finally, Legit Reviews spends some time with the EVGA E761 X58 SLI Classified Motherboard

Have you ever done this? I hadn’t, but I’ve spent a fair portion of today trying to, since the insurance company decided it wasn’t worth fixing my car and totaled it. So…how do you know the car you get is the one they picture? I refuse to either take the bus clear across town or beg a ride from someone only to find out the car I wanted to see doesn’t actually exist, and all they have for me is an elderly Gremlin or Fiesta. It’s an adventure.

Verdis Reviews kicks it off with the Speedlink Tube Stereo PC Headset

TrustedReviews takes a look at the LG HT33S 2.1-Channel DVD System

DigitalTrends points and shoots the Nikon D5000

bit-tech goes inside the Chieftec Dragon CH-07

PC World checks out the Brother HL-5370DWT

Bjorn3D examines the ASUS EN9600GT 512 meg

GamingHeaven takes on Fight Night Round 4 – PS3 & X360

Legit Reviews spends some time with the WD My Book World Edition II External 2TB NAS Drive

HotHardware sits down with the Asus Eee PC 1005HA Seashell

ITreviewed shares its thoughts on Serif PhotoPlus X3

OverClock Intelligence Agency weighs in on the Samson C01U Recording/Podcasting Pak

VIA Arena presents Photos online: The ultimate guide

And to finish us off, ThinkComputers chills out with the Kingwin HTC XT-1264 i7 Ready CPU Cooler