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If you’re one of the few that hasn’t already switched to Verizon because Comcast kept throttling your Internet connection while you were trying to torrent, get this: Come October 1st, Comcast will be implementing a 250GB monthly cap as part of their shift toward “protocol agnostic” network management.

Comcast is still making plans on how they want to screw their customers over, like having the notion to consider charging $15 per 10GB over the monthly cap or banning your internet access entirely for emailing too frequently. Yet, who knows what they’ll do?

Comcast defends their monthly cap:

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We celebrated the 125th birthday of the Brooklyn Bridge last night and boy was it a party. We had some drinks, mingled a bit and eventually watched a guy named Paul St. George bring in a huge Telectroscope. The Telectroscope, in theory, is supposed to let people from London and NYC look at each other via an undersea tunnel with a complex mirror setup. Luckily, it’s all a crock of crap and it really works using two webcams and a broadband connection. One person looks in, another does the same and suddenly, two continents become one.

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Audio system manufacturers have been brainstorming for so long the best way to connect speakers with the audio system. The traditional way is the copper wire, now we can do it over WiFi and Bluetooth. The problem with these wireless technologies is that they have limited coverage and they are subject to interference, there are also people concerned with the potential health hazards associated with 24-7 EM wave exposure. Pioneer Japan announced this morning a new line of audio systems that they call the Music.tap. What’s so special about the new system is that the speakers are connected to the main combo via the power line for the first time in the world, using the PLC broadband technnology. So you can pretty much put your speakers anywhere in the house: every single room and your basement as long as there is a power socket around.

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Some of the entertainment systems we’ve seen are a pure mess. The tangle of wires is not only an eyesore, but a safety and quality hazard. If you hate those balls of wires as much as we do, the NewSoft WMS100 Wireless Projector Adaptor could help you in taking care of that problem.

The WMS100 links wirelessly to any projector through a laptop running off of a WiFi network, letting the laptop transmit data wirelessy thorough the wonders of broadband. From the laptop, the projector of your choice produces the enlarged display. If you have to travel with those messes of wires you know why this could be beneficial. — Andrew Dobrow

Product Page [NewSoft, via MobileWhack]