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SlipperyBrick: Bang & Olufsen introduced its premium BeoSound 5 digital audio system. The BeoSound 5, said its maker, combines physical elements (such as an aluminum wheel and tactile buttons) with virtual ones (a laser pointer and a specially-developed graphical user interface) on a 10.4″ LCD display.

It offers up a unique intelligent playlist technology scans one’s music library and finds similar tracks based on parameters such as sound, dynamics and rhythmic aspects.

Features of the BeoSound 5 include a 500GB hard drive for storage of digital music files, Internet radio streaming, lossless WMA support and one hand operation.

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DVICE: Bang and Olufsen specializes in exquisite, expensive electronics design, and this BeoSound 5 is no exception.

You’re looking at the controller for the system, a 10.4-inch screen with an aluminum scroll wheel that commands a Windows XP-running BeoControl 5 music and video server.

The Internet-connected system shows you album covers on its big screen, which sits on the table by some cantilevered magic. Or maybe you’d like it hanging on the wall, or perched atop a radical-looking stalk.

It can analyze songs and find others like it, something that would have seemed miraculous 10 years ago, but is commonplace today.

The video section is highly capable. It hooks up via HDMI and DVI and can handle a variety of file types.

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