{"id":9588,"date":"2007-06-06T17:26:59","date_gmt":"2007-06-06T17:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9588"},"modified":"2007-06-06T17:26:59","modified_gmt":"2007-06-06T17:26:59","slug":"ben-hecks-secret-commercial-product-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9588","title":{"rendered":"Ben Heck&#8217;s Secret Commercial Product is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" align=\"right\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/benHeckHeadphones.jpg\">&#8230;headphones? You may have heard that hardware hacker Big God <a href=\"http:\/\/benheck.com\/\" target=\"new\">Ben Heck(endorn)<\/a> was hard at work on a commercial product. Everyone suspected it&#8217;d be some sort of retro-gaming player or otherwise related to his old school game console hacking. So, it&#8217;s a bit of a surprise that the product turns out to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2007\/06\/06\/ben-hecks-mystery-product-revealed-to-be-audio-fx-pro-5-1-heads\/\" target=\"new\">gaming headset<\/a> for PC. The &#8216;set definitely looks &#8217;70s geek chic and sports force feedback motors, 5.1 surround sound emulation, in-line control module w\/mute, and cool LED read-outs on the cans. A retro feature you won&#8217;t likely welcome is that these are corded USB-based phones, not wireless. But true to Hecky&#8217;s (and they call him on Engadget) prediction, the Audio FX Pros are under US$100, at $80. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\/submit\" target=\"new\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/img\/badges\/91x17-digg-button-alt.gif\" width=\"91\" height=\"17\" alt=\"Digg!\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;headphones? You may have heard that hardware hacker Big God Ben Heck(endorn) was hard at work on a commercial product. Everyone suspected it&#8217;d be some sort of retro-gaming player or otherwise related to his old school game console hacking. So, it&#8217;s a bit of a surprise that the product turns out to be a gaming &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9588\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ben Heck&#8217;s Secret Commercial Product is&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}