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Luxury hi-fi brand Bang & Olufsen has launched its second generation A1 Bluetooth speaker, which is a little slimmer than the 2016 original, is now waterproof, and comes with the Alexa voice-assistant built in. Kind of.

There are a good many options available if you want to talk to your streaming speaker, as well as listen to audio. And now there's another, for the well-heeled living room courtesy of Bang & Olufsen's stylish and powerful Beosound Balance.

Bang & Olufsen's Beosound Stage is a stunning Bluetooth speaker, and a relatively affordable way to get sparkling B&O audio into your home cinema.

Bang & Olufsen has upgraded its wireless Beoplay A9 speaker (again), retaining the tried and true form, but building significantly upon the technology, including adding Google Assistant integration and Adaptive Room Compensation. Oh, and the power cable is now fabric coated.

Bang & Olufsen has unveiled the Beovision Harmony. When the system is playing music, a television rests on the floor behind the system's audio unit. When it's time for onscreen entertainment, the fronts fan out and the TV rises from behind.

High-end audio house Bang & Olufsen has unveiled what's described as a compact wireless speaker. But with a 50.2 cm (19.7 in) diameter and chunky 13 cm (5.1 in) thickness, you'd need a very big living room to consider the monolithic Beosound Edge as anything but huge.

All-in-One computers are a good choice for users with limited space. But you'd still need quite a bit of room to fit HP's upcoming AiO into your living space. Not only is it built around a 34-inch curved display, but it also has Amazon's Alexa cooked in.

​Danish consumer tech marque Bang & Olufsen is well known for its eye-popping designs, high-end sound and visuals, and the rather large price tags that accompany most of its products. Today B&O has announced first truly wireless earphones, the Beoplay E8.​

​LG has been beating the OLED drum for some time, and now it has brought some boutique audio expertise in house, teaming up with Bang & Olufsen to produce an unsurprisingly elegant (and pricy) 4K TV and sound system.​

Bang & Olufsen's striking BeoLab 90 speakers simply refuse to be ignored. Each weighs in at 300 lb, stands 4 feet tall, pumps out over 8,200 watts, and costs nearly $80,000 a pair. B&O has now crammed much of its flagship tech into a smaller and cheaper package called the BeoLab 50 active speaker.​

B&O's Play division has come up with a tasty way to bring the brand closer to "urban creative music lovers." It's teamed up with Danish craft brewers Mikkeller to produce Beobrew, a bottled beer that's had music pumped into it during the fermentation process to, so B&O claims, improve the flavor.

Bang & Olufsen​ is a consumer electronics company for whom design is a major focus, with many of its speakers​​ doubling as works of art. The latest offering from the company is the Beosound Shape, which takes the art analogy a step further with a modular system designed to be hung on a wall.