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Skullcandy Inc. is an American company based in Park City, Utah, that markets technology such as headphones, earphones, Bluetooth speakers and other products. [3]It was acquired by Mill Road Capital for $196.9 million and the deal was finalized on October 3, 2016, making Skullcandy a wholly owned private subsidiary of that company.
In 2008, Skullcandy debuted 2XL to the marketplace at all retail stores. From on ear headphones (Shakedown, Phase, Barrel), earbuds (Spoke, Whip, Offset), and even Bluetooth speakers (Ringer), 2XL products come in a wide variety of colors, which is similar to all Skullcandy products like the Uprock, Ink'd 2, and even Jib.
Headphones that use cables typically have either a 1 ⁄ 4 inch (6.4 mm) or 1 ⁄ 8 inch (3.2 mm) phone jack for plugging the headphones into the audio source. Some headphones are wireless, using Bluetooth connectivity to receive the audio signal by radio waves from source devices like cellphones and digital players. [5]
Chinese phone manufacturers were early in not using a phone socket: first with Oppo's Finder in July 2012 (which came packaged with micro-USB headphones and supported Bluetooth headphones), followed by Vivo's X5Max in 2014 and LeEco in April 2016 and Lenovo's Moto Z in September 2016. [40]
Technology is the application of conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals, especially in a reproducible way. [1] The word technology can also mean the products resulting from such efforts, [2] [3] including both tangible tools such as utensils or machines, and intangible ones such as software.
Philco was founded in 1892 as Helios Electric Company. [6] From its inception until 1904, the company manufactured carbon-arc lamps.As this line of business slowly floundered over the last decade of the 19th century, the firm experienced increasingly difficult times.