It is time once again for the biggest sporting event of the year. The one that sees legs churning up and down the field. Water sloshed as hydration is more important than ever. Occasional, erm, flags left on the field.
The 20th iteration of the annual event (that, no, isn’t actually part of Super Bowl 2024, but it does help raise find pets new homes) is back and better than ever. The three-hour event will have some 131 pups from 73 shelters across 36 states. And this year will feature the smallest dog ever to “compete” — Sweetpea weighs in at just 1.7 pounds. Hopefully, he’s not on the field at the same time as Levi, though — that’d be a bit of a mismatch with the 72-pound Great Dane.
The Puppy Bowl begins at 1 p.m. Eastern (that’s 11 a.m. on the West Coast) and will be broadcast simultaneously on Animal Planet, Discovery, TBS, and truTV. And that means that if you have an existing cable or linear streaming subscription — like, say, to YouTube TV — then you’re good to go. And it’ll all be over in time for the Super Bowl itself. (Though we’d really push for the Puppy Bowl to take over for the Super Bowl Halftime Show.)
If you’re looking for the Puppy Bowl on a streaming solution, it’ll be on Max and Discovery+.
Puppy Bowl XX continues its push for inclusiveness. Six special-needs dogs will be on the field, including Riddle, a pug terrier who suffers from the neurological condition cerebellar hypoplasia; Mr. Bean, a papillon who only has his two hind legs; and four pups who don’t let their deafness slow them down.
This year’s event is going to be even more wild as the puppies are (somehow) taking over the production of the show. You’ll see them working the cameras and lighting, directing from the control room, and managing the studio floor. They’re even coaching the teams.
Puppy Bowl referee Dan Schachner is back for his 13th year, too, and this time, he’ll have an assistant — Whistle, of course — helping with the calls.
Instagram is making its way to yet another screen, and this time, Apple TV is getting a taste of the Reels rabbit hole. The company has launched a dedicated Instagram app for Apple TV, bringing Reels, longer videos, and live shows to the big screen. So, if watching one quick clip on a phone somehow turns into an hour of scrolling, there's now a much larger screen for that.
Instagram brings Reels and more to Apple TV
Audio-Technica, a brand well known for making some of the best studio and professional headphones on the market, has just come out with the ATH-AWX7000, which the company itself claims to be its "finest headphones ever." The new flagship closed-back headphone has debuted at an eye-watering price of $3,799. It combines hand-finished Japanese woodwork with a newly developed 58mm driver.
The earcups are made from Kiso cypress, a prized wood historically used for Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples. Each housing is finished by hand with traditional Echizen lacquer, which brings out the grain and is expected to darken over time. The frame and sliders are finished in a deep navy kachi-iro shade traditionally associated with samurai.
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