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As many have noted already, there were few ground-shaking announcements at CES this year. But most analysts don't go to CES for the 150-inch concept TV, they go to predict future technology trends. And the press likes to help...
POSTED Sunday, January 13, 2008
One look around the world of car audio or cell phones, and you'll see that the best and safest way to use a cell phone in the car is to go hands-free. The only the problem is that your...
POSTED Friday, January 11, 2008
Sure, there is a plethora of GPS devices available for your car. And sure, some of them provide real-time traffic updates. However, the Dash Express Automotive Navigation system adds so much more to the mix. Using a combination of...
POSTED Friday, January 11, 2008
The only catch is that Clearaudio is about as German as Heidi Klum driving a Porsche Carerra on the Autobahn, so the colors should probably be red, gold, and black. The Clearaudio Emotion turntable comes with an arm called...
POSTED Friday, January 11, 2008
Perhaps it has something to do with Vegas' surreal take on life, but every year we see more and more wild and crazy loudspeaker designs in the high performance audio exhibits. If you're one of those people who think...
POSTED Friday, January 11, 2008
The woman in this photo is freaking out because she's wearing the 3rd Space FPS vest by TN games. The technology was supposedly developed for doctors to work via the Internet, but it didn’t fly. In a nutshell, it’s a...
POSTED Friday, January 11, 2008
Gamin’s Nuvi 880 GPS has speech recognition that begs you to talk to it. No training necessary — you can just speak the command/address, and it’s entered into the GPS. Not only is it convenient, but it allows you...
POSTED Friday, January 11, 2008
Lightweight (1.5 pounds) and easy to carry, The PrintStik portable printer syncs with your laptop, PDA, and mobile cellphone when you have a document that you need a hard copy of right now. First you transfer them to the...
POSTED Friday, January 11, 2008
Have you ever come back from vacation and looked at your pictures and couldn’t remember where you took them? No? OK me neither, but Pharos thinks there's a market for a GPS gadget that will remember exactly where you...
POSTED Friday, January 11, 2008
This in-car Wi-Fi router brings the Internet to the car by offering the first wireless broadband network for passengers (note the emphasis) to check e-mail, chat, surf the Web, game or communicate via any Wi-Fi-enabled device — from media...
POSTED Friday, January 11, 2008
Sometimes the best inventions are the simplest and most straightforward. The water-bottle humidifier by Sunpentown international (who?) is one of those products. The humidifier's water source? Any old water bottle. Just drop the full water bottle in, plug it into...
POSTED Friday, January 11, 2008
The Consumer Electronics Show may be over, but we've still got a few stories coming your way about the all the cool stuff we saw in Vegas. We've got stories on wild speakers, a GPS photo tagger and the cutest...
POSTED Friday, January 11, 2008
Belkin will ship the $100 Podcast Studio in June 2008.
POSTED Friday, January 11, 2008
Wow, is it actually over? The Consumer Electronics Show has pretty much wound down, and we saw plenty of cool stuff — Killer TVs, megacool camcorders, and the most expensive speakers you've ever seen. Yeah, the 2008 Consumer Electronics...
POSTED Thursday, January 10, 2008
Night tables are notoriously crowded. Boston Acoustics helps save some space with its $100 Horizon Solo XT mono clock radio. That bezel around the clock park twists 90 clockwise or counter-clockwise, letting you stand the Horizon up or keep...
POSTED Thursday, January 10, 2008
If you’ve invested in a radar detector for your car, you’re probably painfully aware of how quickly the police invent new technology that you can’t protect against. Case in point is the newest generation of laser speed detection systems....
POSTED Thursday, January 10, 2008
Now that we're all stapling flat screen HDTVs to our wall, we want to keep the surrounding wall clear of wires. This May, Belkin will offer one wireless HDMI solution, something it calls FlyWire. The two-piece system has a...
POSTED Thursday, January 10, 2008
The TomTom GO920T is from one of the most popular GPS companies today. It has speech recognition for true hands-free operation. With a built-in speaker, it has connectivity with your Bluetooth cell phone. There’s a built-in MP3 player and...
POSTED Thursday, January 10, 2008
Why just LoJack your car, when you can use the same technology on your car, kids AND dog? Zoombak is a personal locator device that’s small enough to go on a dog collar, or in your kid’s backpack. With...
POSTED Thursday, January 10, 2008
Kicker has always been known in the car audio world for producing high-quality speakers and powerful subwoofers. They’ve transferred that know-how into a wonderful playback system for your iPod, the Kicker iK500 ($349). There’s also a system available for...
POSTED Thursday, January 10, 2008
The new Taser C2 is a personal protector that’s taking aim at the female market. No permit is required, and for personal safety, it’s a great idea. It's supposedly more effective and less target-sensitive than pepper spray or even...
POSTED Thursday, January 10, 2008
Seriously, wouldn’t you say that some of OnStar’s features make you think twice about what your next car might be? How cool would it be to get some of those same features and benefits on any manufacturer’s car, with...
POSTED Thursday, January 10, 2008
Let's face facts. Apple's iPhone earbuds are less than mediocre. There are some higher quality alternatives, but I'd rather use my own custom made Ultimate Ears. Monster has answered my iPhone audiophile prayers with their $20 iSoniTalk. Its jack...
POSTED Thursday, January 10, 2008
I'll be honest — I'm not sure I can explain the function or the purpose of the Jakks Pacific EyeClops BioniCam. When you point the spherical front part of the BioniCam close to something like your skin or a...
POSTED Thursday, January 10, 2008
Leaving reminders on the fridge door is as old a custom as, well, refrigerators. But this is the 21st century, so we need a futuristic method of message leaving. Home Base from Audiovox has a little camera and microphone...
POSTED Wednesday, January 9, 2008
It took us a little while, but the video for our CES panel is finally up. For those just joining us, DVICE held a panel on Monday at the Consumer Electronics Show on the influence of science fiction on technology....
POSTED Wednesday, January 9, 2008
I know many people who would rather risk a speeding ticket to avoid the hassle of a radar detector, with constant false alarms. You know the drill – every time you drive past the local supermarket, your old system...
POSTED Wednesday, January 9, 2008
HD Radio isn’t exactly breaking news, but the features that are being included with it are pretty interesting. Polk’s in-home entertainment system, the I-Sonic 2 has a built-in HD Radio tuner, and it’s also an iPod docking system. This...
POSTED Wednesday, January 9, 2008
You know how popular mobile navigation devices have become, but for the most part, they’re either portable, or built into your head unit. The Eclipse AVN2210p mkII gives you the best of both worlds. Eclipse has joined with TomTom...
POSTED Wednesday, January 9, 2008
I’m not sure if I should question how they do it or why they do it, but they did it. HiVi created the Swans 2.3A, a home theater system powered speakers that takes up a lot of space and...
POSTED Wednesday, January 9, 2008
While other people are adding bells and whistles, the Eclipse CD7200 mkII is a showcase piece for advanced audiophile playback. While other units focus on compressed audio formats, the CD7200 mkII concentrates on playing high-fidelity audio very well. The...
POSTED Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Epson, the world’s leading projector manufacturer, launched the new PowerLite Home Cinema 1080UB. Featuring a 3LCD chipset with Epson C2Fine Ultra Black technology, the new PowerLite is said to deliver up to 50,000:1 contrast and 1,600 ANSI lumens, which...
POSTED Wednesday, January 9, 2008
So, you’ve bought the Honda of your dreams. Sprung for the best sound system they have, complete with built-in XM Satellite Radio. But, your beloved Howard Stern is exclusively on Sirius Satellite Radio, along with all your other favorites....
POSTED Wednesday, January 9, 2008
How many times do you do this? You walk away from your car, thinking you’ve hit the locks, but hit it one or two more times to make sure the remote really locked the door. This handy little gizmo...
POSTED Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Recording high-def video on tape is rapidly becoming a thing of the past now that Canon given the thumbs-up to flash memory for a new generation of HD camcorders. The Vixia HF10 and HF100 (above) capture 1080i video to...
POSTED Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Motorola has replaced the usual mess o' buttons on its candybar ROKR E8 cell with a blank black touchpad (not screen) that lights up the appropriate backlit control icons or numbers to match what you want the phone to...
POSTED Wednesday, January 9, 2008
The robot car that drives itself puts Vanessa in the passenger seat.
POSTED Wednesday, January 9, 2008
The WAVEscape gives Vanessa a hands on experience against virtual pandas.
POSTED Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Vanessa dances with the I-SOBOT, the worlds smallest humanoid robot.
POSTED Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Forget dipping your iPod or Blackberry into a vat of gold when you can buy a hoity-toity case to show off how much money you can flush away. Case-Mate has unveiled a $20,000 Blackberry case at CES that is...
POSTED Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Europeans and Asians get all the cool cell phones, except for iPhone. That's because in the U.S., the carriers control what handsets you'll get, except for iPhone. The latest tease is the LG Viewty, a cell phone with a...
POSTED Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Believe it or not, like it or not, 3D TV is finally coming. Samsung will ship the first commercial 3D plasma TV in late March in 720p 42- and 50-inch varieties. You have to attach a PC loaded with...
POSTED Wednesday, January 9, 2008
There's no need to import that concert, lecture or rehersal to a PC to burn to a CD with Roland's next-generation CD-2e personal SD/CD recorder. Available at the end of this month for $600, the CD-2e has a built-in...
POSTED Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Finally, there are complete true audiophile iPhone earbuds. By complete, I mean earbuds with an inline mic and switch hook control so you can answer a call while listening to tunes without fumbling for the iPhone, and true audiophile...
POSTED Wednesday, January 9, 2008
No more unhealthily sharing headphones because Arielle's tiny i2i turns you into a walking radio station. The i2i jacks between your MP3 player and your headphones and streams your songs wirelessly via 2.4 GHz to an unlimited number of...
POSTED Wednesday, January 9, 2008
TV in a mirror. Hmm̷ I like that. A cool application would be to have a 20-inch LCD screen in the bathroom mirror — I for one would take more baths if there were a TV in the bathroom. M-Touch...
POSTED Tuesday, January 8, 2008
The fact of the matter is that when it comes to flat-panel TV sets, form outsells performance. To that end, JVC announced the World’s thinnest tuner-equipped LCD TVs. This is not to say that JVC's new line of slim...
POSTED Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Takagi's toilet offers the convenience of a bidet with the luxury of a warm air dryer and heated toilet seat. Not new in Japan but pretty rare over here, these toilet seats are now coming to our shores. One reason...
POSTED Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Any pro photographer will tell you that getting a photo of a product or other small object from the right angle can make all the difference in the world in the presentation. Getting the perfect shot has just gotten...
POSTED Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Kenwood's DNX8120 head unit ($1,600) represents a great combination of navigation, Parrot Bluetooth connectivity, and most importantly, multimedia entertainment. The Bluetooth automatically downloads your phone book when it's initially synced. The DNX8120 has a 6.95" wide double-DIN unit with...
POSTED Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Boasting 85% noise cancellation, the Audio-Technica ATH-ANC3 Quiet Point Acitve Noise-Canceling In-Ear headphones (you couldn't just say "earbuds," guys?) have the right idea. Most makers of noise-killing headphones do a lot of things wrong: First, they make them too...
POSTED Tuesday, January 8, 2008
The Liberty home theater system by B&W is a beautiful thing. It's 5.1-channel surround system that you can expand to 7.1 channels with an extra zone. But the best aspect of this gorgeous system is that it's wireless, sending...
POSTED Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Don't look down — that's the idea of the Wavit remote control. With a twist of the wrist, you can control volume, fast forward and how quickly you're fast forwarding without looking down at the remote. When you need...
POSTED Tuesday, January 8, 2008
The good news: soon all terrestrial television broadcasting in the United States will be digital. The bad news: it’s impossible to receive that signal in moving cars. Above 5 mph or so, the ATSC signal breaks up. Because we...
POSTED Tuesday, January 8, 2008
After Michael Douglas kicked off the XStreamHD press conference, company reps gave us the 411 on what the hell it is. First, yes, it is yet another way to get HD movies into your home, though they won't exactly...
POSTED Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Ever dream of starting your very own TV station? Well, forget about it – it costs way too much money, and frankly, the FCC would probably shut you down before your first program aired. But the Web is a...
POSTED Tuesday, January 8, 2008
It’s a pretty good trick to get every CES attendee who walks by to stop in their tracks at the sight of a chair. But that’s exactly what’s going down with the Tank Chair. Primarily designed for paraplegics that...
POSTED Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Following an unplugged performance of her hit “Unwritten” by Natasha Bedingfield, Yoko Ono made an appearance at the John Lennon Educational Bus. Ono was presented an award for her support and contributions to the John Lennon Educational Bus. This...
POSTED Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Is this cat competing in a super-metal-dork contest right here on the CES show floor? Yes and no, I suppose. He’s actually demonstrating a new air guitar game called "Guitar Hero Air Guitar Rocker" that’s sure to make you...
POSTED Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Ever wonder what your boss talks about in the privacy of his office? Or maybe you just need daily recon reports from your dorm hallway. Whatever the mission, the SpyVideo ATV-360 is your new best friend. This remote-controlled vehicle...
POSTED Tuesday, January 8, 2008
So, you say you want to learn how to play the drums, but you don't want to get stuck with a teacher who insists on only teaching you his favorite Rush songs, or risk getting evicted from your apartment for practicing at home? Well, Ion Audio appears to have solved both these issues for you, with their IED05 USB drumkit.
POSTED Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Heard of XStreamHD? OK then, how about Michael Douglas? Yeah, that's exactly what they want you to think — the Oscar-winning actor lent his star power to the nascent company, which has plans in '08 to sell a new...
POSTED Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Neonode was showing off its N2 phone at CES 2008, a pint-sized cell phone that claims to out do the iPhone when it comes to touch screens.
POSTED Tuesday, January 8, 2008
While the major manufacturers have been showing off their latest mobile phones at this year's CES, it was a pleasant surprise to find some phones on the show floor that looked like something my great-grandparents might have used— when...
POSTED Tuesday, January 8, 2008
The current crop of next-generation consoles support high-definition resolution, but for users who have limited budgets or just haven't made the jump to HDTV there's an alternative option: Put that PC monitor to use as a high-resolution gaming display....
POSTED Tuesday, January 8, 2008
You might not be up for singing in the rain, but if you want to hear music when there's a chance your speakers will get wet you'll certainly want all-weather speakers. While touring the Hilton Pavilion, home of numerous...
POSTED Tuesday, January 8, 2008
You’re an excellent driver, right? Of course you are. And, your car has no blind spots either. Delphi is releasing a product to make sure that you maintain your flawless driving record. One of their latest innovations is an...
POSTED Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Panasonic was showing off the biggest plasma TV in the world at CES
2008, a 150" behemoth that stands more than six feet fall.
POSTED Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Apparently, instead of gathering around a speaker, kids like to share music by sticking each other's earbuds into their ears. Maybe I'm just old, but – yuch. To avoid some sort of ear STD, get your offspring the Belkin...
POSTED Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Instead of sticking uncomfortable rubber or foam things in your ears, AirDrives headphones from Mad Catz (seriously, that's the name of the company) are flat and are designed sit in front of your canal so you can listen to...
POSTED Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Sharp, Pioneer, Sony and JVC all are touting slim HDTVs, but for the moment, Hitachi has taken a thin lead (get it?) with its line of Ultra Thin 1.5-inch thin line of full HD LCD TVs. Due in the...
POSTED Tuesday, January 8, 2008
It's better for the environment and your wallet to completely turn off your high-draw equipment such as your HDTV and the rest of your home theater rig rather than leaving them in standby mode. Hooking them all into Belkin's Conserve...
POSTED Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Mitsubishi, the people who invented the 35-inch television and were first to market with 1080p DLP HDTV, today showed off their Laser television. And a new TV category is born. I must admit, this rear-projection TV tech looks very...
POSTED Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Whenever I see a portable speaker the size of the iMainGo 2, I brace myself for a tinny, garbled sound experience. But this one surprised me, and its two titanium speakers put out a reasonably balanced and pleasant sound...
POSTED Monday, January 7, 2008
Cruising through the “international” section of the CES floor feels like walking through a bargain basement electronics warehouse in Tokyo — a maze of half-baked portable gadgets and random household gizmos. Amid this chaos was the Noahpad, an inexpensive...
POSTED Monday, January 7, 2008
If you run a business, you know the importance of face-to-face communication. On the Web, this is a problem, because cyberspace is the ultimate impersonal environment. Humanity Online aims to change that with its virtual personality avatars, which are...
POSTED Monday, January 7, 2008
No, the Pacemaker isn't Dick Cheney's favorite new gadget. The unfortunately named handheld from Tonium, a Swedish company which may be forgiven for its eponymous misstep, is actually a cool (and, at $700 when it arrives in March, heart-attack...
POSTED Monday, January 7, 2008
We're usually pretty skeptical about inexpensive iPod imitators, mostly because they're not very inexpensive. But today we met Truly's Lava, a cute and tiny portable music player that has 2GB of memory, can operate on shuffle or run songs...
POSTED Monday, January 7, 2008
If JVC has its way, you'll be able to permanently lose your TV remote control and just use hand gestures to change channels, adjust volume, drill through menus and turn it off. The company demonstrated a Snap & Gesture...
POSTED Monday, January 7, 2008
The problem with smartphones isn’t the phones; it’s the small size of their screens and the keyboards. The Cello Corp’s has a neat solution for Windows mobile phones: It’s the RedFly mobile companion, and it has a full keyboard...
POSTED Monday, January 7, 2008
In case you're not near your back issues of Maxim and FHM, here's a picture we took earlier today of racing hottie Danica Patrick. She was signing posters at the GoDaddy booth this morning....
POSTED Monday, January 7, 2008
Clarion is making a huge commitment to providing iPod connectivity in 2008. Clarion is taking a step to make sure your iPod is well-connected in the future. The MAX685BT has iPod Direct Control via USB. You can even connect...
POSTED Monday, January 7, 2008
Dean Kamen, Lucy Lawless, Walt Mossberg and Neal Stephenson speak at DVICE's panel, "Science Fiction's Influence on Technology", at CES 2008, moderated by SCI FI Channel Executive Vice President and General Manager Dave Howe. Topics include helicopters, jet packs, Robert Heinlein, and the threat of biotechnology.
POSTED Monday, January 7, 2008
Clarion showed their newest mobile navigation unit, the MiND — Mobile Internet Navigation Device. A beautiful MiND, indeed, it'll be available in September for around $800. With onboard Internet connectivity, the MiND has a 1GHz CPU that makes it...
POSTED Monday, January 7, 2008
If you’ve mastered Guitar Hero and Rock Band, and think you’re ready to try your chops by actually playing, Synesthesia Corp. might be drumming to your beat. The company unveiled its new digital drum pads, available later this year...
POSTED Monday, January 7, 2008
Remember the episode of Seinfeld, when Kramer manages to lose Jerry’s sneakers? By the end of the episodes the pair were on a bus heading to Florida in a vain search to retrieve the shoes. This wouldn’t be necessary...
POSTED Monday, January 7, 2008
Earphone cords are sooooo 2007. Sure to be a hit with gym nuts and joggers, Sennheiser’s new MX W1 earbuds ditch the wires, using Kleer’s (pretty killer) wireless technology to deliver excellent sound quality. I saw and heard a...
POSTED Monday, January 7, 2008
If sleek geek chic isn’t your thing, and your home décor is more Martha Stewart than high tech, the Pico Bayard PC might be more your speed. That’s good a thing… we think. Designed and built by Jeffrey Stephenson,...
POSTED Monday, January 7, 2008
Hiding in shadows or using darkness for concealment won’t do any good — not from the FLIR digital video cameras, which use heat rather than light to see in the dark. These cameras, which are based on the same...
POSTED Monday, January 7, 2008
The “Don’t tase me, bro!!” video clip was one of 2007’s biggest hits on YouTube. In 2008, you might see even more of these scenes playing out, right in your own 'hood. Taser International is marketing its new Taser...
POSTED Monday, January 7, 2008
Vanessa Rae gets a guided tour of some of the 3 million square feet of exhibit space at the 2008 CES courtesy of her new friend, Bernie.
POSTED Monday, January 7, 2008
We got our first look at Sony's Rolly dancing MP3 player a few weeks ago at New York's BlipFestival, where it was paying a visit from Japan. As you may remember, Rolly is a small (slightly larger than an...
POSTED Monday, January 7, 2008
The Olympus LS-10 is one serious recording tool. The company says it can record with studio-like quantity to the 2GB of onboard memory, and there's an SD card slot to expand that memory. The battery life is about 14 hours...
POSTED Monday, January 7, 2008
Visteon, a company that supplies fancy automotive interiors, has hooked up with 3M to create a demo vehicle that is filled with 50 "innovative technologies." The car has "Capacitive Parking Aid," wireless charging for your gadgets, a fancy entertainment...
POSTED Monday, January 7, 2008
Want a shake with that download? Supersize that phone call? Sony’s latest mylo personal communications device combines web-access, music downloads and playback, mobile phone, digital camera with direct sharing to MySpace and Facebook, plus lots more. Hungry for something...
POSTED Monday, January 7, 2008
Want a shake with that download? Supersize that phone call? Sony’s latest mylo personal communications device combines web-access, music downloads and playback, mobile phone, digital camera with direct sharing to MySpace and Facebook, plus lots more. Hungry for something...
POSTED Monday, January 7, 2008
Hard drive companies have been sexing up their external hard drives, but these colorful wedges from SimpleTech feel like velvet to touch and look good enough to eat. The colors you see above are (from left to right) blueberry,...
POSTED Monday, January 7, 2008
Sony introduces an exciting lineup of connectivity options for their 2008 BRAVIA televisions. Many features are backwards compatible with the 2007 products as well. The BRAVIA Internet Video Link module ($300) brings the Internet to their high-definition televisions. What’s...
POSTED Monday, January 7, 2008
Okay, it's not a pineapple, it's actually SpongeBob his own self in the form of an alarm clock, just one in a series of Nickelodeon Npower products fashioned after Mr. SquarePants as well as Dora the Explorer, the Naked...
POSTED Monday, January 7, 2008
Instead of holding up a lighter at the next concert (do people still do that, or am I showing my age?), hold up the Samson Zoom H2 mic. About the size of a celllphone from 10 years ago, the...
POSTED Monday, January 7, 2008
Somehow I've ended up with four iPods, each charging… somewhere around my apartment. That scattered AC situation will end soon with the Griffin PowerDock, which will let me charge up to four iPods at a time via one AC...
POSTED Monday, January 7, 2008
While everyone at CES is showing off their biggest screens, Sony may very well be debuting their best. The XEL-1 ($2,500) is a new OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) television, with a screen that is absolutely amazing. The technology...
POSTED Monday, January 7, 2008
Sharp just introduced Aquos Net, online connectivity via Ethernet for their Aquos line of televisions. Once connected, you can view your choice of online widgets, in either full or split screen. Sharp has partnered with companies such as WeatherBug...
POSTED Monday, January 7, 2008
Panasonic, Sharp and Toshiba have joined forces to create a new electronics-recycling company, Electronic Manufacturers Recycling Management Company, known as MRM. The company will coordinate collection and recycling programs across the U.S. Interestingly, Minnesota has taken the environmental lead,...
POSTED Monday, January 7, 2008
Like most people, you probably spend 12 to 18 hours a day playing video games. You are painfully aware that the digital processing in many displays adds latency — a time lag between a console input (like pulling a...
POSTED Monday, January 7, 2008
Even though the iPhone has been out for a while, it as taken time for all the new docking stations to come out of the woodwork to join the ranks of docks past to part users with their money....
POSTED Monday, January 7, 2008
With iPods becoming as ubiquitous as presidential-candidate campaign posters, JVC becomes the first company to incorporate an iPod dock right onto TVs. This spring, the company will start selling the first of four 1080p LCD TVs equipped with its...
POSTED Monday, January 7, 2008
As elegant and sexy as a Givenchy black cocktail dress comes the Z555 cellphone from Sony Ericsson. In even the softest romantic lighting, the diamond-etched design on both the dusted rose and black versions holographically glints and glitters like real...
POSTED Monday, January 7, 2008
What Air Jordan did for speakers, Dr. Dre may do for headphones when Monster's Beats hit the streets in June for $399. Dr. Dre was joined on stage for the intro of the stylish headphones with Monster founder Noel...
POSTED Monday, January 7, 2008
I was wondering why I was sent to the press conference at the BMW Formula One race track at CES. They were giving the press a guided tour of the pits when I saw that Intel was working with...
POSTED Monday, January 7, 2008
Bill Gates has given ten keynote speeches at CES since 1994. Tonight at 6:30 pm PST he'll deliver his eleventh CES keynote, and some say his last. After all, Gates spends more time trying to cure malaria than he...
POSTED Sunday, January 6, 2008
To commemorate its 50th year in business, Casio is coming on strong with what it calls the "third generation" of digital cameras. This year Casio will be introducing five new models, including four point-and-shoot cameras as well as a...
POSTED Sunday, January 6, 2008
Samsung’s new home-theater-in-a-box systems might be the best thing since pizza in-a-cup. The new HT-X715 is a 5.1 channel system with integrated Bluetooth 2.1 so you can stream music from MP3 players and cellphones, and a built-in USB port...
POSTED Sunday, January 6, 2008
LCDs have been picking up ground fast in the HDTV scene the last few years, and now they’re adding new tech tricks that will make them even more drool-worthy. Witness the new Samsung 750 LCD HDTV, with an Ethernet...
POSTED Sunday, January 6, 2008
Pretty soon, we’re all going to have flash drives implanted in our brains at birth, I’m convinced of it. Until then, you’ll have to make do with all the new tech gadgets that are using it. Samsung’s new SC-HMX20C...
POSTED Sunday, January 6, 2008
When I used to work at a magazine, we used a page-layout program called Adobe InDesign. The program is very "palette-heavy" — it has several tiny little windows for its various tools, which inevitably lead to much clutter on...
POSTED Sunday, January 6, 2008
Philips has been making overpriced but Swarovski-encrusted accessories for women for a while now. Today, the company introduced some new colors for its locket/necklace USB-drive and its in-ear headphones: pink and black! Because every woman wants to look like...
POSTED Sunday, January 6, 2008
We know night vision isn’t new, but taking pictures through a night-vision device is new and very stealth. The iGen IC Night Vision Viewer uses the world’s first picture-taking night scope. It captures black-and-white pictures on an SD card...
POSTED Sunday, January 6, 2008
While other companies focus on creating the thinnest television ever, Philips has a different strategy. Today the company introduced its Design Collection, a slew of products that are supposed to be masculine and feminine at the same time: to...
POSTED Sunday, January 6, 2008
Interactive Toy Concepts gave me a live demonstration of their Firefly RC helicopter at CES, and while even the guys selling the thing couldn’t control it too well, that only made it more fun to play with. The way...
POSTED Sunday, January 6, 2008
Panasonic announced a pair of new 3CCD camcorders that can record full 1080p to SD cards, including Panny's new 32GB offering. The HDC-HS9 ($1,100) also includes a 60GB HDD, while the HDC-SD9 sticks with SD cards, shaving the weight...
POSTED Sunday, January 6, 2008
Unlike its predecessors, Panasonic's latest DMP-BD50 Blu-ray player incorporates what the company has dubbed "BD-Live," allowing it to access online interactive content. It also boasts Viera Link (Panny's version of controlling your other components through HDMI connections), and an...
POSTED Sunday, January 6, 2008
Going hand in hand with its new HD camcorders and displays with SD card slots for HD-movie playback, Panasonic's new 32GB offering had enough space to store 8 hours of standard HD content, or 5.5 hours of full HD...
POSTED Sunday, January 6, 2008
The world does not have enough guitar players so Allegro Multimedia is chipping in with the Guitar Wizard to solve the problem. The Wiz is a software program that's compatible with PCs or Macs and comes complete with a...
POSTED Sunday, January 6, 2008
It’s not enough that we text when we're in cars or trains; the Underwater Digital Interface (UDI) is the world’s first digital device for undersea texting and SOS emergency communications. The UDI provides divers with more security than ever...
POSTED Sunday, January 6, 2008
Woe is Toshiba. In the wake of Warner's announcement last week that it was abandoning its long-time hardware partner and HD DVD for rival Blu-ray, Toshiba executives put on as brave a face as they could at the company's press...
POSTED Sunday, January 6, 2008
Tribot is the next-generation Robosapien, and if anything he's goofier than his older (dancing) brother. He's billed as being loaded with personality, and at a short demo WowWee gave me at CES, that definitely came through. Forget protecting humanity,...
POSTED Sunday, January 6, 2008
Thought those new LG TVs were thin? Honey, Pioneer's shrunk the flat panel even further with its Advanced Design Kuro Concept plasma TV. I haven't clocked it, but I'm pretty sure the 50-inch set is the thinnest plasma ever,...
POSTED Sunday, January 6, 2008
Network Attached Storage (NAS) drives are perhaps the most unsexy products imaginable: black boxes with hard drives inside that just spin and hum the day away. But when you load them up with videos, music, and pictures, that lowly...
POSTED Sunday, January 6, 2008
The NRG Dock is a “personal solar charger” that will power your gadgets off the grid, meaning you can cut pennies from your electric bill as long as you don’t mind paying $500 for the dock first.
POSTED Sunday, January 6, 2008
For high-performance network gaming and streaming high-definition videos, you need all the help you can get. Netgear’s HD/Gaming 5GHz Wireless-N Networking Kit is designed to eliminate the interference and delays that usually bring these applications to their knees, so...
POSTED Sunday, January 6, 2008
Have you ever been driving with your head craned to your shoulder, balancing your cellphone while trying to type something on your in-dash GPS? If you have, then you're a very dangerous individual, and you really need to get...
POSTED Sunday, January 6, 2008
Called the "Designer Dock," this NRG product plugs into a wall outlet to charge your gadgets. Yeah, that's not too green, but it will hold the charge after you unplug it, the idea being that in the event of...
POSTED Sunday, January 6, 2008
LG introduced its new line of LCD TVs today, and beyond the red stripe trend, the TVs keep getting thinner, with the 42-inch LGX LCD HDTV Super Slim squeezing into a 1.7-inch thick frame. The LGX also boasts a...
POSTED Sunday, January 6, 2008
Has Pioneer made the contrast-ratio spec obsolete? Company reps seemed to think so this morning when they were boasting about their new Kuro Extreme Contrast concept TV, which they say has the best contrast a TV can possibly get....
POSTED Sunday, January 6, 2008
This morning LG introduced MPH (Mobile-Pedestrian-Handheld), an in-band mobile DTV technology that provides broadcast quality TV to mobile and handheld devices, even if they're traveling at 140 mph. Above are prototypes of MPH-embedded systems, including a GPS navigator that...
POSTED Sunday, January 6, 2008
What? What your clock radio has hands on it? Oh, Please. What?? Your clock radio doesn’t have a universal iPod dock?? Well, that is just unacceptable. Fortunately, the Cue Radio is coming to the rescue. A brand-new consumer company,...
POSTED Sunday, January 6, 2008
Dubbing a DVD could land you in jail. But dubbing a TV show you've recorded is on the level and now really easy with Pinnacle's cleverly named Video Transfer. About the size of a deck of cards, the VT's...
POSTED Sunday, January 6, 2008
Drop a couple of these Moletech capsules into your gas tank, strap one to your radiator hose and insert one into your air filter and for the next 10 years you'll get 20 percent better gas mileage. Really. How?...
POSTED Sunday, January 6, 2008
Instead of making the dog howl with your yowling in the shower, listen to the pros via your iPod Nano encased in the clear Ego Icebar 2 waterproof and shatterproof speaker case. If you take your Icebar 2 to...
POSTED Sunday, January 6, 2008
Don't ask us how to pronounce it, but thanks to Iqua (Eye-kwa?) you'll never have to plug in your Bluetooth headphone to recharge it again. The Iqua (Ick-ua?) SUN (BHS-603) is powered by available light, indoors or out, and...
POSTED Sunday, January 6, 2008
We guess there are times when your laptop's screen isn't big enough — you've downloaded a movie that demands to be viewed on something bigger than a 13-inch display, or you want to make a presentation and not have...
POSTED Sunday, January 6, 2008
We want to like Emtrace's Photoskin, really we do. It's very sleek, thin and shiny, though since it's much taller than a credit card it's hardly wallet-sized. The real problem with the Photoskin is that it's a Linux-based portable...
POSTED Sunday, January 6, 2008
CES hasn’t even started yet and I already found a must-have toy to buy. It’s the new Rovio by WowWee, and it’s hands down the best of the remote patrolling robots out there.
POSTED Sunday, January 6, 2008
Video Relay Services is a cool way that deaf people and the hard of hearing can use videophones. In a nutshell, it adds a real-time interpreter into the loop between the caller and the receiver who translates voice into...
POSTED Saturday, January 5, 2008
Scosche makes two of these cases: one for the iPhone and one for the iPod Touch. Don't think they're interchangeable, though — as you can see in the pic, the one for the iPhone has that little hole for...
POSTED Saturday, January 5, 2008
Speaking of stylish radios attempting to be Bose-killers, a new company called Cue plans to introduce a radio/iPod dock with quality sound early this year. The Cue R1 Radio does not have a subwoofer but relies instead on a...
POSTED Saturday, January 5, 2008
Wireless Bluetooth headsets have become a de rigeur accessory for mobile tech geeks and business types. Now, with the introduction of stereo Bluetooth headsets that play music, maybe normal folks might start wearing these (crazy-looking) things too. The Flamingo...
POSTED Saturday, January 5, 2008
Some tech products are cool, others are practical, and still others are downright essential. And once in a while you run across something that's all three. Such is the case with the Remote-Control Cooler, a four-wheelin’ ice chest that...
POSTED Saturday, January 5, 2008
XIAS (ki-as) is known now (if it's known at all) for its inexpensive digital cameras, but early this year the company plans to introduce an MP3 player and DRM-free music download website. The 4GB video-capable player is most notable...
POSTED Saturday, January 5, 2008
On balance, does technology engender evil or good? A project known as Accessible Radio is scoring lots of Good points. National Public Radio, Harris Corp and Towson University joined forces to develop a system that displays text transcripts of...
POSTED Saturday, January 5, 2008
Attention Inspector Gadget: Your radio is here. The FR150 Microlink is — take a deep breath — a self-powered AM/FM/NOAA weather radio with LED flashlight, solar panel and cellphone charger. You can run the radio or charge cellphones with...
POSTED Saturday, January 5, 2008
You think your 1GB USB flash drive is big? Ha! The Cruzer Titanium Plus holds a vast 4 GB. Nifty. But the best part is its backup capability: Like most people you wake up every night in a cold...
POSTED Saturday, January 5, 2008
It's getting dark, it's starting to snow, and you could have sworn that you left the car just over that ridge. Suddenly you realize that your impromptu idea of taking a hike in the Sierras in January was not...
POSTED Saturday, January 5, 2008
Bel Canto's Ultradock promises to make your iPod or iPhone music sound better than ever, possibly better than angels singing if you believe their company reps. It's a processor, and part of a larger system, so the quoted $1,995...
POSTED Saturday, January 5, 2008
German company Sonoro will introduce its Cubo radio in the United States this year, hoping to grab a piece of the market for Bose-style simple looking, high quality audio in a small box. The radio includes an alarm clock...
POSTED Saturday, January 5, 2008
Well, I guess LCD technology has pretty much peaked, if this new LG set is any evidence. Sure it's got all the hot specs of today — 1080p resolution, a 120 Hz refresh rate, and a 20,000:1 contrast ratio...
POSTED Saturday, January 5, 2008
A new company called Kreative Power (creative name!) will introduce a surge protector called the Powramid that is, as you may have guessed, pyramid shaped. It lets you stick enormous plugs next to each other— not an original idea,...
POSTED Saturday, January 5, 2008
Today Logitech added a new member to its roster of universal remote controls that actually work: The Harmony One. Just like its predecessors, the One has those trademark useful features like an Intuitive Web-based setup, a Help button, and...
POSTED Saturday, January 5, 2008
Do you like hot tech toys? Luxury gadgets? Breakthrough innovations? It's your time, my friend — get ready for the technology circus that is the Consumer Electronics Show. For the next six days, we're going to be bringing you...
POSTED Friday, January 4, 2008
If a big and noisy traditional generator is ruining all of your fun at those tailgating outings or camping excursions, the future is here to solve that problem. HydroPak is a fuel-cell power generator set to be unveiled at...
POSTED Friday, January 4, 2008
If you were impressed with the 15-inch digital photo frame, be prepared to be mesmerized by the 32-inch version. Taking the title as the largest digital photo frame to date, the SP3200 from Smartpants will debut at CES 2008...
POSTED Friday, January 4, 2008
Portable device manufacturers and their associated service providers are itching to give you TV wherever you go, and up front is Motorola with its first entry into the field, the DH01. The 4.3-inch mobile live TV player will let...
POSTED Thursday, January 3, 2008
Microvision has been dabbling in mini projectors for over a year now, previewing its PicoP display engine prototype at last year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES), and even teasing us with the idea of projecting images from Motorola cellphones. Now,...
POSTED Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Bean bags and those funky rocker video game chairs are great, if you are still living in mom's basement, but what about for the single bachelor who still enjoys video games but doesn't want to look like a complete...
POSTED Saturday, December 29, 2007
You know CES 2008 is just around the corner when companies start unveiling new digital photo frames. Digital Foci is primed to introduce three new frames that range from the small 5.7-inch (640x480) Image Moments 6, the medium sized...
POSTED Friday, December 28, 2007
The more we watch the rapid-fire development of OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) screens, the more obvious it gets: These super-thin panels are soon to be commonplace, and they're far superior to any display technology that came before. Samsung today...
POSTED Thursday, December 27, 2007
Projectors and stereos with integrated iPod docks are understandable and even acceptable, but a digital photo frame with an iPod dock may be pushing it a little too far, just like that iPod docking stethoscope. Mustek's i700 digital photo...
POSTED Saturday, December 22, 2007
USB flash drives have become the portable storage medium of choice for, well, pretty much everybody who knows about them, offering a relatively cheap, rewritable alternative to blank CDs with an increasingly large capacity. And while most affordable models...
POSTED Thursday, December 13, 2007
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