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The mini-projector space continues to heat up with the introduction of Wowwee's new Cinemin series of projectors all designed to support your iPod or iPhone. The projector product line includes the Cinemin Swivel ($299) with an adjustable 90-degree hinge for...
POSTED Monday, January 12, 2009
It's a given that in the giant-size cornucopia of technology that is the annual Consumer Electronics Show, a few gadgets or products will truly stand out. But the show isn't just a big pile of electronics gear — it...
POSTED Sunday, January 11, 2009
I'm normally pretty skeptical of "gaming gadgetry" as usually it's just repackaged, cheaper tech sold to a niche market. Calgary-based Psyko Audio Labs, however, has a bona-fide draw: the speakers aren't in the earphones, but along the headband. That's because...
POSTED Sunday, January 11, 2009
The NovelQuest Emperor made quite the splash a few months ago when a picture of it circulated 'round the net, and we're happy to report it holds up just as well in the flesh. Looking a lot like a prop...
POSTED Sunday, January 11, 2009
When you turn a D-SLR or ultra zoom camera to take a vertical shot, the shutter release is often in an awkward position. Kodak's Z980 ultra zoom camera, due in April for $399.99, has two shutter release - the...
POSTED Sunday, January 11, 2009
The promise of CES is to show off cool new gadgets that can improve all aspects of your life. But the Real Touch is just taking things too far: It's a computer-controlled "stimulation" device that uses specially encoded content...
POSTED Sunday, January 11, 2009
You're listening to music and someone starts to talk to you. You have to pause the music and rip the earbuds from your ears to hear what the other person is saying. Not any more. Altec Lansing's behind-the-head BackBeat...
POSTED Sunday, January 11, 2009
Schlage has been tweaking their Internet enabled LiNK door lock system for a few months now, and its looking pretty good. Using the wireless Z-Wave standard, they've built their system to be the core of a complete home remote...
POSTED Sunday, January 11, 2009
Samsung introduced a new product category with Luxia, their line of feature packed, technology rich, design heavy LCDs. The Luxia 8000 is their priciest and fanciest model, sporting a redesigned Touch of Color design with a chrome colored prismatic...
POSTED Sunday, January 11, 2009
OEM innovator Bosch is looking to bring 3D to your dashboard for GPS applications, replace your mechanical gauges with a customizable LCD and allow for driver and passenger to simultaneously share a screen for disparate uses. The 3-D effect...
POSTED Sunday, January 11, 2009
Big fancy expensive audio cables are nothing new, but these power cords from Sine take things to a whole new level. The blue "budget" Coliseum II uses 99.9999 percent pure silver, and runs $2,900 for a 5 foot cord,...
POSTED Sunday, January 11, 2009
Freshly introduced iPhone App, HP's iPrint Photo allows for hassle free printing of 4x6 images on any HP network enabled inkjet printer. The app is free and uses Bonjour networking to sleuth out any compatible printers connected to the local...
POSTED Sunday, January 11, 2009
Audiophiles will often scoff at professional sound equipment, saying that it isn't refined enough for truly high performance. While the ugly duckling Ocean Way HR-2A lacks the fancy wood veneers of many big ticket speakers, I wish all audiophiles...
POSTED Sunday, January 11, 2009
While we know that even in video games guitarists are typically the band's frontmen, now drummers can rock out, too. Ion Audio showed off its new Drum Rocker Rock Band 2 Drum Set, which is compatible not only with...
POSTED Sunday, January 11, 2009
Sherwood made a small splash at the show with a few interesting debuts. For anyone who wants to enjoy movie soundtracks without blowing out the neighbors or even bugging the SO, the DHP-2003 headphones are your saving grace. They're wireless...
POSTED Sunday, January 11, 2009
MediaFLO, aka FLO TV, the subscription-based broadcast service heretofore limited to cellphones, is making its way to the car. Sometime this year, Audiovox will start selling a black box that connects to a car's A/V system to bring live...
POSTED Sunday, January 11, 2009
You won't have to look for a big blank wall in a dark room to project a movie onto using Samsung's MBP200 pico projector - it has its own 2.2-inch LCD screen and a little speaker. But this pico...
POSTED Sunday, January 11, 2009
A company called Green Peak has developed new low cost/low power radio technology for remote controls. Instead of that annoying point-it-a-device IR remote that needs new batteries every year, Green Peak's remotes could last the life of the device...
POSTED Sunday, January 11, 2009
In an effort to bring their hydrogen fuel cell expertise to small electric vehicles, Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies' HMX — that stands for Hydrogen Mobility X-Tender — has finally made the moped cool. At a top speed of 15...
POSTED Sunday, January 11, 2009
D-Box Motion Code just got a contract with Mann's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, but better yet, they're showing off the new GPH-120 motion chair that you can take home for just $2,999. Almost a thousand movies titles are encoded for...
POSTED Sunday, January 11, 2009
Glass may not be the first material that pops into most speaker designer's heads, but Dutch manufacturer Crystal Cable (they make mostly cables), says that the thick glass panels of the Arabesque have ideal acoustic properties. The faceted shape...
POSTED Sunday, January 11, 2009
The main innovation of Strida's sweet line of folding bikes isn't in the elegant design that let's you fold the bike in a convenient package that's easier to wheel into an office, subway car or elevator. Its biggest selling...
POSTED Sunday, January 11, 2009
MTX has engineered a new king of the hill for biggest production speaker, at 24" the Jackhammer 24 is the largest speaker with a square cone ever produced. It tips the scales at 400lbs, costs $10,000 and thirsts for...
POSTED Sunday, January 11, 2009
Altec Lansing is trying to do an extreme makeover. They've taken a new approach to their design, trying to distinguish themselves from the boring array of computer speakers. They were showing off their award-winning Expressionist Bass computer speakers at CES....
POSTED Sunday, January 11, 2009
New York eco-boutique Areaware trotted out their line of sustainably harvested Magno wooden radios at this year's CES. Everything except the electronics themselves is made entirely of new growth wood by artisans in a small fishing village in Java....
POSTED Sunday, January 11, 2009
I can't decide if Panasonic's DMP-BD70V, a combination Blu-ray player and VHS VCR, is akin to a bird and a fish deciding to get married, or is actually pretty practical. While you're deciding, consider the deck connects to your...
POSTED Sunday, January 11, 2009
CES 2009 bestowed the gadget world with lots of cool toys — from super-thin TVs to touchscreen vending machines to sleek gaming PCs — but there was one thing that was really absent. And that was a showstopper. From...
POSTED Saturday, January 10, 2009
We met up with Marek Michalowski of BeatBots to find out what's next for Keepon, his world famous dancing robot. Michalowski can control Keepon with a Wiimote to make it bob and dance in response to button presses or...
POSTED Saturday, January 10, 2009
Like everyone else at CES, I could live without ever seeing an iPod dock ever again. They were everywhere. So, it says a lot that this new life from Edifier out of Canada got even a second glance. The docks...
POSTED Saturday, January 10, 2009
Can 240Hz TVs give you a sharper picture than their predecessors, the 120Hz sets? We looked closely at four major purveyors of such tech, and discovered a noticeable difference between 120Hz and 240HZ refresh rates with the set-up demos...
POSTED Saturday, January 10, 2009
Earbuds were all over the place this year - cheap, almost disposable ones with a sound to match, or incredibly high-end devices with prices that practically hurt. Hitting a nice sweet spot are the Shure SE115 earphones. At just...
POSTED Saturday, January 10, 2009
B&W is a name that conjures up images of beautifully-designed, high-end audio products. Their booth at CES just oozes quality. The new Panorama soundbar fits right in. The system uses more than just virtual surround processing - it also uses...
POSTED Saturday, January 10, 2009
Freeplay's latest radio offering packs clean power generation in a slick, older look. Ok, so the older appliance it riffs on may be a toaster, but it's still pretty cool. Freeplay — makers of slick hand-crank radios since 1996...
POSTED Saturday, January 10, 2009
At first blush, the ecobutton looks like another USB toy to distract you from your real work, but click it when you walk away from your desk, and you get to see just how much energy — and money...
POSTED Saturday, January 10, 2009
Taiwanese electronic manufacturer Ozaki had a curious little character on display: President-Elect Barack Obama. We found him wearing a shirt that said "change" and Ba-rocking out to his iPod One, which played videos of his promotional campaign material including...
POSTED Saturday, January 10, 2009
The Mobile DTV standard - officially ATSC-M/H (mobile/handheld) - will be finalized later this year. You'll be able to buy the first portable digital TV products around Thanksgiving/Christmas this year, but LG already has working prototypes of Mobile TV...
POSTED Saturday, January 10, 2009
Richard Vandersteen is normally a meat and potatoes kind of guy, who makes some of the best value speakers out there. But for the launch of his new flagship $45,000 Model Seven, he decided to pull out all the...
POSTED Saturday, January 10, 2009
The lowly vending machine is due for an update, and here's Samsung's take. Judging from the huge line of people waiting for their free Cokes, these vending machines with their touchscreens, network connections, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and slick graphics are...
POSTED Saturday, January 10, 2009
Sony flaunts its exceptional technology prowess with its organic LED (OLED) TVs in an impressive tech demo. The biggest is 27 inches, the smaller is 21 inches. Both are less than 10 millimeters (or 0.4 inch) thick, with the...
POSTED Saturday, January 10, 2009
Urban Tool already impressed us with their line of futuristic gadget holders. This time they've added a pair of Bluetooth speakers and music controls to a pillow. This strikes us as something that would sometimes be useful, especially for...
POSTED Saturday, January 10, 2009
"Greening" the company line is standard practice in the electronics industry, and we've been getting plenty of it here at CES 2009. After all, if washing machine A uses half as much energy as machine B, it must be...
POSTED Saturday, January 10, 2009
Smokeless cigarettes allow for unadulterated nicotine consumption with none of the pesky, malodorous and sometimes illegal smoke. NJOY's NROBO cigar adds a non-replenishible product to their existing line of rechargeable, refillable cigarette and cigar analogs. For around $50, this...
POSTED Saturday, January 10, 2009
Mounting a flat-screen TV via metal frames and giant screws is so 2008. You may soon be able to just lean your flat screen HDTV against a wall, like Toshiba's concept 52-inch Regza LCD. Yes, that's me, your humble...
POSTED Saturday, January 10, 2009
Do your in-ear phones slip out of your ears? My, what big ears you have! Well, Koss solves the cavernous ear canal/tiny earbud problem with its custom CC_01 earbuds. On the back end of the earbud is a metal...
POSTED Saturday, January 10, 2009
Sure, grownups want the latest and greatest gear, but little tykes deserve some kick-ass gadgetry too, don't you think? Pyramat is showing off a line of chairs designed to enhance the gaming experience, and the latest versions have the...
POSTED Saturday, January 10, 2009
Only one company, Hitachi, makes a Blu-ray camcorder. Ironically, Hitachi doesn't make any other Blu-ray products. But Hitachi doesn't think having Blu-ray on a camcorder is enough. So on its DZBD10HA model ($1,099), it supplements the Blu-ray disc recorder...
POSTED Saturday, January 10, 2009
In a world of plastic, throwaway gear, Audio-Technica is bringing out headphones with a very distinctive difference. They use wooden housings, bringing a luxurious sense of quality that plastic just can't compete with. The ATH-EW9 are clip-on headphones with...
POSTED Saturday, January 10, 2009
One look at the Sonoro Elements W and you can tell it's a cool device. It just looks hot. The Elements W is a curvy, sleek box with an iPod dock extension, small enough for an office or nightstand....
POSTED Saturday, January 10, 2009
Callpod is releasing the successor to its wonderful Chargepod 6-way charger. The Chargepod V2 will be able to handle your laptop (either PC or Mac, surprisingly) and four gadgets, with room to spare to act as a three-port USB...
POSTED Friday, January 9, 2009
You may have heard of Zink in past CES shows — miniaturized printer tech that fits inside a small digital camera. Now that idea has found its way into an actual product, the Polaroid Pogo. Take a pic with...
POSTED Friday, January 9, 2009
Vuzix is planning a second generation of its head-mounted displays that look like "something people would actually want to wear," according to a representative of the company. Stylin' or not, the Wrap 920AV improves upon the iWear VR920 by...
POSTED Friday, January 9, 2009
Bug Labs is adding six new BUGmodules to its lineup including 3G, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity modules; a chat pad; a speaker/microphone module; von Hippel Module (for interfacing with I/O ports with your creation) and even a Pico projector....
POSTED Friday, January 9, 2009
You might not like the way these Joe-cool glasses make you look, but you'll like what you see when you put them on. These wireless (and they are wireless — those wires you see in the pics are for...
POSTED Friday, January 9, 2009
When you're shooting video, it's easy to fill up a memory card pretty quickly. To give yourself more time, you could buy bigger memory cards, though JVC has a different solution in some of its latest Everio camcorders: dual...
POSTED Friday, January 9, 2009
Despite the widespread assumption that PDA grandaddy Palm was in its death throes, the company rolled out an iPhone competitor, the Palm Pre, at CES yesterday. The 8-gigabyte slider has GPS navigation, Wi-Fi connectivity, and a new interface the...
POSTED Friday, January 9, 2009
Sonoro Element Internet radios are all flash, and have external docks from which you can charge and play songs from your iPod. The player's packaged behind a spare OLED facade and features a navigation style that mimics Apple's iPod...
POSTED Friday, January 9, 2009
Intel's Classmate PC got a major face-lift with a convertible, dual-orientation tablet interface that switches automatically from portrait to landscape mode with a built-in accelerometer. As before, Intel is supplying local manufacturers with a reference design integrating their Atom...
POSTED Friday, January 9, 2009
Griffin's AirCurve is an attractive little block of acrylic that looks more like a science demonstration than an iPhone accessory. Using the age-old technique of passive audio amplification, sound is captured from the speaker and fed around through the...
POSTED Friday, January 9, 2009
On first glance, the Moof bicycle looks like a high school metal-shop DIY project, but on closer inspection this bike boils down the single-speed revolution into a bold fashion statement. Encased in each end of its top tube is...
POSTED Friday, January 9, 2009
Don't get me wrong — I love Panasonic. They make the best plasma HDTVs for the money, and the company produces unpretentious proficient products. But a portable Blu-ray player? Yes, a lot of people wondered about the utility of...
POSTED Friday, January 9, 2009
This is the bag I've been hoping someone would make. This is three-in-one modular bag made by Ohmetric, a new brand from Allsop. Slipped inside a compartment in the back of the pack is a laptop sleeve with a...
POSTED Friday, January 9, 2009
If a cellphone can be controlled by a touchscreen and play videos, why can't your home VoIP phone? Soon it will be. A company called Open Peak is developing a touchscreen VoIP phone powered by Intel's Atom chip. Scheduled...
POSTED Friday, January 9, 2009
There's a place for crappy earbuds, but equally, there's most likely a place for truly high-end headphones. The Sennheiser HD 800 headphones stand out as a way to hear the details and nuances that are impossible to perceive on the...
POSTED Friday, January 9, 2009
We still have smiles on our faces after taking this $3199 Schwinn Tailwind electric bike for a spin inside the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas. We started pedaling and the power kicked in, and we chose the fastest setting,...
POSTED Friday, January 9, 2009
XStreamHD is taking an interesting approach to getting into your home. Instead of coming in one piece of equipment at a time, XStreamHD is a total entertainment solution, starting from the satellite signal to the input to your TV. XStreamHD...
POSTED Friday, January 9, 2009
We're still hoping to see more fuel cell vehicles in the future, but Medis Technologies' wants to put one of their Power Pack fuel cells in your trunk now...for emergencies. The cell itself is "passive" technology; no pumps, valves...
POSTED Thursday, January 8, 2009
Wire-free radio-makers Freeplay enter the busy market in rechargeables at CES with ZipCharge, a sprinter of a power source that charges up in 10 minutes with enough power to fully charge a mobile phone or iPod. Developers of the...
POSTED Thursday, January 8, 2009
Kinesis Industries debuted its 2-in-1 handheld recharger here at CES, putting solar and wind power generation together in one rugged package. It has the largest battery capacity of its competitors, with one fully charged K2 able to rejuice a...
POSTED Thursday, January 8, 2009
Everyone wants a thin TV, but is it possible to have one that's too thin? Not according to JVC, whose Ultra Slim LCD Monitor is the thinnest TV the company has ever made, at 0.27 inches, or about 7...
POSTED Thursday, January 8, 2009
The folks over at Anybots have a telepresence robot that's impressive inside and out. Called QA, the 'bot has an attractively slim Apple-white exterior with big 'n' soft blue eyes, and its functionality doesn't suffer for its good looks. It...
POSTED Thursday, January 8, 2009
Knowing just how crappy sound quality can get when compressed onto an MP3 player or mobile phone, Dolby has developed a new technology to bring back some of what was lost in translation. Dolby Mobile does a variety of things...
POSTED Thursday, January 8, 2009
While this is a model helicopter, it's no toy. The 4-channel chopper from DigitTronics flies 2000 feet high and up to a mile away, transmits streaming video to your laptop, runs 20 minutes on a battery charge, even has...
POSTED Thursday, January 8, 2009
Sony introduced their new $500 DSC-G3 at the CES Keynote this morning, but don't let the name fool you, there's no cellular 3G technology in it. It does, however, have Wi-Fi (801.11g) enabled web sharing and a web browser...
POSTED Thursday, January 8, 2009
What was originally conceived as an electronic, wrist-mounted medical handbook for the British military is now a 3-piece folding smartphone for the consumer market. Called the iCEphone, it does everything you'd expect a smartphone to do, but also comes...
POSTED Thursday, January 8, 2009
We just got our hands on a Vado HD camcorder we first mentioned last month, and we're here to tell you — this tinycam is amazing. Its 720p video looks sweet, it's light as a feather, easy to handle...
POSTED Thursday, January 8, 2009
Satellite-TV provider Dish Network might be getting an inferiority complex about all those Web-connected TVs we're hearing about here at CES, so now it's teamed up with Sling Media to create a uber-DVR for satellite TV watching anywhere. This...
POSTED Thursday, January 8, 2009
Olympus just introduced a couple of nice new point-and-shoot cameras to their Tough line. Sealed from the elements, the cameras are rated to either 10 or 33 feet underwater. The cameras are also designed to operate in temps down...
POSTED Thursday, January 8, 2009
We've seen digital photo frames that print, but scanning is a new trick. The Skyla takes any 4x6 photo, scans it in via a slot on the bottom rim, and adds it to the internal 512MB of memory in...
POSTED Thursday, January 8, 2009
Available this summer for around $500, this 2.5-inch SATA drive is as fast as it is affordable. Using a marketing term SanDisk invented, the drive is rated at 40,000 VRPM, or Virtual Revolutions Per Minute. What that means to...
POSTED Thursday, January 8, 2009
With the new mCube90G power adapter from Innergie and Green Plug, road warriors now have a lighter, greener option to toting around all those different power supplies and cables. The adapter is green in two ways: It cuts your...
POSTED Thursday, January 8, 2009
Ever wonder why your eyes get tired after staring at a PC screen for hours? Gunnar says it's because of the LCD screen's cold color temperature. According to these folks, the bluish tints your PC screen displays strains the...
POSTED Thursday, January 8, 2009
HP and Voodoo's second-gen gaming PC, Firebird, is twice as good as their last effort, the Blackbird. The Firebird is half the size of the Blackbird, less noisy (less than 30 dB at full throttle) because HP made the...
POSTED Thursday, January 8, 2009
Korean hardware manufacturer iriver stormed this year's CES with a slew of new products, but the standout among all their announcements was the WAVE-HOME device. This exquisitely designed work of art functions as an all-in-one multimedia device offering Internet...
POSTED Thursday, January 8, 2009
In a case where the headline is far more exciting than the story, this is about Monster Cable helping you conserve energy, not about Frankenstein battling Dracula. Pictured is one of Monster's new Green Power Center models. You plug...
POSTED Thursday, January 8, 2009
After the full day of press conferences preceding the opening of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), there's one big trend that keeps coming up from every electronics company hawking their wares to the press corps. They all are cranking...
POSTED Thursday, January 8, 2009
Casio's cameras with high-speed digital technology have added a fun new twist: digital image compositing, or Dynamic Photo function. The process takes a moving image, cut it out of the background image, and then paste it onto another still image....
POSTED Thursday, January 8, 2009
By adding a haptic interface to the already awesome YP-P2, Samsung has made a compelling portable media player, the YP-P3. Bluetooth allows for the player to be used as a cellular hands-free kit and also supports stereo audio. Sizes...
POSTED Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Sony wants to get into the cheap YouTube camcorder game, and it didn't disappoint at CES 2009 today with two examples, a $200 mini-camcorder-like flipscreen version available now, and a vertical model that'll show up this spring. Both are...
POSTED Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Samsung's new BD-P4600 is 1.5" of stylish goodness. It's got Wi-Fi with Netflix and Pandora integration as well, making it an attractive box in terms of functions, too. In addition to sitting on a table, the device is designed...
POSTED Wednesday, January 7, 2009
One look at Sony's P Series "lifestyle PC" and you'll want to slip it in your jacket pocket and take it home. The 1.41 lb. Vista-running bauble connects with the world anywhere you can access a Verizon 3G cell...
POSTED Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Panasonic is bringing out three new camcorders that have an insane 70x optical zoom. Two of them (the HDR-H80 and HDR-H90) use HDDs, while the SDR-S26 relies on SD cards. With great zoom comes a greater chance for shakes...
POSTED Wednesday, January 7, 2009
This sort-of-spherical object is WowWee's Spyball, a tiny roving camera that can capture video or still pics of whatever's in front of it. It sends footage back to you via Wi-Fi, and you can control it over an Internet...
POSTED Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Panasonic's DMP-B15 is slated to be the world's first portable Blu-ray player to hit the market when it comes out in May. It has an 8.9-inch screen and features the same integrated Internet and Viera Cast technology that allows...
POSTED Wednesday, January 7, 2009
For you plasma nuts out there, here's something to drool over. Panasonic teased the press today with a last-minute reveal of a plasma television that's only a third of an inch thick, and it uses 50% less energy than...
POSTED Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Cisco's Linksys team rolled out their Media Hub, a new hard drive to store, manage and share all your digital content. The 500GB model is available now for $299. The hub — roughly the size of the shoebox where...
POSTED Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Inada's latest massage chair, the Sogno, grips you, rubs you, kneads you, strokes you, stretches you, envelopes you from your head to your toes, over more than 1,200 square inches of your body, more than any other massage chair...
POSTED Wednesday, January 7, 2009
If you have a state-of-the-art HDTV, adding a Blu-ray player is pretty much a no-brainer. That's why Sharp is saving you that second trip to the store by building a Blu-ray player into some of its newest TVs. Called...
POSTED Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Getting HD video from your video sources to your TV can be problematic, and last fall we saw a bunch of wireless solutions. Now AR has introduced their HDP100 HD Powerlink system, which can transmit 1080p video over your...
POSTED Wednesday, January 7, 2009
We got a close-up look at the Netgear Digital Entertainer Elite EVA9150 we told you about early last month. Its appealing user interface is remarkably polished with its reflection-festooned TiVo-like navigational scheme. It plays back a slew of file...
POSTED Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Toshiba rolled out a variety of LCD displays today at CES, with the highlights being the 240Hz refresh rate it's calling ClearScan 240. Also on tap are internet connectivity, and the ability to play back DiVX movies with a...
POSTED Wednesday, January 7, 2009
LG calls this the smallest wrist phone in existence, and this picture gallery adds credence to that claim. It's remarkably thin considering all the electronics packed within. Besides letting you play Dick Tracy with its 3G connectivity, you can...
POSTED Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Ever been channel surfing and thought, "I wonder what's on YouTube?" If you have, Netgear has just the product for you: The company's Internet TV Player is a paperback-size device that jacks into one of the HDMI ports on...
POSTED Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Fancy some stargazing? If you do, the ETX-LS telescope by Meade Instruments makes it virtually effortless. You barely have to lift a finger. That's because the ETX-LS uses GPS range-finding coupled with CCD imaging to automatically align itself. It can...
POSTED Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Lenovo's newest ThinkPad, the W700DS, has an extra 10-inch screen that pulls out of its side to supplement the main 17-inch display. The extra screen is designed for photo editors and designers to use to display a photo editing...
POSTED Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Coming this spring for $29: Duck Hunter victimizes a free-flying rechargeable duck with an infrared gun. Shoot that flying contraption three times, and he plunges to earth, ripe for the stomping....
POSTED Wednesday, January 7, 2009
The Sign Language Translator by Krown does just what its name implies: it takes the words you feed into it and, on its modestly sized touchscreen, plays a video of the proper hand sign. If you type in "happy,"...
POSTED Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Power-adaptor-maker iGo debuted an 8-outlet surge protector that cuts standby power consumption — the minimal power your tech uses while plugged in but not turned on — by 80%. And it looks pretty slick for something you're used to...
POSTED Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Is hard disk space getting cheap, or what? This minimalist LaCie Hard Disk MAX USB drive can hold 2 terabytes of your favorite files, combining a couple of 1TB drives in a RAID configuration that gives you either formidably...
POSTED Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Here's a tiny 2.6-pounder that's almost small enough to be called a netbook. The HP Mini 2140 Notebook PC's 10.1-inch screen is LED backlit, and with its optional 80-gig solid-state drive and small, low-power Intel Atom processor, it's packing...
POSTED Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Samsung just took its flagship 1080p camcorder and made it even better. The HMX-106's major improvement over its predecessors is the camera's optical image stabilization. This fixes the major flaw in last year's Samsung HMX-20C camcorder, whose digital image...
POSTED Monday, January 5, 2009
Look out Apple, Dell, Sony, and Gateway — there's a newer, prettier all-in-one PC about to hit the streets. Laptop ace Lenovo's busting out its IdeaCentre A600 at CES 2009, crowing about how it's the thinnest all-in-one PC. Its...
POSTED Monday, January 5, 2009
We've seen some thin LCD HDTV prototypes, but this soon-to-ship LG LH9500 is getting ridiculous. Not only is the 55-inch LED-backlit beauty just 24.8mm thin — plug in a USB hard drive and it can play back pirate-fave DiVx...
POSTED Monday, January 5, 2009
Beginning next Tuesday night (1/6), DVICE attacks the humongous Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas on your behalf, dear readers. As is our wont, we'll jump on the offbeat side of CES 2009, while still covering the most...
POSTED Thursday, January 1, 2009
It's Christmas Eve, the perfect time for teasing you about things to come, and PC makers are getting into the act. We have three tantalizing examples. First up is HP with leaked pics of this HP Firebird 803 tower...
POSTED Wednesday, December 24, 2008
The Consumer Electronics Show is just a month away, but the pre-show buzz is in full swing. Our parent company NBC Universal will be at CES 2009 with a huge interactive TV exhibit from the show floor that befits...
POSTED Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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