We had a chance to meet with Memorex this morning, and spotted a few cool items for you. Specifically, a charging device for you iProduct, some Wii accessories, and a pretty interesting mini-camcorder with a touch screen. → Read More
Phonescoop grabbed a quick interview with Ms. Blue Lagoon herself, Brooke Shields at the LG booth. While she recited the regular marketing claptrap she had a little bit to say about AT&T and the iPhone: PS: Why did you get an iPhone? Brooke: First I got it because it was cool. I felt comfortable with the touch screen. The email was great. Texting was great. I was so happy that I could film my… → Read More
Kodak showed us their clever little Slice and Playsport cameras. The Slice is a touchscreen point and shoot and the SportPlay is a completely waterproof mini-camcorder. Both aren’t quite ready and will be available in the Spring of this year but both are pretty cool. The Slice has a large rear screen with touch controls. You slide through photos with your fingers and then tap little icons to… → Read More
The plan for today is to keep hitting the show floor starting with CES’s video game section and a look at the thing Doug is wearing today. After that we’re going to head into the show’s main hall and hit up some of the bigger company’s booths. It should be up shortly. As always, keeping sending your requests to us through the Livestream player or using the Twitter tag #crunchgear. → Read More
Here’s a fun story cut down to the only detail you need to know: we got a gigantic box of 72 MagicJacks while checking out the new MagicJack Femtocell last night. It was that crazy of a party. Well, we don’t know what to do with them and don’t want to take them home. Suggestions? → Read More
Watch and tremble at Doug’s amazing PC building prowess. → Read More
And we have another ebook reader! This time around it’s the Que from Plastic Logic. Just because it’s not the Kindle or Nook, don’t write it off. This device, and the software it runs, might be special enough to make a mark in the ebook reader scene. → Read More
http://media.techpodcasts.com/techvi/http://p.castfire.com/YfgYq/video/223857_2010-01-07-192435.flv Randell Bennett and I sat down for nice little chat about all things CES 2010. And guess what? It’s about 3D TVs and ebook readers! [oops, laaarge typo fixed] → Read More
This is not your mother’s picture frame. In fact, it’s not actually supposed to be a picture frame and instead some sort of widget platform. Its wedge shaped so you can put it down flat on the table or, if you wish, you can carry it around like a wee tablet. Is it amazing? No. Is it better than a standard picture frame? Not specifically. What is it for? Man, I don’t even know. → Read More
Guys! E-Book readers are everywhere at CES 2010. You should see it here. Anyone with a Chinese manufactuering contract seems to have one. (More to come, get excited) But there are only a few that are worth your time and ours. The iRiver Story is one of these and the good news is that you’ll be able to buy one real soon. → Read More
These will be shipping the second half of 2010 to various potentates and oil barons around the world. It’s one of the smallest OLED devices I’ve seen since Sony’s diminutive offering that never really made it into the wild. → Read More
You guys said that you want to see lots more of show floor so we’re going live for the rest of the afternoon. Devin and the Livestream guys are currently en route to Yurtopia to get ear molds made. Live! After that they plan on hitting booths until the show closes at 5. But we’re not done. Tune in before 7 to watch Doug take down 30 other technology journalists in the Systemax’s 13th… → Read More
They had this thing on display at Unveiled, but there was only one and nobody was really allowed to touch it. But Lenovo was nice enough to let me check this one out at their party last night in the Venetian. I’ve got to start running down to this meeting at a whole other location down the street, so I can’t write a blow by blow, but the video is pretty self-explanatory. The exhibitor is pretty… → Read More
John is down at the Palm press conference, and we’ll be going live in just a few minutes. Keep your eyes open, we’ll see what they might have up their collective sleeves. → Read More
We just did some live video from the Palm lounge where we saw the Pixi and Pre Plus, two improvements to the current WebOS line-up. Notable points? The 3D gaming was quite impressive and the design has been considerably improved in this iteration. → Read More
The best kept secret in VoIP with overseas relatives and friends is Ooma. For about $200 you can set your overseas loved ones up with some hot VoIP action, giving them a local telephone number they can use to call you and you can use to call them. If you travel then its great. That said, Ooma has just released the Telo system, an improvement to its current firmware that includes iPhone/Touch… → Read More
All-in-one solutions are nothing new. Hell, Walmart sells them, but that term is generally reserved for lower-market products, not something from a top-tier audio brands. Denon doesn’t care about that stereotype though. The companies new S-5BD is a Blu-ray player and high-end audio receiver. All-in-one! → Read More
We’ve always enjoyed Kodak’s pocket cams — compact, decent video, and solid price. The newest one is pretty awesome; I got to put my hands all over it last night and it has a good feel to it. It’s smaller, but feels more solid than the Zi6, Zi8, or Zx1. And of course it’s totally waterproof. They had it in a fish bowl and it functioned just fine. I don’t have fish, but I can think of some… → Read More
We still don’t know what happened but we were down for a few hours there. Sorry for that. → Read More
In a move that baffles and, in a way, excites, Sony has released the Dash, a $199 “personal Internet viewer.” It’s basically a 7-inch tablet that will cost $199. It looks absolutely nothing like the Mylo, which is very good news
Within the device, an internal accelerometer supports vertical flip, allowing for two optional viewing angles: upright, ideal for a table or nightstand; and tilted… → Read More
We got shut out of the Panasonic presser (shame on them), but that doesn’t mean you have to suffer. Lucky for you, Electric Pig has a solid blow-by-blow of the event, and Giz got some great shots of the camera itself. There were other devices announced, of course, but this is the coolest thing if you ask me.
3D is obviously a big theme at this year’s CES, and Panny showed a prototype of this… → Read More
After a day full of jamming in stale meeting rooms all day, the Motorola’s club venue is a nice change. And we hear Motorola has something special to announce. I don’t know, maybe a new phone sort of thing. We’ll find out shortly. → Read More
Altec Lansing announced three new products today – a docking station, a new set of computer speakers, and a set of headphones. While not exactly earth shattering, they do look to be some decent sounding products. → Read More
There have been a few rumors swirling about the Courier tablet but our sources inside MS are stating that a Microsoft/HP-powered slate will appear at the CES 2010 keynote today. → Read More
At today’s Casio press conference, I lost a lot of faith. In the space of a year, they seem to have done the following:
-Added “artistic filters” to their cameras
-Increased speed of image processing by ~20%
-Decided 5x zoom wasn’t enough
The result is the shockingly bad Digital Art Frame and the marginally improved FH100, successor to the FC100, my favorite compact digital. At least I… → Read More
Casio, I like you. I like you a lot. You make good cameras. You make lots of good things. But if you try to pass off a set of 8 built-in “artistic filters” as a revolution in digital imaging again, I will break up with you. I’m serious. You just talked for half an hour about cameras and photo frames that apply incredibly rudimentary filters to perfectly good pictures, making them… → Read More
Here we are, living it up at Samsung’s press conference. Things will start off at 2pm PST. → Read More
Couple of neat things to show you from CES Unveiled. CES is essentially a toy show, and these two videos really show how much fun you can have with gadgets. → Read More
Here it is, AV geeks: an RGBY LED panel. Yup, that means there is now a yellow pixel involved which is sure to improve, well, videos of sunflowers and Big Bird. Actually it increases the visible colors from the billions to the trillions. That’s big and this announce could very well be the most important HDTV news of CES 2010. Seriously. 3D is a fade, this big. Click through for a gallery of… → Read More
I have a great prize (I don’t know what it is yet. Maybe it’s a headset or some iPhone cases. I’ll tell you next week when I get home.) if you guys can identify what I just sat in and explain to me why I continued to sit in it even as its juices seeped into my socks. Another image after the jump. → Read More
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