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Linksys Gaming Router Scares Your Opponents: Tattooed, QoS, A/B/G/N

Call us wimps, but we’d hate to run into this router in a dark alley. This tattooed Wireless-N Router (WRT330N) is the first router designed especially for gamers. It has four Gigabit Ethernet LAN ports and one Gigabit WAN port. It uses a Network Optimizer to automatically prioritize latency-sensitive data—in other words, it’ll analyze your…

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Inside Linksys’ CES Vault

We got a first hand look at Linksys’ army of gadgets at CES. From a Wireless-N gaming router to an entry-level NAS drive—these guys have everything covered. Here’s a look at what you can expect from them later this year. Updates on individual products to come.

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Sony’s $33k 70-inch LCD with x.v.Color

If you ever had plans to rob a bank, now would be a good time. Sony today rolled out its new 70-inch Bravia KDL-70XBR3. It’s the company’s first 70-inch LCD to carry Sony’s new x.v.Color technology. Sony claims the new technology gives you better image quality by combining 1080p resolution with Motionflow 120Hz technology with…

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Inside Sony’s 4 Pillars

We made it inside Sony’s “Four Pillars of CES” press conference. Stay tuned to see what Sony’s got in store for us in 2007…in the meantime, they’re torturing us with really bad Top 40 Pop tunes.

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SMS Peeping Exposes Your Best Drunken Text Messages

We’ve been drunk enough to send plenty of inebriated text messages before, but thankfully we’ve never been dumb enough to make them public. Download this SMS Widget (OS X only) and not only can you send texts from your Mac, but you can also make them public. Take a look for yourself. SMS Peeping [Gizmodo]

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Sony VAIO TP1 Media Center PC: Roomba or High-tech Wheel of Cheese?

Sony’s new VAIO may look like a Roomba, but don’t let this PC’s spherical shape fool you. The TP1 was designed to replace that giant tower lurking underneath your desk and despite it’s small footprint, it packs more than enough power for your daily needs (unless of course you’re a serious gamer). Tucked neatly among…

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Sony XL3: High-Def Powerhouse

If component-style PCs are your thing, you’ll wanna check out Sony’s new XL3 announced at CES. It has built-in ATSC and NTSC tuners along with a CableCard slot that lets the XL3 double as your DVR. The XL3 has a built-in Blu-ray drive complimenting its HDMI port. Liquid cooling keeps the Core 2 Duo CPU…

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Belkin CES Booth Sneak Peek

We’ve already seen their new mixing board for the iPod, but what else can we expect to see from Belkin at CES this week. Routers, wireless iPod accessories, 802.11n products? The list is endless, but from the looks of these set up photos, it looks like we’re in for a full parade of newly-minted gadgets.…

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Dell’s Black Ice Finds Home in New XPS Desktop?

An anonymous tipster sent us this flyer of Dell’s mysterious Black Ice technology. Apparently it’s a two-stage thermoelectric liquid cooling solution that will be a part of a new XPS, which our tipster says will come with an Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 CPU. We’ll keep our eyes peeled for the full scoop as the…

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Toshiba’s 1x HD DVD Write Drive is World’s First

Though we’ve already seen a few drives that are capable of writing to BD-R media, Toshiba’s SD-H903A is the first drive that can read and write to single- and dual-layer HD DVD-R discs, albeit at 1x speeds (which is equivalent to 3x DVD). The drive, which will debut next week at CES, can also tackle…

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LG Brings HD DVD/Blu-ray Combo Drive to Your PC

Just when we thought our living rooms would be the only places to benefit from that Blu-ray/HD DVD love that LG surprised us with yesterday, news comes of a new LG drive that will let us play both flavors of high definition discs on our PCs (along with traditional DVDs). As if that weren’t enough,…

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Apple Keynote 2007: Apple iLife Rumored to Get TV/DVR Functions?

While everyone in the blogosphere has been focusing on what kind of hardware his Steveness will blind us with at next week’s Macworld, the folks at T3 have quietly picked up on a potential leak via an Amazon placeholder. Apparently, Apple plans on rolling out an upgraded version of iLife 07 next week, but the…

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Samsung Dolls Up its 2nd Gen Blu-ray Player for CES

So in addition to those slimmer DLPs we talked about earlier, it looks like Samsung is also gonna debut it’s second-gen Blu-ray player next week at CES. The new BD player will cost 20% less than the current BDP-1000 and also pack more features than its older sibling. We just hope it’s not plagued by…

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Non-Apple Mac Tablet Slated for Macworld

Now before you get excited over the image, remember that this isn’t an Apple Tablet, but instead a third-party tablet made by the “German and American engineers” at Axiotron. Still, the ModBook is about as close as you can get to owning an “official” Mac tablet. The details are still sparse, but here’s what we…

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Samsung Drops Prices on New DLPs, Designs Wireless Plasma

While some people may be getting out of the DLP market, Samsung is trying to rev it up with its new line of DLPs (to be unveiled at CES, of course). The new sets will come in the 50- to 60-inch range and unlike the sets that are out today, will be thinner and wall-mountable,…

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Westinghouse to Demo Quad HD LCD at CES

While other companies will be flaunting their latest 1080p panels at CES, Westinghouse is planning on stealing the show by demoing the world’s first 56-inch quad HD LCD. As a quick refresh, quad HD blows away 1080p’s 1,920 x 1,080 resolution with an eye-opening 3,840 x 2,160 pixels. In addition to its quad HD display,…

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Vizio Lifts the Veil on its $1,899 1080p LCD

Good news for all you HD fans out there. Vizio has officially taken the wraps off its latest creation and from the looks of it—it was worth the wait. The 47-inch Gallevia GV47L will bring full 1080p goodness to your living room for only $1,899, making it the most affordable 1080p HDTV on the market.…

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Logitech MediaBoard Lets You Ditch Your PS3 Controller

Leave it to the folks at Logitech to usher in the PS3’s first dedicated wireless keyboard. The $79 Cordless MediaBoard is a full fledged keyboard with a built-in touch pad that lets you navigate through menus and browse through the Internet on your PS3 PC style. It works up to 30 feet away from your…

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Elipson Wireless Speakers Know How to Pair Off

Despite their bowling ball looks, Elipson’s Planet speakers are smarter than your average pair of cans. Developed in partnership with Parrot, they have built-in Bluetooth 2.0 and can automatically detect and pair with one another when switched on. They have digital and analog connections and support A2DP Bluetooth devices, so they can stream wirelessly from…

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Mobiado Lights Up Your Mobile

With a name like Luminoso, you’d expect Mobiado’s mobile to be encrusted with rows upon rows of diamonds. But instead this phone has rows upon rows of lights. Each of the phone’s sapphire buttons are illuminated by a neon blue light that will either make you look wealthy and privileged or like a complete tool.…

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Linksys Gaming Router Scares Your Opponents: Tattooed, QoS, A/B/G/N

Inside Linksys’ CES Vault

Sony’s $33k 70-inch LCD with x.v.Color

Inside Sony’s 4 Pillars

SMS Peeping Exposes Your Best Drunken Text Messages

Sony VAIO TP1 Media Center PC: Roomba or High-tech Wheel of Cheese?

Sony XL3: High-Def Powerhouse

Belkin CES Booth Sneak Peek

Dell’s Black Ice Finds Home in New XPS Desktop?

Toshiba’s 1x HD DVD Write Drive is World’s First

LG Brings HD DVD/Blu-ray Combo Drive to Your PC

Apple Keynote 2007: Apple iLife Rumored to Get TV/DVR Functions?

Samsung Dolls Up its 2nd Gen Blu-ray Player for CES

Non-Apple Mac Tablet Slated for Macworld

Samsung Drops Prices on New DLPs, Designs Wireless Plasma

Westinghouse to Demo Quad HD LCD at CES

Vizio Lifts the Veil on its $1,899 1080p LCD

Logitech MediaBoard Lets You Ditch Your PS3 Controller

Elipson Wireless Speakers Know How to Pair Off

Mobiado Lights Up Your Mobile

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