Precious Stones: RCA’s Gem Line MP3 Players, Jensen SportFones
Just like the shiny rocks they’re named after, RCA’s line of Gem MP3 players aren’t that fancy. The Pearl is a tiny 1GB thumb drive player with a MicroSD slot, designed for the barebones minimalist. For $49, you get a backlit screen that can alternate between seven colors, and a AAA battery will power the…
Press Conference Highlights, Day Two Edition
Press conference after press conference, where to begin? In case you were out, you know, living a life, here’s a shopping list of some the day’s press conference gems. 1. 108-inch Aquos LCD TV from Sharp. Wow. https://gizmodo.com/sharp-rolls-out-gigantic-108-inch-lcd-226761 2. LG’s combination Blu-ray/HD DVD player. Why have nasty format wars when you can buy one catch-all…
RCA EZ201 Camcorder, MemoryMaker: Easy Does It
RCA’s CES offerings can be summed up with one word: easy. First up is their next generation Small Wonder digital camcorder, the EZ201. It ships with an hour’s worth of recording time on built-in flash memory, but also has a slot for an SD card in case you’re marathon recording. A 1.5-inch flip-out LCD lets…
Sharp to Plasma: I Crush You
Along with grabbing the title for most ginourmous TV, Sharp also announced four new lines of relatively giant mainstream LCDs aimed right at where plasma lives. https://gizmodo.com/sharp-rolls-out-gigantic-108-inch-lcd-226761 The D92 series features 1080p screens in 42-, 46-, and 52-inch sizes, priced from $3500 to $5200. All are available in January, except the 42-inch, which is coming…
Pioneer Car Audio Collections
It’s a Pioneer Christmas for the car audio world today, as Pioneer has announced a boatload of new speakers, amplifiers and subwoofers. The TS-A line of speakers start at $65 and are optimized for compressed audio like MP3. In the amplifier realm, the new GM line (GM-3300 through GM-7300) are priced from $100 to $200…
Samsung Puts 3 DLP’s On a Diet And Throws In LED While They’re At It
With one fell swoop Samsung improved on just about everything that we hated about DLP’s with their Slim LED DLPˇ line. First off, is the new LED backlight. Not only is it a lot brighter then traditional DLP’s lights, but it turns on in less then 10 seconds. And all this is accomplished while being…
Samsung Q1P UMPC: 32GB of Solid State Flash Memory
Yeah, we already knew about this, but now it’s official. Samsung released the Q1P in the US today, filled with 32GB of SSD flash memory goodness. Maybe this will finally be the one that convinces me that all UMPC’s aren’t complete crap.
Garmin GPS Track Back
We wrote about all of this Garmin news a few days ago. But just in case you missed it, here you go. First up we’ve got the Garmin Nuvi 680. Claim to fame: MSN integration & portable design. Release Date & Price: 1st Quarter 2007, $1000 https://gizmodo.com/ces-2007-garmin-nuvi-680-links-up-with-msn-direct-226370 Next up is the Astro. Claim to fame:…