The second in our series of reader reports from the Consumer Electronics, this installment comes courtesy of Kevin Christley and Josh Duplin:
The CellStar PocketSurfer is a small checkbook-sized web surfing device that has a 640×480 LCD screen. It uses a thumb keyboard (like the RIM Blackberry) and uses Bluetooth to connect to the Internet via a cellphone. Should retail for about $199 and hit stores in July.
Kyocera’s 3.1 megapixel Finecam SL300R digital camera weighs just 5 ounces but mainly caught our eye because of it’s rotating lens which allows you to take pictures at both high and low angles as well as snap easy self-portraits. The SL300R can also shoot 3.5 pictures per second until you run out of space on its SD memory card, and features a 3x optical/6x digital zoom lens.
The Ambient Dashboard [Ed. note: readers might recall the Ambient Orb we’ve mentioned before] is a desktop toy that keeps track of your current interests via Ambient’s free nationwide radio service (meaning there are no recurring monthly fees), displaying the results on 3 simple analog meters.
Modules include a golf index, skiing conditions, stock indexes, temperature, traffic data, etc.
With a retail price of $99, the 17.5-inch tall WoW Wee Robosapiens is an inexpensive alternative to the Sony Aibo. It’s a fully-jointed, programmable humanoid robot that can perform over 84 action sequences. It walks and dances, and is aware of nearby objects via sensors in its hands and feet.
