Ces 2013

Here’s What Netflix’s Personalized Profiles Look Like

GigaOm has some shots of Netflix’s new personalized profiles, which break down preferences and watching habits by person, on the same account. So a dad won’t be inundated with Twilight movies, and so on. It looks more or less like you’d expect, with the profile pictures being fairly generic cartoon faces. Check out the rest…

Dish’s Newest Hopper DVR Has Sling Built In and Can Wirelessly Transfer TV Shows to Your iPad

Dish, which introduce the king of DVRs last year, has updated the Hopper DVR to include Sling. Previously, using Sling with Hopper required an adapter. Now, you get to watch live and recorded TV from any tablet, smartphone and computer for free with Dish’s Anywhere App. https://gizmodo.com/dish-networks-new-hopper-dvr-is-the-king-of-dvrs-5874469 On top of Dish with Sling, Hopper makes…

Gorilla Glass 3 Hands On: Somehow Even More Indestructible (Exclusive)

Corning is unveiling the newest iteration of its popular Gorilla Glass line of scratch- and crack- resistant screens at the Consumer Electronics Show tomorrow but we were able to get an early preview of just how tough GG3 really is. And boy is it. The original Gorilla Glass was an immediate hit when it launched…

Dish CEO Dresses Up, Raps and Disses the Networks

Dish CEO Joseph Clayton, a kooky bossman who once brought out a scared kangaroo in the middle of a press conference filled with nerds, nearly topped his stunt last year by dressing up and busting into a full blown rap (a hip hop hippity hop…) and then went on to make fun of the networks…

Casio’s Convex System Lets You Stack Projectors and Unwarp Images With Surprising Precision

Aside from getting small enough to fit in your pocket and gaining enough resolution to melt your eyes, there hasn’t been a lot of innovation in the projector market as of late. So thank you Casio for finally bringing something neat to that table with the company’s new Convex control System. A fairly non-descript control…

CES reaches a nadir: Samsung announces a “smart TV” feature that will tell you how to buy what characters are wearing.

Samsung’s Going To Sell a Prohibitively Expensive OLED TV, Too

LG is selling a $10,000 OLED TV—brighter, more vivid, and skinnier—that you’ll drool at online and not be able to afford. Now Samsung is also officially in the TV You Can’t Ever Afford game too with the 55-inch F9500. https://gizmodo.com/you-can-finally-buy-an-lg-oled-tv-in-korea-only-for-n-5972444 There’s no word on how expensive this expensive thing will be, or when you’ll be…

Samsung’s Giant Amazing Ultra-HD TVs Are Imprisoned In Horrible Metal Bars

Boom, here we are, the year of 4K. How high? Ultra high. Samsung’s releasing the biggest 4k TV of all time plus the 85-inch model can be seen up top. But they’re tragically confined to that horrific Industrial Age “gallery frame” contraption. It’s not removable. Ever. It’s like taking a beautiful bird of paradise and…

Kingston’s HyperX Predator Flash Drive Is the Easiest Way To Misplace a Terabyte Of Data

Last year at CES Victorinox surprised everyone with a one terabyte flash drive that the company estimated would sell for almost $3,000. It sounded too good to be true, and given there’s been no sign of it since last January, it apparently was. So can Kingston fill the void left in our hearts with its…

Intel’s New Chips: Everything You Need to Know

Intel’s talking about its new stuff today at CES. Some of it’s new, some of it we’ve heard before. But we’ll let you know everything important that goes down today. Here’s the quick version of everything Intel will be talking about today: Touch, Live Pay TV, Atom phones, all-day battery life for Intel Core computers.…

Endliss iPhone Case Adds an LED Disco Floor For Impossible To Miss Notifications

We’re all so use to having our smartphones close at hand that we can occasionally tune out and miss a call or notification that’s right in front of our faces. So what’s the solution? Obviously an iPhone 5 case with a blinding 8×16 LED grid on the back that mirrors and emphasizes on-screen notifications. So…

Fujifilm X100 and X20 Get New Faster Guts To Match Their Slick Design (Update: Hands-On)

If you have been following the saga of the fancy Fujifilm cameras you can rest easy. Here’s the refresh you’ve been hearing about that was accidentally posted and then taken down. Meet the X100S and X20—Officially. And we loved the X100 and the X10. We loved them in many ways, these siblings. They look beautiful…

TVs Sure Looked Dumb 10 Years Ago

Vizio has a cute, self-deprecating display up at CES. It showed a Vizio TV made 10 years ago compared to one made in 2012. TVs were butt fugly back then—it’s as big a difference as a Palm Pilot and the iPhone 5. Look at all that gray! Look at that stupid V! Look at those…

Vizio’s 7-Inch Tablet Feels So, So Good

Tiny tablets are oh so stylish today, and Vizio is in the game. And holy hell, this little Jelly Bean thing is lovely to hold. Vizio doesn’t have plans to actually sell the thing yet, but it absolutely should: the skinny Jelly Bean mini-tab feels better than the iPad Mini, and with a 1280 x…

What Is UltraHD?

Ultra HD is marketing-speak for 4K or 8K resolution TVs. And that’s more or less it. You’re going to be hearing the term a lot this show though—and throughout the year—so here’s a little more information about what exactly that means. As you might already know, the industry measures a TV’s resolution by its vertical…

First Hands-On with a Tegra 4 Tablet

Vizio’s got a nice surprise at CES this year: one of the only tablets with a Tegra 4 processor inside you can find anywhere in the world, outside of some death vault at Nvidia headquarters. We used it. The 10.1-inch slate—just a prototype for now—boasts an eye-pleasing 2560 x 1600 resolution, and was terrifically light…

Vizio’s AMD Tablet Hands On: Full Windows, Full PC, Too Big

Vizio’s “Tablet PC” (cooler name pending, presumably) gets everything right on paper, and a lot off paper: a 1080p screen, a full, no-bullshit version of Windows 8 (none of that RT nonsense), and an AMD (!) x86 processor inside. But it’s bulky. The thing looks lovely: a hand-friendly rubberized back, a deliciously thin bezel, the…

Panasonic’s New Bone Conducting Headphones: WTH?

At CES this year Panasonic will be showing off bone conducting headphones that beam music through your body. The Panasonic RP-BTGS10 doesn’t go inside your ear or over the ear but outside your ear. The headphone pumps sound with vibrations that move through the bone into the auditory nerve. That means you can listen to…

Panasonic’s Big Beautiful New Plasma and LED TVs Are Here

Panasonic’s latest Viera televisions. 16 Viera Plasmas up to 65-inches and 16 LED/LCDs all up to 65-inches. They include new models of some of Panasonic’s best models. The new lineup is lead by the new Smart Viera ZT60 series, and new VT60-series and ST60-series plasmas that all come equipped with many of Panasonic’s totally overwrought…

Vizio’s XVT Hands On: A Gorgeous 4K TV You Might Actually Be Able to Afford

The most impressive thing anyone is going to see at CES 2013 is a big, beautiful TV. Unfortunately, most of these are only being made for the 1%, for now. But Vizio’s might be the first ultra-HD within reach. Kinda. https://gizmodo.com/spendthrift-darling-vizio-crashes-the-4k-tv-party-5973693 We checked out the monster 70-inch Vizio XVT (also available in modest 65 and…