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The first thing they teach you at mascot college? Don’t mope. The second? Try to remember to wear more than 10% of your costume. Cheer up, buddy! It could be so much worse. https://gizmodo.com/cespool-the-saddest-man-at-ces-yet-5443058
Vizio’s new batch of soundbars come in varying degrees of 2.0, 2.1 and 5.1 arrangements, with all of them supporting Dolby Digital surround sound. Also appealing is the army of wireless headphones, iPod docks and speakers offered up. The VHT512 is Vizio’s flagship 5.1 soundbar with fully wireless connections, including a 2.4 GHz wireless sub…
Hint: it’s from the CES show floor. It’s the ceiling of part of the Samsung booth, which features a boatload of TVs arranged in the above trippy pattern. Sure, you can’t get too close a look at those TVs hanging from the ceiling, but that’s not really the point. The point is SHOCK & AWE.…
Yes we’ve posted a million CES related stories and yes it’s probably not stopping anytime soon. So we have to ask, are you sick of CES posts? Are you sick of CES posts?(trends) Yea, me too…
Today we salute you…biologists that gave a fly a full Brazilian with a laser so that you can study mating habits. You see the male fly has these spines on its junk and we just don’t know what the hell they are used for. My guess is that they have something to do with maintaining…
I just tried 3D HD and really enjoyed it. I don’t even mind how goofy the glasses make me look, but that’s mostly because I wouldn’t be looking at myself. Really, I’d look sillier than I can imagine. See? And what do you do when you have friends over to watch a game or movie?…
This guy was positioned near the press room and drew quite the crowd. And why not? Digital name tags are a sensible and inevitable part of the future, as I see it. Or not. OK, probably not.
Vizio just dropped three mobile LED displays on the world, capable of pulling down ATSC broadcasts and delivering an 800×480 picture in 7, 9 and 10-inch form factors, while only an inch thick in the other direction. The 10″ VMB100 and 9″ VMB090 Mobile Razors are capable of pulling down not just ATSC and NTSC…
These new Eclipse keyboards and mice from Mad Catz are pretty standard fare, except for one key feature—touch sensitivity. The keyboard has a 3-in-1 touchpanel keypad, and the mouse is able to understand finger gestures. The Eclipse Wireless Litetouch keyboard comes in wired and wireless variants, and is distinctive because of it’s 3-in-1 LCD touchpad…
Intel already announced their new Core i7, i5, and i3 processors earlier today, but CEO Paul Otellini may still have a surprise or two in store for his keynote. We’re here updating live, just in case. https://gizmodo.com/new-core-i7-i5-and-i3-processor-family-did-we-mentio-5442659 Paul’s walking us through a little bit of Intel history, and how rapidly and consistently processor technology has…
CES is rotten with Microsoft Surface tables, but there can be only one king. This is Kodak’s 25-foot-long, multi-faced touch table. It is huge.
What’s it really like to be working CES for Gizmodo? Follow our Gizmodo CES Crew Twitter List and find out how we really feel about the show. We must warn you though, this place is fucking crazy. The sights, sounds and thoughts of working CES can be pretty entertaining at times. So if you want…
Wouldn’t it be great if you could charge your phone by pouring Coca-Cola into it? Like the Delorean in Back To The Future? You’d never have a flat battery again! Of course, it’d be even better if it was water-compatible. This concept phone was created by designer Daizi Zheng, who said of the design: “The…
Boxee just confirmed that their upcoming Boxee Box made in conjunction with D-Link will have NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 chipset. They also mentoned that the Boxee Beta is free for the world to download. Rejoice! https://gizmodo.com/boxee-beta-finally-ready-for-primetime-just-about-5421014 The Boxee Box will be based around a dual-core Arm Cortex A9 chip that should let it to zip around…
Sick of eReaders and Bluetooth headsets? Witness the Ed Hardy booth! They call their iPhone cases “Icing” for some reason and have two plasticky bikini-clad booth babes. If you’re the kind of person who likes Ed Hardy, you’ll love it.
It won’t be long until the next CES post, so if you are caught up, pass the time by playing virtual instruments from instrumentube and kokokaka3000. It’s actually a really interesting way to use the timeline.
Maybe if you had a free weekend and Mjǫllnir, hammer of Thor, you could crack Corning’s Gorilla Glass. But that’s a made-up thing! And this stuff is impervious to the very real threats of key scratching and localized pressure. Gorilla Glass is an unscratchable, unshatterable material used as a protective window for your mobile phone,…
A couple years back, we condemned digital photo frames as the spam of CES—this year, in the wake of the Christmas of Kindle, every company has its own ebook reader. And that’s a bad thing. https://gizmodo.com/ten-reasons-were-doomed-ces-edition-342495 There will soon be two kinds of happy ebook-reader owners. The people who paid a fair amount for a…
Crosley’s cool-looking portable turntable, the Revolution, is designed, oddly enough, for portable use. It runs on batteries, has a headphone jack, and is about as small as a turntable can get. Suck it, iPhone! I really like the design of the Revolution; it’s not necessarily practical (and of course, serious vinyl fans will blanch—blanch!—at the…
You wouldn’t think a third party could clone a Nintendo product and then make it better, but Nyko may have done that with the Wand+. https://gizmodo.com/nyko-wand-is-an-all-in-one-wii-motion-plus-solution-5442750 I mean, let’s face it. Nintendo has grown greedy and lazy, and it’s no more apparent than how they gave us Wii MotionPlus as an adapter on the Wiimote.…
