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Thanks to Philips’ CushionSpeaker, I’m well-rested despite getting a mere three hours of sleep. That’s because the lapdesk not only has a built in speaker, but happens to double as the best pillow I’ve slept on since arriving at CES. Philips intended to make the CushionSpeaker more comfortable than some other lapdesks by adding a…
We’re inside the halls of CES right now, just checking things out. Maybe we’ll see something interesting.
The Samsung E6 and E101 are the first eBook readers with electromagnetic resonance stylus that let you take notes and scribble as you read, with what Samsung claims is vastly improved functionality over competitive models. Samsung’s partnership with Google Books means that there’s a lot of content that will already be loaded at launch, and…
Samsung’s been in the app game for a while, but now they’re setting up a store to give apps to all of your Sammy devices: TVs, phones, Blu-ray players, PCs, cameras and God only knows what else. They’ve got apps built from the ground up specifically for your television, with features like weather, music, and…
Samsung’s LED LCD televisions are here and the flagship C9000 is a doozy. It’s the only one they’re calling “ultra thin”, has 3D support in late 2010 and a touch remote that shows you content from other video sources! The thinness (it’s as skinny as a pencil) is achieved by shoving lots of guts into…
On paper, Samsung’s CL80 point-and-shoot is a superfluous spec nerd wet dream: Built-in Wi-Fi, 3.7-inch AMOLED touchscreen, 14 (okay, noisy) megapixels and 720p video recording. Oh, and it might be the most serious (read: best) looking camera they’ve made yet. You can send photos through email, or to Facebook, YouTube and Picasa over Wi-Fi, though…
Samsung’s S-Series camcorders might just be the dandiest of the week: Besides built-in Wi-Fi with DLNA connectivity and touchscreens, Samsung’s promising digital zoom that doesn’t suck and a new video processor with crazy low-light performance. The S16’s got 64GB of internal storage plus SD card; the S15’s got 32GB plus SD; and the S10 is…
Interesting factoid from the Samsung CES presser: Samsung is dominating LED TVs. They claim 80 percent marketshare in the US. Though with everybody selling them now, and for cheaper, that could change quick. [Samsung @ Giz]
Samsung says its latest connected Blu-ray player’s design was inspired by nature. While I haven’t seen that glossy finish on any fauna or flora lately, we can agree that it’s a beautiful bit of hardware. The BD-7500 is just 1.1-inches thick and sports a wood design. It can be wall-mounted, placed on a stand, or…
Samsung’s new C7000 series plants a flag for plasma-ites. There aren’t a lot of details available yet, but we do know that it’s coming this year. The C7000 is a 1080p plasma that promises both native 3D support and the ability to convert your 2D content to 3D as you watch. The sets will have…
The one thing Samsung’s F-Series have going for them? Zoom. So much zoom. Not just 52x of optical zoom, but to 65x with Intelli-zoom, which is apparently better than regular digital zoom, thanks to “oversized” image sensors. SAMSUNG ALLOWS USERS TO CAPTURE DIVERSE IMAGES WITH NEW ULTRAZOOM CAMCORDERS New SMX-F40, SMX-F43, and SMX-F44 Offer Extended…
Casio’s new projectors are the first to get rid of environmentally un-friendly mercury without losing brightness. Beaming images at up to 3,000 lumens with a hybrid LED and laser system, the Green Slim projectors are lean, green projecting machines. Current data projectors use mercury-based lamps to beam images at intensities of 2000 or more lumens.…
We’ve seen IR solutions for the iPhone before, but this is the first we’ve seen for BlackBerry—and the first that also works as a garage door opener. Unlike the Remote or L5 Remote, Audiovox’s Zentral solution doesn’t need a dongle—it communicates with a base station via Bluetooth, and that base station in turn talks to…
Clearly, if you are an Apple customer that has been wronged, emailing [email protected] is the way to go. Alisa did this after Apple refused to return her stolen iPhone, and things are starting to look up. https://gizmodo.com/apple-refuses-to-send-stolen-iphone-back-to-rightful-ow-5437979 It turned out to be a happy story, e-mailing Steve Jobs actually helped. I e-mailed him the same…
Hey there. It’s CES week, which means good things for you and bad things for me. The good news: There will be at least a few dozen interesting gadgets for you to read about. Happy Gadget Spam Week! The bad news for me: I’ve got to sort through thousands of gadgets to find those gems.…
Today’s dealz is so chock-full-o-bargains it nearly rivals the number of gadgets debuting at CES. All this action surely has you primed for a discounted Lenovo G550, a Panasonic 50″ leviathan, and a free 10 day Gamely trial. Go nuts! Top Deals: • 15.6″ Lenovo G550 Dual Core Laptop for $449 plus free shipping (normally…
AT&T offers what Verizon doesn’t: The most popular smartphones, the ability to talk and surf the Web at the same time, and access to over 100,000 apps* – all on the nation’s fastest 3G network.** When you compare, there really is no comparison. AT&T offers a better 3G experience. To help clear up some confusion,…
Finally! We’re getting word that the Facebook 3.1 iPhone app now has push notifications and contact syncing, something that was a shortcoming of previous versions. You should be able to download the update through the App store soon. [Thanks, Shawn!]
The Street has learned, by way of an analyst who talked to Apple’s design manufacturing partners, that Apple won’t be using Intel on their upcoming tablet. Instead, they’re going to use chips designed by PA Semi, their own chip foundry. It’s basically what everyone thought since Apple bought the chip company—since there haven’t been any…
1080P, 240Hz, LED edge-lit and employing an industry-first 4-color filter (the secret extra color is yellow), Sharp’s latest LE920 Series LCDs, measuring up to 68 diagonally, are the best displays Sharp can sell you. And they even support Twitter! Their price is still unannounced, and the LE920 Series won’t be available until May. The sets…