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Our friends at Niveus, whose EDGE media center extender was already seen back in September, tell us that the unit is finally shipping. It’s the first Windows MCE unit to receive the ISF Video Quality Certification, but does what other extenders do—stream live and recorded video, plus pictures, plus music from your Windows Vista or…
We’re here at CES Unveiled, the pre-pre-pre CES event that debuts some new products before the actual show starts. We’re in line and already being hassled by people to get us to view their goods. The actual Unveiled opens at 4PM PST (7PM EST), and we’re going to be posting loads and loads of hands-on…
A leaked slide from Vodaphone’s 2008 roadmap lists a new Palm device codenamed “Drucker” as the successor to the Treo 750v. Features include: quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE, tri-band UMTS/HSDPA, Windows Mobile 6.1, a full QWERTY keyboard, 2 megapixel camera, GPS, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth 2.0 — all powered by a 1500mAh battery. If you use your imagination you…
We got a hands-on ride with Garmin’s voice recognizing 880 GPS unit last night and were impressed with just how good the voice recognition really was. Not only could it hear us over the Vegas traffic and the radio, it even parsed out when we said “sixteen hundred” instead of “one six zero zero”. Check…
Click to viewShowTime is a new application which captures and saves video at six frames per second, 320 x 627 resolution. Not as fast Drunknbass, but this one actually saves the video clips to the iPhone’s flash memory as individual files. The application looks and feels polished, even if the recording format is weird. Layton…
We teased you with this last fall, but now the folks at Logitech say that this $170 Bluetooth 2.0 desktop is officially official and hitting stores late this month, as you can see from the press release after the jump. Refresher course: • Can be used as Bluetooth hub but isn’t exactly dongle free, since…
Logitech’s first new universal remote in a year, the $250 Harmony One, marries the sleek handheld grippiness of its skinnier Harmony models with the power of its $500 bad-ass, the Harmony 1000. The Goods: The capacitive-touch 2.2″ color screen is designed to respond quickly and accurately to your taps, while the ergonomically set tactile buttons…
Logitech’s Squeezebox Duet is a handheld receiver that uses 802.11g to wirelessly route music throughout your house, emanating from strategically placed little receivers—the first one included in the $400 starter kit. If this sounds familiar, it’s because the most excellent but also more expensive Sonos Digital Music System does something very similar. The Duet is…
Logitech’s new Z Cinéma 180-watt desktop speaker system with subwoofer take a discrete 5.1 digital input signal and apply SRS TruSurround to make it all surroundy without needing the center channel or extra speakers. These could even be good enough for a bedroom HDTV, not just a PC. Sure, some audiophiles say that this is…
Disney just announced some Blu profile 1.1 firsts for them: that Sleeping Beauty will start its Platinum Edition Blu-ray Disc collecting in Fall 2008 (with special features like a Virtual Castle and interactive games) with 7.1 surround sound. Finding Nemo will also be joining it shortly afterwards. A whole bunch of non-animation Disney films will…
Those Bug Labs open source modular gadgets—the ones that you can buy in pieces and build your own gadget with—have just gotten pricing and availability details. They’re also announcing a Von Hippel module, which allows an I/O interface so you can “further” hack your BUG. If you buy the modules in the first 60 days,…
Whirlpool’s latest tech for their refrigerator line is based on their “centralpark” feature, which is a essentially dock that lets you plug in a bunch of different gadgets into the big gadget that holds your food. Among the things that you can dock are the Brandmotion iPod Speaker system, which withstands “the frequent opening and…
No one’s going to make a Hunt for Blue October movie out of Warner’s defection from HD DVD to Blu-ray—even if Toshiba is quite peeved at them—but what they can do is cancel press conferences. The HD DVD group, who’s naturally in charge of the HD DVD press conferences here at CES, has just decided…
UPDATE: We’ve confirmed the news. Here are all the pretty shots. Hit the jump for full information Kat from Shiny Shiny got an early hands-on with a Logitech DiNovo Mini, a $149.99 wireless keyboard which you can use to control your Windows Media Center-equipped PC and your Sony Playstation 3. With a nice size and…
So, here I am, on my own in the Giz office. The door has just closed behind the last one (Benny the Intern, struggling under the weight of Our Dear Leader’s cases—a different outfit every day, I believe, and 17 brand-new batteries for his MacBook Pro) and it’s just me here. Everyone’s gone to Vegas…
Click to viewSome Apple fan mixed the real iMac-like dock patent and the fabled MacBook touch, getting a very nice rendition of how both concepts may look together. There is minimalist dock station too, with an optical drive, extra hard-drive, charging and wireless connectivity but without the screen, which looks like a more realistic proposition.…
The What: DXG has always gone for the low cost bragging rights and they’ve reached the height of their budget crusade with this $150 HD camera that records to 1280 x 720 at its highest res. We’ve seen tapeless camcorders do this before, but that price is pretty insane. It records in H.264 quicktime files,…
If we had to add anything to Nokia’s already feature rich N-series phones (the N95, for example) it would be a keyboard (or a touchscreen, but let’s say keyboard here). Boy Genius has a spy shot of an upcoming N-series (not E-series) phone that has this full-sized QWERTY keyboard that’s set for a 2nd half…
The Basics: OLED Picture frames! The 2.8-inch screen has a wrist strap, and works as an alarm clock and calendar. The 1.5-inch version has a keychain. They hold 3000 and 120 photos, and have 10000:1 and 1000:1 contrast ratios, respectively. Rechargeable. The Catch: The $50 1.5-inch screen form factor is the one I want, but…
Spykee, the built-it-yourself Skype robot, just got three different models that you can build him into—one of which is a her. We’ve got the first images of the Spykee Cell, Spykee Vox and Spykee Miss, all of which have a video camera, MP3 player, VoIP phone, microphone, loudspeaker, motors, and the ability to shove an…
