Panasonic Press Conference: It Made Us Sleepy
CENTERPIECE: The Panasonic press conference, despite being one of the most crowded, was a let down. It felt like an infomercial, and you couldn’t change the channel. They showed off three new sizes of their 1080p plasmas: 103-inch, 58-inch, 50-inch and a prototype 42-inch model and emphasized (repeatedly and at great length) plasmas over LCD.…
Seagate’s High-Fashion External Hard Drives
Ever-growing Seagate has become the emperor of the hard drive world, and now its external drives sport some fancy new clothes. The company that got rich building unglamorous SCSI drives for server farms has gone high-fashion with Its FreeAgent line of drives sporting “cocoa-black” casings and “molten-amber” lights. The series packs some serious capacity and…
The Coolest Camera You Can’t Get Here
Available in Asia, the 7-megapixel i70 is an update to the sexy NV3 that houses a portable media player inside a sleek stainless-steel shell. The N7’s killer app, though, is the ability to get onto HSDPA cellular networks for superfast photo uploads from just about anywhere, sans PC. But figuring out the backward cellular networks…
Reviewed: Cingular Treo 750 (Verdict: Good, But There’s Cheaper Alternatives)
Embargoes be damned! Mobility Today just posted a review of the Palm Treo 750 for Cingular (after being read the riot act by Palm earlier today). The reviewer calls it “one of the best PocketPC Phone Edition devices ever to be released.” Guess he liked it. It’s the first 3G Treo as well, so it’s…
Samsung New Camera Lineup
Samsung introduced five new models today. (All will be available in “spring of 2007,” says Sammy.) In addition to the way-cool looking L73, it brought out the 8-megapixel S850 ($250) and10.1-megapixel S1050 ($350). These cams lack the face detection of the L73, but they do sport handy 5X zoom lenses (vs. 3X on the L73).…
Samsung L73 Digicam Can Spot Faces
Unlike most of those coy camera vendors who are saving their new goods for February’s PMA show, Samsung is putting out right here in Vegas with five new models. Coolest is the 7-megapixel L73 ($300). With it, Samsung joins the anti-aphasia campaigns of Canon, Fujifilm, and Nikon by adding face detection. Its Intelligent Face Recognition…
Samsung’s A-VSB Digital Broadcasting Tech is Confusing Yet Awesome
OK, the video above is from the Samsung press conference where they lay out all the details on their new A-VSB digital broadcasting technology, and to be honest, they do a much better job explaining exactly what it is than I ever could. So go ahead and watch it, as Blakeley went through all the…
Precious Stones: RCA’s Gem Line MP3 Players, Jensen SportFones
Just like the shiny rocks they’re named after, RCA’s line of Gem MP3 players aren’t that fancy. The Pearl is a tiny 1GB thumb drive player with a MicroSD slot, designed for the barebones minimalist. For $49, you get a backlit screen that can alternate between seven colors, and a AAA battery will power the…
Press Conference Highlights, Day Two Edition
Press conference after press conference, where to begin? In case you were out, you know, living a life, here’s a shopping list of some the day’s press conference gems. 1. 108-inch Aquos LCD TV from Sharp. Wow. https://gizmodo.com/sharp-rolls-out-gigantic-108-inch-lcd-226761 2. LG’s combination Blu-ray/HD DVD player. Why have nasty format wars when you can buy one catch-all…
RCA EZ201 Camcorder, MemoryMaker: Easy Does It
RCA’s CES offerings can be summed up with one word: easy. First up is their next generation Small Wonder digital camcorder, the EZ201. It ships with an hour’s worth of recording time on built-in flash memory, but also has a slot for an SD card in case you’re marathon recording. A 1.5-inch flip-out LCD lets…
Pioneer Car Audio Collections
It’s a Pioneer Christmas for the car audio world today, as Pioneer has announced a boatload of new speakers, amplifiers and subwoofers. The TS-A line of speakers start at $65 and are optimized for compressed audio like MP3. In the amplifier realm, the new GM line (GM-3300 through GM-7300) are priced from $100 to $200…