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Ben Q rolled out a couple of Intel Centrino Duo Mobile notebooks at CeBIT, the Joybook S73 and Joybook S61. The S73 (pictured at left) has a 14.1-inch screen driven by ATI X1600 graphics, and with its DVI-D output and enhanced speakers, it might find a place in a home theater as well as on…
In this, the final chapter of our ever-increasingly silly quest to get all sorts of Origami footage, your correspondents go deep into the Origami launcher and realize… it’s still just Windows.
Look familiar? We saw lots of these on the floor, but this was the only one with a vacuum tube. Can’t comment on sound quality, but a special hug goes to the reader who can point out what other C&D worthy tomfoolery you can find on the SonicGear web page, below. Product Page [SonicGear]
We were so happy to see the Viliv P1 on display here that we kind of scared the guy at the booth. The PMP is much bigger than I expected, with dimensions in the husky PSP range rather than the slick iRiver range. The video quality was excellent and the UI was pleasing and easy…
This company makes fully customized PCs, laptops and media centers. This laptop caught our eye because it was as bling as bling can get. It is the Rio model that is constructed out of gold and rosewood. Every part of the PC or the laptop is customized including all of the components inside and especially…
b.Lab Italia brings you Living Floor, interactive floor tiles that react to your steps, letting you leave disappearing footprints all over the room. Available in a variety of colors and metallic finishes, these PVC tiles are made up of a non-slip clear covering with an underlying interactive fluid layer. It’s like beach sand, moving and…
Soon after Microsoft s Origami and its Ultra-Mobile PC platform were officially revealed, Sling Media announced a SlingPlayer for the platform. When the UMPC products are delivered, and nobody is mentioning any dates yet, users will be able to remotely view their cable, satellite or PVR programming using this re-worked software. The SlingPlayer application has…
Samsung has introduced the VP-X210L, a rugged camcorder that’s also a music player and still camera. Its most unusual feature is a detachable lens that can be mounted on handlebars, your helmet, or anywhere else as long as it’s not farther than 9 feet away from the camcorder body. The VP-X210L has a gigabyte of…
It’s just so hard to look at Asian phones. They have so much to offer and tweak so many pleasure receptors that you just want to hold on to them and walk out of the booth. The G-3700 here is really sexy, nice bright screen, and it looks like the RAZR if the RAZR wasn’t…
We don t have a damn clue what this company makes, but they did have a sweet dinosaur made entirely out of old computer parts. Coincidentally on the other side of the hall a completely different booth had an old-style wagon made out of old computer parts. If only the dinosaur could haul the wagon…
The Intel booth was also featuring the Asus R2H UMPC. Luckily we got a chance to take a look at the unique keyboard interface that has been oh-so-talked about and we missed in our demo yesterday. There was a button that brought the keyboard interface up. A traditional keyboard “click” noise was made when a…
While waiting around to get our hands on the Asus R2H we spotted these beauties. These were part of a leather-clad designer series of laptops and mice, which we’ve talked about before. https://gizmodo.com/asus-leather-laptop-156537 The mice aren’t as practical as the laptops. Leather coated in palm sweat is going to smell worse than a Kansas feed…
The second in our ongoing series on UMPCs in the wild. Thrill to the power of Microsoft’s Sexy Windows Shell 1.0b.
Motorola doesn’t just make shiny phones. We stumbled into the Moto booth to discover that their traditional product lines are alive and well, including CB radios and this Half-Life 2-esque death pod, the MEA “Rapid Response” Mesh Camera. It’s a bit old, but it really looked scary. Put a gun on there and you’re golden.…
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If you have a really hard time seeing your beer mug through the fog to determine when it’s almost empty, the Never Empty Beer Mug has a sensor that tells you it’s time for more. Your beer is running dangerously low, cries the mug. Obeying the mug, you fill it up, take a few gulps…
Toshiba introduced its et20 projector at CeBIT 2006 that includes an integrated DVD player, 5.1 channel sound and a unique lens that can produce a six-foot image from three feet away, and a 4.5-foot image from just 27 inches away. The projector also has an image enhancer Toshiba calls Realta HQV, which attempts to enhance…
Either someone over at Microsoft decided to have some fun in anticipation of the Origami/UMPC launch, or no one at Redmond has ever been Goatse’d. Ultra-Mobile PC – How to Buy [Microsoft] (Thanks, Jason!) Goatse.cx [Wikipedia] Goatse [Threadless T-Shirts] Photos tagged with firstgoatse [Flickr]
Jackie Lee and Hyemin Chung of MIT Media Lab have a great project called Lover’s Cups, a wireless-enabled pair of drinking glasses. Each cup can tell when someone is drinking from the other; when both are being used they glow to “celebrate this virtual kiss”. Lover’s Cups, Jackie Lee and Hyemin Chung [MIT Media Lab]…
Liked the Voodoo Knife Holder but thought having actual knives doing the piercing was a bit too gory for your kitchen? Perhaps you’ll be happy with OUCH! the Voodoo Doll Toothpick Holder. Available in grey or white, each one holds 35 toothpicks and will easily break the ice at the next dinner party you throw.…