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Arc Audio is showcasing all kinds of over-the-top car, boat and, of course, Grill Master audio gear. This beauty has a PS2 inside of it and two screens for playing Grand Theft Auto, along with two huge speakers and an FM radio on top. I’m not too keen on that game controller coming out from…
DLMag has an interesting interview with the CEO of DualCor. He’s talking about this little beauty, a tablet PC/handheld/cellphone that could give the OQO a run for its money. Check it out. CES 2006 Exclusive Coverage of DualCor Handtop PC [DLMag]
Geez, you’d think iRiver was selling the iPod given its swank booth outfitted with a waterfall and filled with black-clad models. They were showing some new stuff under embargo and behind closed doors. News on those devices will come out in the next 2-3 months. Otherwise, it was the old U10 and nothing else. Not…
This driver sleep monitor has been talked about plenty before, but it was fun to see it in action in Delphi’s booth. It finds your eyes in an instant, and then bleats when your lids are closed for more than a few seconds. It would have to be installed in the car’s driver-side dashboard display,…
Delphi, best known as a car audio brand in the US, is getting sensitive. The company is working on a bunch of interesting stuff with sensor technology that they had on display here at CES. The first is a blind spot detector for motorcycles (and cars, eventually). The sensor beams out 10 feet to the…
Delphi is also working on sensors for the child safety zone—an area of much interest to the child-bearing Gizmodo editors. The intelligent child restraint is a device to help ensure that you install your car seat correctly. Child seats are mis-installed 80% of the time, a stat that will come as little surprise to anyone…
This is a warranted and overclocked 4.25-GHz uber-ninjatastic-wonder-PC from Dell that can impregnate your sister from across the room. I mean look at this: it’s a Intel’s Pentium Extreme Edition 955 chipset with a HUGE heatsink and—this is the best part—four graphics cards. As if the extremely overclocked CPU wasn’t enough to begin with, NVIDIA…
So last month we heard word about the New Standard Keyboard that would be showing up at CES. Well I’m here, I tried this thing out, and it sucks. The layout is done in an alphabetical order that is supposedly faster than QWERTY. Each key has about 4 other different commands that are activated like…
Ok, they’re not really just for the ladies, but every time I see an ad for a Sony Bravia TV, it’s hawking to the feminine side. I guess Sony figures that if they convince women that tech is sleek and attractive, we’ll go out there and drop our cash on that—instead of the $2500 Bottega…
Google is here at CES showing off all its fun stuff and searching software. But that’s not all, the company is also giving away fun prizes…provided you know your Google. To get the free swag, Google has provided everyone with these circular cardboard scratch off games. Five questions about Google are on one side and…
It is the time all of you have been waiting for: Here is a hands-on glimpse of the prototype water-cooled Xbox 360 from Cool IT. Cool IT is using a scaled down version of one of their water cooling systems designed for the PC. It uses three half-sized refrigerated chillers. It is actually integrated into…
Commodore was also featuring two other products in its booth. First was the Mediabox, a $499 media center that runs an embedded XP. Other than that it is pretty run-of-the-mill, features a 160GB hard drive, 5.1 audio, wired and Wi-Fi connection, DVD player, etc. It was being housed in a $20,000 steel case that was…
That weird Ambilight FlatTV by Philips got an upgrade at CES this year. If you didn’t already know, Ambilight technology basically uses ambient light around the screen of the TV to match what you’re watching. So it’s a backlight system that you can customize, to create “a deeper, more immersive viewing environment.” Right. So this…
Along with Sony, Pioneer and a few others, JVC is pimping a GPS-slash-car audio device. This one is not nearly as full featured as Pioneer’s, but it’s got some things going for it. The 3.5-inch TFT touchscreen is windshield mountable. The KV-PX9 has a 20GB internal HD. 13GB is for navigation, the other 7GB is…
Dropped in on TiVo this morning to get more details on the Series3. No word on pricing, but they are promising this will be out in midd-2006. The remote is backlit and fully programmable. It’s got a 250GB internal HD, and as you can see in the picture below they are pushing a TiVo-branded external…
Here’s one of the most useless products I’ve seen at CES so far, but hey, it does catch the eye. The Wireless Wheels remote control toy car is controlled by select Motorola iDEN handsets. I love that it’s only select handsets. So now, when you buy that car, you also better have the exact phone…
Hey Commodore, we know you paved the way for a lot of the stuff we have seen at CES this year, but since YMV bought you out, your new stuff sucks. Commodore has three items on display this year that we reported on last month: the Navigator Combo GPS unit, the Mediabox and the Mediatower.…
Incidentally, in addition to partnering with Kodak, Motorola has been quite a busy bee at CES, also announcing plans to put Google’s search technology into Motorola’s phone software. Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt commented on his belief that mobile phones is where the Internet will be most fully used, and also said that maps are…
No need to get yourself a honking new set of headphones for surround sound listening, just check out the new JVC SU-DH1 surround sound headphone adapter, which uses Dolby Headphone technology to give you 5.1-channel surround sound through any two-channel headphones. Weighing only 3.5 oz, it uses 2 AA batteries and can connect to a…
We know we’ve been a little remiss on good car stuff, but we’re getting there. Promise. JVC, for instance, announced a new line of six HX Series coaxial mobile audio speakers at CES, all featuring neodymium and strontium magnets, a metal sputtering olefin woofer cone and 3-Way Installation. The line-up includes two 6 x 9-inch…