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Do you loooooooooove the night sky? Yeah, me too. So, to make it easier to zone out—I mean check it out, Celestron introduced its handheld, portable celestial viewing device called the SkyScout, here at CES. It’s about the same size as a camcorder and weighs less than 16 ounces, so it’s definitely portable, and the…
Thank Visteon for thinking up just one more way to keep everyone quiet on your next roadtrip. The company has added Game Boy Advance to its Dockable in-car video experience, which features a 2.5 pound, flip-down media player with a large, 10.2-inch screen. The player can also be undocked and toted around with you to…
New and improved (like just about everything at this show) the Clarion VRX765VD will make life in your car a dream, and shut up any crying child in minutes (not guaranteed by the company, unfortunately). With a 7-inch flip-out touchscreen to play with, the DVD multimedia system comes with a soil-resistant (I love that. Because…
Yeah, I know it’s not a gadget, but with all the next-gen products being announced at CES, it’s good to know that somebody is thinking about the software. Like Crown Castle International, which claims it can deliver live TV (DVB-H), video and audio services to all kinds of shit—from cellphones to PMPs to cars. By…
In a play to get us to dig even deeper into our wallets every time we pay our cellphone bill, Verizon announced that it would start letting subscribers download music to their phones over its wireless network for just $1.99 a song (for wireless) and 99 cents if it goes to your computer first. Obviously…
It’s the “my TV is bigger than yours” wars and though Samsung seems to have won the LCD part of it, Matsushita (maker of Panasonic products) is pulling a ridiculous 103-inch plasma out of its ass to take the cake at this year’s CES. In Korea, Samsung has the largest plasma on the market at…
It was just unveiled yesterday here at CES, and there will be barely anything to watch on it, but Best Buy has Toshiba’s HD-A1 High Def DVD player available for pre-order. Go ahead, be cutting edge. It suits you. Thanks Jordan!
Yet another first from Samsung (it claims) is its LED light-sourced DLP rear projection HDTV. The HL-S5679W replaces the current UHP bulb with a high-powered LED light source, which simply means that it doesn’t require a color wheel like normal DLP TVs, and the red, green and blue laser LEDs sequentially fire to produce smoother…
Um, yeah. Did I say Sharp’s 65-inch LCD was the biggest ever here at CES? Scratch that. Looks like Samsung has topped that nonsense with an 82-inch 1080p LCD TV, though this one has no price. So there. The LN-S8281D has a built-in ATSC tuner, CableCard slot, 2 HDMI connections and DACS speakers. And for…
Here’s a cool-lookin’ camera from Casio, dropped at CES. The EXILIM CARD EX-S600 rounds out its card-sized high-resolution digital camera line and comes with 6 megapixels and an anti-shake technology called Anti Shake DSP that kicks in when you’re recording MPEG-4 movies. Even better, the EX-S600 comes in three colors—Silver, Orange and Blue. Other features…
We’ve been tooling around scarfing down strawberries dipped in a chocolate fountain and sucking on mimosas all night and now we’re ready to hear what YOU need and what YOU want, man. Plus, we’re too hung over to think. What questions do you want us to ask the big guys? What products do you want…
Sony showed off some new camcorders at CES, one (according to the company) being the first-ever hard disk drive model. All three have built-in Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound and center-channel mic capability. The DCR-DVD505 ($1100) and the DCR-DVD405 ($900) DVD models support an optional wireless microphone that can be clipped to your subject while…
I have a feeling this is as old as my mom, but I’ll post it anyway. See, apparently you throw this ball at your “motive”—I suspect they mean “subject”—and it takes a digital picture. Satugo stands for See Aim Throw CaptUre and GO. SATCG didn’t have the same ring, I guess. The interface is obviously…
More Sony news from CES. Trying to grab some goodness from companies like TomTom and Garmin, Sony is showing what it calls the Nav-U portable navigation system. It’s small and with the easy-to-use bracket, it won’t take me hours to figure out how to position it in my car. Kudos, Sony. Another nice addition is…
Every year at CES, Sharp comes out with a larger Aquos LCD TV than the year before. And I always drool for about 15 minutes before they tell me it won’t be available for about a year or so. However, with its current 65-inch giant, it looks like they actually have a price on the…
Just when I wasn t losing enough flash drives as it is, Sony was showing off its new line of Micro Vault USB flash drives. These things are damn tiny, and even though at first glance they don t appear to be USB devices, they most certainly are, and can slide right into any standard…
Old Billy McGates gave his keynote address today and there was plenty of Xbox 360 news. What did Microsoft learn from the release of the Xbox 360 nearly a month ago? Well, it’s pretty obvious: the 360 is a system that is flying off the shelves. Microsoft would ideally like to sell between 4.5 and…
The Forerunner is just about the perfect real-time distance calculator for long-distance runners. But the previous model had one major drawback: The signal got lost in trees or even when jogging in big cities where tall buildings might block the GPS signal. Garmin claims to have fixed that problem with its 205 and 305 models…
Who needs Blu-ray? This is the Sony reader that uses the display technology from E-Ink I’ve been hearing so much about. To give you an idea of just how good this display looks… I walked up to the counter, looked at the text on the screen and asked, “So when will you have working units…
The latest and greatest iteration of Lego’s robotic toolkits debuted today at CES. The new NXT “brick” is a 32-bit microprocessor that can be programmed using a PC or, for the first time, a Mac. It’s Bluetooth enabled, which makes the instructions you plug into the LabView software easy to transfer to your bot, and…