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Our pals from eMagin are rocking the wearable scene here at CES with the Eyebud 800. This is a single-eye personal OLED display. It straps around the head and the eyepiece flips up and down like something from a 1980s science-fiction film. But the eMagin folks are pitching it to go with the iPod video,…
There is not much I can tell you about these HD camcorders shown behind the plexi in Panasonic’s booth. There was nothing in the press lit about them. But they look mighty neat. Anybody have any details they want to share on these?
XM Radio seems to now want to cater to audiophiles with 5.1 surround sound music available 24 hours a day. XM is launching two around-the-clock surround channels: XM Fine Tuning and XM Pops. Both will feature true 5.1 surround sound, not emulated or matrixed sound to deceive your precious ears. Companies selling products that will…
Here’s a look at Panasonic’s Blu-Ray recorder. It goes with the blank 25GB and 50GB Blu-Ray recordable discs on display here.
Update: It sounds like Panasonic just trotted out Lord of the Dance. Seriously, it’s tap dance with Irish music. The bomb-sniffing dog can barely stand it. Thumpety-thump-thump. I used this diversion to snag a press kit. Noah Robischon – Truth is, I’m about 50 yards from the Panasonic press conference. Trouble is, the media event…
Joel Johnson—I’m all about companies trying unique methods to capture the attention of conference walkers, but I’m not entirely sure this pool of bubbling sewage is going to draw in as many passers-by as Intel might want. I do have to admit their new, sleeker logo does look picturesque shimmering atop the puddle of murky…
I don’t know why, but I just don’t like the Treo, so I’m kind of nonplussed about this announcement. But here you have it: Verizon has the 700w. W00T. It runs Windows Smartphone 5.0, has all kinds of EVDO oozing out of its PalmOS-traitorous heart, and Bluetooth. No Wi-Fi, but you can get an expansion…
The winner is in: The Treo 650 is the Best Gizmo of 2005 as voted by you, the loyal readers of Gizmodo. Thank you for your votes. Congrats to Palm and the Treo 650; we await word on your 2006 goodies, some of which had better be on hand here at CES. Now, finally, the…
A ha! Stuff we want. inno is the first portable XM2go radio with 1GB memory (says Pioneer). You can listen live, record live, and store and play MP3 and WMA files. It’s a very nice-looking unit, but it seems there’s not enough built-in storage for that $400 purchase price. When it shows up in March,…
Another year, another memory card specification. Though I have to admit, it certainly isn’t a bad thing that the SD Card Association (SDA) has announced that they’re finalizing specifications to expand SD card capacity beyond 2GB, to a new card called the SDHC Memory Card. The new specification is promising a minimum SD Speed Class…
We’re not big on “content” round these parts, but I just got this uber-cool link from one of the editors of Magwerk. These kids have created three online magazines with sublime Flash interfaces complete with advertisements and little Easter Egg pop-up things. The next best thing to e-paper, if you ask me. There are three…
Pioneer kicked off its press conference talking directly about its ambitions into the vehicle navigation market (a la GPS and mapping units). Pioneer “wants to put the fun back into driving,” yet it doesn’t seem to be providing faster cars. Instead, they are introducing a new family of navigation, the ‘AVIC’ family, with three different…
Harman Kardon didn’t hold anything back at CES, showing three A/V receivers, an advanced Universal remote control, a 7.1 channel home theatre system, an integrated home theatre system and 2 DVD A/V players with SACD and HDMI. The The AVR-740 ($3,500) uses Faroudja technology for upconverted and enhanced HD 780p and 1080i video output through…
Toshiba officially announced its Gigabeat Flash DAP today at CES, along with two other nice suprises. The first is the Gigashot camcorder that shoots MPEG-2 video and records it onto a built-in 30GB or 60GB hard drive. There are SD expansion capabilities as well. Shoot up to 27 or 55 hours of video with multiple…
Despite the almost total lack of support, Toshiba hasn’t given up on HD-DVD yet. Blu-ray be damned, they are introducing two HD-DVD players onto the market this year: The HD-XA1 and HD-A1. They are promised for March of 2006. Both players are backwards compatible with regular DVD, offer 720p or 1080i resolution, and lossless sound.…
Toshiba unveiled it HD DVD products here at CES. They also focused on their Gigastyle product line with 3 new products which include: -Gigabeat Flash DAP -Gigashot 2MP Camcorder -Gigastyle RD-XS55 DVD Recorder and PVR HD-DVD was the main event here, with 2 players being released in March to the public: The HD-XA1 and HD-A1…
We’ve been getting leaks about the SCH-i830 for quite a while now, but Samsung and Verizon have finally let the dogs out at CES and announced its availability as January 10 for Verizon Wireless’ large account enterprise customers and January 24, 2006 for consumers. The latest of Samsung’s smartphones, the i830 has a full QWERTY…
Whaaaaaaaat? No more USB cables? Is this a dream? Not if Staccato Communications has anything to do with it. The company has just announced the introduction of its Ripcord family at CES which is based on the WiMedia’s Alliance UWB common radio platform as well as the Certified Wireless USB specification. The Ripcord is simply…
No doubt Eton makes some gorgeous electronics. Its Porsche radios, which always look as good as they work, are obviously made with the same care to design as to engineering. This year at CES, the company is showing a few things. Its et n E1 XM combines four radio technologies—AM/FM/Shortwave/XM Satellite radio—resulting in a stunning-looking,…
I love spying devices—I mean monitoring devices. What’s better than catching the cleaner red handed beating your cats or eating that leftover Chinese? Not much, I say. So thanks, Linksys, for coming out with an even better Internet camera. The Compact Wireless-G Internet Video Camera (WVC54GC-UK) is small (makes sense), and contains its very own…