CES is dead like a doornail, and so are we. CES was busy with plenty of news, so Will and I take ten minutes to run through some of the more interesting items at the show, including new devices, apps, and technologies. Yeah, it’s a little short (especially for CES when so much was going…
Women of CES 2010 with video [Booth Babes]
CES 2010 is officially over, but we’ve still got videos to show you. The biggest consumer electronics show in the world was filled with all kinds of eye-candy to drool over. The Las Vegas Convention Center was brimming with gadgets, apps, cars and, of course, beautiful women to catch every geek’s attention. We’ve already showed…
Jabra unveiled two new Bluetooth accessories at the CES
We’re still coping with all the CES news… Jabra, the famous Bluetooth accessory maker, has used the event to unveil the EXTREME headset and the CRUISER speakerphone. The first of the two comes with the company’s Noise Blackout Extreme technology that combines two microphones, digital signal processing (DSP) and automatic volume control to reduce background…
Parrot’s AR Drone does iPhone-controlled augmented reality, blows our minds at CES 2010
Parrot, a company known for their wireless Bluetooth devices, blew our minds at CES 2010 with an iPhone-controlled helicopter capable of transmitting real-time video back to the iPhone. The Parrot AR Drone features four rotors – which, technically, makes it a quadricopter – WiFi, two ultrasonic altitude sensors, a front-facing camera, accelerometers for flight stabilization,…
iLive unveils more than a dozen made-for-iPhone audio systems at CES
Maker of popular iPod and iPhone docking systems, iLive, has used the recently ended CES to unveil a total of 33 new audio solutions. Out of that number, more than a dozen systems wear the made-for-iPhone mark. Here are the highlights: iLive iTDP610B bar speaker with a built-in DVD player that converts DVDs to 1080p…
First USB 3.0 Products Launched, Mobile Next
This is what your next generation cellphone charging/syncing cable is going to look like. At CES 2010, the USB Implementers Forum announced that the first products to use their new USB 3.0 SuperSpeed spec are now available. Transfer rates on these bad boys are ten times what you’re used to (400 MB/s versus the traditional 40 MB/s).…
Slacker Radio Announced for webOS, Wireless Caching for Everyone Else
The partnership with ABC News wasn’t the only thing coming from mobile music service Slacker at CES 2010 – they’ve also announced a new app for the Palm Pre and Pixi, as well as wireless caching across their iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry clients onto microSD or device memory. Sideloading the high-quality versions of favourite stations…
BBC accidentally breaks the ‘unbreakable’ Sonim XP3 Quest on video
It seems Sonim’s super-ruggedized XP3 Quest is merely mortal, after all. The ruggedized phone maker was at CES 2010, showing off their new “unbreakable” handset and asking anyone and everyone to give it their best shot to break the handset. Sonim even offered a free phone to anyone that managed to break the phone that…
Video: Hands-On with Saygus Vphone, First Android Phone with Video Calling
You might have heard about the Vphone at CES, the first Android handset by new manufacturer Saygus. The main thing it’s bringing to the party is two-way video calling by way of a forward-facing VGA video camera (the first Android device with such a thing), and a specialized protocol that can supposedly produce calls at…
Inbrics M1 is DLNA-enabled Android-powered QWERTY phone
A company called Inbrics has been showing off its Android smartphone at the CES – M1. Specs include a 3.7-inch WVGA AMOLED touchscreen, side-slide QWERTY keyboard, 3-megapixel camera, front-facing VGA camera, Samsung 800MHz CPU, and 16GB of storage that is further expandable with microSD cards. At the moment, this baby is running Android 1.5, but…