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Among the embarrassment of riches that CES has been for Sammy fans thus far, we have several new items available for your consideration. The SyncMaster 930ND is a 19-inch PC-over-IP-enabled display developed with Teradici Corporation that sports four USB connectors, 2-way audio, and DVI-out for a secondary display. For gamers, the 22-inch 2233RZ is an NVIDIA GeForce 3D Vision-compatible monitor, due to hit the streets in April for an MSRP of $349. And rounding out the collection, the company has added two more DisplayLink monitors to the mix: the SyncMaster D190SU (19-inch) and D220SU (22-inch). No word on a release date or price for this one, but you’ll know as soon as we do.

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Samsung unveils new DisplayLink, PCoIP and 3D monitors originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Vizio is best known for its low prices on HDTVs, but the company is branching out into Blu-ray with the new VBR100 player. From the specs, the biggest selling point is the $200 price tag, and we were surprised to see 7.1 analog outputs available too. Here are the …

Originally posted at CES 2009

LAS VEGAS — Almost a year ago, Polaroid killed its iconic instant cameras when it stopped the production of the shake’n’develop film that fed it. It stumbled on with a range of mediocre digital point and shoots and the PoGo printer, which churned out crappy little pictures on the go.

Now, at CES 2009, that printer has been shoehorned into a camera, finally bringing the Polaroid proper to the digital age. You load the PoGo up with ten-packs of 3×2 "Zink" (Zero Ink) paper, which has heat-activated dye inside the paper itself. When you take a shot (or load up an SD card from another camera), you can choose the image and print. The camera heats the paper and in about a minute the picture slides, dry to the touch, from a slot in the side.

Sadly, it is also fully "developed", which means no shaking (even
though that never worked anyway). As you’d expect, having a printer
inside makes it a bit chunky, but not too much so. The camera side of
things is basic — a fixed focus lens, an unspecified sensor size
(seriously) and almost nothing else.

The picture below shows the film inside, and the picture below that is my rather hungover-looking mug, taken today on the PoGo (those red eyes are actually a pretty good likeness). The lighting is terrible, but the image quality is pretty poor anyway. There’s no way this will usurp its iconic predecessor.

The camera will be on sale in March for $200, plus around 35 cents a pop for pictures. These come in packs of 20, 50 or 80.

Press release [Polaroid]

See Also:

• Polaroid Ends Instant Film Production
• Review: Polaroid PoGo Printer Spits Pics on the Quick
• New Polaroid Camera Will Shake it With Built-in Printer

We heard that Polaroid would be punching out a PoGo-infused camera in 2009, and it only took ’em eight days into the new year to do just that. Today at CES, the $199 PoGo Instant Digital Camera is making its grand entrance, utilizing the tried-and-true ZINK printing technology. Sadly (and we do mean sadly), there’s not even a mention of how many megapixels this thing boasts, which is a pretty telling sign that you won’t be getting SD850IS-type quality out of it. Nevertheless, it’ll print out ink-free 2- x 3-inch images right from itself, so maybe the quality isn’t that big of a deal after all. Or maybe we’re just sympathetic.

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Polaroid PoGo Instant Digital Camera debuts at CES originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It seems like Google’s Android has a bad case of wanderlust, spreading its wings and making appearances on all sorts of devices after Mobile-facts showed it could be done. The little green guy quickly headed over to HP’s Mini-Note 2133, and now we’ve got footage of it in the wild, installed on a Lenovo X200. The machine goes from a cold boot to UI in a solid 25 seconds, and while we still don’t think the resulting interface is exactly keyboard and mouse friendly, we’re excited to see what the future holds for our favorite synthetic life form/operating system.

[Thanks, Jayanth]

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Android shows up on X200, caught on video originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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