Jan 10
ViewSonic’s 3000 lumens projector. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://ces.cnet.com/8301-31045_1-10431827-269.html” class=”origPostedBlog”2010 CES/a/p
Jan 10
LG shows their new Professional monitor, the W2420R. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://ces.cnet.com/8301-31045_1-10431732-269.html” class=”origPostedBlog”2010 CES/a/p
Jan 10
‘3-point’ USB 3.0 hub is self-referential fun and functionality
Posted in: Today's Chili, usb, usb 3.0, Usb3.0
Admittedly, at first we didn’t get it — the hub (with actually helpful, twisting ports) was about 90 degrees counterclockwise from the pictured position and we couldn’t get past the aesthetic similarities to the Dodge Ram logo. That’s when the friendly overseer of the Dun Cheng Technology Corp. booth in the CES International Hall twisted both our minds and the hub itself to reveal an intentionally meta moment — “3-point,” as in USB 3.0. Needless to say, we were very amused.
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Jan 10
The Verizon-powered, video-calling, Android VPhone may be rolling out within weeks, the phone’s creator Chad Sayers said to me at CES.
We first saw the VPhone back in November, when Sayers – the president of a small, new wireless firm called Saygus – brought it by our offices. The phone is being processed through Verizon’s Open Development Initiative, which is the carrier’s effort to get devices onto their network that they won’t have to service or support.
The VPhone will have its own, non-Verizon-branded service plans, but the plans will be affordable, Sayers said. Saygus’ video compression technology lets the phones use relatively little bandwidth, so they won’t be network hogs, he said.
Sayers had the same VPhone at CES as we saw in November, but he had some updates on the business. For one thing, the phone will now run Android 2.0. It has no Google apps, but is compatible with the Android market.
Sayers was very optimistic that the phone would make it out of Verizon’s labs soon, and he’s lining up sales channels. The deaf community is particularly enthusiastic about an inexpensive video-chatting phone, Sayers said.
Saygus hasn’t given us any reason to doubt their sincerity, but I’m still withholding judgement until I see a fully working phone – which they haven’t shown yet. As we learned most recently from the CrunchPad debacle, companies can promise a lot – but bringing the products to market is another thing entirely.
Jan 10
Favi RIOLED-Q and RIOLED-V pico projectors launched: the future is bright, wireless
Posted in: pico projector, PicoProjector, projector, Today's Chili
Looks like the world’s still got appetite for some more pico projectors, as Favi‘s releasing a pair some time between late February and early March for prices yet unknown. First is the RIOLED-Q (pictured) which sports a pretty 800 x 600 native resolution at 50 lumens — supposedly the best brightness in class (like the Optoma PK301), along with built-in SD / MMC card reader, battery, three-watt stereo speaker and an ever-so-handy digital keystone correction. Joining the party is the smaller RIOLED-V which is shy about its display specification, but proudly packs a card reader and WiFi to cater its various web apps for YouTube, Flickr, Picasa, Yahoo News, Weather, Email, Internet Radio and web browser. Too bad it doesn’t do phone calls.
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Jan 10
Booth Babe Confessions
Posted in: feature, Today's Chili, topHere’s your job: Stand for ten hours in a noisy convention center. (You might want to wear something revealing.) Try to get the attention of thousands of men—and a few women—who rush by. And don’t forget to smile.
We didn’t approach these women—models, actresses, circus performers, dancers, students, nurses, programmers—just to ogle and schmooze. We didn’t simply want to collect pretty pictures for readers to drool over. (Although we did that, too.) We wanted to get to know the girls, their pasts, how they came to be booth babes, what they did when they weren’t charming strangers, and what they experienced during their times at conventions such as CES.
Many of these intelligent, charming women had a sense of reluctance when it came to taking members of the press seriously. Often we heard girls talk of men who don’t understand that a “press badge isn’t an excuse” to fondle them as one might touch “everything shiny and pretty” in the booths.
A booth babe‘s job is to lure convention attendees into her booths, to do a product demonstration or to pass people off to a coworker. That’s fine. But when misunderstandings occur—or attendees forget they’re interacting with living, breathing human beings—some attendees turn into jerks, pressing intimidatingly close and crossing boundaries.
Some slip these girls their hotel keys, pressuring them for a visit later in the day. Others mistake professional flirting for actual flirting and try pick-up lines. “Do you know what the speed of light inside a vacuum is? I do.”
We’ve shown off pictures of booth babes plenty and even encouraged ogling them. Others in the tech industry, such as game developer EA, have promoted this mentality to the point of offering a bounty to anyone harassing their booth babes with photo evidence. The point is that these girls are being paid to be pretty and cordial—and we aren’t ashamed to enjoy checking them out and laughing with them.
But there wasn’t a single woman we spoke to that didn’t have at least one icky experience. Let their confessions serve as a warning to you: don’t be a creep.
Many thanks to Adam Lam and Christopher Mascari for assisting with the video, Michael Margolis for sending in a few photos, every wonderful woman who spoke to us (particularly Bob Suicide whose encounter guided along this idea), and every single gal running a booth or promoting a product.
Jan 10
ioSafe Solo SSD plays with fire, gravity, and the pathway of a tractor
Posted in: SSD, Today's Chili
It’s an inevitability, when a product claims to withstand Kryptonian strength, someone out there’s gonna phone up the son of Jor-El himself for a trial run. Today’s entrant is ioSafe’s Solo SSD, which Extreme Tech took for a few rounds to determine its actual survivability. Spoiler alert: the SSD drive is still functional in the end, and it’s really none too surprising when you realize the test site is run by ioSafe itself — who else would have such an appropriate location handy? Still, the journey is what’s interesting here, and there’s plenty of pictures of incineration, falling, and drowning here — and even a video of an intimate encounter with a tractor tread. Jigsaw would be proud. Video after the break.
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Jan 10
Engadget Podcast 179: CES 2010 Final Goodbye – 01.10.2010
Posted in: Android, boxee, e ink, intel, LG, netflix, nintendo, podcast, Today's Chili
Goodnight CES! You were cool and had a lot of great technologies this year.
Hosts: Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Song: See You Again [Maximum FX Crushed + Screwed Mode]
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04:12 – Inbrics M1 is the thinnest Android slider we’ve seen, probably everything we ever wanted
04:29 – LG GW990 hands-on video
06:50 – 3D @ CES
14:25 – RED Scarlet and Bomb EVF surprise hands-on!
20:05 – Lenovo Skylight hands-on and impressions (video)
20:20 – Intel
22:00 – E-ink
22:55 – Chances of Netflix on Nintendo ‘excellent,’ says Netflix CEO
23:05 – Andy Rubin on multitouch in Android: ‘I personally don’t like two-handed operations’
23:17 – Boxee
24:10 – Pixel Qi: The e-Reader story of CES 2010
33:35 – The Android Army is Rising
34:05 – Synaptics Fuse concept hands-on
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Jan 10
Xbox Live Game Room essentially allows you to create your own arcade, offering titles from many classic developers like Atari, Intellivison, and Konami. When the service goes live in late March, 30 titles will be immediately available with five to seven pOriginally posted at a href=”http://ces.cnet.com/8301-31045_1-10431751-269.html” class=”origPostedBlog”2010 CES/a/p
Jan 10
CES 2010 is a buzz about 3D TV, but what’s happening on the audio side? pOriginally posted at a href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-13645_3-10428492-47.html” class=”origPostedBlog”The Audiophiliac/a/p
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