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What fits in a doublewide trailer, loves Lady Gaga, and smells like the 3-week-old oil in a neglected deep fryer? Why, it’s Engadget’s 2010 CES coverage, of course! Join us for the first in a series of what is destined to be a spellbinding and uncensored peek into the private lives of your favorite bloggers during an annual melange of stress, sleep deprivation, and wacky concept devices. It’s the Engadget Podcast – beaming the shimmering seediness of Las Vegas direct to your home and/or portable media player for far too many years running.

Hosts: Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Song: Note! – Poker Face (Blurp Remix)

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01:31 – Nexus One review
01:53 – Verizon getting Google’s Nexus One in Spring 2010
17:00 – Microsoft to reveal HP built Courier slate tomorrow?
20:20 – Lenovo IdeaPad U1 Hybrid hands-on and impressions
24:30 – Lenovo Skylight hands-on and impressions (video)
35:25 – Live from ASUS’s CES press event
35:36 – ASUS gets official with Eee PC 1008P Seashell: available in hot pink and coffee brown (updated: with video!)
35:40 – ASUS announces U series Bamboo Collection laptops, gives little detail
36:23 – ASUS ROG G73jh launches with Core i7, Radeon HD 5870, bragging rights
36:55 – ASUS NX90Jq hands-on: dual touchpads unite! (update: video)
43:53 – Skiff Reader is largest yet, will be hitting a Sprint Store near you
45:00 – Spring Design Alex hands-on (Update: video!)
50:25 – Michael Jackson ‘This is It’ PS3 bundle makes it a better place for you and me
51:10 – Hands-on with the Boxee Box

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Engadget Podcast 175: CES 2010 Day 1 – 01.06.2010 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The media researcher finds that a lot of Americans have four–or more!–televisions in their homes, and aren’t shy about using them. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-10426368-17.html” class=”origPostedBlog”The Digital Home/a/p

What geek doesn’t love some good, affordable spy gear? Even if–no, make that especially if–it’s as goofy as this new product from BrickHouse Security. The ID Card Hidden Spy Camcorder lets you spy in the office, thanks to a camera concealed in this ID card. You can record 352-by-288 AVI video, 1280-by-1024 pictures, add a time and date stamp, and record for 2 hours continuously. Video and images are stored on 4GB of memory. This James Bond-worthy covert gear is yours for only $99.

While you’re spying around, here are some questions you can try to answer: Why would you be wearing an ID card in your office? Why would you be wearing one in any office? Are people not supposed to notice the two holes in the top of the card? And why do the last two lines on the card say “Posts” and “No.”? I’m going to spy around the BrickHouse office to see if I can find out.

The folks over at VUDU have been very busy apparently, not only have deals been struck to get VUDU onto new Sharp, Sanyo, Toshiba, and VIZIO HDTVs and Blu-ray players, but there are also 100 new apps for select models — TV manufactures like LG can decide not to support the Apps even though the VUDU movie streaming is supported. The list is pretty extensive, but many of the names look iffy — more like show names than apps — so we’ll hold back on judgement until after we’ve gotten a chance to try them first hand. There are some that piqued our interest though; like Twitter, Facebook and Weather. Check out the entire list for yourself after the break.

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Okay, this one isn’t exactly for those who listen to MP3s through their iMac’s built-in speakers. Olive and Thiel Audio have unveiled the Olive+THIEL HD Music System (HDMS), a high-end audio setup that consists of three parts: a server, speakers and cabling.

The flagship 4+ HD music server holds 6,000 CDs or 20,000 24-bit HD music tracks, and comes with a touch screen LCD and support for an iPhone and iPod touch control app for use as a remote.

Meanwhile, Thiel’s SCS4D loudspeakers are two-way bookshelf models that work in both upright and sideways configurations (no small feat, as the audio response changes dramatically when you do this). Each speaker features a die-cast aluminum front baffle, a 24-bit DAC, and a 200-watt class D amplifier.

The system connects together with Ethernet cables, and lets you connect up to four pairs of Thiel SCS4D speakers. That’s assuming you’ve got the money, because the base system with one pair of speakers costs $7,900. Head over to www.olivethiel.com for more details.