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Look, we know that a sensor announcement falls on the dull side of magical, but without them there wouldn’t be any new cameras now would there? So listen in when we tell you about the 14.6 megapixel CMOS sensor from OmniVision capable of shooting stills or 1080p video at 60 fps (with some pixel binning). The 1/2.33-inch OV14810 sensor features an active array of 4,416 x 3,312 backside illuminated pixels capable of 15fps at full resolution. Omnivision is also sampling its new OV14825 for mobile applications. Both should start appearing in still / video cams and mobile phones shortly after they hit mass production in Q2 of the year twenty-ten.

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Company’s free online phone service will be embedded in Internet-connected HDTVs from Panasonic and LG Electronics. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://ces.cnet.com/8301-31045_1-10424922-269.html” class=”origPostedBlog”2010 CES/a/p

Eye-Fi just busted out at CES with its next generation WiFi-enabled SD card, the Eye-Fi Pro X2. The big features of the new 8GB Class 6 SD card are 802.11n support and the Endless Memory mode, which automatically clears photos and videos as they’re uploaded to your machine over WiFi, and there are also some new sharing options in the mix, as well as geotagging support. No word on a ship date, but it’s up for pre-order on Amazon and other retailers now for $149. Eye-Fi is also launching its new Eye-Fi Center software, which should make managing media delivered from Eye-Fi cards a little simpler — it’ll be out later this month. Couple more images in the gallery, full PR after the break.

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U.K.-based Pure has announced that it’s releasing its family of Internet-connected radios to the U.S. market. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://ces.cnet.com/8301-31045_1-10424295-269.html” class=”origPostedBlog”2010 CES/a/p

To most normal people, “Nas” is just a rapper from Queens. But techies know NAS as network-attached storage – essentially, computers with hard drivers that act as personal servers.

At CES this year, Marvell is trying to amp up the capabilities of NAS (the servers, not the rapper) with their “Plug Computer 3.0” platform, which features a 2-ghz processor, hard drive, USB 2.0, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Plug 3.0-based computers look like power adapters (see the one at left) and will run Linux on their ARM-based Marvell ARMADA 300 CPUs. 

The most popular Plug Computer-based device so far is the Pogoplug, which connects your external hard drives to the Internet. But Marvell sees the faster processor in Plug 3.0 as enabling new features, such as the ability to stream video between rooms (say, from a PC in one room to a TV in another.)

“Your iPhone or your BlackBerry or your Android OS based phone can be your terminal to your network at home,” streaming all your home media from afar, said Bob Salem, director of marketing for Marvell’s enterprise business unit.