Hasta La Gadget!

Last night at CES Unveiled (a kickoff show of sorts), a company called Withings was showcasing all manner of health gadgets, including a Wifi scale and an iPhone-based baby monitor. The centerpiece of the company’s booth, however, had to be the company’s Smart Blood Pressure Monitor.

Wrap the band around your arm, like a traditional blood pressure monitor, connect it to your iPhone or iPod touch (actually, the company just says “iOS device,” so I suppose the thing will work with the iPad, as well), and then, with the click of a button, it will send the relevant information to your mobile device.

The company uploads the information and give you your information and where you should be. It will also chart trends in your blood pressure, over time, including time of day trends.

The health gadget is launching this month, for $129.

Digital cameras with Wi-Fi capability is nothing new, but, today at the Consumer Electronics Showcase, Samsung announced a new model, the SH100, that has a very impressive Wi-Fi connectivity feature. Like the other Wi-Fi-enabled cameras, the Samsung SH100 lets you upload photos and video directly to Facebook, Picasa, and YouTube. What makes the SH100 stand out is that you can pair it with a Samsung Galaxy S phone and use the smartphone to remotely preview the frame, zoom in and out, take the picture, and geotag it.

The GPS feature is a nice way to remind you exactly where you were when you took the photo. The addition of the integration with the Galaxy S makes taking group shots easier. It means no more running between your camera and your friends to set up the perfect shot. 

The built-in Wi-Fi can automatically back up your photo to your PC. You can use DLNA to connect wirelessly to your HDTV and see your photos and videos right away. You can also send photos directly from the camera to individual e-mail addresses. If you’re worried about the time it takes to upload and process large files, the SH100 comes with an account with mobile hotspot provider Boingo, which gives you access to over 200,00 Wi-Fi hotspots around the world.

Oh, and as for the specs, it features a 14.2-megapixel CCD sensor, a 3-inch LCD display, and a 5X optical zoom. The SH100 will be available for $199.99 in March. Check out the full press release for more info.

A lot of very hush-hush product news is floating around with the Consumer Electronic Showcase gearing to kick off in just two days from now. Fortunately, Sprint has released official news today that its HTC EVO Shift 4G smartphone will be available on Jan. 9, 2011 for $149.99 with a two-year contract.

This is the third 4G smartphone for Sprint after the HTC EVO 4G and the Samsung Epic 4G, which both received PCMag’s Editors’ Choice. If the pattern can tell us anything, Sprint may be winning three out of three Editors’ Choice awards for its line of 4G smartphones.

The EVO Shift has a much smaller screen than the original. It has a 3.6-inch WVGA touchscreen, runs Android 2.2, and has a 5-megapixel camera. Unlike the original EVO 4G on Sprint, the Shift has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. 

Wirefly, a third-party phone retailer, got some hands-on time with the new phone. Check out the video after the jump!

Not that it’s a competition, or anything, by Microsoft just wants to let you that it hit its 5000th Windows Phone 7 app this week, eight days after announcing that the company had shipped 1.5 million devices running the mobile operating system (that’s shipped, not sold).

That’s the same number of apps that Palm/HP has in the webOS app store (Microsoft launched its store two months ago–Palm’s store has been around eight months) and one-third of what the BlackBerry store is carrying.

Of course, Microsoft is still far behind the industry leaders–Apple and Google have 300,000 and 200,000 apps, respectively, but the numbers are still promising for a company that was largely considered out of the game, just a few months back.