Hasta La Gadget!

At CES last week, NVidia showed a demo of its new GeForce 3D Vision on a 40-plus-inch screen playing Guitar Hero. (For more details on the product, click here). I threw a pair of the glasses over over camera to give you an idea of what rock’in in 3D is like. Clearly, you won’t get the full effect–but you’ll be able to see some difference. In person, it was pretty amazing.

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Four wheels, custom rims, a fold-out DVD player, and a metallic paint job? Eat your heart out, Woz. Couple more after the break.

Continue reading Crapgadget CES, round 9: pimped Segway KIRF

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Transportation

Crapgadget CES, round 9: pimped Segway KIRF originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Microsoft brought less instead of more to the show and was on hand mostly to highlight Windows 7. We peeked at the multi-touch functionality of the new OS (see the vid after the break), Zune, Xbox 360 dreams, and learned that less is more as far as Windows Mobile is concerned. Microsoft’s booth also seemed to take the prize for grandest use of gaudy colors in a display, well done Microsoft! Gallery is below and the vid is just a click away.

Gallery: Microsoft’s CES 2009 booth tour

Continue reading Microsoft’s CES 2009 booth tour

Filed under: CES, Displays, Gaming

Microsoft’s CES 2009 booth tour originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Is 2009 finally the year of the projector phone? Eh, not likely — but there are finally a few models filtering into retail after years of talk, prototypes, and empty promises, including the Logic Bolt from independent manufacturer Logic Wireless and this puppy from Sammy. We’re told that the aptly-named Show is inbound for release in South Korea before the end of the month, it runs Samsung’s ubiquitous TouchWiz platform, and it packs DLP-based pico projector tech from TI, but that’s about all we (and Samsung’s US reps) seem to know about it. The projector can be used to view media stored in phone memory, pull up mobile TV via Korea’s T-DMB airwaves, or simply project light, a function luddites may know better as a “flashlight.” Most importantly, it actually isn’t half-bad looking — a symptom of a major manufacturer getting involved and throwing some won and industrial design staff at the thing, we bet.

Filed under: Cellphones, Portable Video

Samsung Show finally makes projector phones sexy originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We just can’t get enough of these Grippity back-typing keyboards, and Jacob Eichbaum dropped by the Engadget trailer one last time to show us his super-early mockup of a Grippity back-typing gaming controller, along with the original prototype that started all this insanity. Apparently they’ve been getting a lot of interest from manufacturers, especially with the media remote we saw the other day, so hopefully we’ll see this crazy concoction hitting stores sometime this year.

Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals

Grippity drops by again to show off gaming mockup and original keyboard model originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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