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Well, would you have a look at this? Details are scarce right now, but by the looks of these ads outside CES, this Casio TRYX imager sports two hinges for the sake of versatility: one for the frame that doubles as a handle or a stand, and one for swiveling the display — presumably a touchscreen since there are just a couple of buttons on the body. Coincidentally, Google also led us to the TRYX’s stash of press shots which have now been pulled, but we’ve got you guys a screenshot for the time being — it’s not like it’ll be long before all is unveiled, anyway.

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“It’s not your dream phone. It’s the one after that,” coming January 6th. Catchy teaser from HTC, as seen displayed across the side of an entire building for all the CES attendees to see. We can’t say for sure what device it’s referencing, but we wouldn’t be entirely surprised if it ended up being the oft-leaked sequel to its Evo 4G, aptly titled the Evo Shift 4G. Walmart’s got a page up for the device, and while the listed specs are heavily contradictory (a 3.7-inch screen that’s also a 4.3-inch display? Android 2.2 but no threaded messaging?), the gallery of crisp press shots are definitely a sight to see, Sprint logo and all. Enjoy those below, and stay tuned for your next dream phone (does that mean we won’t want it until we sign a two-year contract for something else?) this Thursday — picture of the teaser after the break.

[Thanks, David M]

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MiLi Power — the same guys who pushed out the thinnest iPhone battery case earlier this year — are back in Las Vegas, but this introduction represents quite the deviation. The MiLi HD is fairly simplistic in nature, and we get the feeling that iPhone and iPad owners may actually appreciate the understated motif. Aside from being a fully-featured charging dock, this here device also includes an internal speaker, a mini-USB connector and an HDMI output to boot. The goal here is to pipe those iTunes downloads from your iDevice right onto your television sans an Apple TV, and if that’s exactly what you’ve been hunting for, you can seek it out shortly for $99.99.

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PrimeSense provides some of the brains behind Microsoft’s Kinect, and wants a bigger piece of the pie; ASUS has a reputation for announcing wonderfully wacky peripherals every year. At CES 2011, the Wavi Xtion will check off both boxes nicely. In a nutshell, the Xtion is a PrimeSense 3D depth camera built exclusively for PC, but with an important twist — it connects to a pair of ASUS Wavi boxes, which wirelessly streams its data to your living room PC between your TV and a Windows PC over the 5GHz band. Oh, and should ASUS attract enough developers, it will even pull down applications from an Xtion online store. ASUS says we’ll see the package commercially available around the world in Q2 of next year — with a UI and selection of apps and games on board — but they’ll release an Xtion PRO developer kit in February to tempt all you Kinect hackers into coding magical things for the platform. No more details for now, but there’s an event in Vegas this week where ASUS is all but guaranteed to show it off. PR after the break.

Update: Did we say HTPC? Turns out it doesn’t quite work that way — the Wavi are actually a pair of boxes that wirelessly sling data between them. You put the Xtion sensor on top of your TV, connect it to Wavi #1, then plug Wavi #2 into a PC up to 25 meters away. Mind you, it looks like the Xtion may not be quite as capable as Microsoft’s unit, as there’s only infrared hardware inside — it might be fine for gesture control, but don’t expect any augmented reality lightsaber fights. See some mockups below!

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LAS VEGAS — Samsung is first out of the gate with at CES 2011 with a brand-new, easy-to-use camcorder. Folded down, the simple cylindrical shape of the HMX-Q10 looks a lot like a thermos flask or a flashlight. Open it up and you see just how much Samsung has packed in.

Almost everything is controlled from the 2.75mm touch-screen, which itself features an orientation-detecting design so the picture – and therefore the controls – is always the right way up, just like a modern smartphone. This also means that left-handers can flip it upside down and still have full control. Samsung calls this a “switch-grip”.

As for pictures, you can shoot up to 1080i and 720p at 60fps, and capture 4.9 megapixel stills. These are all recorded onto an SDHC memory card, for as long as the battery lasts: anywhere between four and 34 hours depending on picture-quality settings.

The HMX-Q10 also comes with all the gimmicks you’d expect on a consumer-grade camera: face-detection, a scene-detection mode for exposure adjustments, and a low price. When the camera goes on sale in February 2011, it will cost just $300.

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