Jan 09

Adult Entertainment Expo 2010: The Real Touch

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Here’s a front runner for the classiest press release I’ve gotten all year. The headline reads, “Will a New Gadget for Men Make Women Obsolete?” I’ll spare you too many details on the Real Touch, and just say that it’s a new “high tech toy for men,” which syncs up to scenes in adult movies accessible on Real Touch’s site. The device connects to your PC via USB. 
We saw a similar device at last year’s show called the “Virtual Hole”–now that I think about it, I suppose there are things less tactful than Real Touch’s press material. 
And while the company’s CEO, Scott Coffman says that the device may possibly make women obsolete, he gives 51 percent of the population hope by adding, “on the other hand, it could be a relationship saver. If guys like Tiger Woods, Mark Sanford, and Eliot Spitzer…had a RealTouch, their marriages might be intact today.”
You’re welcome, ladies. 

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Jan 09

Worlds First Sex Robot Debuts at AVN

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TrueCompanion helped kick off the Saturday session of the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo with a press conference in which the site debuted “the world’s first sex robot.” Meet the Roxxxy TrueCompanion. This doll has an artificial intelligence engine programmed to learn your likes and dislikes. She can listen, feel, and speak to her owner.
The doll features five “girlfriend personalities,” including, Frigid Farrah, Wild Wendy, Mature Martha, and more. Users can also built custom profiles online and swap them with friends. The doll goes on sale next week for roughly $7,000-9,000 plus a subscription fee, which is “comparable to a cell plan,” according to Roxxxy’s creator.
When asked what inspiration was for creating the doll, he answered that “after 9/11, I wanted to give back.” God bless America.

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Jan 09

Iomega Makes Adult Entertainment Expo Debut

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Every year at CES, we take a couple of hours out of our weekends to check out AVN’s Adult Entertainment Expo, in order to preview the latest technological advances in the adult industry. From time to time, different IT companies will show up to pitch their services to the various Websites on the floor. Rarely, however, do we see high profile tech companies with booths at the show.
This year Iomega made its AVN debut. Don’t worry, the company wasn’t selling any adult specific products, but the rep I spoke with said simply, “people need somewhere to store it.” Fair enough. If you’re looking for a place to store your boatloads of porn, you could do much worse than any one of Iomega’s fine products.
We’ll spare you the hard drive jokes. We’re all grownups here, right?

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Jan 09

The e-Reader story of CES 2010

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One major trend dominating CES 2010 is the massive uptick in manufacturers showing off e-reader devices, software and technology. Vendors of all sizes are here in Las Vegas introducing products they hope will capitalize on piqued consumer interest and the predicted growth in the e-book market in the year ahead.

The biggest (literally) and most impressive electronic ink devices at the show are easily the 8.5 x 11-inch 10.5-inch Plastic Logic Que proReader and 11.5-inch (displays measured diagonally) Skiff Reader. Two touchscreen devices with integrated 3G targeting two totally different audiences. The Que proReader’s gunning to replace bulky stacks of business papers with support for truVue PDF files, MS Office docs, e-mail, and Outlook calendar support. The Skiff Reader, on the other hand, is being pitched as a consumer device with a compelling value proposition for publishers (by publishers) and content owners that will ultimately deliver multimedia on a wide range of devices and display types hooked into the Skiff Store — just not the flagship Skiff Reader with traditional e-paper display.

Otherwise, the CES show floor is absolutely littered with electronic ink also-rans, hybrids, and new screen technologies looking to knock-off the incumbent Kindle, underlying E Ink technology, and Amazon juggernaut. If we’re lucky, that’s exactly what’s going to happen later in the year. Read on to find out why.

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Jan 09

Airnergy WiFi power system gives RCA a reason to exist (video)

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We don’t usually associate RCA with new and innovative technologies, but we think know they’re on to something with its Airnergy power system, which harvests energy from WiFi signals. Shipping this summer, the pocketable dongle picks up WiFi signals from the air and manages to charge an internal battery through some magic inside. You don’t have to connect to a network, you just have to be in a place that has signal, and it will automatically charge up. As if we weren’t intrigued already, they told us that they’re planning on building the tech into actual cellphone batteries, so you would theoretically never need to plug in again and your device would always be topped off. Yeah, we want.

Gallery: Airnergy WiFi power system hands-on

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Airnergy WiFi power system gives RCA a reason to exist (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 09 Jan 2010 15:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 09

MSI rolls out U135 netbook pre-loaded with SUSE Moblin

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Dell may have been the first to experiment with Moblin on an Atom-based netbook for developers, but it looks like MSI is the first to actually get one intended for regular consumers out the door, with it now announcing that it’s shipping a version of its U135 netbook pre-loaded with Novell’s SUSE Moblin OS (version 2.1, of course). Apart from that, the netbook itself apparently remains the same as the U135 we got our hands on last month, which packed a 10-inch screen, a 1.66GHz Atom N450 CPU, 1GB of RAM, and a 250GB hard drive. No word on any difference in price just yet, but it should be available sometime next month.

MSI rolls out U135 netbook pre-loaded with SUSE Moblin originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 09 Jan 2010 15:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 09

Blu-TV brings interactive IPTV to disc players, starting with the BDP-83

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Dreamer has finally found a partner in its Blu-ray powered IPTV fantasy now that Blu-TV has debuted on the OPPO BDP-83. As the company envisions it, once loaded, it turns your BD-Live capable Blu-ray player into a video and interactive content gateway anyone can develop apps for once the SDK is released. Already powering an IPTV service in Korea, we got a quick demo of the software running on a PS3 in Dreamer’s CES booth and flipped through a quick selection of online marketplaces, simple games and video services. We’re not sure how many manufacturers will warm to the idea of opening up players currently limited to their choice of streaming services, but if the apps start to flow, having this as an embedded option could be a differentiating feature as player prices dive.

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Jan 09

UMID mBook BZ two-fingers on

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Oh UMID mBook BZ, it’s not easy being the unwanted offspring of a netbook and a MID, is it? Well, it sure isn’t easy on us either. After spending a bit of time with the hand-sized device, we just don’t really see how anyone could use the small clamshell for more than a few minutes at a time. But hit the break for some hands-on impressions and a video of the $549 lilliputian laptop and decide for yourself.

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Jan 09

Crapgadget CES, round 3: Moneual’s $45K HTPC

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There are some that might challenge the very idea of anything this expensive being a “crapgadget,” but closer inspection of this item leaves little room for doubt. Indeed, it looks like Moneual’s still around with its jewel laden “luxury” PCs, and we were fortunate enough to come across this delightful specimen on the floor of CES. The 701 Jewelry HTPC is handcrafted with gold and brass and adorned with 3500 Swarovski elements — as well as HDMI, Blu ray, and Windows Vista Home Premium. Your cost? A mere $45,000. “The price of gold is going up,” the helpful chap at the company’s booth pointed out. This isn’t a media PC, then — it’s an investment. Before you call your broker, take a closer look at the gallery below.

Gallery: Moneual 701 Jewelry HTPC

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Jan 09

LG CEO says about half of its new smartphones will run Android

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Well, here’s a tiny mystery of sorts that’s emerged amidst all the hubbub of CES. As the Korea Herald reports, LG CEO Nam Yong reportedly said yesterday that while LG will have smart phones running on Windows Mobile, “about 50 percent of our smart phone models will run on Android.” Now, that’s not so hard to believe considering the number of LG Android phones we’ve already seen or heard about, but it is fairly surprising in light of the deal LG and Microsoft announced back at MWC last year, which supposedly made Windows Mobile LG’s “primary smartphone OS.” Obviously, something doesn’t quite add up here, unless by “about half,” LG actually means “less than half” — which seems to be a distinct possibility.

[Thanks, Jules]

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