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There’s plenty of automotive tech on display at CES this year (amps and kickers for miles, dawg) and, while Microsoft is talking up its enhanced Sync for 2010 autos, Ford President and CEO Alan Mulally took an opportunity to direct our gaze a bit further down the road with an interesting demo of what he imagines the rear-view mirror of the future will look like. Ford calls it Emotic Voice Activation, or EVA, basically an integrated AI that can read you your e-mail, check the news, and even, apparently, detect what kind of tunes you’re in the mood for. At this point we don’t know anything about when or even if this sort of thing will be available in the real world, but, based on the video, we expect EVA to become standard equipment roughly when steering wheels lose their spokes and people actually start pulling over to check their e-mail. Soothing video below.

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Filed under: CES, Transportation

Ford teases the future of Sync, plans to bring disembodied heads to dashboards everywhere originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’ve taken a mountain of shots of the new Palm Pre, but we thought a proper tour of the the apps and interface was in order. So with that in mind we banged together a gallery of shots from messaging, web browser, camera, photos, music, videos, notes, tasks, maps, and calculator. We have to say, the more we check this phone out, the more we like it; we’re all pretty much gushing over here. Follow the read link to head over to Engadget Mobile’s gallery

Palm Pre interface tour originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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So Boy Genius Report reported on a shot of what seems to be a Curve 8900 running on AT&T — which seems like a pretty good idea, may we add — and we’re trying to make sense of what’s really going on. We hit up RIM’s booth at CES to get the lowdown on the situation, and what do you know, the mythical beast is nowhere to be found. The reps on the floor said that it’s only for T-Mobile and when we checked every 8900 on the show floor, we couldn’t find one running on any other carrier. ‘Course, we’d be shocked if RIM wasn’t chronically refreshing BGR every fifteen seconds, so it’s entirely possible that they saw the news, realized their grave error, and pulled the offending phone posthaste. Either way, it’s a great idea, is it not?

[Via Boy Genius Report]

Filed under: Cellphones

Spotted: Curve 8900 running on AT&T originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Hey, cube dwellers — call your manager over and give him / her a look at this, because starting today, conference calling will never be the same. From what we can tell, this is the world’s first Atom-powered telephone, and also the first telephone we’ve seen in years that we would joyously park in our own living rooms. OpenPeak’s ProFrame is an all-in-one conglomerate that handles VoIP calling and offers up a 7-inch touchscreen panel and “an intuitive navigation menu for easy access to contacts, instant messaging, voicemail, calendar, call logs, memos, news, stocks, weather, and many other useful services.” Sure, this critter was totally designed with the hospitality industry in mind, but don’t tell us this couldn’t be molded into a wicked widgets portal for the home.

Filed under: CES, Misc. Gadgets

OpenPeak intros Atom-powered ProFrame VoIP phone originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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DisplayLink is most certainly swinging the big wood here at CES, with announcements spanning from Samsung monitors to Acer multimedia docks. Now, it’s hooking up with HP for the first time ever in order to introduce the USB 2.0 Docking Station with DisplayLink technology. The universal dock enables laptops to pass through audio, LAN and peripheral connectivity, and of course, it enables the laptop to expand its display onto a USB-enabled monitor without the need for graphics cards and the like. We can’t tell you when or where it’ll land, but you can have a gander at the read link for other hardware details.

Filed under: Peripherals, Wireless

HP’s USB 2.0 Docking Station adds in DisplayLink technology originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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