Hasta La Gadget!

We get the feeling that Symwave won’t be the only outfit at CES 2009 showing off the flashiest revision of the USB protocol, but it will reportedly be the first to showcase USB 3.0 transfers to and from an external storage device. ‘Course, we’ve already seen that SuperSpeed USB works (and works quickly), so we’ll be most interested in seeing what external HDDs it relies on to make the magic happen. After all, the protocol can’t gain traction without a small swarm of supportive devices on the market, right?

Filed under: Storage

Symwave to demo USB 3.0 external storage solution at CES originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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While EMTEC clearly knows how to have a good time, it’s getting back to business with the Gdium. If you’ll recall, we heard about this here netbook eons ago, but since then, we’ve been too overwhelmed by countless Eee models and various changes in Wind direction to even give this fellow a second thought. Now, however, we’re told that the firm will be debuting the 10-inch netbook at CES in preparation for a US release. The Linux-based machine will come loaded with loads of open source software as well as a G-Key, which is described as “a bootable USB key on which the Linux operating system, applications, and personal data are stored.” Expect it to ship in white, black and pink sometime between January and the end of time for $400.

Filed under: Laptops

EMTEC bringing 10-inch Gdium netbook to America for $400 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Not content with just making soap opera hair look like watery strands of gold, LG is also planning to trump last year’s round of ultrathin LCD TVs by bringing the planet’s slimmest LED-backlit LCD TV to Las Vegas. Expected to garner fingerprints from every nationality at CES 2009, the LH95 will check in at just 24.8-millimeters thick (0.976-inches) and boast a 2,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio and the outfit’s 240Hz TrueMotion Drive dejudder technology. No word on a price or release date (or panel size, oddly enough), but hopefully we’ll find out more in just under a fortnight.

[Via Boy Genius Report]

Filed under: Displays, HDTV

LG to debut world’s slimmest LED-backlit LCD TV (LH95) at CES originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Panasonic already has a few powerline networking products to call its own (including the adapters pictured at right), but it looks like it’s going to be expanding things in a fairly big way at CES next month, with it even set to bring some electric cars into the mix. That latter bit comes in the form of a prototype networking system that promises to let a variety of devices connect to an electric vehicle as it charges in the garage, letting you ensure that everything is set just right for when you drive out the next day. Other devices apparently on tap include an HD-PLC adapter for a security camera, and an electrical monitoring system of some sort. As you might expect, however, details on any of them are pretty light at the moment, but you can be sure that we’ll be digging up what we can as soon as Panasonic officially takes the wraps off ’em.

[Via Digg]

Filed under: Networking

Panasonic set to unveil powerline networking prototypes aplenty at CES originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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While our vivid imaginations certainly had something more invigorating than this in mind, we suppose Creative could still surprise us at CES 2009. The curious Zii website we peeked a few days back is reportedly referring to an all new processing chip, and while eipZENter isn’t being too forthcoming with details just yet, we are told that it will likely be “one of the biggest projects Creative has invested in.” If that’s just too vague for your tastes, try this: “[Zii] is completely different from the X-Fi audio chip and it will be used in a variety of upcoming products.” Alrighty then.

[Thanks, Swild]

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video

Creative’s Zii actually a CES-bound processing chip originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 28 Dec 2008 08:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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