iriver’s 3.5-inch K1 PMP gets outed at CES

Amazingly enough, the PMP news here at CES has been essentially nil. We’ve got e-readers, whiffs of tablets and more 3D than two eyes can comprehend, but we’re in desperate need of some fresh portable media players. Thanks to iriver, we won’t be going home completely empty handed, with the K1 “Smart HD” being ushered out onto the public scene in Las Vegas. Specs include a 3.5-inch display, a 480 x 320 resolution, support for a slew of file formats, WiFi, some sort of web browser and a DMB TV tuner. It’s slated to be released in South Korea for an undisclosed amount later this month, but alas, there’s no immediate word on when this will hit the States.

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Horizon MiniPak personal fuel cell charger hands-on (video)

Our dreams of a personal fuel cell that can charge our gadgets on the go are coming closer to fruition, and if the people at Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies continue what they’re doing, our dreams might come true sooner rather than later. A handheld box a bit larger than an iPhone, the MiniPak handheld fuel cell charger uses Hydrostik cartridges filled with solid hydrogen particles to keep your gadgets juiced. It comes with one Hydrostik, which can be refilled with the companion product, the HydroFILL. The HydroFILL gets filled up with water, and when connected to a power source, it breaks the water down to hydrogen and oxygen, filling up the cartridges. We’ll admit that we’re not exactly up on our molecular chemistry, so check out the video after the break to see a Horizon rep explaining it more clearly.

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The iDiscover keyboard turns your iPhone into a piano and more

Sure, there are nifty apps that allow you to simulate a keyboard on your iPhone, but Ion Audio has gone ahead and created a physical one to match the newly announced iType. The iDiscover keyboard, along with the companion iDiscover Keyboard app, has 25 keys and effectively turns your iPhone into a music studio complete with synth-action keys, and pitch and modulation wheels. Better yet, it doubles as a controller for MIDI software on either Mac or PC.

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Samsung Apps demo ties phone & TV together in Wiimote-like bliss

Wondering what kind of apps are enabled by the “world’s first HDTV-based application store“? Check out this CES show floor demo of a cross platform game tying together a Samsung flat-screen TV and cellphone to experience the magic of virtual fishing. We’ll probably keep our dedicated systems for gaming, but for a slight hint of what a crossplatform app store has to offer, by all means take a look.

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Engadget Podcast 177: CES 2010 Day 3 – 01.08.2010

It took every bit of geeky fortitude we had left in our bodies to tear ourselves away from @LadyGaga’s tweeterfeed for an hour and produce this podcast for you, but we did it. Feel appreciative?

Hosts: Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Song: Bad Romance

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01:40 – Live from Palm’s CES 2010 press event
03:25 – Palm swings open doors to App Catalog’s innards
03:35 – Palm gets serious about 3D gaming on webOS
04:00 – Video recording coming to all webOS devices in February (updated: Flash, too!)
04:10 – Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus first hands-on (video)!
04:40 – Palm introduces Palm Pre Plus: 16GB, coming to Verizon on January 25th
06:30 – Palm Pixi Plus: WiFi-equipped and heading to Verizon
23:10 – Palm intros Mobile Hotspot app, guaranteed to make your router jealous
25:47 – Live from Dell’s CES 2010 press event
26:42 – Alienware M11X netbook gets official, costs less than a grand
26:55 – Alienware M11x hands-on
27:20 – Dell teases the Streak?
29:00 – Dell slate (secret) hands-on
30:00 – Dell 5-inch slate press pics want you to study them
30:30 – Dell Mini 3 lightning hands-on
33:17 – Live from NVIDIA’s CES press event
33:35 – NVIDIA announces Tegra 2, tablets en route
35:00 – Plastic Logic QUE proReader in-depth video hands-on
38:20 – Live from Paul Otellini’s Intel CES keynote
39:50 – Intel launches AppUp Center app store for Atom-powered devices (updated with hands-on impressions)
40:25 – Intel announces WiDi HD wireless display technology
43:27 – LG GW990 hands-on video
48:12 – Spring Design announces partnership with Borders, lowers price on Alex reader
49:35 – Notion Ink Adam prototype hands-on: it looks nothing like the render, but it’s still pretty wild
52:32 – Boxee Box confirmed to have Tegra 2, Boxee Beta now open to all


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Pixel Qi screens to be used by a major manufacturer in 2010

We’ve been waiting and waiting to see Pixel Qi’s 3Qi e-paper screen in a device, and we were hoping to see some sort of solid announcement at CES, but looks like we will still be waiting. Though the company has ramped up production on its E ink killer, which allows you to turn the backlight off on an LCD screen, they’re still working with its half a dozen partners. We were told that within the year we will see a manufacturer that “everyone is familiar with” announcing a device that uses the technology. No word on if it will be a netbook, e-reader or tablet.

Though we’ve seen prototype devices before and the Notion Ink Adam here at the show, we got another look at it today from PixelQi founder Mary Lou Jepsen herself. The high resolution display was hacked into a Lenovo IdeaPad S10, and with the backlight on the color LCD screen looked crisp. We did notice that while watching a video clip on the screen horizontal viewing angles were poor in some lighting, but text and the rest of the OS was clear as day. Similarly, when we turned the backlight off, which switches the display to just a monochrome mode, the viewing angles on a movie weren’t great, but a PDF looked just as good as it does on an Amazon Kindle. Regardless, we continue to be impressed with the refresh rates of the display considering you can’t do anything like it with E ink or any other reader on the market. Hit the break for a quick video.

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Engadget’s CES giveaway: win an Engadget t-shirt!

We’re so hard at work here at CES that we almost forgot that we just got brand new t-shirts! To celebrate our time in Las Vegas, we thought we’d share a little love and give away five of these precious bits of thread. You probably know the drill already, but the full rules (and another shot of our kind friend Roger modeling the shirt) are after the break so read on and get commenting!

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TomTom promises lifetime (free) map and traffic updates for select 2010 PNDs

It’s a funny thing. Ever since Google changed the game up with its Maps Navigation software, TomTom’s really been in the giving mood. After bringing free lane guidance, text-to-speech and iPod control to the outfit’s iPhone GPS app, its following in the footsteps of Navigon and Nextar by promising gratis traffic and map updates for select navigators starting in Q2 of this year. Unfortunately, exact details on which products will be included under the “no cash needed for updates” umbrella are nonexistent, but here’s hoping more than a few are included (and that Garmin, et al. follows suit in short order).

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Notion Ink Adam stripped bare and our in-depth video hands-on

You have to have a pretty special product to get two Engadget posts discussing your wares during the maelstrom of CES, but this Adam thing just won’t leave us alone with its Pixel Qi display, Tegra 2 innards and bona fide potential to blow the bloody doors off the homogeneous tablet market. We’ve gone back and grabbed video of the device in direct sunlight and it just kept on impressing us. The screen resolutely refused to be overpowered by the light, whether its backlight was on or off, but that was merely the tip of the iceberg as far as the happy impressions. Come past the break to find out more about buttery smooth 1080p playback (with a handy HDMI out), Notion Ink’s plans for modifying the Android OS, and more on the likely pricing of the device which is set to land in quarter two of 2010. Oh, and yea — we totally ripped it open and photographed the insides. Check that out below.

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Samsung’s camcorders and one big dummy camera at CES

Right after seeing the ultra-slim TVs we went to the other end of Samsung‘s CES booth for its camcorder lineup. As expected, we saw the previously-announced S series SSD models, the F series with 52x optical zoom and the stylish C series, but we also spotted what appears to be a refresh of the HMX-U10 camcorder brick. Admittedly, we were more interested in this dummy gigantic TL225 camera, and it wasn’t even new.

Samsung’s camcorders and one big dummy camera at CES originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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