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iHome’s big announcement here at CES is the AirPlay-enabled iW1 wireless speakers, but the company also gave us a quick sneak peek at the iW2 and iW3, two new smaller systems that are due to be released… sometime. Both systems are essentially identical internally, with two low-range drivers and two tweeters, but the iW2 is laid out horizontally, while the iW3 is a tower. Since they’re designed to be cheaper fixed satellite speakers for around your house, they don’t have internal batteries or the iW1’s grab-and-go charger, but they do pick up Ethernet ports, and you can still use the new iHome Connect setup application. No word on price, but the iW1 is $300 and these are meant to be cheaper — we’d guess $200 or so.

iHome iW2 and iW3 AirPlay wireless speakers hands-on sneak peek originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 07 Jan 2011 13:18:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Can’t be there in person? Why not spend Vgo, the creepy telepresence robot scooter thing? Vgo is essentially a little remote control bipedal scooter, with a teleconferencing monitor where his weird, misshapen head ought to be.

When you can’t be at the office, you can still see, talk, hear, and move around the place with Vgo. The device is designed by a company called Vgo Communication. It’s fully remote controlled, has high quality audio and video, which can be controlled from a PC. It also has WiFi, security controls, and sensors, so you don’t bump into things while you’re Vgoing.

There was a Vgo cruising the North Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center yesterday, during the first day of CES, and I have to say, it seems like its owners were having a good time. Check out video of Mr. Go, after the jump.

We’ve already seen a handful of new Viewsonic products announced here at CES, but the company’s now finally pushed out its first mega press release of the show, which encompasses its new range of LED display-equipped devices. That includes 32- and 42-inch models in its new VT10LED series of HDTVs, six new monitors in its VA48m-LED and VX53mh-LED series ranging in size from 19- to 27-inches, and its new 22-inch VPC221 and 19-inch VPC191 all-in-one PCs, the first of which packs a Core i3 processor, while the latter relies on an Atom D525. Look for the all-in-ones to be available sometime in the first quarter of the year for $1,049 and $629, while the monitors and HDTVs will roll out between mid-January and March at prices ranging from $149 to $799.

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Viewsonic announces LED display-equipped monitors, HDTVs and all-in-one PCs originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 07 Jan 2011 12:58:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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