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Dell news from CES: Streak 7 tablet, Venue smartphone, and the new Alienware M17x 3D, the “most powerful product to be introduced in the universe.”

Originally posted at CES 2011

SRS Labs’ suite was sportin’ a number a devices showcasing Surround Everywhere, technology that lets you enjoy surround sound anywhere you go, laptops, phones, so yeah, anywhere. But the coolest thing we came away with was their vision of how surround sound should be mastered. Many in the industry are strungling with the transition from 5.1 to 7.1 and let’s face it, about the time the studios get their arms around 7.1, we’ll be asking for 9.1. So this new idea is to record where the audio is supposed to come from, instead of which speaker it should be played on. This way a movie would never need its audio remastered again, because the fact that the plane coming in at 2 O’Clock wouldn’t change no matter how many speakers you had, it wouldn’t even matter if you had a speaker placed precisely at 2 O’Clock. So basically your AVR would render the audio on the fly based on the number of speakers, and where you placed those speakers by using the recorded sounds and the data about those sounds. Kinda blew your mind right? The problem of course is at this point its just a cool idea and until content is created this way, there’s no chance we’ll actually be able to realize the benifits of this dream. Either way, we do commend SRS Labs for dreaming.

SRS Labs wants us to forget about our speakers originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:15:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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T-Mobile announces a second 4G Android tablet at CES 2011.

Originally posted at CES 2011

LG unfortunately didn’t have the still mysterious G-Slate tablet on hand at its monstrous CES booth, but it did have this trio of Pico projectors on hand. The HW300T is the most intriguing of the lot, as it boasts a built-in ATSC tuner and wireless DLNA for streaming content from your PC, all with a 1200 x 800 WXGA resolution. It’s powered by the new TI DLP Pico HD chipset, which translates to great than 100-inch HD video projection and the brightest pico projection to date. We also spotted the slightly older HX350T, which also has a built-in ATSC tuner, but nixes the DLNA support, as well as the HS200(G), which holds up the lower end of the spectrum with its SVGA res. Check out these cuties in the gallery below, you know you want to.

LG 2011 pico projector lineup eyes-on originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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