Archives for the day Monday, January 14th, 2008
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Jan
Posted on 2008 under Other Gadgets |
We know there was an absolutely stunning amount of stuff going down at CES last week — yet strangely enough nothing that really stood out. Before Macworld officially gets started let’s bring it home with a few of the highlights of the news week you might have missed!
Bill Gates!
- Bill Gates: the exit interview
- Bill Gates: live at his 12th and final CES keynote
Mobile
- New Palm handset teased by Bill Gates himself
- Nokia N95 8GB US! (also, N95 gets red)
- Sony Ericsson announces W760 Walkman slider (hands-on)
- Motorola debuts ROKR E8 (hands-on)
- Hands-on with Mio’s dual-front GPS phone concept
- OpenMoko to unveil consumer-minded Neo FreeRunner (hands-on)
- LG’s Watch Phone: production please?
- Is this Windows Mobile 7?
Portable Media
- Sony’s new mylo (2) now official (with hands-on)
- Sony officially announces Skype on PSP (with ears-on)
- iriver’s new APlayer, Volcano and MPlayer Season II DAPs
- iriver’s crystal ball predicts upcoming PMP sexiness
- Hands-on with iRiver’s new toys
- iriver’s CES teaser site fleshes out Lplayer, Spinn
- Sony’s Rolly music player / robot coming to the US this spring
HDTV / home theater
- Warner goes Blu-ray exclusive!
- Mitsubishi laser TV unveiled
- HD DVD group cancels CES press conference in wake of Warner announcement: daaamn
- Sling announces SlingCatcher (again), SlingPlayer 2.0 with Clip+Sling, and Sling Cable modem (with hands-on)
- Sony XEL-1 OLED slips into US stores
- Pioneer’s Project Kuro: The 9mm thick, infinite contrast 50-inch plasma HDTV (hands-on)
- Hands-on with Pioneer’s extreme contrast concept plasma
- BT Group first to roll out Xbox 360 as IPTV set-top box
- Panasonic gets official with WirelessHD transmission system (plus hands-on)
- Live from Panasonic’s CES keynote (with Gary Shapiro)
- Panasonic’s gigantic 150-inch plasma is official! (with spy shot action)
- Texas Instruments shows off DLP DualView technology
Good times
- You decide ‘08: The best of Crapgadget at CES
- CES 2008 booth gimmickery: Best of the worst
- CES 2008 product names: Best of the worst
- Gear and loathing in Las Vegas - Engadget has left the building
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14
Jan
Posted on 2008 under Other Gadgets |
On the real, we’re not quite sure we’re ready to sink hard-earned dollars into a digital media “ecosystem” crafted by the same folks working up mobile printers and craptastic portable DVD players, but we suppose we can’t kvetch over any extra competition. Apparently, the firm’s Freescape initiative is based around the Digital Media Exchange (pictured), which stores your precious content and passes it along to other Freescape products — you know, like the accompanying Digital Media Extender, wireless digiframe and wireless PMP. No word on a price for any of this kit just yet, but we’ve all ideas that’s a-okay with the most of you.
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