All the stories tagged with CES
CES is the acronym for the (International) Consumer Electronics Show, one of the largest consumer-electronics shows in the world. Although it is held in Las Vegas today, the first CES happened in June 1967 in New York City and Bob Gavin, the CEO of Motorola was the opening keynote speaker for that first edition. Subsequently, CES was held twice a year: the summer edition was in New York, and the winter edition was in Las Vegas, that is, until 1998 when CES became a once-a-year show. CES has been the introduction place for key products and technologies, including: Pong (1975), Nintendo NES (1985), Tetris (1988), Compact Disc (1991), HDTV (1998), Xbox (2001), Blu-Ray (2003), OLED TV (2008). Check our latest CES Coverage
Update on SanDisk Sansa TakeTV
01/07/2008, [CES 2008] Here’s some news on the Sansa TakeTV – back in October, we mentioned that it supports a resolution of 720 x 576 pixels (PAL). The folk at the SanDisk booth also mentioned that the TakeTV also supports NTSC [...]
Mio To Announce The Mio Move, Maps Retail Plans
01/07/2008, [CES 2008] Mio is coming up with new models called Mio Move. One is cute (and square) small GPS and the other has a more classic wide-screen form-factor. They both have a new design and most importantly, new software. The [...]
Toshiba Satellite P205D 17-inch Desktop Replacement
01/07/2008, The Satellite P205D is beefy enough to replace desktop machines for a large number of PC users. Its 17” display is comfortable enough for productivity tasks or photo-editing. There is ample RAM memory and the hard drive has a decent [...]
Toshiba Satellite U305 Thin and Light Notebook
01/07/2008, [CES 2008] The Toshiba Satellite U305 offers a good compromise between (relative) performance and price. It has a weight and feature set that would make it comparable with variants of the Sony Vaio SZ. However, the Satellite U305 sells for [...]
NVIDIA Announces Hybrid SLI, Increases Performance, Saves Power
01/07/2008, [CES 2008] A number of computers have two types of graphics processors: a fast one (or more), in a discrete graphics card and a more basic one, in the chipset that is soldered on the motherboard (called integrated GPU). Most [...]
Philips Blu-ray Player BDP7200
01/07/2008, [CES 2008] The BDP7200 is Philips’ first Full Profile 1 compliant BD player that features Dolby® TrueHD and DTS® HD High Resolution Audio, multi-channel audio decoding and digital audio optical outputs. The BDP7200 supports 1080p at native 24 frames per [...]
CES 2008 – What Happened Last Week-End?
01/07/2008, The Show opens in a few hours, but the CES pre-show was busy. Here are the posts (as of Monday 7 at 00:45) that we published over the week-end, including the review of the newly announced Sony Mylo 2: January 6Signature [...]
Yahoo! Launches Go 3.0 Beta, New Open Mobile Widget Platform and New Mobile Homepage
01/07/2008, [CES 2008] Yahoo! is announcing today the Yahoo Go! 3.0 beta featuring an enhanced user interface, access to third-party widgets from major publishers, click-to-call capability in the ads displayed from Yahoo!’s major global advertisers. Yahoo! is also launching an open [...]
Fujitsu shopper assistant concept
01/07/2008, [CES 2008] What you see here is but a concept from Fujitsu based on e-paper technology. This display is worn on the wrist of the cashier for easy access. Whenever a customer approaches the cashier for information on a particular [...]
Meccano Spykee Cell, Bluetooth-Controlled Robot
01/07/2008, The Spykee Cell is another build-it-yourself robot from Meccano. It is remote controlled via Bluetooth (from a cellphone). The robot can move and snap pictures and transmit them back to the cellphone for permanent storage. The loudspeaker module allows it [...]
Meccano Spykee Vox and Spykee Miss Voice-Activated Robots
01/07/2008, Click to zoom Spykee is introducing the Spykee Vox and the Spykee Miss, each targeted at a specific gender, it seems. Each robot has an iPod dock, but it is said to be compatible with other mp3 players as well [...]
Signature Mini USB 2.0 Portable Drive
01/06/2008, [CES 2008] These bite-size Signature Mini USB 2.0 Portable Drives come in a bevy of colors that will definitely catch your eye, although should you settle for either the high end or low end model, you will only have one [...]
Swissgear Notebook Cooler
01/06/2008, [CES 2008] Swissgear has rolled out a spanking new Notebook Cooler that comes with an optional built-in USB hub – needless to say, should you opt for that function, you will have to fork out a little bit more. Anyways, [...]
