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
Samsung and Yahoo Share a Vision for TV Widgets
01/05/2009, [CES 2009] Samsung and Yahoo just made their mutual love and their love for TV-based web widgets official. In upcoming Samsung HDTV sets, users will be able to use Yahoo web services like Flickr or Yahoo Finance, but most importantly [...]
Lenovo ThinkPad W700ds Gets Priced
01/05/2009, Lenovo’s ThinkPad W700ds has just gotten priced – and you can bring one home as long as you have $3,663 in your bank account. We won’t need to go through the specifications as you can find that in our earlier [...]
MSI X-Slim 320 is ‘Air’ thin and cheap
01/05/2009, Thin, light and cheap – that’s the future of laptop, or at least a good chunk of them and the MSI X-slim 320 might just be the poster child of the next generation thin laptop. It uses an Atom processor [...]
Canon Launches New Vixia Camcorders Ahead of CES 2009
01/05/2009, The new camcorders are named Vixia HF S10, Vixia HF20, Vixia HF200 and Vixia HF S100. All of them can record full HD movies (1080p) in AVCHD at 24Mbps. They use the latest DIGICV III video processor with new software [...]
Kodak EasyShare Z980 Digital Camera
01/05/2009, Kodak is back with yet another digital camera for the masses – the Kodak EasyShare Z980. Hopefully what you find inside the box will suit your taste – a 26 mm wide angle, professional quality, 24X image stabilized optical zoom [...]
Seagate To Debut Symwave USB 3.0 At CES 2009
01/05/2009, Seagate and Symwave have teamed up together to unveil the Symwave USB 3.0 storage controller device at CES 2009 later this week. This storage controller will comply with SuperSpeed (USB 3.0) revision 1.0, and is first off the blocks to [...]
Nextar Z10 LCOS Micro Projector
01/05/2009, [CES 2009] Once used in enormous retro-projected TVs, LCOS (Liquid Crystal On silicon) now finds its way into micro projectors that fits in the palm of a hand. Despite its size, the Nextar Z10 can project an image that’s 20″ [...]
Eye-Fi SD Card Connects Wirelessly to the iPhone
01/05/2009, Eye-Fi, the SD card that connects to PCs and web services via WIFI will now connect to iPhones as well, the company has announced today. Here’s how the company describes it: Using the Eye-Fi application, users can select which iPhone [...]
Seagate Offers Highest Areal Density Hard Drive
01/05/2009, Seagate has taken the throne when it comes to having the world’s highest areal density hard drive at 500GB per disk, packing in a whopping 1GB in just two. The model number in question is the Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 HD, [...]
iLuv i1166 Portable Media Player and DVD Player Combo
01/05/2009, [CES 2009] Entertainment can come in many forms and formats but it seems that the iLuv i1166 can handle a lot of them. It can play MPEG4, DivX and JPEG files from a flash memory card or a USB device. [...]
Liquid Image Pro HD 350: 720P video @ 330 feet
01/05/2009, [CES 2009] Touted to be used by pros with various underwater activities, military included, this second HD model from Liquid Water shoots 720P (1280×720) video at 30 fps and will be certified to a depth rating of 330 feet (100 [...]
Liquid Image Scuba Mask HD320: 720P video @ 115 feet
01/05/2009, [CES 2009] Alongside its updated version of the Camera Mask, Liquid Image is coming up with two new HD models. The Scuba HD320 shoots 720P(1280×720) video at 30 fps and will be certified for 115 feet (35 meters) underwater. Additional [...]
Liquid Image VideoMask 310: SD video @ 33 feet
01/05/2009, [CES 2009] Liquid Image is coming with a line of new products for CES 2009. The Videomask 310 is an upgrade of the award winning Camera Mask launched in 2008. The original version recorded 20 frames per second in VGA, [...]
