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
Soundcast OutCast wireless speaker system
01/10/2008, [CES 2008] Soundcast has rolled out its OutCast all-weather outdoor speaker system that targets music enthusiasts, and I must say the demonstration sounded pretty good. This weatherproof system has a charge time of approximately 1.5 hours (2 hours if you’re [...]
Ad Notam parades mirror TVs
01/10/2008, [CES 2008] Mirror TVs are old hat by now, but Ad Notam’s booth was certainly interesting to look at as they presented a fair bit of variety. The Ad Notam representative claimed that these custom displays measure anywhere from 2.5″ [...]
Take a break at the Oxygen Bar
01/10/2008, [CES 2008] CES is huge, so all the walking around and jostling with more than a hundred thousand folks can get pretty tiring after four days. Take five at the Oxygen Bar – I know that the Japanese have these [...]
HyperDrive COLORSPACE gets an upgrade
01/10/2008, [CES 2008] Remember the HyperDrive COLORSPACE that you saw last year? Well, there is a new version that will be released this month known as the COLORSPACE O. It shares the same dimensions as the previous COLORSPACE, measuring 133mm x [...]
Brica does 8 megapixels on its phone
01/10/2008, [CES 2008] Looks like China is catching up with the rest of the camera phone world in terms of megapixels with the Brica KT600 handset touching the 8 megapixel mark. You don’t get any sort of fancy optics with this [...]
Foxda 6687 MP3 player pulls a Sony
01/10/2008, [CES 2008] Foxda’s 6687 MP3 player takes its styling cues from Sony, featuring a negative LCD display that can be seen only when you activate it, otherwise the screen disappears into the glossy and shiny background. I’d say you would [...]
Q-Cute MP3 player
01/10/2008, [CES 2008] The Q-Cute MP3 player ain’t for serious geek types, but they make pretty interesting gifts for kids and the young-at-heart. It comes in the form of a cartoony animal, complete with a backpack that actually stores the pair [...]
Digital Mobile Microscope
01/10/2008, [CES 2008] The Digital Mobile Microscope (FUN-300) that you see here from Vitiny is definitely interesting amidst the plethora of cloned iPods found in the International Gateway section of the CES. Since there is a ton of digital cameras around, [...]
Pennda Multi-functional Residential Gateway
01/10/2008, [CES 2008] Now here’s an interesting device – the Pennda (a play on the word Panda, perhaps, since this product hails from China?) Multi-functional Residential Gateway. Don’t get scared by it’s name – this device is a wee bit larger [...]
i-Buddy puts more emo into IM
01/10/2008, [CES 2008] We are all familiar with emoticons on our instant messaging programs, and time has shown that emoticons have evolved to include animation. Here’s a possible next step up – a USB device that helps convey even more emotions [...]
Double Agent: new headphones with SD card from SkullCandy
01/10/2008, [CES 2008] I met with SkullCandy COO, Jeremy Andrus, and he showed me this new product hidden in a room in the back of the booth. Users load the SD card with music, plug it in the headphones and that’s [...]
Bang & Olufsen EarSet 3 Headphone with built-in Microphone
01/10/2008, [CES 2008] Bang & Olufsen unveiled its new high end headphone at CES. I had the opportunity to try it at the company’s suite at the show. The design is excellent, fitting any kind of ear size, staying firmly in [...]
Optimus Maximus Keyboard Hands-On
01/10/2008, [CES 2008] We played with the (elusive) Optimus Maximus OLED keyboard from Art Lebedev and here are our first impressions: as we expected from the previous photos, the keyboard is quite bulky. The keys feel like one of the older [...]
