CES 2007

WoW Wee are continuing to impress me with their cool toys and robots, one of this years offerings is Wrex the robotic dog and he does everything you’d expect from a pet dog, he looks cute, barks and even cocks his leg and has a virtual pee, cool!

Wrex has three different moods (happy, angry and crazy) and 3 desires (exercise, call of nature and hunger), he expresses this via his zany rotating eyes. He can roam around on his own, avoids obstacles, plays games and generally acts like a real dog, albeit on wheels. Check out the video of him in action Read the rest of this entry »

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It may not have a sexy name, but Pinnacle’s new pocket sized Video Transfer is a great gadget for the movie obsessed who want to encode videos on the fly but simply don’t have the PC skills to get the job done. In fact, the Video Transfer doesn’t even need a PC to do it.

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Every year, January is all about CES in Las Vegas. It’s the high tech Disneyland for the gadget obsessed. Everything with a circuit will be announced and drooled over. But already, the one item that’s catching everyone’s attention is Panasonic’s monster 150 inch Plasma HDTV.
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Believe it or not the preparations for the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas start well in advance of the January exhibition date. The decent hotels will sell out long before the end of the year and companies are already booking exhibition space.

Why mention this now? Well here at CG we’re going through the press registration process for CES 2008 and that reminded me that I made a few notes from my first CES in January this year. It was fun, but don’t let anyone kid you that it wasn’t hard work! On re-reading the notes it seems that we spent an awful lot of time just walking to where we needed to be, and it also looks like I have a slight pre-occupation with food! An unintentional insight into my personality I feel

Anyway, if you’re interested in what it was like trying to cover the world’s largest consumer electronics show with two people read on… (it might take a while to load though, there are a fair few photos)
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At Broadclip, you can find you that MediaCatcher you should have seen at CES (I think it was post iPhone debacle and everyone had permanently lost their heads at that point in time.)
It works like the beloved Tivo, only they have one version for the radio, and the other for the telly (we call it a TV over here, but what can you do?)

Here is their main page (for Broadclip, it links right to both Mediacatcher models)

For the real poop, just check the link here for the lowdown video goodness, you’ll be glad you did!

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Wireless speakers have been around for a while now, usually used in surround applications where long cable runs are impractical. The problem with them historically has been the sound quality – mention wireless to an audiophile and you’ll get a pretty unenthusiastic response (after all, someone who’s just spent $1000 on speaker cable isn’t going to tell you that it’s unnecessary).

Neosonik have challenged this assumption with their new wireless technology and at CES this year they were announcing a world first: an audiophile quality 5.1 wireless audio AND video system. That’s a pretty impressive claim, especially for a new and relatively unknown company.

I stopped by their demo room at the show to have a look.
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First of all, before talking about the newest Digital Photo Frame that I found, I would like to say that we have reached the point of exhaustion on the digi frames topic, this is the item number 10 and as always here is a preview of the other frames we talked about:

• 1 - Picture Keyring
• 2 - Digital Photo Keychain
• 3 - Yet Another Digital Picture Frame
• 4 - Wi-Fi Gmail / Flickr Enabled Picture Frame
• 5 - NuVue Digital Photo Frame
• 6 - Parrot Photo Viewer
• 7 - Ality Pixxa LCD Frame
• 8 - PictureBook Digital Album
• 9 - King Jim Digital Frame

Second of all, Momento is the name of the frame (momento is actually a word in the Portuguese language, it means moment when translated to English) that was presented during the greatest electronic show event a.k.a. CES 2007.

Third of all, this is the 2nd digital frame that I found that features RSS technology so you can actually have awesome new photos everyday by synchronizing with Flickr Read the rest of this entry »

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To say I’m not a fan of beanies (them dumb looking woolly hats) is probably putting it a bit mildly (I can look stupid without wearing a hat that fits my head like a condom thank you very much), so when I saw these at CES I was suitably unimpressed, the beanie with built-in headphones.

Thinking about it these beanies do have one distinct advantage, you can’t hear people telling you what a pillock you look :).

If anybody really wants to buy one leave a comment and I’ll try to find the press release that was forced on me.

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