Sure, the iPhone’s touch screen capability is super cool. And if previous reports proved true, a Newton Touch may be just over the horizon, then touch screen may be the interface of the future. Microsoft surely thinks to, having announced the SURFACE last year as a tabletop interface for hotels and other corporate concerns.

LG/Philips is on the touch bandwagon as they are set to rock CES with Multi-touch Screens that recognize input from either a touch of a finger or more precise writing instruments.

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The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas always rings in the new year with breaking news that make gadget geeks foam at the mouth and this year will be no different. Mitsubishi is set to announce at CES their long anticipated ‘Laser TV’ rear projection 1080p HDTV. Using three lasers rather than one, the new Laser TV concept will divide the colors into red, blue and green lasers to display what Mitsubishi claims is 90% of colors visible to the human eye. By contrast, LCD and Plasma TVs only display about 40% of the known color spectrum. The result will make for sharper, more colorful images. In addition, the new LaserTV technology holds the promise of more lightweight, thin, amd extremely wide-viewing-angles at an affordable price.

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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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Are you one of those types of people who really, really need their CDs or DVDs organized into some sort of jukebox formation? Or maybe you got a lot of CDs and DVDs for Christmas, and you need a place to store them.

I really like this because it can store 150 discs, and it looks kind of compact. You might want to connect it to a computer, create a database, then you can search your collection by title or keyword. Then all you need to do is double-click the title you want, and I imagine the thing just wheels around to you.

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I’m a big fan of digital media recorders. I have owned my Series 2 TiVo for years now and I love it very much. I’m not sure how I got along watching television without one. What it doesn’t give me – awesome as it is – is the ability to easily take recordings off of it and move it to my laptop or iPod. What are the options? Well you can build your own MythTV box, but that takes a lot of work and technical know-how that most of us don’t necessarily possess.

ThinkGeek is selling the Neuros OSD Linux Media Recorder, which setting up is as easy as plugging it in to your TV and give it an analog video input from your DVD or cable box. Its ability to encode video in various formats for your portable devices is a TV lover’s dream. Files can be stored on and played back with either using media cards or using an USB external hard drive plugged in to the Neuros. For the more advanced technical people among us (and for whom a Linux OS is Heaven on Earth) will be delighted by its wealth of ports and the completely open source firmware. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve always wondered what I’d do with all of the stuff sitting on my entertainment center if I one day I purchased a large flat-panel TV and mounted it to the wall. The entertainment center would just look funny without anything sitting on it. A cool idea would be to mount everything else to the wall as well, the only problem is that most things will look quite odd attached to the wall. That’s why this “TT” Media Center PC from Omaura looks like a great solution.

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If you have an iPod, chances are that you’ve noticed all the different makes, models and styles of different speaker sets for you to plug your iPod in to listen to your music. Some are alarm clocks, some are radios, but most of them run with either built in speakers, or wired speakers.

Griffin Technology, an innovator of technologies and accessories to go with the iPod, has developed and released the Evolve Speaker. The Evolve speaker system comprises a charging base and two cube-shaped speakers. You can place the rechargeable Evolve cubes wherever you want to hear the music. You can even move them into the next room with you. There are no entangling wires to hassle with. Read the rest of this entry »

Samsung clearly signals its intention to support the Blu-ray camp by introducing the BD-P1400 Blu-ray disc player – the third generation of its kind. The BD-P1400 is no slouch when it comes to performance, boasting full compatibility with 24 movie frames per second playback. This works out great since most movies are filmed at 24 fps, hence the BD-P1400 is capable of playing back movies in their native format resulting in a significant reduction of unwanted artifacts at the same time.

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