Author: Shiny
CES 2011 – Video of Crossley retro vinyl record decks and radios
Adding new tech to retro electronic deisgns is normally a recipie for disaster as you can invariably tell that whoever put the products together doesn't have an affinity for the original design. That is absolutely not the case with…
CES 2011 – video of Samsung's Galaxy YPGB1 music player/web device the
Every iPhone needs its touch. And so Samsung has unveiled a non-phone version of its popular Galaxy smart phone. You get almost all the features of the Galaxy (big screen Android OS, decent camera etc) but it runs on…
CES 2011 – Video of Samsung's Sliding 7 Windows Tablet PC
It's a laptop, no wait it's a tablet. These kind of cross over Pcs have been done before but not many are quite as elegant as the Sliding 7 Windows PCs. So for the record, it is a Windows…
Apple Mac App store update – one million downloads on the first day
This just in. No surprises really. The Mac App store was always going to be a huge hit. It'll be fascinating to see if it is sucessful as the iPhone and iPad stores. CUPERTINO, California–January 7, 2011–Apple today announced that…
CES 2011 – Video of Casio's Low Energy Bluetooth Watch
We wrote about the Casio watch yesterday here. Suffice to say that it is only a prototype and will start working with phones probably not until next year. It is a nice idea though and one day all watches…
CES 2011 – Angry Birds in the real world. Wooden game from Mattel
Yep it is Angry Birds in the real world. Unlike its rather addictive iPad cousin (so beloved of one David Cameron) this features real (well wooden) birds that you use to knock things up and down. There's also a…
CES 2011 – Video of the Motorola Xoom Android Tablet PC
It is perhaps the most-talked about gadget of the show – a very real rival to the iPad and it may probably gives us a few clues as to what iPad 2 will be like. It is the Motorola…
CES 2011 – Video extravaganza – 20 new vids uploaded
Hope you are enjoying our CES coverage. We spent most of the day racing round the exhibition shooting video which we have uploaded to the Shiny YouTube channel. As it is now very late in Las Vegas we are going…
CES 2011 – Casio's Low Energy Bluetooth watch
There are many Bluetooth watches out there which hook up to your phone in a variety of ways, but none look quite as promising as this prototype unveiled at CES yesterday by Casio. It has several big advantages over…
Not CES 2011 – Huawei launches IDEOS X5 Android smartphone
Chinese company Huawei might just be the next big player in the mobile phone market, Already doing well in Asia just a few months after its first foray into the mobile market it has worldwide aspirations which are pinned…