Category: CES 2008
CES 2008: Aquallusion iTube wants to be Lava Lamp 2.0
Aren’t we well shot of lava lamps? They were useless. Students liked them, I suppose. Anyway, Aquallusion is a company happy to cite lava lamps as inspiration for its iTube light, which combines sound, colours and a cool visual effect resembling bubbling water.
CES 2008: CES Unveiled – HD Radio iTunes Tagging
I know it’s easy to just skim your eyes over info-pictures like the one above, I do it myself. But take a closer look at that diagram, and as you’ll realise, it’s such a simple idea you’ll wonder why it took this long to be invented.
As it explains, when…
CES 2008: WowWee Tribot ROBOT!
More WowWee fun this afternoon (the fun never stops at that company, I swear), with Alex playing around with their…
CES 2008: Winner of CES Unveiled's 'most boring' product goes to the Powramid E-900H
I mean, really. I know we all use power bricks, but it’s just not what you want to see being launched at CES. Keep them to Argos and Robert Dyas please companies, and quit boring us with your bulk-power-up…
CES 2008: Hurrah for network-enabled automatic urine collectors
It might look like a teasmaid, but you wouldn’t fancy a brew made from the contents of this gadget. It’s taking the piss! No, literally. It’s an automatic urine collector, which was on display at the CES Unveiled press event tonight, on the stall of an organisation called PUCC (P2P Universal Computing Consortium).
CES 2008: CUE Acoustics' iPod-dockin' HD radio
In this video, not only can you see Gemma’s accidentally-pervy camera-work aimed at my jubblies, you can also see me making a bit of a fool of myself by forgetting that in the US, HD radios are the equivalent of what us Brits call DAB radio.
We may not have HD radio…
CES 2008: Relax in the Human Touch HT-7450 Zero-Gravity massage chair
CES-goers with aching bodies come Thursday could do worse than visit the Human Touch stand. The company is showing off its HT-7450 Zero-Gravity massage chair, which lives up to its high-tech name.
CES 2008: Pinnacle solve video transfer woes with their accurately named Video Transfer unit
Pinnacle was showcasing their wares to all and sundry at CES Unveiled today. One of the products they have up their sleeve for you all is the Video Transfer unit, a simple USB device which allows you to copy a video to any USB device, like an iPod, PSP or PMP.
Not requiring a PC, you just transfer video from the source to the storage device, such as one of those saved vids…
CES 2008: Vestalife Ladybug is a ladybird-style iPod dock
I’m bracing myself for 784 iPod docks at CES this year, now that every company and their aunt is making them. Vestalife’s Ladybug at least looks different, with a ladybird design that sees the speakers open up like wings.
CES 2008: WowWee's friendly Mr Personality robot
Third WowWee bot of the night is Mr Personality, who isn’t as ugly as his name might lead you to believe. Well, that’s if you don’t mind robots with full-colour LCD screens for faces.
