Category: Gadget Shows
UPDATED – CES 2009: Send wireless HD quality audio between any devices with the i2i Stream
One of the CES 2009 innovation awards this year went to the i2i Stream which was initally explained very badly to me at the booth. I’ll endeavour to do a better job of telling you why this little device is an excellent gadget.
The Stream does what it begins to say on the tin. The system consists of two identical mini terminals which stream uncompressed HD quality audio wirelessly at 2.4GHz from one to the other. It doesn’t matter which you choose to send with…
CES 2009: Pistol grip Novint Falcon PC gaming gun
How do you make Left 4 Dead even better than it already is? The answer: play it with the Novint Falcon pistol grip mouse controller complete with authentic recoil…
CES 2009: Video close-up of the Sony Vaio P Series
If the talk this year at CES 2009 has been about any one piece of hardware, it’s been the Sony Vaio P Series non-netbook UMPC. We’d be doing you a serious diservice if we hadn’t sent Susi down to take a closer, more camcodered look at the the full size keyboard, 8″ LCD really expensive machine. So, we did…
CES 2009: Star Wars iPhone accessories
I was convinced my love for Star Wars was over years ago but a chance encounter with a table full of Trilogy themed cases for the iPhone and iPod touch made me think twice at CES 2009.
They’ll be out in all good iPhone accessory shops…
CES 2009: Motorola A3100 Surf – 5-megapixels and a touchscreen
There's a saying at Motorola that they never met a operating system they didn't like. Mercifully, the Motorola Surf or A3100, depending upon whether you're man or machine, works on a sensible if not particularly my favourite platform.
Zara took a look at the Windows 6.1, touchscreen, 5-megapixel camera…
CES 2009: Sonoro Eclipse & Elements W – upgrades to the dock/radio family
The benefit of owning a Sonoro dock is that you don’t have to hate yourself. They actually look and sound pretty good. Two of the upgrades from CES 2009 are the Eclipse eDock and the Elements W internet radio…
CES 2009: Victorinox presents the Presentation Pro Swiss Army Knife
Many of the companies exhibiting at CES have been going for years, but one company is making its first trip – Switzerland’s Victorinox. The makers of the original Swiss Army Knife are exhibiting this – the “Presentation Pro”, which comes with a flip-out 32GB USB drive.
Your data will be protected by a fingerprint scanner, and there’s a laser pointer and bluetooth remote, as well as the standard knife, scissors and nail file. It’ll be shipping in May in the US, and it’ll cost $330 (£216). Just don’t take it on business trips abroad.
Victorinox (via Engadget)
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CES 2009: HP Mini 2140 netbook
Here’s HP’s netbook, the Mini 2140. It’s really rather nice, packing a good size keyboard, 10.1″ screen and 80GB SSD. Decent price, too – but I’ll let Zara reveal that one. Check out the video above to find out.
(via Shiny Shiny)
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CES 2009: Thrustmaster T.16000M joystick
I’ve just had a quick look in the archives, and it’s been a long time since we covered an actual joystick product, as opposed to some sort of joystick-related piece of art or hackery. For the few of you who still use a joystick, then (flight sim enthusiasts?), here’s the Thrustmaster T.16000M.
It’s got some brand new tech, called H.E.A.R.T., which pretends to stand for “Hall Effect AccuRate Technology”. Some “Hall Effect” magnets sit on the stick, giving the sensors far more precision than most other joysticks. On each axis, there’s over 16,000 different values. That’s a little ridiculous, but might be worth buying if the person with the steadiest hands in the world is your Secret Santa next year, and is a big flight-sim enthusiast.
The T.16000M is ambidextrous, comes with 16 action buttons, and offers a wide hand rest and weighted base as additional features. It’ll be available in February and cost £50. That seems fairly cheap. Maybe I should give it a shot.
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CES 2009: The Fat Lady from Morel – the speaker that sings
There was a chap sitting next to me on the plane on the way out here from a company named Morel. It didn’t surprise me that he turned out to be a CES 2009 exhibitor of a high end audio product after he pulled out a pair of electrostatic membrane in-ear headphones to plug into his arm rest. What did surprise me was that his product, The Fat Lady, won an award for innovation here at Vegas and, fortunately, I had a few hours for it to be explained to me in detail, and this is how it goes…
There’s two reasons why these loudspeakers are called The Fat Lady. The obvious one is that they’re shaped like the curves of a voluptuous woman. What’s more the drive units were made in house to make sure the output matched and perfectly compliemented the cabinet shape and acoustics. The second reason, however, is the more important of the two…
