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New Awe-Inspiring Wrap-Around Display Gives You 180-Degree View
Well we've certainly never seen anything quite like this. Alienware unveiled a new curved DLP gaming monitor as part of the pre-CES festivities, saying it will make gaming more immersive. We've heard claims like this before from companies making 3D ... Read more →
'Mobile-Pedestrian-Handheld' TV to Give You Digital TV Anywhere You Go
1 year ago on SwitchedWe may file this under the "future watch" category because this development could have a big impact on you in 2009. Delivering video content to mobile devices in the digital age has been a challenging prospect for broadcasters and consumer ...
Voice-Activated Voicebox GPS Likes How You Talk
1 year ago on SwitchedJust tell it what you want and this new GPS from Pioneer may very well be able to do it. The company yesterday announced the AVIC-F500BT hybrid navigation system – although you can already forget those numbers. Just call it the "AVIC Link." ...
Sony OLED-TV Out This Month in the U.S. (Rolly Later This Year)
1 year ago on SwitchedWe've reported the rumors before, but now it's official: Two of 2007's coolest, only-in-Japan gadgets from Sony are getting the green light for U.S. release. Sony's crazy-thin (.3 millimeters, about .1 inches) OLED-TV will hit store shelves this ...
Mini Bluetooth Keyboard Lets You Type Away On Your PC or PlayStation 3
1 year ago on SwitchedSure, it might look like a portable electronic translator or text-messaging device, but Logitech's Di Novo Mini, shown yesterday at the CES Unveiled preview in Las Vegas, is a much simpler affair. Designed as a miniature portable keyboard to type ...
Underwater Text-Messager Makes SCUBA Diving Safer
1 year ago on SwitchedIf there are any of you out there who are avid scuba divers, then we're sure you're well acquainted with the dangers and difficulties that go along with such a hobby. Most difficult of all when exploring what lies beneath the waves is maintaining ...
Netgear's "All Access Home": What It Is, and Why You Should Care
1 year ago on SwitchedNetgear is launching an absurd 18 new products here at the Consumer Electronics Show. However, at its press event this morning, Netgear focused on 3 new products aimed at simplifying serious home networking, part of their vision they call the "All ...
Pioneer Unveils Super-Thin, High-Contrast Plasma TVs
1 year ago on SwitchedToday, Pioneer showed off two significant concept models for its flat-panel plasma TV product line. Under the banner of Project KURO, a sci-fi-sounding internal anthem for change, Pioneer unveiled both the thinnest flat panel TV and a flat panel ...
Lava Lamp for the 21st Century Plays Sound, Dazzles Your Senses (Video)
1 year ago on SwitchedRemember those groovy lava lamps from the 70s? No? Remember those cool plasma spheres from the 80s? Are we that old? Either way, this new tube of psychedelia is brought to us by a little company called Aquallusion. The iTube (granted, not ...
The Power Strip Reinvented
1 year ago on SwitchedSometimes we see a simple innovation to an everyday product and think, "Why didn't we think of this?" Kreative Power's Powramid power strip is one of those products. Kreative simply took your standard power strip and made it circular. *Yawn*, we ...
Gadget Preview 2008: Switched Goes to CES
1 year ago on SwitchedIf you haven't noticed, we've been posting a lot of pure, unadulterated gadget porn lately. Why, you might ask, are we so smitten with one new gadget after another? Well, the answer is simple -- we've moved the entire Switched team out to Las Vegas ...
World's Smallest Remote-Control Helicopter
1 year ago on SwitchedRadio-controlled (RC) aviation is no new phenomenon in the world of gadgets and miracles. But this year,Toronto's Interactive Toy Concepts has brought something new to this year's CES in Las Vegas, however, with a toy it's billing as the world's ...
Ladybug Speakers Ready to Shred With iPods and Skateboarders
1 year ago on SwitchedVestalife introduced these Ladybug iPod speakers, seen above, in November. They are co-branded with skateboard maker Element and we just found out that they have a ship date of February at a price of $125. "Element is really excited about our ...
NRG Dock Juices Up Gadgets When the Power Is Out
1 year ago on SwitchedThree years ago Jay LeBoff got snowed in and lost power for four days. During that time, LeBoff was forced to rely on a cell phone as his only way of contacting the outside world for emergency purposes. But without power to recharge the phone, ...
New LCD-Screen Microscope Makes For Better Specimen-Viewing
1 year ago on SwitchedWho can remember Biology 101, where you and a lab partner had to take turns squinting through the tiny eyepiece on a microscope, straining to see the blurry outlines of amoeba? Optics-maker Celestron has an interesting solution to this old and ...
Wi-Fi Robo-Webcam Can Be Controlled From Anywhere
1 year ago on SwitchedWho would have thunk it, but those Canadians sure don't mess around when it comes to... well, the "wow" factor. WowWee, a Montreal-based robotics company that brought us the Robosapien and the animatronic Elvis Head, is already dazzling the ...


