Category: CES 2009

Tired of keeping that guitar tuned? Then consider EverTune's bridge a godsend. Unlike Gibson's steeply priced Robot Guitar, which tunes itself, EverTune's latest effort is affordable, compatible with existing guitars, and acts more like a maintenance tool. According to DVICE's review, once you tune the guitar, the bridge will keep it locked in perfect pitch indefinitely. According to EverTune, ...

With Wall Street in disgrace and the economy in a nosedive, where should the country turn for financial advice? Would you ever think gamers? Since 2003, players on the massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG) Entropia has been steadily building an economy that now boasts a daily turnover of $1.25 million per day. Entropia sports a real cash economy model of play where monetary ...

With the whole world going green, we're seeing less Hummers and more hybrids than ever before--but did you know that there's zero-emissions way to get around using nothing but the power of your legs? Be the envy of your hipster friends with the stylish "Moof" bicycle from industrial design aggregators Areaware, which we recently caught on video. The top tube of this European-style ride has ...

Quite a number of no-goodniks who thought they'd save a few bucks by downloading a pirated version of iWork '09 have gotten more than they'd bargained for -- in the form of a Trojan Horse called OSX.Trojan.iServices.A. This guy installs itself in the computer's startup as root, and once in place it can connect to a remote server and broadcast its location, allowing malicious users to take ...

It seems that every mainstream tech innovation is followed closely behind by an answer from the porn industry. Like Roku's Netflix box, FyreTV's set-top player delivers a library of over 20,000 DVD-quality porn flicks from you to choose from - and it's wireless, so you don't need to run an ethernet cable into the bedroom. Check out the video for some work-safe screenshots and info about how the ...

During our trip to the desert, we took some time off from the convention floor to head over to the NextGen Home Experience. This super-green, 5,200 square-foot "smart" home boasts some smooth accoutrements, including a powerful home-automation system and a Microsoft Vista-based, centralized entertainment center and media server. But there's nothing really new about a media server for your ...

Have you ever wondered what a porn movie would look like in 3D? Well, we can't show you one of those racy films, but we can show you adult film star Belladonna's reaction when she watched one at the Adult Entertainment Expo. The technology involved is the Glacier IceBerg Entertainment System and it will work with any 3D-ready TV. According to Belladonna, there's no way to grasp the amazing ...

GPS is no longer a technology that solely helps you get from point A to point B along the nation's highways and byways. Illustrating that point is a trend we noted at the recent Consumer Electronics Show: namely, the placement of GPS units into devices -- cameras, laptops -- that previously seemed to work just fine without them. Check out the following pages for some examples of the latest ...

Dell decided to tease the Consumer Electronics Show crowd with only a few details of its Mini 10 netbook computer, which comes with built-in GPS. We don't yet have details on how capable this device will be in regards to geotagging, directions or other functionality. We also don't know when -- and at what price -- the Mini 10 will become available, but we'll provide more details as they ...

Sony must be feeling good about geotagging and other location-based services, seeing as the company included a GPS chip in its Vaio P series netbook computer, announced at the show. ('Netbook' is another word for a very small, yet very capable, laptop.) With this functionality, the P lets you find points of interest based on your location, like restaurants, hotels and so on. Just like a ...

In the not-so-obvious-but-brilliant GPS-enabled device category are three of Sony Electronics' camcorders, all announced at the show. The HDR-XR520V, HDR-XR500V and HDR-XR200V all include a GPS chip including NAVTEQ maps. You can "geotag" your video or still images, making it easy to show other people exactly where you were on that hiking trip. These camcorders go a step beyond another ...

An obvious place to implant a GPS unit is a rear-view mirror. In fact, we wonder why this wasn't thought up before. Well, we're just glad the folks at Azentek came up with the SmartMirror. This $800 aftermarket replacement product sleekly puts a fully-functioning Navigon GPS unit right in the mirror. The screen can even be connected to a rear-facing camera on the back of your car to help you ...

CES wasn't the only convention packed with gadgets this January: The AVN Adult Entertainment Expo, which takes place alongside CES every year, was filled with the latest lovemaking technology from wireless iPod pleasure enhancers to adult videos in HD and 3-D. We teamed up with adult entertainment icon (and AVN Awards official presenter) BellaDonna to check out the new sex toys for 2009. First ...

OhMiBod, the folks behind the world's first iPod-enabled vibrator, rolled out another first at this year's Adult Entertainment Expo: A wireless iPod-enabled vibrator. The system uses a discreet transmitter to sync a vibrator (available in a full palette of Nano-matching colors) to a user's favorite playlist. No wires means one can slide one's iPod into a docking system while sliding into bed. And ...

Cisco unveiled at CES a system of routers, players and a central media hub that sucks all your digital content into one place, and then lets you spit it out anywhere over your home network -- or even the Internet. Unlike other streaming media systems such as Sonos, Cisco's Linksys-branded products use a massive, centralized storage device (called the Media Hub) to store content, and because the ...