Tag: CES2009

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 ...

CES is closed, and while we still have some news to clean up and hit after the doors have been locked and the sidewalks rolled up, let's give you a roundup of the notables from the last day of the show. CES Booth Tours - CES is a lot of news and announcements, sure, but it's also a lot of opulence. If you couldn't make it to this year's show in sunny (but cold) Las Vegas, check out this series ...

Azentek's SmartMirror is a combination rearview mirror and GPS unit – an obvious marriage of old and new in-car tools that is so obvious we wonder why more companies aren't bringing these to market. The GPS software is by Navigon, so you've got a fairly well-respected navigation device maker's know-how in the product. We wonder if the SmartView will be appealing to crooks who want ...

There's still plenty of time left at CES, but things are definitely slowing down. You can tell that people are running out of energy and companies are running out of steam. Bloggers are too, but there's a lot left to cover, so let's dive in! Jimmy Fallon and Engadget's Joshua Topolsky Talk Gadgets - Engadget editor-in-chief Joshua Topolsky got a few minutes to chat with soon-to-be late-night ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Gettin_jiggy_with_Surface_Al_Roker'; What do you get when you cross a music-mixing Microsoft Surface with a sleep-deprived Al Roker? Answer: Pure comedy gold. Video after the break, skip to the 48-second mark to hear DJ A.R. do his thang. Bonus: check out the last 10 seconds to hear him compare a drunken Ann Coulter to Popeye's Olive Oyl. ...

It was a long and exciting first day at CES, with the Palm Pre proving to be the biggest announcement made at the show. It certainly made us do a double (and triple) take, but there's plenty more to report and lots of surprises still to come. Grippity Keyboard Reinvents Typing - There's a very strong chance you're sitting in front of a keyboard right now as you read this, and while the ...

CES is underway, and we've had a chance to check out a number of hot new products that could very well change the way you play your tunes, call your friends, or make videos of your kids. There's plenty more to see as the show picks up speed, but here's the best of what we've seen thus far. Motorola's SURF A3100 Touchphone - There's absolutely no shortage of smartphones here, but Motorola's ...

Power-Saving TVs Most companies are talking eco-friendly this CES but two announcements stuck out in the power-saving category. Sony and Toshiba are introducing LCD TVs that sense the light level in a room and adjust the backlight on their screens, lowering power output to make the screen image more appealing and save energy. Toshiba's new Regza LCD TVs will have AutoView, which automatically ...

Earlier tonight, we attended the annual, pre-CES Digital Experience exposition in the Mirage hotel. There, we found everything from pocket projectors to digital picture frames, cutting-edge cell phones to sexily designed Blu-ray players. Behold as we display merely the tip of the CES iceberg. ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/hardware/Sony_announces_VAIO_P'; Not that we really needed Sony to tell us something we already knew, but we certainly appreciate the gesture. The hotly anticipated VAIO P is for real, and it's coming in as the world's lightest 8-inch netbook at just 1.4 pounds. The Vista-based device packs an almost unbelievable 1,600 x 768 resolution LED-backlit XBRITE-ECO LCD ...

We've now got a content provider giving support to Netgear's Digital Entertainer Elite, and that honor goes to CinemaNow. At today's overly-enthusiastic press conference -- seriously, they threw apples, footballs, and a beer can at certain points -- the company showed off the pay-per-view service on both the aforementioned media streamer as well as the new, much smaller Internet TV Player that's ...

If you were taken aback by RCA's EZ300HD, you'll serious consider marrying the EZ209HD. Said device is the company's slimmest, sleekest and "sexiest" Small Wonder ever, enabling users to grab HD footage and view playback on the 2-inch LCD display. It's also packing an HDMI socket, a rechargeable battery good for two hours of use and a microSD slot. It'll hit this quarter for $119.99 alongside ...

Little known Lok8u has traveled all the way from the UK to be in Vegas this week, but it's certainly not for the despicable reasons you think. In fact, the locations services company is setting up shop at CES in order to debut its Nu•M8 GPS child locator, a so-called "innovative new best friend for parents and children." The device is said to be the first of its kind created specifically to ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/hardware/Sony_Walkman_with_3_OLED_Display'; Just as rumored, Sony's indeed showing up at this year's CES with a touchscreen Walkman, the NWZ-X1000. Front and center is a beautiful 3-inch touchscreen OLED display, which means lower power consumption and a wider color gamut than a traditional LCD, and Sony also worked in Wi-Fi and headphone-independent noise ...

Kodak's 720p Zi6 has only been out for six months, but already we're seeing what's likely its beefed-up predecessor. The mighty Zx1 is debuting here at CES, and with it comes a 2-inch LCD monitor, easy upload to YouTube, 720p HD video capture at 60fps, an IP43-certified weather-resistant design and an SD / SDHC card slot that can understand media up to 32GB in size. All told, users can capture ...