The guys over at techlounge has published a lot of pictures summarizing their first impressions of the CES 2005 so far. CES 2005 – Pepcom Digital Experience Day 0 [Techlounge.com] CES 2005 – Pepcom Digital Experience Day 1 [Techlounge.com]
CNN has published a quite interesting article about what innovations that has had the most impact during the past 25 years. On 2:nd place they have placed Cell phones, and on the 3:rd place you find Personal Computers. The winner will be announced on Sunday, January 16, at 8 p.m. ET on CNN.com. [UPDATE] ‘The [...]
Microsoft will replace the brands Smartphone and Pocket PC with ‘Windows mobile’. During the coming year, two years at the latest, the brand ‘Windows mobile’ shall be the brand for all these technologies from Microsoft.
Apparently Dolby has set up a really amazing special theater at their CES booth. 13 individual channels pumping at the speed of 6 Mbps instead of 640 kbps, currently the maximum capacity of the coming system Dolby Digital Plus.
Yesterday Verbatim announced that they will be shipping 16x DVD-R media later this month, meaning you will be able to record an entire 4.7GB disc in about 6 minutes. Just need to get hold of a 16x burner then… Verbatim Doubles DVD-R Media Write Speed to 16x [Verbatim]
HP has released information about three new TV sets. All of them have a black finish and an aluminium stand. The introduction series consist of: PL4245N, a 42″ Plasma with a 3000:1 contrast ratio, a resolution of 1024×768 and a suggested retail price of $3,999.99. PE4240N, a 42″ Plasma with unknown contrast ratio, a resolution [...]
HP has unveiled two nice little digital entertainment centers. Both of them have a traditional 17″-video look, black with brushed aluminum. The HP z552 ($ 1,499) comes with dual NTSC TV tuners , a 200GB serial ATA drive and the ATI Radeon X300SE card. The HP z555 ($ 1,999) comes with a ATSC high definition [...]
Jablotron has released a quite odd GSM phone. It’s a fullsized deskhphone, with the difference that it’s completly mobile, based on GSM technology. No need for a land line there. GSM Desktop Phone GDP-02[Jablotron]
A pretty neat little gadget from Archos will hit the stores later this month. The USB connector folds in to make a perfect square. It will cost you about $149. New ARCDrive Puts 4GB on Keychain [Everything USB] Archos Product information
Gizmodo and Engadget both have nice updates of all the new gadgets presented at CES. Samsung has presented a wide range of completely new stuff – really cool things! I’d love to be in Vegas reporting from CES, but it’s a looong way from Sweden. The most interesting stuff I read about so far: Samsung [...]
