286 booths, and nary an iPhone in sight. In fact, a lot of the gadgets on display here were first released in 2007. Welcome to CAN InfoTech: the CES of Nepal.
BoingBoing’s photo tour of the January conference, held in a country with a near-50% unemployment rate and a per-capita GDP of $1,200, paints a picture of a sort of proto-CES, in which Apple is a new and novel brand, many of the attendees don’t have mobile phones, and electric generators are a prime attraction.
I’m not sure why, but I assumed a trade show like this would be inflected with a different feeling. Instead of complaining about ebook reader overload or a crowded trade floor, attendees would glimpse a technological future that a lot of the world lives in, and that they too could one day enjoy. But no: A trade show is a trade show, all the way down the economic scale. It’s a way for innovators and hucksters alike to get the word out, for better or for worse, about the thing they’re trying to sell right then.
Head over to the source for the full photo set, because it’s utterly fascinating, from the 2008-vintage Sony catalog on display to the cellophane-wrapped display laptops. I’ll never complain about CES again. (This is a lie.) [BoingBoing]
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With manufacturers rolling out 3-D television sets, the promise of videogames that transport players into deeply immersive 3-D worlds is inching closer to reality.
Emphasis on the inching. The burden of 3-D glasses, the cost of a brand-new 3-D TV, the paucity of programming — all the reasons that adoption of 3-D television will be slow [...]
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Sure, there are nifty apps that allow you to simulate a keyboard on your iPhone, but Ion Audio has gone ahead and created a physical one to match the newly announced
iType. The iDiscover keyboard, along with the companion iDiscover Keyboard app, has 25 keys and effectively turns your iPhone into a music studio complete with synth-action keys, and pitch and modulation wheels. Better yet, it doubles as a controller for MIDI software on either Mac or PC.
The iDiscover keyboard turns your iPhone into a piano and more originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Wondering what kind of apps are enabled by the “world’s first HDTV-based application store“? Check out this CES show floor demo of a cross platform game tying together a Samsung flat-screen TV and cellphone to experience the magic of virtual fishing. We’ll probably keep our dedicated systems for gaming, but for a slight hint of what a crossplatform app store has to offer, by all means take a look.
Continue reading Samsung Apps demo ties phone & TV together in Wiimote-like bliss
Samsung Apps demo ties phone & TV together in Wiimote-like bliss originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Remember when Toshiba launched its original dynadock back at CES 2007? Man, those were good times. But trust us — not nearly as good as right now. The outfit has just pushed out the dynadock V here in Vegas, which is out and about only a few months after the dynadock wireless U was spotted. Essentially, this Windows-friendly device “offers the universal compatibility of its predecessor, the dynadock U, in a smaller package.” It’s half the size and one-third thinner, with four USB 2.0 ports, Ethernet LAN connectivity, a Sleep-and-Charge USB port and a 3.5mm audio in / out socket. There’s also an integrated video card that supports a single DVI or VGA monitor with up to 1,920 x 1,080 resolution, though you won’t find this even the least bit interesting if you roll in the OS X / Linux crowds. Check it next month for $119.99.
Toshiba shrinks its universal USB docking station, calls it dynadock V originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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DLNA is one of the most widely adopted digital content sharing protocols around, and at CES this year you’d have a hard time finding a new HDTV on the floor that doesn’t use it to stream videos, pictures and music around the home — not to mention all the other multimedia devices. The new guidelines released earlier this year are finally making their way into new devices and these new guidelines are apparently what cable TV providers have been waiting for. Unlike most current DLNA implementations, the new clients can now display the DLNA server’s user interface, and although you might not be in love with it, your cable company is. So what this could mean to us is that if we buy one of these new HDTVs with DLNA baked in, we would be able to use the cable company’s DVR via the network even if the DVR is in another room — not to mention PlayOn and a number of other DLNA servers. Now of course no one wants to mount a set-top under your newly wall mounted HDTV, so this could really end up being what many have been waiting for — not to mention the fact that all your content should be available to any room of the house. Of course a press release is one thing and implementing is another, but this is one that we’ll be following closely.
Comcast, Time Warner and Cox are excited about the latest in DLNA originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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We’ve been waiting and waiting to see
Pixel Qi’s 3Qi e-paper screen in a device, and we were hoping to see some sort of solid announcement at
CES, but looks like we will still be waiting. Though the company has ramped up production on its E ink killer which allows you to turn the backlight off on an LCD screen, they’re still working with its half a dozen partners. We
were told that within the year we will see a manufacturer that “everyone is familiar with” announcing a device that uses the technology. No word though if it will be a netbook, e-reader or tablet.
Though we’ve seen prototype devices before, we got another look at it today. The high resolution display was hacked into a Lenovo IdeaPad S10. With the backlight on the screen color looked crisp though horizontal viewing angles while watching a video clip on the screen were poor in some lighting. Similarly, when we turned the backlight off, which switches the display to just a black and white mode, the viewing angles on a movie weren’t great. Regardless, we continue to be impressed with the refresh rates of the display. Hit the break for a quick video.
Continue reading Pixel Qi screens to be used by a major manufacturer in 2010
Pixel Qi screens to be used by a major manufacturer in 2010 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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286 booths, and nary an iPhone in sight. In fact, a lot of the gadgets on display here were first released in 2007. Welcome to CAN InfoTech: the CES of Nepal.
