As was announced a few days ago, Westinghouse and Pulse~LINK today showed off wireless HDMI.
The folks at Engadget were able to check it out in person and saw first-hand a Blu-ray player streaming 1080p content three to four feet without wires or any trace of artifacting.
This technology will be initially offered to corporate customers, but [...]
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These haven’t been officially announced yet, but while setting up their CES booth Canon has hung some signage showing off three new flash memory-based camcorders, the Vixia HF10, F510 and F511.
It looks like just the Vixia HF10 is high-definition (judging by what can be read in the sign).
All that is known so far is that [...]
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I’ve never even thought about getting a survival radio before today, but Grundig has convinced me.
The new Grundig Etón F1000 features:
22 GMRS (General Mobile Radio System)/FRS (Family Radio System) channels
121 privacy codes
AM/FM receiver
VOX (Voice Operated Transmission)
NOAA weather radio and NOAA weather alert
Siren and flashlight
Can be powered by Ni-MH rechargeable battery, hand crank, 4 AA batteries, [...]
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I guess all the news can’t be related to CES…the US Department of Homeland Security announced that three American Airlines passenger jets that frequent JFK will be outfitted with anti-missile systems to test how effective they would be at stopping a shoulder-fired missile from taking it down.
The tests will help assess if the jamming system [...]
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Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema have he same parent company (Time Warner) so this isn’t the most surprising thing in the world, but its still big to read: New Line has announced that it is following in Warner Bros. footsteps and going Blu-ray only for high-definition discs.
Maybe now we’ll finally get a high-definition disc [...]
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Logitech announced a new addition to its Harmony line of universal remote controls with the new Logitech Harmony One.
One thing that makes this different from most other Harmony remotes is that it features a 2.2-inch color touchscreen, most of which had a color display but used buttons beside the screen to select items that were [...]
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Another UMPC is stepping up to take on the Asus Eee PC and Everex Cloudbook–the E-Lead Electronics Noahpad.
One of the neat things that sets the Noahbook apart from the crowd is that unlike most UMPCs in this price range its a convertible tablet PC…but not in the way we’re used to.
The keyboard spins around to [...]
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New from Logitech at CES is the Logitech diNova Mini wireless keyboard.
If you’re in the market for a wireless keyboard for your Microsoft Windows Media Center or Playstation 3 this could be worth looking at…but its a little on the expensive side at £99.99, or nearly $200 US dollars.
Is it worth it? I can’t imagine [...]
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