Archive for January, 2008
More news out of CES ‘08:
The International Consumer Electronic Show 2008 (CES) that officially gets underway January 7, 200, in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, “has given bloggers their own lounge, separate from the traditional press room” reveals Dwight Silverman, who blogs for the Houston Chronicle’s informative TechBlog. “In fact,” Silverman adds, “press who are also bloggers are not allowed in, though bloggers are being let into the press room. Even hybrid types like myself aren’t allowed in if they have the ora…
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January 6th, 2008 | Posted in Gear, LinkBlog | No Comments
More news out of CES ‘08:
Moletech Fuel Saver theoretically saves fuel Posted by: in TargetTechnology Filed under: CES, Transportation Add Moletech to the growing list of companies trying to cash in on going green — they claim their new Fuel Saver cuts down on emissions and improves fuel economy in all fossil fueled engines. After some preliminary testing the California Environment Engineering Center for Environmental Research seems to agree that the device does actually work, but until more rigorous assessment…
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January 6th, 2008 | Posted in Gear, LinkBlog | 6 Comments
More news out of CES ‘08:
wowwee robio introduced a huge line-up of new robots at the CES 2008.here you see a home exploration and telepresence robot with wifi the wowwee rovio robot is a wifi enabled robotic webcam that moves in all directions with ease and can be controlled remotely using any web accessible device including a cell phone, pc or video game console. through a built-in camera that streams video and audio… accuracy, entirely under its own control. more wowwee robots mr. personality and the tribot CES 2008…
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January 6th, 2008 | Posted in Gear, LinkBlog | No Comments
More news out of CES ‘08:
Finding a gadget to charge your gadgets at CES will be like hunting for a haystack in a needle. Finding one that charges your gadgets through a unique water-activated cartridge system will mean you need to look at the HydroPak which can be used to as a high energy alternative to lead acid battery packs and portable generators. According to its makers the HydroPak system, together with each cartridge will offer enough energy to recharge an average laptop computer 8 to 10 times, and well as being…
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January 6th, 2008 | Posted in Gear, LinkBlog | No Comments
More news out of CES ‘08:
The Logitech press event was kicked off this afternoon by the company’s newly appointed CEO (pictured). Gerald “Jerry” Quindlen stressed the Swiss company’s ever more focus on the digital living room market with products like a new Bluetooth multimedia device, the diNovo mini, that fits a keyboard and a mice in the pocket and the latest Harmony One remote control. Logitech also showed its home surveillance system that comes from its acquisition of Utah start-up WiLife last November. All the vi…
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January 6th, 2008 | Posted in Gear, LinkBlog | No Comments
More news out of CES ‘08:
High drama at CES! Instead of all of us being united under the umbrella of “press,” some of us were arbitrarily deemed “bloggers” and others “press.” I’m press, but Chen is a blogger. We aren’t sure exactly what the difference is, but I assume that the CES admins will force Chen to wait for me to write up stories dryly and then he’ll link to them and add some sassy commentary. We refer to his badge as the “white badge of shame.” Sorry Chen, you lowly blogger…
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January 5th, 2008 | Posted in Gear, LinkBlog | No Comments
Warner Bros. has decided to release its Hi-Def titles in Blu-Ray only. Major blow to HD DVD. Warner will continue to release its titles in standard DVD format and Blu-ray. After a short window following their standard DVD and Blu-ray releases, all new titles will continue to be released in HD DVD until the end [...]
January 4th, 2008 | Posted in Gear | No Comments
Disable Vista’s Nagging Aspects with Vista4Experts
(tags: Download freeware Hacks tweak tweaks vista Windows)
January 4th, 2008 | Posted in LinkBlog | No Comments
If you can’t get to the Consumer Electronics Show this year you can follow all the posts about it via RSS. A while back I built a Yahoo! Pipe to combine RSS feeds from various sources based on tags. You can check it out here: Tag Monitor
January 3rd, 2008 | Posted in RSS, Software | 1 Comment
Top Ten IT Conversations Shows for 2007
Phil Windley has posted the list of the top ten shows on IT Conversations (by number of downloads) for all of 2007.
(tags: podcast it converstions 2007)
January 3rd, 2008 | Posted in LinkBlog | No Comments