by: Dan Keener
NEWS - Earlier this month at CES, I had the chance to meet with Ace Bayou and take a look at some of their new 2008 product line. At the time, I was focused on the Pro Series 4.1 rocker, but they recently announced another new product for 2008, their Xfunctional Wireless Audio Recliner. Like the Pro Series rockers, the Audio Recliner is designed to provide an optimized audio experience, whether it is for home theater, gaming or even portable electronics (like an iPod). It sports a 2.1 audio system with front forward speakers and a ... Read entire article

E Ink Corporation is a well known name in the world of electronic paper display technology, and has recently announced its flexible display program at a recent symposium. According to E Ink, their partner LG. Philips LCD has just introduced the highest resolution 14.3″ flexible color display in the world at the recently concluded CES which used E Ink’s Vizplex Imaging Film and LG.Philip’s very own metal foil and plastic substrate backplace. The result of this amalgamation measures less than 300 micrometers thin without compromising on performance - you get a resolution of 1,280 x ...

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One of the many common themes coming from the great comments you all are leaving is in the area of broadening the content coverage. I'll address other general themes like usage scenarios with the devices we are using / testing, design layout, etc in future posts.

First area - broadening coverage: some want us to build on the "mobile" aspect of our name and include coverage beyond Tablet PCs, UMPCs, etc. Others were looking for more mobile coverage out of CES than the extensive Tablet and UMPC coverage we brought you.

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While lounging in your living room on a Pyramat with a console controller in both hands is relaxing, you can also get a similar Pyramat treatment with their new PC Gaming Chair 2.1. It looks like a fairly standard office chair at first glance, but one will notice two full range speakers located near the headrest and a PowerSub subwoofer for that added 'oomph' to your games. It connects to your PC sans wires thanks to an integrated digital wireless receiver. ...

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Guess Gateway is taking the moderate path by releasing new desktops which come with a Hyper SuperMulti drive which is capable of both HD DVD and Blu-ray playback. Of course, we all know that HD DVD suffered a mortal wound back at CES '08 earlier this month but who knows how Toshiba might turn things around (fire sales notwithstanding :P). Other than that bit of news, the rest of the system specifications include AMD's Phenom quad-core processors, ...

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At the Pharos booth at CES the sleek design of this navigation system attracted me like the A-dog in a litter. It stood out and beckoned to me. I couldn’t wait to receive a review unit, which just arrived, and now I have a couple hundred miles under my road-testing belt.

Read on for my findings…

Before reporting my findings, let me give you some of the salient specs and features:

Operating System: Windows CE .net 4.2
CPU: Freescale ...

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Normally, I avoid reporting on products that get too much coverage, unless I have something different to say about it. Such is the case with the Nyko Wireless Nunchuk, a product that other gadget blogs are really bashing unnecessarily.

I had a chance to try out the Nyko Wireless Nunchuk at CES 2008, and I absolutely adored it. A lot of gadget blogs are asking whether the product is really necessary, but I say: “Of course it is! This is the new millennium, and everything is going to be wireless by the time ...

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I’m still recovering from the Consumer Electronics Show and could probably write about it for the rest of the year. Let me share with you some of the highlights or at least what caught my attention as noteworthy.

Wi-Fi was everywhere at CES

Decent Wi-Fi access at CES was almost impossible, thanks to the teeming masses of attendees and exhibitors. For this reason, the press room had hardwire connections for the likes of me, which I appreciated greatly.

Wi-Fi was, however, ...

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by: John Yan
NEWS - The guys over at CoolIT have some really great liquid cooling products from what I saw at CES. Well AMD just announced their ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 and CoolIT's liquid cooled cards were able to push the core over 900MHz and the memory to 1GHz. This card has 2 GPUs on board and the cooling system that CoolIT has devised changes the dual slot solution to a single slot solution. Granted you need the plumbing and water cooling setup but hey you free a slot by moving the cooling aspect elsewhere in the case.