The new year feels as though it is off to a galloping start. Barely two weeks into 2008, and we’re bracing for the fourth or fifth batch of big announcements from the fourth or fifth big industry convention in two weeks. This week features the big auto show in Detroit, the music industry convention NAMM [...]
CES: Digital video recorder purveyor TiVo Inc. has announced that its subscribers will soon be able to select Internet video (i.e. podcasts!) for playback on televisions, expanding the digital recording service’s capabilities beyond TV offerings.
The new feature, announced Monday at the International Consumer Electronics Show, will let users apply their “Season Pass” recording capabilities to [...]
CES: Taser may get the prize this year for introducing the most stupidtactular product at the Consumer Electronics Show - a leopard-print “fashion Taser,” with an MP3 player holster.
While everybody else was putting iPod docks onto televisions and refrigerators and speakerphones, Taser had the audacity to something truly unique and, well, possibly insane!
The $379.99 TASER [...]
Podcast.com announced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas its list of the “Top 10 Podcasts of the Year” for 2007, in conjunction with media aggregation/distribution company Treedia.com, which created the feed management platform used at Podcast.com.
Podcast.com, a podcast directory and feed management site, maintains a list of 43,000 podcast feeds.
To choose this [...]
At the 2008 CES Show, FlyTunes introduced a new digital music service for the Apple iPhone,
iPod Touch and other portable media players and cell phones:
FlyTunes offers a personalized radio-like experience, with thousands of channels of digital music.
Features:
FlyTunes does not require a receiver or additional hardware purchase - it works with your cell phone or personal [...]
CES: Newer Technology announced its newNewerTech iPhone Accessory Line, consisting of six products that add iPhone functionality and user convenience.
The NewerTech iPhone Accessory Line includes:
Bass Response Earbuds
iPhone & iPod Auto Charger
iPhone Speaker Dock & Hands-Free Mic
iPhone Hands-Free Mic & Earbuds
iPhone Headphone Jack Adapter
iPhone Mic Extender Cable
Their most interesting accessory is the $35 iPhone Speaker Dock [...]
At the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show, JVC introduced the NX-PN7, a double-barreled iPod dock.
The dual dock NX-PN7 accommodates two iPod players side-by side, charging them simultaneously and offering playback from each through the dock’s speaker system. Supplementing iPod playback is an AM/FM tuner, a clock and timer. In addition, there’s an analog audio input for [...]
At the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show, Samsung announced that it has developed a multi-level cell (MLC) flash-based 128 Gigabyte (GB) solid state drive (SSD) that it will produce this year in 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch versions for notebook and desktop PCs, as well as other mobile applications.
The new drive offers a data writing speed of 70 [...]
At the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates used his last keynote to offer his take on the future, talk about the first “digital decade” and what the future offers. He was joined by Robbie Bach, President of Microsoft’s Entertainment & Devices Division, who helped Gates demo his mad Guitar Hero [...]
CES: iLuv will debut the iLuv i399 iPod speaker dock, which features an integrated Bluetooth enabled wireless music feature that’s good up to 300ft.
The i399 BluePin 2.1 Channel Hi-Fi Audio System is the first iLuv product to feature BluePin II technology. With the detachable BluePin II, users can listen to music on Bluetooth headphones or [...]