One of the many, many tablets announced at CES this year is available today, the Pantech Element. It's an 8-inch Android tablet running on AT&T's LTE network that normally wouldn't be anything to write home about — especially since it's only running Android 3.2 — but it also has a twist: it's...
The perfect bathtub tablet, if that's your thing
A product like the mRobo Ultra Bass dancing audio player is pretty marginal by any standard, so it was somewhat odd to head over to Tosy’s booth at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) only...
To say that Mad Catz brought a slew of fresh gaming peripherals to CES would be putting it lightly. In addition to its MLG Pro Circuit modular controller we told you about last week, the company also had a pair of headsets on display: the Cyborg Freq 5 for PC gamers and a Tritton Primer wireless Xbox 360 headset, an MMO 7 mouse and a two-player FightStick arcade controller. We had hands-on time...
We haven't gotten to the bottom of this yet, but we thought you might like to know: apparently, the Ion Audio Guitar Apprentice we showed you at CES last week is embroiled in a patent infringement debate right now. FutureMusic reports that Behringer (yes, the one with the 10,000 watt iPod dock) served Ion Audio with a cease-and-desist letter right on the show floor, claiming the Guitar Apprentice infringes a patent it filed over a year ago. Sure enough, Behringer does indeed have a patent for a "touch screen guitar" — which was coincidentally granted on the very day of CES — and though we couldn't find a working prototype of the Behringer iAxe at the show, we suspect it might exist.
Oh, but there's more: the name "Guitar Apprentice" is also trademarked by a company called Legacy Learning Systems for "interactive multimedia...
Virtual instruments just got real
Last week at CES, RIM unveiled new features and functionality in PlayBook OS 2.0, which is due for a public release in February. Although much more polished than the initial release, we found that it still lacks certain features — including core advantages like BBM — that we would expect to...
We've covered a few waterproof phones in the past few weeks, but they've been single models that look like they'll see limited release. According to Pocket-lint, however, some major brands might be putting the technology in upcoming devices. HzO...
Conversations between newborn parents meeting serendipitously on the city sidewalk tend to splinter along two threads: mothers commiserating over the tribulations of day-to-day care; fathers quietly judging one another's stroller selection. Really, a MacLaren? Yes, that's...
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This big blue beast was parked just outside The Verge trailer at CES 2012, and is part of the three-truck Doppler on Wheels mobile radar network...
CES 2012 was about televisions, computers, tablets and phones, the technology within and between, but many of the awesome things we saw actually plug into those devices, or connect to them...
After shipping its tiny Android-powered WIMM One module in November, upstart WIMM Labs was back at CES 2012 last week showing a selection of new accessories. They're not available for sale — nor will they be, directly — but they give a better look at the third-party ecosystem that WIMM is trying to foster.
We saw more variations of the...
The Etymotic GunSport Pro GSP-1s are earplugs designed to let quiet sounds like human speech pass through, while suppressing loud sounds — specifically gunshots. They also have a switch that turns on "enhanced hearing," where the quietest sounds are given a slight boost. Although we called them...
Because CES is more than just Android phones and tablets. It's more than just Windows laptops, HDTVs with various levels of 3D interaction and 12K resolution. It's more than just virtual storage and refrigerators. This is the CES we really and truly love. This is Sony CEO Howard Stringer awkwardly hugging Will Smith on stage. This is a closet that will shake, steam, dry, and freshen your clothes up for you with a variety of selectable aromas. This is more than one instance of dancing robots and more than one celebrity cameo — and one time where both those groups intersected to make Joanna's heart skip a beat. This is our love letter to...
While we'd be hard pressed to recommend it as a primary phone, the SpareOne makes a compelling case as something to toss in your car's glovebox or keep in the house in case of an emergency. In fact, that's one of the main selling points of the Xpal-distributed GSM device, which is powered by just one AA battery that will give you up to 10 hours of talk time should you need it. As for looks, the candybar-style handset lacks an LCD of any sort. Instead we find a unique design that embraces its battery (constantly visible through a layer of plastic) yet comes off as fairly plasticky and cheap...
TP-Link was showing off a couple of interesting new wireless routers at CES this week. The Wireless N Nano Router is the world’s smallest at 2.5 x 2.5 x 0.75 inches, it weighs practically nothing, and it draws power over Micro USB. Also, even...
On Thursday's podcast, we chose Cubify as one of our favorite things at this year's CES: a 3D printing service that can turn almost any design into a plastic model 5 inches squared. The company has a bunch of its Cube printers here at the show...
ePawn's seeking to shake up the tabletop gaming space, and we have to say, we're almost convinced it can: the startup's 26-inch Arena screen, which lies flat on a surface, sounds like the perfect tool for an aspiring Dungeon Master. The display...
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Boom. We are out of here, but not before we deliver one last hard-hitting Las Vegas-style Vergecast. We hope you enjoyed our Vergecasts this week because we really enjoyed doing them even though we could barely even focus on the cameras in front...
Despite the profusion of Android tablets we saw at CES, Chris Whitmore from Deutsche Bank doesn't think Apple has anything to worry about in terms of iPad competition. In his note to clients today, he said that Android tablets had failed to perform as expect, and that "this year, tablets had a much smaller presence as vendors appear to be placing greater emphasis on Windows 8." Because of the development time required, Whitmore expects "the move away from Android tablet investment and a slow ramp of Win 8 tablets to create a favorable competitive backdrop for Apple's forthcoming iPad 3."
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