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...
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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 find hundreds of people massed, mostly being...
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...
Here are all the drives that LaCie brought to CES 2012, including USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt I/O.
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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...
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 operated by The Center for Severe Weather Research. Each truck has (obviously) a rear-mounted radar dish that feeds real-time atmospheric data into the cab; supplementing the radar information, the...
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 wirelessly. Here are the headphones, speakers, docks, mice, drives, routers, chargers and controllers that...
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 standard watch band than we'd seen last August — ten in total, including a hip camouflage version. Though WIMM's focused on the modules and the SDK, I'd love to see the company offer these at the very least. There's no additional engineering over the black band that's already included in the developer...
Microsoft's Kinect for Windows wasn't the only gesture control system to tout "near mode" this CES. SoftKinetic offers an alternate solution with an eye towards OEMs, and this week it released a public alpha of new firmware for its DepthSense 311 that it claims will detect finger movement from as close as 15cm (vs. Kinect's 50cm) and as far away as about three feet. Those numbers seems about right; SoftKinetic let us try out the firmware first-hand in two applications — a barebones tech demo that showed exactly what the software was detecting, and a "puppet show" app that let you control...
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...
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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