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  • Published: Sep 12, 08
    The Ikonoskop A-cam dll Digital Motion Picture Camera (what's with the supercalifragilisticexpiladocious long name?!) captures footage without compression. It shoots in 1920x1080 and you get 12 minutes of video on an 80GB memory cartridge. Peek is a device meant to do one thing. Email. It's $100 and $20/month for unlimited use. David Pogue's review is here. Panasonic announced the Lumix DMC-G1, the worlds smallest and lightest Digital Interchangeable Lens camera. Hulger VoIP handsets are
     
  • Published: Sep 11, 08
    We saw the Microsoft ad for a laser free mouse last week. Now we have the details. Three mice have been introduced using BlueTrack. They're the Explorer, the Sidewinder and a mini Explorer. Ion Audio releases a large range of analog to digital converters. If you're looking for a turntable for those old records, take a look at the Ion LP2 FLASH. RIM and TiVo announced a partnership, allowing Blackberry users to program their TiVos remotely. Advanced Windows users running the .NET frame
     
  • Published: Sep 9, 08
    Microsoft announced an update to the Zune. The most exciting of the features is the ability to tag songs from the FM radio to buy over WiFi or later when you're connected to your computer. The Nano predictions were right, curved screen and all. Apple also updated the iPod Touch to make it thinner, with a contoured back. Both have the new Genius technology that will suggest songs and playlists. iTunes 8.0 is now out. The Grid view is fantastic! TV shows will now be offered in HD for $2.99. Oh
     
  • Published: Sep 8, 08
    Scientists at CERN have been working on the Large Hadron Collider. It's a 17 mile ring with the initial intention to test the theory of how mass happens. Some scientists are worried that the experiment will cause the world to end. I'm not worried. We'll be live on Ustream, watching the CERN webcam while the experiment takes place. Join us if you can! When: Wednesday the 10th CERN Webcam: http://webcast.cern.ch Our Live Stream: Ustream.tv Times: 7:00 AM UTC 3:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time 2:00
     
  • Published: Sep 4, 08
    CEDIA Update #7 is full length today. Toshiba's XDE DVD Players are another option to Blu-ray. They're working on upconversion like we've never seen. I've been learning a lot about how Hz effects your TV viewing experience. Philips announced their new Aurea II 100Hz Displays at IFA last week and Sharp announced their Aquos 120Hz Displays. You can save money on domain name registrations and renewals from GoDaddy.com with discount codes GB1, GB2 and GB3. For an explanation of each code, cl
     
  • Published: Sep 3, 08
    CEDIA Update #6 covers the LG DP889 Digital Photo Frame. The thing that makes this frame different is the built in DVD player and twin earphone jacks. There are some downsides, as there are to every digital photo frame I've seen. What have you guys bought? What do you like about your choice? What don't you like? Leave a comment! The 1394 Trade Association and HANA got together to demo Firewire 800 data distribution via standard coax.
     
  • Published: Sep 3, 08
    CEDIA Update #5 covers THIEL Audio's zöet. It's a plug and play home theater system, and is meant to be simple to setup and easy to use. You can save money on domain name registrations and renewals from GoDaddy.com with discount codes GB1, GB2 and GB3. For an explanation of each code, click here.
     
  • Published: Sep 2, 08
    CEDIA Update #4 covers the Madison Fielding Lowboy, a low sitting console designed for a flat panel display, all your home theater components, and speakers built right in. This is the last update for Tuesday. You can save money on domain name registrations and renewals from GoDaddy.com with discount codes GB1, GB2 and GB3. For an explanation of each code, click here.
     
  • Published: Sep 2, 08
    CEDIA Update #3 covers the Avoca Semiconductor Voice-Enabled Multi-Modal Interface, or VMI. It's a controller for playing your music collection, and is supposed to understand plain English phrases without needing to be trained. For example, "Play Frank" will begin playing your Frank Sinatra collection.
     
  • Published: Sep 2, 08
    GBTV #418 (medium) | CEDIA Expo #2
     
  • Published: Sep 2, 08
    CEDIA Update #1 covers the Triad InWall Silver/4 Omni Sconce Loudspeaker. It's a speaker system and LED light source in one. You can save money on domain name registrations and renewals from GoDaddy.com with discount codes GB1, GB2 and GB3. For an explanation of each code, click here.
     
  • Published: Sep 2, 08
    The Custom Electronic Design and Installation Association Expo (CEDIA) starts today in Denver. We want to use the week to experiment with how we cover trade shows. Producing video takes a lot of time, and because of that we're not able to get information out quickly during big events like CEDIA, Macworld and CES. The experiment is this: we'll release several shorter shows throughout the week. Let us know what you think throughout the test by leaving comments! Also let us know if you run into
     
  • Published: Aug 29, 08
    IFA 2008 is taking place in Germany and Philips Electronics announced enough beautifully designed products to fill a weeks worth of briefs. I picked my top three favorites: Cinema Ones an all-in-one home theater system that includes an upscalling DVD player, CD player, an iPod dock, a five channel amplifier, six speakers and a subwoofer. The Phillips DVD Home Theater System provides 9.1 surround from four towers, a dedicated center speaker and a subwoofer. The NP2900 Network Music Player
     
  • Published: Aug 28, 08
    Finally! Details on the Nikon D90. Same D-Movie footage is here. Microsoft releases IE8 Beta 2. Ubiquity is my latest favorite Firefox plug-in. The Space Cube is the worlds smallest PC. MXW1 wireless earphones from Sennheiser offer uncompressed CD-quality audio using Kleer wireless audio technology.
     
  • Published: Aug 26, 08
    Shelfari is a social network and virtual bookshelf for book lovers. The Josh and Shelfari announced today that the site was acquired by Amazon.com. Canon announced several new cameras a two new all-in-one printers today. InsideTrip.com is a travel site that finds flights based on price and then uses a slider to adjust the price based on flight quality preferences you might have. Panasonic has three new Plasma displays with 1TB DVRs built in. The Navigon 7200T is the next GPS system I w