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Tech NewsWoWee’s Elvis-Bot: Viva Las Vegas!
Elvis lives. WoWee, makers of the Robosapien and Roboquad, showed this singing and talking bust tonight at CES Unveiled. Based on the 1968 Comeback TV special, the King can be set to play his greatest hits or be operated with a microphone. Available this year for $349. –Noah Robischon with video by Richard Blakeley
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HDTV is Good, but Fire Truck HDTV is Way Better
Hannspree knows that they aren’t gonna grab anyone’s attention here at CES with boring, run-of-the-mill HDTVs. There are about 500 other companies showing off HDTVs, and let’s be honest — once you’ve seen a dozen big HDTVs, you’ve seen them all. Well they figured out one way to get our attention, and it’s to stick … Continued
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Fastap On Major US Carrier Fall ’07
Even though Fastap‘s been around for a while, no major carrier—don’t kid yourself Alltel—has it. Digit Wireless tells us besides launching on a major Mexican carrier next week, a major US carrier has plans to deploy a Fastap phone this Fall. Of course, they wouldn’t tell us which carrier, but the phone shown above is … Continued
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Gennum nx6000 Bluetooth Headset is Refreshingly Small
Tired of looking like a cyborg while using a Bluetooth headset? Gennum is showing off the nx6000 (on the right, chief), a Bluetooth headset that incorporates the same noise reduction technology as its previous entries, but shrinks down the size considerably. The result is a headset that won’t make people think you’ve got some serious … Continued
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CESpool: The Hot Gadget Action Starts Tonight
Everyone has a busy week or two in the year that they think about for months beforehand. College kids have final exams. Accountants have April 15th. Retailers have Black Friday. Santa has the 12 days before Xmas. For Gizmodo, this week is the salmon run of tech journalism. It’s the week when the Apple Keynote … Continued
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CES 2007 Big TV Watch: 120-inches?
Like you, I’m obsessed with big HDTVs. I’m gonna put on a safari hat and hunt em down like big cats. Before the new sets are uncaged, lets take a poll: How big will the HDTVs be this year? Last year, the 103-inch plasma HDTV from Panasonic was named heavyweight champ, inch-for-inch of CES 2006. … Continued
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The WSJ Draws Lifehacker’s Gina Trapani
The WSJ profiles Gina Trapani, grand master of sibling site Lifehacker. And author Andrew Lavallee gets her. He’s quick to how useful her tips are, and how kind her delivery is, free the snark and sarcasm that other unnamed blogs, “particularly those on technology” use as calling cards. Sarcasm on the internet? Where? Anyhow its … Continued
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CES 2007: Vicarious Edition
Our captains have already been inside. And the rest of the Gizmodo drunken army staff is en route. We will not spare a drop of sweat to bring you all the news you can handle…and probably a little more. https://gizmodo.com/ces-first-blood-were-inside-226554 So now is your chance to personalize our coverage a bit. What do you want … Continued
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SpeedDial: VoIP Slot Car Racing
Here’s a phrase I never thought I’d say, Voice Over IP slot car racing. There, now that that’s out of the way, this actually looks pretty fun. Basically it’s a bunch of people yelling into their phones. Then the voice patterns are analyzed and translated into power waves that control each of their slot cars. … Continued
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Windows Crossbow Video
Here’s a sneak peak at Windows Mobile 5 successor, Crossbow. What would you do when posting an exclusive of a highly anticipated OS…go through every IM sound effect known to man you say? Then today is your lucky day. It doesn’t look like much has changed. Windows Mobile Crossbow [via Davey C. at mobilitytoday]
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Canon’s New Consumer Camcorders
Canon announced their entire new consumer camcorder line before CES, the DC50, DC200 Series and the ZR Series The DC50 is Canon’s flagship consumer model, which will tell you that their entire lineup is a pretty sad state of affairs. It records direct to DVD and can take hi-res stills with its 5.39 Megapixel CCD … Continued
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Synchronized at CES: Panasonic’s Eight 103-inch Plasma HDTVs
While strolling through the pre-birth of the CES machine, we happened upon the most amazing thing ever: No less than eight of Panasonic’s 103-inch Plasma HDTVs set on a stage, with independent, but synced 1080p content on each. And they were on pivoting mounts, that rotated to the content of an attractive couple dancing provocatively. … Continued
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Xbox 360 Announcements Leaked: IPTV, DVR, VOD
Dean T. of the Mercury News just made an oops and leaked some Xbox 360 announcements Microsoft was planning on dropping next week at CES. Not only does he mention the improved Xbox 360s with 120GB hard drives and HDMI ports, he also talks about the use of the Xbox 360 as an IPTV set-top-box. … Continued
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CES First Blood: We’re Inside
Everyone says CES doesn’t start until Monday. But we went to the Las Vegas Convention Center today, disguised as construction workers, and got to take all sorts of cool photos before we started getting dirty looks from the CES rent-a-cops. Most of the booths, including Sony, Panasonic, Toshiba, Philips, and Hitachi, were coming together so … Continued
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IPEVO Skypes Out a Trio of Handsets
IPEVO, whose minimalist Free-1 USB handset made it stupidly simple to make SkypeOut calls, just dialed us up and announced three new products for CES. The Solo.1 (above) is a Skype certified phone that doesn’t need the computer—it’s an IP phone with a 2-port 10/100Mbps Ethernet switch. The 2.4-inch color screen has the usual Skype … Continued
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San Francisco, Google, Earthlink Finalize City Wide WiFi Deal
Google, Earthlink and the City of San Francisco have agreed to a 4-year deal to blanket the city in WiFi. Earthlink will build the $14-17 million system, and they’ll earn their cash back by charging $21.95 a month for a connection boosted to 3-4 times the speed of the free service. Google will sell ads … Continued
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Double Your MacBook, MacBook Pro Storage
Despite Apple’s offering of up to 200GB of storage on MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops, all those MP3s and video files we download off the net still leave us wanting. MCE Technologies comes up with an ingenius solution that takes out your optical DVD drive, shoves it in an external case, and replaces that space … Continued
By Jason Chen