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Best of Show at CES 2012

Sat, 2012-01-14 10:19

So, CES 2012 came and went this week. For the most part, nothing extraordinary announced at the show, no game changers. In the words of one blogger, this year was "more evolutionary than revolutionary." There were however a few cool gadgets worth mentioning. Read on for videos and write-ups on the three gadgets that stood out most.

ioSafe Rugged Portable Hard Drives

Wed, 2012-01-11 22:12

Ok, this is just too awesome not to post about. ioSafe is a company that manufactures and sells rugged computer peripherals that can withstand considerable abuse. To demonstrate their new Thunderbolt portable SSD/RAID disk, they pump a million volts of electricity into one using a Tesla coil. I will never think of Electrostatic Discharge in the same way...

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CES 2012 is in full swing

Tue, 2012-01-10 07:56

The 2012 Consumer Electronic Show officially kicks off today in Las Vegas,
Nevada. Media reporters and bloggers of the world have been busy the last few days with exclusive previews of new products.

The buzz this year seems to be focused on Ultrabooks, or basically ultra-thin laptops that hope to be as thin and cool as the MacBook Air.

This is Microsoft's final year at CES, as heard during their Monday night keynote.

Tablets aren't as big of a buzz as last year since the battle for first place has clearly been secured by Apple's iPad; but keep an eye out for improvements in the competition to battle Amazon for second place.

The Kindle

Thu, 2011-12-29 22:55

I've been thinking about picking up a Kindle lately. Everyone I've talked to that has one says they're awesome for reading.

The plane old Kindle seems to be the way to go since all I really want it for is reading, but the gadget geek in me wants to try out the Kindle Fire to play with the extra features. Anyone have one of these that can share there experience in the comments? I'd appreciate it a lot and I'm sure others would too.





WDLXTV

Sun, 2011-12-04 11:26


Last night I flashed my WD TV Live Plus HD Media Player with an aftermarket version of code called WDLXTV. Some notable differences are in the background image and the placement of the Internet media apps. For example, Youtube and Netflix are now in the Video menu, similarly Live365 and Pandora are in the Music menu.

It's not perfect, but at least my media player finds network shares and plays files again. That's more than I can say about the official firmware.

The Background Story

I purchased the WD TV Live Plus HD Media Player earlier this year because I wanted to start to digitize my dvd library. The idea of simply clicking a button on a remote control and selecting the movie I wanted to watch seemed awesome. Obviously any amount of time spent setting up that type of system would be justified in the many seconds a year I would save by not having to get up off the couch to manually insert a dvd into the player. As a man, I claim the right to justify anything I do with my infallible man-logic.

27 Inch Monitor

Mon, 2011-10-17 07:15

So, I recently upgraded my display setup in the office. Previously I was in single monitor land, sporting a rock-solid 22" Dell UltraSharp which I am quite pleased with. However, I wanted something bigger to take the role as the main display. Enter the ViewSonic VA2702W 27-Inch Full HD 1080p Widescreen LCD Monitor

Cisco Introduces Dual Band Wireless Home Router

Thu, 2011-01-20 21:57
Cisco has released their latest home router with built in dual band wifi, so you can run both G and N wireless at the same time, from one device. Pretty sweet! Also comes with 4 Gig-E interfaces, a USB port for attaching storage, and UPnP support for streaming music and videos!

CES 2011

Wed, 2011-01-05 07:27

The 2011 Consumer Electronic Show kicks off this week in Las Vegas, Nevada. Officially the event begins tomorrow and goes through the weekend, but the media and bloggers of the world have already started the frenzy of discussing new products and predicting what's to come. 

Expect a slew of new cell phones, laptops, netbooks, and tablets on the mobile front. There's an entire section of the show devoted to electronics in automobiles that includes car stereos, gps/nav, and anything else you can cram into a car. One year, Mercedes Benz setup a closed track in a parking lot and allowed convention-goers to test drive anyone of a handful of their latest and greatest (it was very fun). Cloud based applications and touch technology will likely be the big buzz words this year.

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