Best trends. Best of Android. Our first CES has come to a close and it’s time to hand out some awards. There were no Android phone announcements for the United States, but we still got to play with some cool new Android gadgets. Read on to see which products we picked as the best of the best. Best Android Phone Winner: Nexus One Technically this handset was announced a couple of days before CES, but it was still the hottest Android phone in Las Vegas. Practically every person we encountered had heard of the phone and they all asked to play with it. We have only had our Nexus One phones for a couple of days, but they do live up to the hype. Best Android Application Winner: TwonkyServer Mobile If you have any connected devices in your home entertainment center, TwonkyServer Mobile is a must download.
Best Android Accessory Winner: Powermat We always thought Powermat was a cool idea, but were disappointed with their lack of support for Android phones. Best Android eReader Winner: Spring Design Alex Best Android Crossover. Best new toys. New TVs, 3-D and otherwise, proved to be bit hits at the annual technology show. TCL 3-D TV, provides 3-D experience sans glassesBlio e-reader will be free when it becomes availableIntel Reader scans text and reads it aloud Las Vegas, Nevada (CNN) -- Three-dimensional televisions, Internet-enabled TVs, touch-screen "tablet" computers, e-book readers and other fun new gadgets were scattered all over the enormous Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. CES, which ended on Sunday, is regarded as one of the best trade shows for spotting new technologies before they take off. DVDs, CD players and Blu-ray all were introduced at previous shows.
It is the largest event of its kind in the world. As we hunted through thousands of tech displays at the show this year, these 10 products particularly grabbed our attention. But these 10 new toys proved to be useful, unique or just plain strange. So, here they are, in no particular order. Toshiba CELL TV with gesture technology Price: Unannounced. Other geeks opinions. The Best of CES - Ces - Gizmodo. Best of CES 2010. CES is over for CrunchGear and we’d like to reflect on the best gear we saw at the show. These few days flew by and even with the glut of 3D TVs and ereaders we were actually impressed by a few small, good things that caught our eye on the show floor. Here are the winners of CrunchGear’s Best of CES 2010 informal editor poll. Nyko Wand+ controllers Nyko’s new Wand+ controller has MotionPlus built into the controller, thereby preventing the dreaded “MotionPlus Elephantism” associated with the official Nintendo add-on. [Product] Razer’s motion controller This new controller uses completely different technology from the other motion controllers out there from the big 3 gaming companies.
Sprint Overdrive 4G speed in a package the size of a drink coaster? Plastic Logic Que The first e-book reader I genuinely want. Palm Pre Plus It may not have been much of a surprise by the time Palm announced the Pre Plus for Verizon, but we’re still glad it’s here. Memorex HD Touch Screen camera. The best from CES (so far) CES 2010 is in full swing this week in Las Vegas, with the biggest companies in the tech world showing off their best and newest technologies. And the product releases have certainly not disappointed.
CES tends to be a good barometer for what’s going to be big in the year to come, and if the trend holds true, here’s a look at what we can look forward to this year: App Stores for everything Thanks to Apple, the tech world has realized the best way to provide software on just about any platform is via an app store—a single place for users to browse, search and download applications for their device. Most major smartphones already have an app store, but the model is expanding to new industries at CES. Samsung is creating an app store for your TV that will work across multiple devices, letting you do things like start a Netflix movie on your TV and then finish it on your phone. Tablets Tablets, tablets, and tablets! 3-D Everything Arc Keyboard Boxee Ford Sync Clickfree Graphic.ly’s comic reader.
Podcast 179: CES 2010 Final Goodbye - 01.10.2010. Discussion - Why 3D Became the Big Trend at CES by benparr. Coolest display: Intel's touch screen. The Boxee Box. Box crowned 'Last Gadget Standing' The Boxee Brown, a cube-like device that shares Internet content with your TV, is scheduled to go on sale this spring. Boxee Box plugs into your TV and allows you to search and store Web content "Last Gadget Standing" pits 10 products against each other in "American Idol"-like competitionBoxee beat out Plastic Logic Que e-reader, Intel Reader and seven other finalistsSHOW WX Pico Projector, a portable projector the size of a cell phone, wins online contest Las Vegas, Nevada (CNN) -- The Boxee Box, a cubelike device that shares Internet content with your TV, won the annual "Last Gadget Standing" competition Saturday at the International Consumer Electronics Show.
The box narrowly beat out Plastic Logic's Que e-reader and the Intel Reader, a device that scans printed text and reads it aloud, in the annual product-demonstration contest, which is decided by audience applause. "It's truly a game-changer," said Boxee marketing vice president Andrew Kippen, who presented the device.
The worst gadgets. 7 Weirdest Products. Looking for the weirdest, wackiest products at CES 2010? We've got 'em! Check out my picks for the top 7 weirdest, wildest, wackiest and just plain dumb products from the Consumer Electronics Show 2010 in Las Vegas. Don't miss the amazingly fashionable TV Hat - coming soon to a subway or train car near you. Or what about the wacky yellow robot that costs thousands, or the other robot that teaches you to speak a foreign language. But wait, there's more. we've also got the nano-bidet and nano-toilet, proving that technology really can improve everything in your life.
Finally, you won't want to miss the the oddly named "Phubby", or the wacky personal music system that gets a little too, well, personal, and the USB cigarette that plugs into your computer and smokes "just like the real thing". Strange but true: An Android-powered microwave at CES | Between. Cool photos. Here are our photos that capture some of the experience of attending this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.Samsung’s booth had a spectacular display, made up from many smaller displays. Classical music came from the ceiling and created a cone of beauty amid the noisy show floor. The crowds were bigger this year. As of Friday night, more than 112,000 people had come through the show at the Las Vegas Convention Center. By the same time a year earlier, only 92,000 had attended, according to Gary Shapiro, chief executive of the Consumer Electronics Association.
The official show attendance results will come later. Sony trotted out teen superstar Taylor Swift, who sang Love Story at the company’s press conference. Jeffrey Katzenberg, chief executive of DreamWorks Animation, and Frederic Rose, CEO of Technicolor, came on stage at Samsung’s press conference to talk about their alliance to advance 3-D viewable movies in the living room.
What’s more fun than playing Guitar Hero? CES in pictures: the good, the bad, the Elvis. CES is a daunting show to cover, filled with emerging technologies, new products hoping to change the world, and a few goofy surprises here and there. What you don't often see is what goes on around the fringes of the show: the products that don't get written about, the booth designs intended to draw your eye and get you to walk in, and the weird tricks companies try to get your attention. This year every major player wanted you to put on glasses to look at content, you could get your picture taken with Elvis at a few different places, and if you knew were to look you could sit in Captain Kirk's chair. Welcome to our CES, in pictures. At the Panasonic booth, huge slabs of 3D glasses were brought out to allow patrons to see what few seemed interested in buying. One booth was showing off sniper rifles for the Wii and the PS3.
Samsung's booth was technically impressive, but rather dizzying to walk through. "Pleo Lives! " Augmented Reality reared its ugly head. The idea behind this product? New photos of gadgets including HP Slate, 3-D TV and m. CES postmortem. To cap off the CES coverage, we’d like to give a shout-out to our partners and also discuss our coverage. We do this for you guys, after all, so feel free to chime in with your opinion on both the show and us. The biggest electronics show in the world is a difficult thing to report as it is with only a handful of timid bloggers, ripped from their natural habitat as it were, and placed in an unfamiliar environment.
But to put them in front of a live camera and ask them to provide meaningful commentary for hours on end is to invite calamity. Fortunately, thanks to our great Livestream team and partners like Alienware, who provided our rendering computers, I think we did passably well. We’ve already got our best of put up, and John weighed in on the tone of the show as well. The big tech guys have a sort of manifest destiny thing going on, and if they say 3D is the next big thing, it is — because they’re going to make it so whether you like it or not.
Our Coverage That’s pretty much it. CES & video games. News (2) Previews Review Videos (3) Screenshots Cheats and Walkthroughs News (2) Previews Review News (15) Previews (1) Review News (15) Previews (1) Review Videos (10) Screenshots Cheats and Walkthroughs News (15) Previews (1) Review Videos (10) Screenshots Cheats and Walkthroughs You couldn't walk more than a few feet without running into a 3D-enabled TV at CES 2010. "From the technical standpoint, we are fully 3D capable. Greenberg conceded that it's possible Microsoft will embrace 3D...eventually. "As consumer interest for 3D grows, we'll grow with it," he said. In addition to Scrap Metal, Greenberg pointed to Avatar: The Game as another 3D-supporting game on Xbox 360. "I think 3D is a great experience in the theater and I thought Avatar was fantastic," he said, "but there's a lot of challenges about 3D in the living room.
Because the tech industry is pushing 3D so hard, however, Greenberg says Microsoft's technically on board. Ten Technologies from CES -- A Wrap | Aging In Place Technology. Ford unveils Tweeting car. iPhone as a Universal Remote Control. The iPhone has many advanced features, but it is missing one item that was prevalent on PDA's in the past, and that is an Infrared interface. Older devices like an iPaq had this standard and it allowed you to use the device as a remote control. Several firms have stepped up to fill in this gap, with a combination IR transmitter that plugs into the iPhone or iPod touch dock connector, and a corresponding app to control the transmitter.
The vendors we looked at, at CES, are in varying stages with varying approaches. The iWavit from thinkoptics ( has a nice customizable interface, sleek hardware, and solid marketing. The unit can even act as a 3D mouse, incorporating vertical and horizontal gestures. The Re from NewKinetix ( is promising, but needs work on the remote control interface and their transmitter is bulkier. RCA Airnergy Charger Harvests Electricity F. By Evan Ackerman This thing is, seriously, the highlight of CES for me (so far) this year. 3D TVs and eBook readers are fine, but there’s nothing amazing about them.
The Airnergy Charger is amazing. This little box has, inside it, some kind of circuitry that harvests WiFi energy out of the air and converts it into electricity. This has been done before, but the Airnergy is able to harvest electricity with a high enough efficiency to make it practically useful: on the CES floor, they were able to charge a BlackBerry from 30% to full in about 90 minutes, using nothing but ambient WiFi signals as a power source. The Airnergy has a battery inside it, so you can just carry it around and as long as you’re near some WiFi, it charges itself.
Unlike a solar charger, it works at night and you can keep it in your pocket. We didn’t think you’d believe all this, so we made RCA explain it all on video: Car Technology Speeds Up - PC World. New Skype TV shown off by LG. HDTV news. HDTVs made a big splash in Las Vegas at CES. The major HDTV manufacturers all has big announcements. We've gathered our HDTV coverage in one spot to make it easier to get the lowdown on what happened at the trade show.
Click on the links below to learn more. Read more of our coverage of CES 2010. HDTV going 3D in 2010 PC World rounds up the HDTV makers who've got 3D news at this year's CES. Experiencing 3D TV first-hand A first-hand demo at CES. 3D comes home The 3D being shown at CES is not akin to the 3D you'd get with anaglyphic red-and-green glasses folded up into a Cracker Jack box. LG TVs make new connections More connections, including support for Skype video calls. Sharp QuadPixel technology promises better HDTV color Aquos HDTVs will add a yellow subpixel to the normal red, green and blue (RGB) colors. Sony debuts new design and 3D HDTVs for 2010 Sony today introduced 12 new series of HDTVs for the coming year. Toshiba announces Cell TV HDTV Yahoo gets new rivals for Connected TV. CES 2010: Hands On with Parrot AR.Drone Quadricoptor | Touch Arc. Without a doubt, one of the coolest things introduced at CES 2010 was Parrot's AR.Drone quadricoptor.
We managed to track it down for some hands-on time and yes, it's really as cool as it looks from the developer's videos. One of the biggest features behind the technology is the sensors and advanced processing behind the device which allow it to practically fly itself. Unlike other remote helicoptors, the AR.Drone uses a combination of downward looking camera, gyroscopes and other sensors to perform stationary flight and also compensate for other flight conditions. The result is a very easy to fly device. The device is currently controlled using an iPhone/iPod Touch app which communicates through Wi-Fi to the AR.Drone itself. Left/right buttons allow you to rotate 360 degrees in one spot, while up/down buttons control altitude. In picking it up for the first time, I found it very easy to maneuver.
Features and editorial - gdgt. Videos. CES In Three Unbelievable Videos. By: @Hilzfuld Although I was not fortunate enough to attend CES this year, I followed the developments and announcements that the Las Vegas conference brought to the tech word very closely. There were many cool toys, mobile phones, and gadgets announced at CES, but most experts would summarize the conference by saying that it is clear that 2010 will be the year of 3D technology. All the big manufacturers announced at least one 3D product whether it was Sony with the 3D PS3, Panasonic with their $21,000 3D camcorder, or Samsung with the world’s first 3D TV, 3D was dominating the floor. Some might say it was the movie industry that brought this trend on, and specifically Avatar, but whatever the reason, there is a good chance we will be watching a lot of content in 3D this year. Over the last few days, I have come across two videos clearly showing where the future of mobile advertising lies.
Pretty amazing stuff. The Dark Side of CES. Chaîne de Scobleizer. To go further: CES impressions. Some cool things at CES missed by the major media.