The Gadget: The Shaft, an arcade-style Virtual Console controller for playing Wii.
The Experience: The Shaft felt good. The black version had a more rubberised texture, while the white Shaft we tried out was silky smooth. We found both to our liking, and the multi-assignable turbo button is perfect for when you want some quick play.
Hit the jump for a bonus “shot.”
The Gadget: Euricase Multimedia Ring Box, adds a 2-inch LCD and 60 minutes of video to otherwise meaningless jewellery boxes.
The Catch: Sarah Meyers!
The Verdict…
I sleep on the couch for the three months following CES. Don’t worry honey, you know I’d never propose to an internet celebrity with such a tacky, tacky product.
The Pitch: An attachable lens for the iPhone and various other camera phones (the likes of which we’ve seen before) that adds either 8x optical zoom or wide-angle. Evidence after the jump.
After seeing the sexy press shot of iRiver’s new flash-based Aplayer (which also crams in voice recording and an FM tuner), we totally couldn’t resist making the iRiver guys pull it out of the case to stack up to a 2nd-gen nano we had on hand. Results? Judge for yourself.
The Pitch: Glasses that project a transparent virtual interface directly into your eyes, essentially bringing to life all heads-up user interface designs from every Sci-Fi show ever. The Catch: It’s not a real product yet (just a reference design), and it needs some kind of other gadget (phone, PDA, computer) to plug into to drive the display. Cool, but too far in the future. [Thanks to Sarah Meyers]
I just ventured into the bowels of the International Pavilion, a separate building beyond the North Hall that’s home to tons of tiny booths of companies from Hong Kong, Taiwan and China. Basically, it’s full of power supplies, shitty digital picture frames and knockoffs. So many knockoffs. Take a look through our gallery and try to spot ripoff versions of the iPod nano, touch, and classic, the Sidekick, and even the Ocean. All high quality, I’m sure.
The new Eee PC with an 8.9-inch screen is real, and they have in fact crammed the bigger screen into the same sized case, as was rumoured. Unfortunately, they stretched the same number of pixels (800×480) across the expanded screen real estate. Yesterday, we confirmed that a WiMax-enabled Eee PC is in the pipes.
[Eee PC News via jkkmobile]
newVideoPlayer("haroonridesishoes_gizmodo.flv", 475, 326,"gizmodo_ces_2008.png"); OK, I know the piss taking shall commence in full shortly, but before you do, check out the iShoes in action. We’ve told you about the motorised footwear before, but this is our first proper foots on. Weighing in at over 5 kilograms, with a top speed of 13.5 mph and a 3-mile range, looking like an ass has never been so fun.
Amethyst’s iPig is an iPod dock for the new generation of iPods. the sound quality is actually rather good, and it gets loud too. The touch sensitive, volume-controlling ears really let you get a response from feeling your ham. It will ship with a multi-functioning remote, but we believe the brochure explains it best; check out the great PR work after the equally fantastic gallery.
Sci-Fi eye-wear lovers are finally getting more options when shopping for new shades with MyVu’s release of two new models, Shades and Crystal. Both models are geared towards watching video on the go, with what MyVu describes as “glance-down technology with true situational awareness”. With this, “glance-down tech” these glasses are even closer to mimicking their Sci-Fi alter-egos, as you might have see on IO9′s Galerry of Sci-Fi Vision Systems. We had our own Benny Goldman testing out the new models, and sadly he didn’t have many words of praise.
