Thursday, January 8, 2009 - Page 2
News

Help Make Giz AU Australia’s Best Blog (Officially)

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At the moment we’re coming second in the 2008 Weblog Awards for Best Australian and New Zealand Blog. And we think you deserve better. So to make it even easier for you guys to vote for us, we’ve included the official poll below the fold.


TomTom Go 740 Live: Their Connected GPS

TomTom’s Go 740 Live GPS is their first to have a phone connection built-in, used to download traffic weather and friend finder information.


Gadgets

Fulton Innovation’s eCoupled System Charges Gadgets with No Wires Necessary

Fulton Innovations showed off their eCoupled induction charger with an iPhone that was able to recharge by simply placing it on a surface, no adapters necessary. It was a modded iPhone, sure, but cool nonetheless.


Computing

More Pictures of the Gorgeous HP Firebird’s Gross Innards

I’m usually not into that liquid cooling glowy PC mod stuff, but the HP Firebird 803 really is a nice looking machine…in a clinical circuitry kind of way.


Online

Police Use Google Street View to Solve Kidnapping Crime

Usually when we hear Google Street View news, it’s over kitty-cat privacy issues or people peeing in the street. But this time around, the mayhem monitor actually helped solve the kidnapping of a young girl.


Computing

Lenovo’s Dual-Screen Laptop Has Basically Every Feature Ever

I just played around with the new Lenovo W700ds laptop, complete with two screens and built-in Wacom tablet, and it’s a monster. It’s not exactly portable, but it’s as feature-filled as laptops get.


Logitech G19 Hands On: I Watched YouTube on a Gaming Keyboard

I just greased on Logitech’s G19 gaming keyboard with its full-blown, full-colour LCD display, and it feels just like the G-keyboards you love, but you know, topped a pretty YouTube-playing, widget-powered display.


Gadgets

3M’s Prototype Pico Projectors add RGB LEDs, Still Aren’t in Your Phone

It seems that we see tiny projectors often, but never in actual phones or in devices I can imagine myself using. The tradition continued tonight with more prototype pico projectors from 3M.


Samsung Spreads Its Wings with 117 HDTVs

A sneak peek at the Samsung’s CES booth revealed this daunting, 117-strong LCD wing. I’d estimate each of those screens is at least 40-inches. That would put the entire television wingspan at 24 metres.


Entertainment

Panasonic 3DHD: Decent 3D Video That’s As Impractical As Any 3D Ever

After the press conference blitz of today, I snuck off to Panasonic’s booth (still under construction) to check out their 3DHD technology—a 3D plasma screen that runs in true 1080p.