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Sandisk's slotRadio plays super cheap 1,000 song packs on microSD cards, something that should be awesome. But a serious of disastrous design choices have turned it into one of the worst products I've ever seen.
Chargepod's fantastic 6-way charger just got improved for a V2, offering a 3-port USB hub, PC/Mac laptop charging and four gadget simultaneous juicing.
The second real day of CES 2009 kicks off with Sony CEO Howard Stringer's keynote speech. Sony said yesterday they saved BIG product announcements for the gadget emperor himself. What are they? (Besides Tom Hanks.)
Before Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer jumps onstage to deliver the second day keynote, CEA President Gary Shapiro is trying to rally the troops but drops this bomb: The industry's gonna shrink this year. The industry has only shrunk three other times in the last four years—it's grown every other year. 2008, even, saw 5.4 percent growth. This year, it's gonna fall off at least 0.6 percent they're estimating.
Mattel's hanging its hopes on kids making their own fun with its Ucreate brand. Ucreate Music turns your tweens into amateur djs while Ucreate Games gets them started on creating their own gaming empire.
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.
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.
Sony's pile of new photo frames is topped by the 10-inch V1000 and X1000, which have supposedly 15x sharper contrast and are 13 percent than last year's models, for that superduper better-than-reality look.
We've all been there (those of us who've touched a woman's torso). The passion. The heat. The clasp. The smug, "maybe you should practice this when I'm not home." The smugger, "maybe I do!" Now here's the solution.
Here's a horrific reminder that at the end of the day, technology still has power over us. This poor guy got trapped hanging upside-down by his pants from a chairlift for 15 minutes. That's embarrassing.
