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CeBIT Remainders: Eight Reasons We Didn’t Go

1:00PM March 6, 2010 | John Herrman

Every year, Hanover, Germany hosts hordes of tech journalists, analysts and PR people for CeBIT. It’s like CES, sort of, except further away and more boring. We decided not to go this year; it ends tomorrow. Here’s what we missed! More »


RT-N56U Router From The Starship Enterprise Lands… From ASUS

10:10PM March 4, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

I just don’t know what to think about this router. I’ve been staring at it for minutes now, wondering how in 802.11n’s name it was created in ASUS’ laboratory. More »


ASUS’ Three 3D Monitors Will Likely Be Dirt Cheap

9:31PM March 4, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

ASUS has a habit of pricing its products very fairly, and while 3D technology is still in its infancy, I can’t imagine them charging too much for their three monitors shown off this week at CeBIT. More »


Science

Oooooohmmmmmmmmmmmultiball!

1:40AM March 4, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

My wife and I joined the NYC pinball league two weeks ago. I wonder if they would let me play using this brain-computer interface, which was shown at CeBit in Germany. [io9]Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images


Mobile

Nokia Teases, Heavily, That C-Series Phones Are Launching At CeBIT

8:00AM March 1, 2010 | Jack Loftus

Remember Nokia? They make mobile phones (still!), and at CeBIT they’re hinting hard that two more, possibly the C5 and C6, are about to join their ranks. More »


And Now For Something Completely Underwhelming – Dancing Robots

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5:00PM May 13, 2009 | Nick Broughall

What’s worse than the fact that I actually stood there and filmed the entire routine is that it was one of the highlights of the Australian CeBit show. Seriously – for the average gadget fan, there was not a lot more than cheap, ugly electronics that you wouldn’t even buy cheap in China. If you were thinking about going tomorrow, I’d save yourself the price of entry… More »


Gaming

WeSii, XRay And StingRay Add a Pico Projector To Your Gaming Console

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12:05PM May 13, 2009 | Nick Broughall

Probably the one truly interesting gadget to come out of CeBit in Sydney yesterday were these Pico projector docks from Digislide, which connect to your console and let you take your games on the road with you. More »


Computing

Asus Will Actually Produce their Best Concepts

1:00AM March 10, 2009 | Mark Wilson

If you hadn’t noticed, we wrote about Asus a lot last week. The company was showing off some interesting concepts at the tradeshow CeBIT—concepts that Asus has just announced will actually be produced.

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Entertainment

DVR/BitTorrent Combo BlobBox Appears, Pirates and Studio Execs Shudder

10:00AM March 3, 2009 | Wilson Rothman

One of Chen’s deepest, darkest fantasies is a set-top box that records shows and pulls in torrents at the same time. Italian hardware firm Telsey and software maker TVBlob just made it—the BlobBox—a reality.

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Asus Marine Cool Motherboard Fights Heat with Ceramic Plates

6:40AM March 3, 2009 | Mark Wilson

Ceramic isn’t just for pottery. It’s used in military armour to stop bullets and the Space Shuttle to thwart heat. Now, Asus is reintroducing the material in its sci-fi-tastic Marine Cool motherboard.