conferencing
Phones
Callpod Pheonix Bluetooth Conferencing System Hands-On
3:39AM Jason Chen | The Callpod Phoenix Bluetooth conferencing system is finally available, connecting up to five Bluetooth headsets at the same time. It’s very much a business-class solution, targeted towards medical, emergency response, restaurant, retail, government, military and enterprise customers who need a teleconferencing solution that doesn’t require people sitting around a table, smelling each other’s foul breath. With the Phoenix you can make a shared phone call with all five participants sitting at their own desks—assuming their desks are within the 100 meter Bluetooth range. More »
Gadgets
Video Hands On: Creative’s inPerson Wi-Fi Video Confrencing Device
9:40AM Sean Fallon | If you were curious to know more about Creative’s inPerson Video Conferencing device, we have a video that shows the device up close. As you will see, the UI is fairly straightforward and simple to use. During the demo we made a call to a rep in Miami and the process was pretty smooth. It connected quickly and the call quality was decent, but admittedly, it was hard to hear over the ambient noise. More info and a full press release with specs after the break. More »
Gadgets
Creative Officially Unveils the inPerson Wi-Fi Video Conferencing Device
4:56AM Sean Fallon | The Pitch:We got the jump on the InPerson back in December thanks to the FCC, but now we have learned that the product is actually being positioned as a portable wireless videoconferencing device as opposed to a phone, as was reported previously. Creative hopes that the inPerson will become an affordable replacement for the extremely expensive videoconferencing units often used in board rooms. More »
Gadgets
Callpod Phoenix Provides Bluetooth Conferencing With Headsets
11:20AM Jason Chen | We talked about this briefly in our review of Callpod’s Dragon Bluetooth headset, but the company (who also brought you the Chargepod) is coming out with a conferencing solution as well. Instead of hooking up two Dragon headsets directly to each other, you can connect a bunch of them through a Phoenix, which serves as a teleconferencing base without making everyone crowd around a table with a Polycom on it. In fact, people don’t even have to be in the same room—you could walk to the bathroom and take a leak and nobody would even know. [Callpod] More »
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Yamaha Projectphone Has 3 Cameras, 14 Speakers and 16 Microphones
5:00AM Wilson Rothman | Yamaha is taking its pimp sound projector skills to the boardroom with this teleconferencing contraption. Set one $3,000 Projectphone at the business end of your conference table (connected to a TV), and another identical one at a table in a room far far away. Three cameras shoot you and your two prettiest associates, and as you talk, the mics pick up what you say—and from where you said it. The viewers on the other end are treated to a virtual recreation of your threesome, with voice-activated camera trained on whoever is speaking. And of course, you and your crew get the same immersive conferency vibe from the people in front of the remote Projectphone. [Yamaha] More »
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