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Gadgets
Philips Get You Off With HF8400 Dual Sensual Massagers
1:00AM Jack Loftus | Philips isn’t pussyfooting around at IFA with their HF8400 Dual “Sensual Massagers.” Nay, their booth at the show was a bed, a cute model, and the massage devices. Your imagination is now free to in fill the blanks. More »
Screens
Sony Gets 3D Fever: 3D Bravia TV Next Year, PlayStation 3 Support Planned
3:30PM Danny Allen | Sony has confirmed yesterday’s leak that it’s working on a 3D Bravia LCD HDTV, and will also develop 3D-compatibility into its PlayStation 3, Vaio computer, and Blu-ray products. Silly 3D glasses and cheesy promo video? You betcha. See for yourself: More »
Screens
Are Your Eyeballs Ready For A 480Hz HDTV?
1:20AM John Herrman | Or for that matter, are anyone’s? These are the questioned posed by a bizarre report that Samsung, who’ve been doing the whole 200Hz frame interpolation thing for a while now, will bring a 480Hz TV to IFA this year. More »
Business
Will Trade Shows Survive?
10:50AM Wilson Rothman | Seeing Apple pull out of Macworld and hearing talk of poor turnout at CES make us speculate on the future of trade shows—like automakers and newspapers, are they another institution on the endangered-species list?
Phones
Last IFA an iPhone Saved My Life
4:20AM Jesus Diaz | That avalanche of TVs, fridges, iPod docks, and iPod dock fridges that some people like to call IFA 2008 but I call Satan’s Hell on Earth, agonised to its end this week. About bloody time. To me, the star of this fair wasn’t the Sony ZX1, the Samsung X360 or even Addy’s bags, but one now-ancient gadget that saved my life not one, but two times at the show: my good old trusty iPhone.
Gadgets
Addy Changes the World One Bag at a Time
11:15PM Jesus Diaz | Remember the video above, with our very own and beloved Addy Dugdale cursing and tearing apart Sharp’s IFA 2007 sharp-as-knives gigantic swag bags? Well, I’m happy to report that Addy changed the world that day, once and forever. I witnessed the consequences of her actions at IFA 2008: More »
Screens
CEDIA 2008 Infiltrated: Booths Under Construction, A Few Tidbits Already Powered Up
5:55AM John Mahoney | We snuck in (or casually moseyed in, actually) to CEDIA’s main show floor, which is still being set up for tomorrow’s opening, and we’ve learned a few things in advance of any announcements. More »
Home
iPod Fridge and iGorenje Home Appliance Control System in Action
12:00AM Jesus Diaz | We covered the Gorenje Made for iPod fridge and the iGorenje home appliance program at IFA last Sunday. I’ve spent some time with both and I like what I see, although I have some doubts about how practical this can be. More »
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Miele’s New Giant Fridge Can Double as a Morgue
10:00PM Jesus Diaz | I don’t know if these fridges are the norm in the US, but it seems to me like Miele’s latest giganormous fridge from their Master Cool line–shown here at IFA 2008–has to be the biggest fridge ever available to megalomaniac consumers and potential serial killers. They should christen it The Walk-In Fridge, because this thing is so big that you can fit a cow inside. So huge in fact that I won’t be able to put it in my apartment’s living room. Actually, I think can put my entire living room and bedroom inside during the summer months. [More IFA 2008 Coverage] More »
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