5px; float: left;" />Another goody we saw at CES but must've missed, inbetween all that pink Taser-ing and Mini Washer-ing we did over there, JBL unveiled their On Air Control 2.4G wireless speaker system. Being wireless, it's perfect for a clutter-free area, whether being used with your home theatre, iPod, computer, or even the ol' cassette player, and includes a pair of wall-mountable loudspeakers with the wireless transceiver and amplifier, plus a transmitter/receiver module and remote control. ...
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Do the Jitterbug with JBL’s On Air Control 2.4G wireless speaker system
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I wish I would've taped this crazy stunt that occured at CES this year, but missed it. Here Jeff Kahn gets a demo from the Taser International booth at CES 2007. The company caused quite a stir by offering taser guns in metallic pink, and other colors to attract the ladies. Product Page
You'll have to excuse the first few seconds of this video as I wasn't paying much attention, and started recording it upside down. Kodak showed us their new Easyshare line which will be available in March. They also had a beautiful display of beaded digicam straps, leather camera clutches, and colorful skins for the Easyshare line. Very feminine.
I hate baths. You’re either a bath or a shower person, I reckon. It’s a secret rivalry. Lying in your own filth while waiting for a potential spider appearance isn’t my idea of fun. CES exhibitors, Atlantic, are bath people. They’ve created a great waterproof iPod case and speaker system named EGO. Atlantic showed me the case floating around a small pool of water, blaring out tunes with a very slight aqua theme, Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head, a couple of Beach Boys songs; I’m sure they could have thought of better. They still sounded good though, and I suppose if I were forced to have a bath, I would like one of these cases with me. Not to put my iPod in, I have to add, just to catch any spiders that decide to scare the life out of me.
The Atlantic site doesn’t currently stock the case, but should do very soon.
You know how whenever you take a photo of your pup (or cat), their eyes have this weird, otherworldly glow in the photos? Spooky.
Kodak announced at CES that it had developed a system to remove “glow eyes” from pet pictures — but it won’t be available until later this year.
Red-eye removal for photos of humans is now standard inside almost every manufacturer’s digital cameras. As pets are the second most photographed subject, it makes sense to develop a built-in camera system that recognizes the glow eye.
There was a long line at CES for the “gaming chair” and everyone seemed to want to do just one thing — race a Formula One very, very fast. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Unlike other gaming chairs, this D-Box chair, dubbed the GP-100, doesn’t simply vibrate in synch with game play, it actually moves as well, tilting and rocking. I was getting dizzy just watching. The secret is the chair’s motion actuators. They resemble shock absorbers that move slowly like pistons in close integration with what is happening in the game. The company calls the patented technology the “Integrated D-BOX™ MOTION CODE™.”
When I talked to excited participant, he said “Damn! It’s just like driving a race car!.”
As the web site says:
Integrated motion systems use a two, three or four actuators to lift and move your seating in perfect synchronization with the onscreen action and sound, creating a virtual-reality experience in your living room or home theater.
All of this costs a pretty penny, as you might imagine. Figure on the gaming chair costing $15,000, and that does not include a television screen, PC (a Voodoo gaming tower was used for the demo) or games. What consumers get for that is the chair, its actuators and the D-Box controller, a box that takes signals from games specially encoded for the motion chair and translates them into physical movement. I think we’ll probably see this in arcades and movie theatres, with not much home use.
Griffin technology feels it’s time for you to evolve, cut the chord already! At CES they were showing their brand-new Evolve wireless speaker system for your iPod, which is comprised of a charging base and two cube-shaped speakers. Just simply place the Evolve cubes wherever you want to hear the music, or move them room to room. Me, I’d put them outside when we have a party, keeping in mind that they’re not all-weather of course.
Each speaker cube has its own Lithium-Ion battery pack, delivering up to 10 hours of music between charges. To charge, just place the speaker on its charging station. There’s nothing to plug in, and nothing to unplug when you’re ready to deploy the music. Each speaker features its own on/off switch, and an automatic sleep mode to conserve battery charge.
To complete the wireless picture, Evolve comes with its own RF remote. The system works with all iPods, but there is a line-in in the back, so you can plug any music player into it (zune,
sansa, etc.).
It’ll retail for $349 in late spring/summer.
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