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  • Quick look: iOmega iConnect Wireless Data Station

    Quick look: iOmega iConnect Wireless Data Station

    Posted on March 2, 2010 | No Comments
    Ever since Iomega announced the iConnect Wireless at CES we've been thinking long and hard about our NAS usage. Do we really want a NAS with built-in drives? Why can't we be free of NAS hegemony? Well, the $99 iConnect promises to break our shackles. It's a NAS without a drive. Here's a quick hands on and we'll do a full review this week. The press release, for your edification, as well as a video, follow.

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  • The next frontier: Converting 2D to 3D

    The next frontier: Converting 2D to 3D

    Posted on January 30, 2010 | No Comments
    Remember at CES when all of the companies were like "We'll convert your 2D to 3D?" Yeah, ummm, nah. What will happen is that studios will back-convert some of their old movies - or movies not shot in 3D - to 3D using a time-consuming, partially automated process. Like in love, the first cut is the deepest:
    The first step is to separate the shot into somewhere between two and eight layers of depth. Take, for example, an image of a man standing in front of a brick wall, with a blue sky behind the wall. The graphic artist might separate the shot into three layers: the man, the wall, and the sky. Then, he would take each layer and draw contour lines around any object that appeared there. He'd start by marking depth lines on the man using a computer, turning the image into a sort of topographical map. He'd repeat the process for any objects in the other layers. (If there were a bird in the sky, he'd draw lines there, too.)

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  • The Onion’s CES Highlights

    The Onion’s CES Highlights

    Posted on January 13, 2010 | No Comments
    The Onion, always good for a quick larf, just posted a list of great new devices launched at CES including but not limited to:
    Radioshack—Big Sack of Adapters: The right one is probably in there somewhere Bose—Noise-Postponing Headphones: Using Bose's patented SoundDelay technology, these headphones store ambient distractions for up to six hours before unleashing them all at once against the wearer's eardrums.

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  • BioWare tries to balance the BioWare way with the attraction of new fans with Mass Effect 2

    BioWare tries to balance the BioWare way with the attraction of new fans with Mass Effect 2

    Posted on January 12, 2010 | No Comments
    Ladies and gentlemen, I have a conundrum. As many of you know, Mass Effect 2 comes out on January 26. It's the first big game of the year. There's only one problem: I'm having a heck of a hard time getting excited about it. What's wrong with me, because clearly something is?

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  • Video highlights from CrunchGear’s CES 2010 booth

    Video highlights from CrunchGear’s CES 2010 booth

    Posted on January 11, 2010 | No Comments
    CrunchGear had its own booth at a CES event this year and of course we streamed all the interviews live. East Coasters may have missed out due to the late schedule though. So here they are for a second time. Daniel Brusilovsky started out the panel with a demo of mSpot video streaming Android app. But we go on to take a look Sticker, Shapeways, a Geek Not Needed router, the L5 iPhone remote, v.Clone Iomega software, Blue Microphones, Mad Catz Cyborg R.A.T. mouse, LowJack computer software, an HP CTO, PocketCPR, Pogoplug and finish up two hours of interviewing with a look at the Gunman iPhone game. Forgive all the shuffling. We did this via Livestream, after all. Click through for all the interviews and general CrunchGear hijinks.

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  • Chumby Sunfury Tablet coming?

    Chumby Sunfury Tablet coming?

    Posted on January 11, 2010 | No Comments
    We missed this one. But then again, the onle mention of the Chumby Sunfury tablet at CES '10 was in the Marvell booth. We were too busy palling around with Stan Lee to notice anything else. Good thing the nerds from technabob has our back and managed to get a spec sheet.

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  • CEA boots small vendors out of Las Vegas hotels

    CEA boots small vendors out of Las Vegas hotels

    Posted on January 11, 2010 | No Comments
    In the dog eat dog world of the CE business, margins are low and money - especially in this economy - is tight. That's why a number of smaller vendors, including some we talked to in Vegas, took rooms in local hotels or ran "peripheral" events in other venues. The Daily Tech reports that some of those vendors have been ousted by the hotels themselves after the CEA, the organization that runs CES, convinced management to force them out.

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  • Here’s a 1990 CES photo set for your amusement

    Here’s a 1990 CES photo set for your amusement

    Posted on January 10, 2010 | No Comments
    Another year, another CES. The show this year wasn’t that different then previous years with some new stuff, a lot of old crap, and nerds all over Vegas. Hopefully you followed us around the show floor via our massively-successful Livestream feed. If not, stay tuned. We’re going to cut a lot of the fluff and repost [...]

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  • Best of CES 2010

    Best of CES 2010

    Posted on January 10, 2010 | No Comments
    CES is over for CrunchGear (we'll still be posting some stragglers today and tomorrw) but we'd like to reflect on the best gear we saw at the show. These few days flew by and even with the glut of 3D TVs and ereaders we were actually impressed by a few small, good things that caught our eye on the show floor. Here are the winners of CrunchGear's Best of CES 2010 informal editor poll.

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  • Sharp goes its own way, doesn’t lose its mind promoting 3D TV (like everyone else has)

    Sharp goes its own way, doesn’t lose its mind promoting 3D TV (like everyone else has)

    Posted on January 9, 2010 | No Comments
    Let's have a round of applause for Sharp, which could be the only TV manufacturer here that isn't freaking out over 3D. (Not that it, too, doesn't have 3D TVs on its roster, but it doesn't treat them as the be-all, end-all.) Instead, Sharp made the brave decision to try something different, which, you'll recall, adds yellow to the usual threesome of red, green, and blue pixels.

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  • CES so far

    CES so far

    Posted on January 9, 2010 | No Comments
    CES always seems shorter than it really is. We've been here in Vegas since Tuesday, reporting live on almost everything of any importance, and we're all goofy and tired. I usually hate CES. It's a long slog through endless halls and repetitive meetings that go over what has already been gone over. But this year was different. This year's CES was strangely subdued yet refreshing. CE companies have stopped the genitalia-waving associated with speeds, sizes, and megapixels and have started producing products with considerably more finesse. The devices we saw were well-designed and featured a number of clever UI tricks that can turn an average iPod dock into a thoughtful device designed for a specific purpose and person.

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  • You know, you could have just asked me to put my camera away, Mr. Drunk With Power bouncer

    You know, you could have just asked me to put my camera away, Mr. Drunk With Power bouncer

    Posted on January 9, 2010 | No Comments
    Why do nightclub bouncers think they're above the law? I attended a Divx party at some place called Moon at the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas for CES. (Divx actually has some neat stuff on the way, but that's a matter for another day.) Like always, I had my camera, a Canon DSLR, hanging around my neck. This, having a camera, wasn't an issue at the Divx party, which ended at 11:00pm, but it most certainly became an issue a few hours later. Photographers take note! Following the Divx party, which was 100 percent okie dokie, another one started up. People were welcome to stay at Moon just that it was no longer a Divx event. I think the new party had something to do with the Adult Video Awards or whatever. With this new party, apparently, came new rules, rules that were not made clear to attendees who had stayed over from Divx. The rule that got me in hot water: no cameras allowed.

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  • Lingo Debuts 15 New Translators at CES

    Lingo Debuts 15 New Translators at CES

    Posted on January 9, 2010 | No Comments
    51DAgfE6WWL Lingo, the maker of talking and multi-lanaguage translators, have debuted more then 15 different translators at CES. The units announced ranging from models with six languages, all the way to 52 languages — prices range from $19.95 to $299. Lingo has versions of it's translator for students well, the WorldMate 6 goes for $19.95, and includes 30,000 words, and 720 phrases in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Dutch. It also has one touch language icons featuring the country flags, which allow users to switch easily between languages.

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  • Sennheiser And Adidas Partner For Special Earphones

    Sennheiser And Adidas Partner For Special Earphones

    Posted on January 9, 2010 | No Comments
    sennheiser-earphones Sennheiser and Adidas have partnered up for a special version of their earphones. In all the models that were announced, they all feature a loudspeaker, and a volume controller built directly on the earphone cable. The cables are fiber-reinforced and remain flexible to temperatures as low as minus 10, according to Sennheiser. All the earphones also feature different ergonomically designed ear pieces. For the MX 680 stereo model, Sennheiser has developed a patent-pending EarFin holding system, which they say will ensure that the earpieces fit and stay on your ear comfortably.

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  • iLuv Launches New Speaker/Charging Station

    iLuv Launches New Speaker/Charging Station

    Posted on January 9, 2010 | No Comments
    iluv iLuv has launched a new speaker and charging station, that corresponds with an iPhone app that iLuv has developed. The iLuv iMM190 features a dual dock alarm clock with NOA/S.A.M.E Weather Hazard Alert. Also, it comes with pre-programmed NOAA-supported channels, and can store up to 10 alert messages, as well as a LED warning indicator.And, if you don't have reception for 10 days, the iMM190 will warn you. The iMM190 is also a CES 2009 Best of Innovations Honoree.

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