Category Archives: CES 2011

Validity Fingerprint Sensors with More Flexibility

January 22, 2011CES 2011, ComputersCES, dell, fingerprint, hp, validityJeffrey Powers

Mariel van Tatenhove, the VP of Marketing came by the live booth to show off Validity. It’s the fingerprint swipe technology on certain laptops and touchscreens.

Validity is different from other fingerprint swipe technologies for they separate the sendor from the silicon. The end result is the sensor is not broken. The best part is the newer versions can change color to let you know if it worked or not.

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Iomega TV with Boxee

January 22, 2011CES 2011, TVs, VideoCESTodd Cochrane

Iomega becomes the second manufacturer to offer a Boxee-based product with their brand new Iomega TV with Boxee. Available in two variants, one as a media streamer device with no storage, the other with up to 2TB of storage built-in. The devices also offer NAS features such as DLNA server, iTunes server and access to your Iomega Personal Cloud.

Available from late February at $229, $299 and $349 price points. You can register to be notified of availability at the link above.

Interview by Todd Cochrane of Geek News Central.

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Iomega SuperHero Backup

January 22, 2011CES 2011, GadgetsCESTodd Cochrane

As smartphones get more powerful with more storage, the possibility of losing something important when your phone is misplaced or stolen, gets ever greater. And it’s not really business documents that are important, it’s your photos that are really irreplaceable.

Iomega‘s new SuperHero Backup and Charger for iPhone and iPod Touch can help with this problem. It’s a charging cradle that also backups up contacts and photos to the included 4GB SD card (which can be upgraded by the user, if needed). An Iomega backup and restore application is available from the iTunes store. It’s especially useful for those people who never sync their iPhone to their Mac.

Available from the end of January for $69.

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Flir Handheld Pocket Night-Vision Scope

January 22, 2011CES 2011, VideoCES, flirTodd Cochrane

Eric Davidson from Flir Systems shows Todd their latest hand-held pocket night-vision scope. Building on their background in military products, this scope is lighter, smaller and cheaper. Aimed at the outdoorsman (and woman), it runs off a re-chargeable li-ion battery for around five hours and can be charged from USB. Available from April.

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MobileMonitor presents Monitor2Go

January 22, 2011CES 2011, Video3D, CES, mobilemonitorTodd Cochrane

Lawrence Pensack presents two portable 15.4″ inch USB monitors that are designed to extend the desktop real estate of laptop computers. Monitor²Go, which is available in May, is a USB monitor that sells for $279 dollars.

The Field Monitor Pro With Keypad is available now and sells for $289, includes an integrated numeric keypad. Both monitors are DisplayLink Certified.

It is possible to daisy-chain up to 6 of these monitors for maximum high-performance portable screen real estate. Both units fold up into the shape of standard laptop computers to go into standard laptop bags and weigh about 4 pounds. They are powered with their own power adapters.

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Anti Sleep Pilot for Tired Drivers

January 22, 2011CES 2011, HealthCESTodd Cochrane

According to a report in the British Medical Journal, a tired driver is eight times more likely to drive badly than one who is well rested. The Anti Sleep Pilot is small gadget that can help drivers stay alert and avoid drifting off to sleep. The ASP monitors your driving using accelerometers and reactions to small tests, and based on your performance recommends when you should pull over for a rest.

This could be a genuine lifesaver. Available from around $220 in the summer.

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Kenmore Connect Makes Appliances Smart

January 22, 2011CES 2011, WirelessAppliances, CESTodd Cochrane

Kenmore‘s Connect system turns your white goods and household appliances into smart devices. Through either a touchscreen on the device or remote access from a PC, you can see what your refrigerator is doing, how much energy it’s consuming and whether there’s a problem. If there is something up, Kenmore’s technicians can carry out remote diagnosis to see what’s wrong.

Available from 2012 across the Kenmore range.

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LG Smart TV, Smart TV Set Top Box

January 21, 2011CES 2011, TVsCES, lg, set top box, smart tvJeffrey Powers

LG is getting into the Over the Top TV game.

Well, in all reality, LG was already there. They were the first to put Netflix in Blu Ray players. Smart TV’s and Smart Blu Ray players with applications like Vudu let you do more. So getting into Smart TV is a natural progression.

LG also is adding great content to their boxes. All the applications you would find in other STB’s, but also a web browser for those shows you cannot get.

The remote is good, but if you got a smartphone, you can pull that out and have an extended remote control. The screen is more graphically intense separated into four groups. Games, entertainment, groups and more.

The Smart TV Set Top Box will be available Q2 for $129.99

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REESE’S Minis and Chris Pirillo?

January 21, 2011CES 2011, Healthbag, CES, minis, peanut butter cup, reese'sJeffrey Powers

We saw email on a big (little) announcement from Reeses before CES started. It piqued my interest, for sure. So when we saw the booth, we knew that technology has taken a turn for the better.

Smaller Peanut butter cups with no wrappings.

Chris Pirillo was on hand to hand us a handfull of the handy chocolate – Peanut buttery goodness known at REESE’S Minis. They are bite-sized and come in a big bag, so your miniature appetite can be miniaturized by the miniature goodness.

we stopped to talk to Chris, who explained why REESE’S decided to launch the Minis at CES.

Interview by Jeffrey Powers of Geekazine

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OWC — Other World Computing — High Performance Aftermarket SSD Drives

January 21, 2011CES 2011, ComputersCESTodd Cochrane

Grant Dahlke from introduces Sandforce processor-based high capacity, high-performance SSD (solid state drive) hard drives for computers such as Apple’s Macbook Air that are up to three times larger and up to 22% faster than the drive than Apple’s OEM drive. They also have a line of drives for older IDE and ATA machines, which enables much better performance from older computing hardware due to the much faster read/write times of solid state drives as opposed to the performance of conventional spinning hard drives.