Category Archives: CES 2011

Free Mobile Digital TV with a USB Adapter – At Interstate Speeds

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If you thought that the WinTV adapters from Hauppauge were only a convenience when traveling once your reached the hotel room, or a way to keep up with the game from a coffee shop where there aren’t TV’s tuned to a local station, you need to take a fresh look (as a passenger, of course) at Mobile Digital TV. In motion.

For less than $70, you can get a USB plug in adapter that converts your Windows laptop into a Digital TV that can receive broadcasts in a moving vehicle while in traffic, on a trip or on the open road.

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GE Watt Stations Charge Faster, Smarter

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David Wang and Josh Caillavet fro GE joined Jeff on the TPN Live CES coverage to talk about the GE Watt station car charger. Operating on 220 Volts, you can charge from 3-8 hours on Level II charging. It complies with J1772 smart charging standards, giving universal charging. This is a global solution.

They also released the Nucleus, which watches all your power consumption. You can then learn how to conserve energy.

Interview by Jeffrey Powers of Geekazine

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Fulton eCoupled Does Wireless Power

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Dave Baarman presents Fulton eCoupled Wireless Power (ecoupled.com). They have systems for wirelessly powering things such as cell phones and even systems using conductive ink for “smart packaging” that actually lights up the packaging when placed on a special conductive grocery store shelf. You are going to be blown away by where this is headed. Listen to the full interview and post commentary to get some insights into where ecoupled charging and what symbol to look for when you are purchasing electronics.

Interview by Todd Cochrane of Geek News Central and Tom Newman of The Fogview Podcast.

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USB Dino-Lite Microscope from BigC Magnify 240x

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Joesph Kane from BigC joined the TPN Live CES coverage to showed off these great USB microscopes. The Dino-light digital camera is a portable digital microscope camera with magnification range of infinity to 2-3 microns 215x magnification.

During the interview, we looked at the gears of a pocket watch. He then focused on the crystal and the ruby in the watch. We then looked at Joesph’s skin to see the penetration.

The Dino-Light is $499, but you can get microscopes starting at $200. They also have fixed strobe at 60Hz.

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Zoodles Brings Child Safe to Smart Phones

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Mark Williamson from Zoodles joins the TPN Live CES coverage with Zoodles. This is a child safe program that will block them from harmful content. Therefore, they can play games and learn.

The program is also Ad free. The application is also free – you can download from the iPhone or Android app store.

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Live CES2011- Killing Wifi Dead Spots and Exploring Boxee Box

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Regardless of your home installation skill, you will have some dead spots in wifi coverage. The new D-Link base station with steerable beam antennas virtually eliminates these zones where coverage drops out. D-Link’s Steve Stanzione steps through the fundamentals of wifi access points and answers questions on placement within the home.

Part 2 of the interview is a close up look at the D-Link Boxee Box – the connectors, the remote, and some of the behind the scenes stories on why D-Link chose to add some features, and leave out others.

Not to be lost in the shuffle, the new product line from D-Link aimed at home and small business security have some cool features for monitoring your home and property.

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Live-CES2011- Femtocells Extend Wireless Coverage Inside Your Home

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Regardless of where you live in the country, it’s a good bet that you might have some severe coverage problems for your cellphone in your home. Our CES guests from the Femtoforum explain a solution. Cell tower placement and home construction materials can generate wireless dead zones. Femtocells allow you to increase the reliability of your wireless service by using you internet connection for backhaul of the cellular signal. A femtocell at home eliminates the variability of cell service, and generally can handle up to four connections from the home.

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zBoost Signal Amplifier for Cell Phones

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zBoost, made by Wi-Ex, looks very similar to a WiFi router, but instead of broadcasting or repeating WiFi, it boosts a cell signal. At CES they showed off a new model, called the Metro, which was made for urban dwellers. It can boost the signal in an apartment, but no so much that it allows all of your neighbors to jump on it as well.

There is also a multi-band model which covers all wireless providers. Setting one up in your home is as easy as following the simple instructions. zBoost products are available at most big-box electronics stores as well as online from such retailers as Amazon. The Metro retails for $299 and other models prices vary.

Interview by Todd Cochrane of Geek News Central

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Pure Contour Internet WiFi Connected Radio Includes FM, iPhone Dock

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Internet Radio has grown up with this internet connected radio with iPhone and iPad dock from Pure. When you are using the internet radio features to listen to one of the  just over 17,000 internet radio stations available, you can slide in the docking drawer for a smooth appearance. To play from your iPhone or iPod, touch to slide the drawer out.  Pure is just moving into the US market, out of a very successful base in the UK and other regions of the world. In fact, Pure is the biggest digital radio manufacturer (WiFi and LAN) in the world. They also include FM broadcast for local stations.

At CES2011, Pure also launched Flow Songs, which allows you to purchase music direct from your radio- using Shazaam technology.

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Algebra or Mortgage ? A Graphing Calculator Makes Things Clear

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It may be  for home work or working up the finance package for a home. And now it’s in full color !

Either way, the Casio Graphing calculator line that has been upgraded and introduced at CES 2011 is a sure winner. Mike Reiners notes that Casio was the innovator of the graphing calculator over 25 years ago. Mike is a full time teacher in Minnesota, and comes up with some novel ideas to challenge his students, using the capabilities of the graphing calculator. The secret to the long battery power of the unit gives you over 140 hours of capacity on 4 AAA batteries.

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