Category Archives: CES 2012

iGrip: Get Your Hold On Most Any Smartphone or GPS



Universal or Custom

The iGrip Universal holders are designed to work with a wide rand of devices – ipods to full size smartphones, with or without a case.  If you are looking to protect a specific device like Blackberry, Apple or HTC Smartphone, you will want to checkout the PerfektFit Holders .

Cell phone hands-free legislation now in many States!

Over the last decade thirteen different states have implemented some type of hands-free legislation. Plus, iGrip has a selection of automobile GPS units such as TomTom, Magellen, Garmin and other popular units.

Interview by Courtney Wallin of SDRNews for the TechPodcast Network.

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iDevices – The iShower



iDevices – Getting Clean With Music

The iShower from iDevices is a small but clear speaker that receives music transmitted from your mobile device from up to two hundred feet away. It work with any blue tooth enabled device and while the stand can be attached onto you shower wall the speaker can be detached and travel with you to the beach or the garage. The iShower can be paired with up to five devices so that you do not have to connect your phone with the device every time you want to listen to music.

 

Interview by Andy McCaskey of SDRNews for the TechPodcast Network.

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Qooq: A French Chef Cooking Companion



3500 Recipes and 100 Chefs

Qooq is a source of inspiration for experienced and novice chefs. There are 250 technique tutorials on every aspect of the techniques of cooking, and then 3500 interactive recipes that allow you to adjust quantities, create shopping lists, view utensils required and provide access to specific video clips for the recipe’s preparation. Plus there are 500 wine pages, and 450 pages of ingredient variants.

Interview by Andy Smith of SDRNews and Geocaching World for the TechPodcast Network.

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SmithMicro – Better Mobile Networking



SmithMicro’s Solution to Overloaded Networks

Smith Micro is launching a new product named Mobile Network Director, which Sprint has announced is being released this quarter. The goal of Mobile Network Director is to help to manage the traffic on a particular network and giving the overflow of that traffic to a different mobile network. This will help a customer’s mobile device stay running optimally even at the peak times of the day without any interruption of service while switching the device to and fro networks.

Interview by Andy McCaskey of SDRNews for the TechPodcast Network.

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Dyyno – Profitable Video Distribution



Dyyno – Profitable Video Distribution

Dyyno is a media streaming platform that is there to help customers make money from videos they have the rights to. They’re abilities support PC or Mac and Dyyno was the first company to have content streaming live on Roku. Dyyno is also available on the iPad, Samsung platforms, and Android based platforms. Dyyno has the ability to set customers up with their own Roku channel and expand their ability to market their video products.

Interview by Andy McCaskey of SDRNews for the TechPodcast Network.

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Burg Watch Phone



Burg WatchesOne time there was a very popular comic strip in the 1930 of a detective known as Dick Tracy, one of the coolest gadgets that Dick Tracy had was a watch that was also a phone. Now over eighty years later the Dick Tracy watch has become a reality in the Burg line of watches.

The Burg Watches come in a sports and a children models. The basic Burg Watch will just make phone calls and do SMS messages. With the high end models you can make phone calls, send SMS messages, play music, take pictures and organize your data. It has 3.2 mb of memory and a USB connection. You can also record calls, and view images. The background can be changed to any photo you have on file on the watch. They do not connect to social networks, such as Twitter or Facebook at this time, but the company hopes the new models coming out in April will. You change from a regular watch to a phone by turning the dial. To access the menu on the higher end watches you simply push a button on the side of the watch. To get access to a specific section of a menu you simply tap on that section. These are stand alone phones and can be used with a Bluetooth headset.

I didn’t see any price I the Web site but there was one model available on Amazon for a little over $60.00. These would be great for a someone like a child who needs to have a phone with them, but is constantly losing theirs. The watches also have GPS in them so you can keep track of them easily.

Interviewed by Allante Sparks Host of F5 Live

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Turtle Beach – The Sound of Winning



Turtle BeachTurtle Beach has long been synonymous with gaming audio, and this year they have decided to make high-quality gaming headsets available to everyone, everywhere. They have added new headsets to their high-end wireless line, allowing people on any budget to afford a high-quality Turtle Beach wireless gaming headset.

They have even branched out and created a new line of mobile gaming headsets for your iPad, iPhone, Android-based phone or tablet, Nintendo DS, Sony PSP or any other mobile device you are currently gaming on. Now, no matter where you are or how you’re gaming, you can always experience the sound the way it was made to be heard.

Interview by Scott Ertz of F5 Live for the TechPodcast Network.

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Nexia Home Intelligence – Automating Your Home



Nexia Home IntelligenceIf you’re a regular to F5 Live, or you have gone snooping around your local RadioShack in the past year or so, you have probably encountered the Schlage Link line of home automation products. With things like door locks and cameras, all accessible from the Internet, it was a useful set of products. No more leaving a key under the mat, just unlock the door from your phone when the repair guy gets to the house.

Well, Schlage has decided to up the ante and expand the product line, renaming it Nexia Home Intelligence and bringing on companies like Pella and Trane to bring new features to the set, like window shades that can automatically open/close on a timer or from the web, or an air conditioner that can be remotely controlled, all through the Nexia website.

We have a hands-on demo of the website, showing off the Pella window shades, remote-controlled cameras and more below.

Interview by Scott Ertz of F5 Live for the TechPodcast Network.

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