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ST Electronics Digisafe, secure hard drive encryption

Posted by – January 15, 2012

ST Electronics show their Digisafe 2.5″ hard drive enclosure that provides 100% secure encription to the enclosed 1.8″ hard drive.

YouTube keynote at CES 2012

Posted by – January 15, 2012

YouTube had a huge keynote by YouTube Content Partnerships manager Robert Kyncl at CES 2012, you can see it in its entirety here. The talk is about the amazing growth of YouTube, web video is about to represent 90% of all Internet bandwidth. YouTube works to monetize more and more of the web video content. I’d like them to overlay affiliated one-click purchases and price comparisons of the products video-blogged. I believe web video is a huge deal, just as it’ll consume 90% of the web’s bandwidth, it will also generate upwards 90% of the web’s and Google’s revenue, profit, learning, information, attention and time spent.

In the following clip, Stan Lee, the creator of the CSI TV show franchise, talks about user generated content on YouTube.

VMware shows smartphone virtualization on the LG Revolution

Posted by – January 15, 2012

VMware now supports a secure enterprise version of Android at the same time as you can run your personal “hackable” version of Android, both on the same device in a fully secure virtualized way.

LiftMaster shows Android and iOS powered Garage Door opener

Posted by – January 15, 2012

You install their garage door motor on your garage door and you install the Android or iOS app on your smartphone and tablets and you can then open and close your garage door over the Internet.

Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E130

Posted by – January 15, 2012

Here’s the next generation entry level ultraportable Lenovo ThinkPad laptop to be sold in the USA at $449 using the second generation Intel Core i processors and AMD’s quad core processor.

Toshiba Excite X10 launched in the USA, OMAP4430 1.2Ghz thinnest lightest 10.1″ Tablet

Posted by – January 15, 2012

The Toshiba engineers use a magnesium casing and a new type of display where they are directly bonding the touch panel to the display itself, eliminating the air-gap between those two, helping them to get it to be really thin and really light.

Motorola Kopin Golden-i at the Verizon booth at CES 2012


The Motorola Kopin Golden-i is being showcased at the Verizon booth at CES 2012, demonstrating hands-free wearable computing user interfaces for Industrial uses such as Construction, Medical, Public safety, Utilities and more. I’ve been using this for the past 2 months to attempt to have a wearable computing augmented video-blogging system, using Google+ Hangouts On Air with the headmounted display showing a live chat and live status updates from Google+, Twitter, Email alerts and more.

Geniatech shows Ice Cream Sandwich on Set-top-box using AmLogic ARM Cortex-A9

Posted by – January 14, 2012

Shenzhen Geniatech shows their latest Set-top-box powered by the single-core AmLogic ARM Cortex-A9 processor running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

Asus Transformer Prime powered by the Nvidia Tegra3

Posted by – January 14, 2012

Here’s the worlds most powerful ARM Powered Laptop.

ZTE X501, 3.5″ HVGA cheap Android phone

Posted by – January 14, 2012

ZTE is showing this cheap 800Mhz Android phone. It will definitely sell below $100 unlocked or on pre-paid.

Qualcomm shows Android TV on APQ8060

Posted by – January 14, 2012

Qualcomm is investing in Android TV support, the first product being the Lenovo Android TV. This is not Google TV yet, but it could soon be with or without HDMI input/overlays and IR blaster.

Qualcomm S4 MSM8960 Tablet Gaming performance

Posted by – January 14, 2012

Qualcomm shows their MSM8960 S4 Krait reference tablet playing some 3D games on a HDTV.

Always Innovating OMAP4 HDMI Dongle


Always Innovating fits the Texas Instruments OMAP4 motherboard with all the needed features for a Desktop, Set-top-box and 3D home console into a USB stick sized device that connects to the HDMI port of your HDTV and gets power from USB. It has Bluetooth for Bluetooth keyboards and game controllers. Its USB can do USB host.

Samsung 70″ 4K2K Quad-HD TV

Posted by – January 12, 2012

Here’s a presentation by one of the lead engineers at Samsung on the 4K2K HDTV project. With some details about the cost of the technology.

Robert Scoble at CES 2012

Posted by – January 12, 2012

Here are his impressions, what he thinks about the consumer electronics show, the industry, Apple vs Google, and more.

Samsung LED TV Series 6 and LED TV Series 7

Posted by – January 12, 2012

New performance in LED backlit HDTVs, better refresh rates, better colors, more contrast, faster processing and much more.

Canon HF M52, WiFi uploading to YouTube, to your iOS device and even live streaming to Qik!

Posted by – January 12, 2012

Finally the camcorder makers have figured out to include WiFi in their camcorders and features to upload the videos directly to YouTube, Facebook and other services. This is going to be absolutely awesome.

Turbo Ace quad copter

Posted by – January 12, 2012

You can fix your camera to it and it’ll fly up and do some aerial photography and video for you, with a gyroscope based stabilizer.

Toshiba Camileo Air10, WiFi camera

Posted by – January 12, 2012

Uploads to YouTube, live streams to Ustream. Awesome!

Casio GB-6900 G-Shock, Bluetooth 4.0 watch

Posted by – January 12, 2012

Communicates with your Android smartphone that has an ultra low power Bluetooth 4.0 support. Battery life is about 2 years with Bluetooth synchronized to your phone 12 hours per day. It synchronizes with incoming calls, incoming SMS, with time zone changes, it can sound an alarm on your phone if you can’t find it. They are expanding the functionality to support other apps in Android.