Orchard Inc raised $4 Million for a tablet startup, here showing their titanium aluminium enclosure design, water resistant, unbreakable, with Pixel Qi and OMAP4 Powered Android, designed for outdoor use.
Category: CES
Orchard Inc Toughlet, Pixel Qi tablet for commercial ruggedized outdoor use
Posted by – January 24, 2012
Tobii eye tracking demo
Posted by – January 24, 2012
Tobii shows their latest eye tracking technology in the form of a thick bunch of cameras and detectors to be placed under a screen, after calibration, it can detect where you are looking on the screen, providing a new type of user interface for computing. Do you think we’ll soon have this technology automatically-calibrated and into all computer screens, into all smartphones and tablets also?
Obigo Browser on TV, Smartphone, Tablet and more
Posted by – January 24, 2012
Obigo shows their web browser running on a smart TV, on a Smartphone, Tablet and more. Their software solution on Android also enables to customize home replacements for Android based on HTML5.
AQ Corporation NFC solutions
Posted by – January 24, 2012
AQ Corporation shows some of their latest NFC solutions for tablets, they sell tablets which stores can buy to receive NFC payments in store.
HuinTech touch panel mouse
Posted by – January 24, 2012
Huintech presents their latest RF based touchpointer device, to use for presentations, for putting mouse functions and certain controls in a remote.
Lenovo IdeaTab S2110, Android ICS Qualcomm Krait MSM8960 Tablet with Keyboard Dock
Lenovo showed a prototype of their next generation Android tablet running Ice Cream Sandwich on the 1.5Ghz Dual-core Qualcomm MSM8960 Krait processor and supporting a keyboard dock that looks similar to the Asus Transformer Prime.
A look inside of the Toshiba Portege Z835
Posted by – January 21, 2012
Category: Exclusive videos, CES
Toshiba shows a transparent version of their Toshiba Portege Z835 ultrabook to show some of the components that are inside.
Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone 7.5 at CES 2012
Posted by – January 21, 2012
The Nokia Lumia 900 has a 4.3″ 800×480 Clearblack AMOLED screen, runs on a single core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and runs on the 4G/LTE network. This is the new big marketing push at CES from Nokia and Microsoft, the Nokia Lumia 900 is already the third Nokia Windows Phone device after the 710 and 800.
iRiver Kibot, this robot takes care of children
iRiver and the South Korean telecom company KT have introduced this robotic playmate for kids called Kibot. The price in South Korea is something like $40 plus a $30/month subscription contract with KT over 2 years which includes new educational apps and videos through the KT robot portal in South Korea. It’s based on Android and also comes with the full Google Marketplace. The pricing for it is about the same as an iPhone 4S. iRiver plans to do more robots, to take care of old people, and maybe at some point they’ll release an Android robot that cooks food, takes out trash and washes dishes. The Android robots are invading the world! So what do you think, should I start a new ARM Powered Robots category on my website?
Samsung 55″ Super OLED at CES 2012
Posted by – January 20, 2012
Now it seems that the 55″ OLED screens are ready to be shown publicly for the first time. I prefer 55″ or larger 4K LCD TVs though. If they can make the 55″ OLED TVs with 4K resolution and sell them below $2000 that would be great!
OMAP5 at CES 2012
Posted by – January 20, 2012
Texas Instruments was showing the OMAP5 ARM Cortex-A15 processor for the first time at CES 2012 running on their new development kit which they were showing to people but not allowing video recording of yet.
Engadget.com was the first to be allowed to film a demo of it:
Look forward to much more on the Texas Instruments OMAP5 platform at Mobile World Congress next month and in the months to come until devices start shipping using OMAP5 by the end of the year or early next year.
Windows RT on OMAP4470 Texas Instruments 1.5Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 Tablet
Posted by – January 20, 2012
Here’s Windows 8 on an ARM Powered Tablet, running on the Texas Instruments OMAP4470 1.8Ghz processor with the SGX544 GPU. This is the first time that I saw the OMAP4470 in a tablet and it’s the first time that I briefly touched Windows 8 on an ARM Powered tablet (as you can hear in the video, I wasn’t supposed to be allowed to touch it). Look forward to much more on OMAP4470 and Windows 8 on ARM in the months to come.
MHL at CES 2012
Posted by – January 20, 2012
Judy Chen, Director of Marketing at MHL presents the latest developments at the MHL Consortium, the latest list of devices to support the new standard. It looks like most new high-end phones, HDTVs and new types of devices are using the MHL connector and are part of the MHL Consortium, the reason being having everything go through one Micro-USB connector on the side of devices makes them simpler, thinner, cheaper to manufacture.
Rockchip RK2918 Ice Cream Sandwich Tablets
Posted by – January 19, 2012
Rockchip is showing Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich running smoothly on their RK2918 ARM Cortex-A8 processor.
Rockchip RK2918 Ice Cream Sandwich Smartphone
Posted by – January 19, 2012
Rockchip is showing Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich running on their 3.5″ 800×480 capacitive sub-$100 Android phone. This phone is on the Chinese market with China Mobile on their CDMA network.
Rockchip RK2918 for set-top-boxes
Posted by – January 19, 2012
Status of the RK2918 for use in Set-top-boxes, it can be done for less than $50, with up to ICS support, Google TV OS support once that is open sourced.
ViewLink MyVu VizCom Headmounted Android video-streaming system
Posted by – January 19, 2012
The targetted price is $199, mass manufacturing to start in March. It’s an LCOS based headmounted 800×600 display connected with an Android box that you can put in your pocket. That Android powered box runs apps, such as the Biggifi remote controlling app, it can also output Android to your HDTV using the MHL connector. It can tether through your smartphone for internet connectivity and stream the video from the headset to any Android supported live video streaming services, be it ustream, google+ hangouts, justin.tv and more.
Eton Rukus launched at CES 2012
Posted by – January 19, 2012
Here’s a solar powered sound system, you can use it on a sunny day in the park or on the beach and the solar powered system and battery should last it playing loud music the whole day. It’s got a little E Ink screen that displays information about status, battery level, volume and other information. You pair your Bluetooth smartphone or other Bluetooth music player to it as the source for the music.
Freescale i.MX6 Lite Series launched at CES 2012
Posted by – January 19, 2012
Freescale launches 2 new i.MX6 ARM Cortex-A9 processors at CES 2012, while demonstrating the performance of their quad-core, they are also launching the new i.MX 6SoloLite processor, which is designed specifically for next-generation eReaders and is the follow-on to the company’s i.MX508 processor and the dual-core i.MX 6DualLite, targeting a broad array of smart devices and products including tablets, IPTVs, IP phones, medical patient monitoring systems and home energy management solutions.
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Freescale shows i.MX6 for auto/aero-infotainment with long term support
Freescale is showing the next generation i.MX6 ARM Cortex-A9 based in-car infotainment system. Freescale promises to provide 15 years of support for the chip, meaning that car manufacturers can feel confident using the i.MX6 in cars and airplanes, as it takes multiple years to make those, Freescale promises to still manufacture the same processor 15 years from now. They optimize features for cars such as using sensors and cameras for better car safety. Freescale is a global leader in producing processors used in cars.
