Zenithink shows $90 1Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 capacitive 7″ tablet with Ice Cream Sandwich support ($80 for resistive), minimum order is just 50 pieces, the 10.1″ is $160, 7″ 1024×600 for $120.
Feihong shows $130 ICS on Telechips 8803 1.2Ghz ARM Cortex-A8 and $48 ARM11 VIA based tablet
Feihong Industry Co Ltd shows Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich running on their Telechips 8803 based tablet. They also announce that Telechips is working on a dual-core processor to be released in tablets around March already (to be confirmed by Telechips etc).
Sharp ICC 4K Technology, 1080p to 4K upscaling on 55″ Sharp 4K TV to be released soon
Posted by – January 15, 2012
Sharp is about to mass produce a 4K2K 55″ HDTV. Their secret sauce is the ICC technology (Integrated Cognitive Creation) which is an upscaling technology, somehow sharpening and adding details to 1080p sources to make them look more amazing on the 4K HDTV. With this, people might want to consider re-watching all their Blu-ray movies to re-experience the same 1080p source files in more amazing quality. That until each of the movies are also available in the native 4K2K resolution on Blu-ray, hard drives, streaming and other potential 4K media.
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
Posted by – January 14, 2012
Category: Displays, Cameras, Wearables, Smart Glass, Other, Exclusive videos, Texas Instruments, CES, Kopin, Windows
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
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
Posted by – January 12, 2012
Category: Laptops, Set-top-boxes, HDMI Sticks, Exclusive videos, Texas Instruments, CES, Android, Chrome OS, Google TV, Ubuntu, Windows
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.
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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.
