The Most Wonderfully Unrealistic Gear from CES 2013 From Gizmodo At CES every year, we cover hundreds of products. They’re usually only barely differentiated from previous models. But sometimes, companies trot out devices and technology that could bring something new and wonderful to the market—it’s just too bad the odds of this vaporware ever being...
CES 2013 Preview of Next Week’s Show
We’re just a few days away before the Consumer Electronics Show rolls around yet again. For the unfamiliar, this is the technology industry’s biggest event. (It’s also the largest trade show in the U.S.) Each year, we get to wager (it’s Vegas, after all) on what tech’s biggest tale will be. In 2009, it was Palm’s entry into the...
LED LCD vs. plasma vs. LCD
Debating on what HDTV technology to buy? Debate no longer. OK, not too much longer. For me, personally, I have always liked the Plasma TV better – for me, the deeper blacks and image consistency win over everything else. For you though, there may be other thing that could sway you to choose another technology. In this television technology trifecta,...
Like Apple, Google Now Has Devices That Come in Three Sizes
From top: the Nexus 4, Nexus 7 and Nexus 10. With the addition of its new iPad Mini, Apple offers touch-screen devices in three sizes. Now Google is matching that by introducing a tablet that is meant to compete directly with the larger iPad. Google on Monday unveiled the Nexus 10, a 10-inch tablet it developed with Samsung, and a new phone, the Nexus 4,...
2011 Smartphone Top 10 – Gift Guide
Summary: Apple’s iOS and Google Android are the two clear leaders in the smartphone market here in the U.S. so it was easy to pick the top two devices from these platforms. The next eight were not as easy in such a competitive market. The beginning of the year always starts with a bang with smartphones being revealed at CES, Mobile World Congress and...
CES 2011 – TV Review – HD, LED/LCD, Plasma and 3D
HD, LED/LCD, Plasma and 3D TV’s displays at CES 2011 were ‘ful’ – that is plentifuland beautiful! Some manufacturers chose to shield TV’s from large angle views and ambient light, so you could only see the ‘best case scenario’, and some others tried to show how their TV’s had ‘less flaws’ than others, others left their TV’s wide open in...