Will personal area networks take off? Intel thinks so.
Intel dedicated part of its booth at CES to mobile Wi-Fi personal area networking (PAN). The idea is simple, Wi-Fi enabled components speak to each other using an ad hoc network without the need for a router. The idea seems promising. Intel had a pair of Wi-Fi headphones that supposedly… Continue Reading »
Up close with the IPEVO digital picture frame
Gadgetell recently got to play with an IPEVO digital picture frame, the Kaleido R7. Now, I am the guy who wrote a post denouncing digital picture frames as a pointless technology. IPEVO changed my mind. Digital picture frames have gone through a couple of styles. It started off with toyish… Continue Reading »
Canon shows off tons of cameras
Shortly before CES, Canon unveiled almost a dozen new camcorders. They all were on display at CES and Gadgetell played with some of them. Virtually all of the HD consumer camcorder line can now record in a 24Mbps mode called MXP. Why does this matter? The higher the bitrate, the… Continue Reading »
SD cards are exciting? SanDisk gets people fired up.
Click for a larger image. SanDisk showed off its newest products, slotRadio and its one-touch backup USB drive, at that tiny event known as CES. No one at SanDisk would give information about what compression is used on the slotRadio microSD cards that hold 1000 songs, but they had listening… Continue Reading »
Chumby everywhere? Chumby looks for partners
Chumby may be working with Samsung and Sony, but it doesn’t look like they’re expanding their line up any time soon. The smallish Chumby booth had rows of picture frame like devices running the open Chumby operating system. These devices were shown because Chumby is fishing for partners. These were… Continue Reading »
Fulton’s ecoupled wireless power has potential
Fulton Innovation brought its ecoupled wireless charging system to CES. While a competitor showed marketable products, Fulton showed working models but no finished products with release dates. The booth simulated a home with an office, a living room, and a kitchen so a consumer or manufacturer could see how the… Continue Reading »
Hava is Slingbox on steroids
We’ve told you about Hava before. It allows you to placeshift your television kind of like Slingbox. Monsoon Multimedia’s Hava goes well beyond Slingbox with its latest offerings. Media Center integration First off, the Hava integrates with Windows Media Center. The plugin tricks Media Center into thinking that your Hava… Continue Reading »
Iomega makes home media networking the easiest I have ever seen
As you can image, we are prone to hearing about ever single new home media networking hard drive and back-up solution that is released onto the market. But what I saw at Iomega really impressed me (and Doug). The new Home Media Network Hard Drive provides a super easy-to-use network… Continue Reading »
Grab a PhotoFinder and geotag any of your photos
Click for a larger image. Geotagging is something plenty of people do their photos. Putting the data of where and when your photos were taken can be bothersome, so ATP has a solution with its PhotoFinder series. PhotoFinder allows for geotagging without a computer. The PhotoFinder mini is a two… Continue Reading »
Powermat will change everything with wireless charging
If the Powermat wireless charging system lives up to its claims, Powermat is going to be huge. The idea is simple, just place a device like a phone on a Powermat and your phone is charged. There is no need for lots of wires or numerous power adapters; you just… Continue Reading »
Experience what it’s like to download at unlimited speeds from a massive collection of over 800 Terabytes of user uploads. You’ll max out your Internet connection downloading a file in… Continue Reading »
Palm Pre Information & Updates
Palm just introduced their next-gen smartphone, the Palm Pre, and next-gen operating system, Palm webOS. Gadgetell's got the latest Pre and webOS information and news for you right here.


