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Sony Vaio P Super Don't-Call-It-a-Netbook Hands On

The keyboard? It rocks. The screen? Beautiful. The trackball is just the right amount of gritty, so your finger sticks to it and doesn't slide off onto the keyboard. The instant-on OS? Classy. More » -
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Live: Microsoft CES 2009 Keynote Kicks Off The Ballmer Years
Here at CES 2009 in Las Vegas, Steve Ballmer has kicked off his speech wearing Bill Gates' old shoes. Was TechCrunch right about the speech's contents? Update: Here's video of the keynote:
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Ballmer's Wacky Text Messages
No silly opening video, but Ballmer did kick off his CES 2009 keynote with a silly string of text messages from his surprisingly sweet WinMo phone. [Ballmer CES 2009 Keynote]
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Cellphones
Hands-on With Fulton Innovation's eCoupled System: Charges Gadgets with No Wires Necessary
Fulton Innovations showed off their eCoupled induction charger with an iPhone that was able to recharge by simply placing it on a surface, no adapters necessary. It was a modded iPhone, sure, but cool nonetheless.
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Android
Hands On Giinii Movit Mini: The Android Tablet

The idea sounds so sexy: An Android tablet. Remarkably thin, with over four inches of touchscreen, like an Android iPod touch. Actually, that's a lot what it's like. More » -
Google it
Police Use Google Street View to Solve Kidnapping Crime
Usually when we hear Google Street View news, it's over kitty-cat privacy issues or people peeing in the street. But this time around, the mayhem monitor actually helped solve the kidnapping of a young girl. More » -
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Sony Vaio P is a 1.4-pound, Super Widescreen Netbook Dynamo
Sony's much-hyped Vaio P Netbook has finally come out from under wraps, weighing under 1.4 pounds, sitting under an inch thick, and packing in an 8-inch screen with a 2.08:1 aspect ratio (1600x768!).
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Windows 7 Beta Now Available
As I mentioned perhaps all too subtly in my Ballmer keynote post, Windows 7 Beta is now available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers, with wide availability on Friday, January 9. [Microsoft] -
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Logitech G19 Hands On: I Watched YouTube on a Gaming Keyboard
I just greased on Logitech's G19 gaming keyboard with its full-blown, full-color LCD display, and it feels just like the G-keyboards you love, but you know, topped a pretty YouTube-playing, widget-powered display.
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Laptops
Hands On: Lenovo's Dual-Screen Laptop Has Basically Every Feature Ever
I just played around with the new Lenovo W700ds laptop, complete with two screens and built-in Wacom tablet, and it's a monster. It's not exactly portable, but it's as feature-filled as laptops get.
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Sony Walkman
Sony Walkman X-Series Is Surfable, Touchable and Shuts Up the World Around You
Sony's Walkman NWZ-X1000 features an OLED touchscreen, Wi-Fi and built-in noise cancellation. The X-series Walkman seems like a very impressive piece of hardware.
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PCs
More Hands-On Photos of the Gorgeous HP Firebird's Gross Innards

I'm usually not into that liquid cooling glowy PC mod stuff, but the HP Firebird 803 really is a nice looking machine...in a clinical circuitry kind of way. More » -
Nsfw
Guy Gets Trapped on Ski Lift, Hangs Bare-Ass Naked for 15 Minutes
Here's a horrific reminder that at the end of the day, technology still has power over us. This poor guy got trapped hanging upside-down by his pants from a chairlift for 15 minutes. That's embarrassing. More » -
Science
The Physics Behind the Insanely Dangerous Japanese Water Jetpack
PopSci's Adam "Easy Joke" Weiner has worked out the physics of a super crazy Japanese water jetpack. Science is cool and all, but I just like watching this guy get tossed across a lake. More » -
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Sony Webbie HD Camcorders Hands On
Sony's CES camcorder lineup might've been bloated, but these little $170 and $200 Webbie 1080p camcorders are refreshingly different enough (for Sony) to take a closer peek. More » -
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The iXA-W404 is Alpine's First Touchscreen iPhone Compatible Receiver
Alpine is rolling out their new lineup of receivers, with the iXA-W404 leading the charge. It features a 4.3-inch QVGA touchscreen monitor that more or less mimics coverflow. More » -
ces 2009
Dish Network ViP 922 1-Terabyte HD-DVR Comes SlingLoaded
Dish Network has had Sling integrations before, but they just dropped a brand new HD-DVR with remote Sling capabilities built in along with a redesigned SlingGuide interface.
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Asus
Eee Keyboard: An Entire Touchscreen Home Theater PC
We spotted some Asus keyboards last week, but none were nearly as potentially awesome as the official Eee Keyboard. Featuring wireless HDMI, it's a "fully functional PC" with full QWERTY and a mini secondary touchscreen.
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Star Wars
Star Wars Force Trainer Uses Mind Bullets To Move Ball Through Chute
A simplified EEG-based game using the Star Wars license tricks kids into thinking they have Professor X-like abilities, when all they're doing is learning to activate one part of their brain. More » -
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OQO Model 2+ Is +10 Awesome: OLED Touchscreen, Global 3G and Speed UP

Not much left to divulge beyond what leaked already about the OQO Model 02+: It's newly endowed with a stunning OLED touchscreen, global 3G and faster 1.86GHz Atom CPU. But! It's only $1500. And pics! More »












































