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Intelligent Leaf Wins Eco-Design Award
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: CES, CES 2007, Design, Smart Home, Misc. Tech,
This strangely compelling lamp has won the CES 2007 Best Eco-Design award. With a lifespan of over 60,000 hours at full-power, the Leaf cuts energy by 40% and consumes less than 9W of power when compared to a 13W fluorescent bulb. Its lower blade rotates and pivots forward and back while its upper blade pivots and folds. Control both intensity and color with two LED driver circuits which remember your last settings.
Designed by Yves Behar and Herman Miller but not making a personal appearance at the CES, the Leaf is available in red, white, nickel, or black for $525.00 and polished aluminum for $545.00.
Read More 
| Henry Miller via CES 2007 Awards
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CES 2007: DirecTV Announces Portable Satellite TV System
Posted by Chris Cardinal Categories: CES, CES 2007, Features, Home Entertainment, Portable Audio / Video,
DirecTV today officially announced the earlier-discussed Sat-Go portable satellite TV solution. The Sat-Go! system, despite its… exuberant name, includes an integrated 17” LCD display and a detachable tuner that can be used as your primary set top box when you’re not slummin’ in your RV. For an extra $4.99 a month, you can mirror your existing programming package through it, which isn’t terrible if you love to camp but hate to miss the game. Or something.
The New York Times is reporting pricing coming at between $1,000 and $1,300 when it launches in the Spring, which is great because DirecTV hasn’t released any pricing details yet. It may seem like a lot, but it’s a small price to pay to keep up on all that NASCAR, am I right?
Gallery: CES 2007: DirecTV Announces Portable Satellite TV System
HourGlass-Shaped Laptop Sleeves Featured at CES
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Accessories, CES, CES 2007, Design, PC / Laptop,
If you received a new laptop for Christmas, you need something to keep it safe from the elements and also let others know you have a touch of class. Built NY is a company that combines cool with function with their Designer Line sleeves. Made with 5mm wetsuit grade neoprene and a patent pending hourglass shape, the covers come in 12, 15, and 17-inch models. The bags are featured at this week’s CES and are can be ordered online in blue, black, and stripes at prices that start at $29.99.
Read More | Built NY via CES 2007 Awards
Gallery: HourGlass-Shaped Laptop Sleeves Featured at CES
CES 2007: Sonos Now Plays Zune, Napster, et al.
Posted by Chris Cardinal Categories: CES, CES 2007, Features, Home Entertainment, Portable Audio / Video,
Sonos announced today that they’re tacking on support for Zune, MTV, Napster and AOL Music, in addition to Rhapsody, which they’ve supported since September. The software is free, available now, and you can bet a hefty expense for them to undertake, but a bright move to offer universal music store compatibility.
Good times, indeed, Sonos owners. Good times.
Software Update Page | [via Gizmodo]
Gallery: CES 2007: Sonos Now Plays Zune, Napster, et al.
CES 2007: Motorola Announces Q’s Sequel: Q PRO
Posted by Chris Cardinal Categories: Smartphones, CES, CES 2007, Features,
Motorola today confirmed the Q PRO, their enterprise offering of the Motorola Q. (Though we really wish they would’ve just called it the Q2.) Essentially the same phone, it comes with the ability to disable the camera, (a disturbing feature for all those corporate espionage types) a basic Office suite of apps, (think Word editors, and PDF, Excel and Powerpoint viewers) and enhanced security options that include intrusion detection and real-time event logging. No price, but it’s supposed to be available now, likely only to enterprise customers at the moment. We’d expect a small mark up from the basic Q model, but hopefully nothing too substantial.
Gallery: CES 2007: Motorola Announces Q’s Sequel: Q PRO
CES 2007: iRobot Create: A Roomba That Doesn’t Suck (Literally)
Posted by Chris Cardinal Categories: CES, CES 2007, Features, Mods / Hacks, Toys,
Robotic vacuum manufacturer iRobot has always taken a shine to the modders who hack their Roombas in all sorts of new ways. Delivering an open serial port and full instructions on how to utilize it was a great gesture and a very forward thinking move for them, but their latest, the iRobot Create, might really take off. The Create is essentially a Roomba without all of the vacuuming guts. It’s an open platform, with a bunch of expansion and input and output ports on top, and more room to toy with it, since you don’t have to worry about a place to put all that dust and cat hair. Add-on peripherals will be available, but iRobot expects and encourages users to build their own to interface with it, citing a hamster-ball-driven navigation system one test group has already delivered.
The Create is available right now and is selling for the completely reasonable price of $129.99, with an 8-bit command module costing an additional $59.99.
I can see a lot of educational robot teams and the like buying into this, straight away.
(A picture of a beer-fetching Create, after the jump.)
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Gallery: CES 2007: iRobot Create: A Roomba That Doesn’t Suck (Literally)
Smartshopper Provides Shortcut to Grocery List
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: CES, CES 2007, Smart Home, Misc. Tech,
Debuting and being honored at the CES 2007 is the Smartshopper, a gadget that replaces all those Post-it notes in your kitchen. Record, delete, or add extra items as you need them, and they are kept in alphabetical order and categorized. When you are ready to go shopping, you simply press the print button and out comes a grocery list.
Utilizing 4 AA batteries, the Smartshopper comes with 2 thermal paper rolls and contains 2000 items. You can also record errands which will be displayed at the top of your listing. It features voice recognition technology, an easy-to-read LCD screen, can be wall-mounted or attached to your refrigerator with its magnet, or simply rest it on its rubber heels. You can pre-order one now at Smartshopper’s website. This is all very well and good, but we want one that will do the grocery shopping for us and deliver it.
Read More | SmartShopper via CES 2007 Awards
Gallery: Smartshopper Provides Shortcut to Grocery List
CES 2007: Viewsonic Throws Hat Into 1080p Ring, Loses Hat
Posted by Chris Cardinal Categories: CES, CES 2007, Features, HDTV, Home Entertainment,
Viewsonic has decided to enter the fray with their 1080p 42-inch LCD. The N4261w includes dual HDMI inputs, a 1,500:1 contrast ratio and a launch date in March with a price tag of $1,799. Low-priced 1080p might seem a bit anachronistic, but we’re glad to see them coming down the pipeline sooner rather than much later. Its 46-inch bigger brother, the N4661, will launch in Q2.)
Gallery: CES 2007: Viewsonic Throws Hat Into 1080p Ring, Loses Hat
CES 2007: SanDisk’s Sweet Sansa View
Posted by Chris Cardinal Categories: CES, CES 2007, Features, Portable Audio / Video,
SanDisk’s Sansa View comes with 8GB of flash memory and the ability to output at up to 1080i when it’s not playing back video (of various, capable codecs, though we don’t have specifics yet) on its 4-inch screen. Expect up to 4 hours of video playback and around 10 hours of audio, basic PlaysForSure support and a $299 price tag come later Q1 when it’s released.
We’ll try for some hands-on time if we can track one down on the show floor.
(Via Engadget)
Gallery: CES 2007: SanDisk’s Sweet Sansa View
CES 2007: HP Shows Off Child-Crushing VoodooPC Notebook
Posted by Chris Cardinal Categories: CES, CES 2007, Features, PC / Laptop,
Not much has been heard from the VoodooPC camp since they’ve been acquired by HP, but their announcement of their massive, visible-from-space desktop-replacement Voodoo Envy HW:201 notebook continued their practice of completely ridiculous specs in notebooks. Featuring a 20.1-inch display, two NVidia GeForce 7950’s running in SLI mode and up to 320GB of hard drive space, (and no battery capacity) I sincerely believe that it would actually crack the foundation of your house if you dropped it.
Gallery: CES 2007: HP Shows Off Child-Crushing VoodooPC Notebook
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