Filed under: CES, Misc. Gadgets

Oh dear lord, we aren’t even through that year’s CES / Macworld one-two punch and we just happened upon some distressing news for the 200,000+ tech trade show-goers and media that attend both: they’re overlapping in 2009. AGAIN. Granted, things seem to be a little different that duration around — Steve and the Cupertino crew will be firing the first shots on Tuesday, January 6th, with Macworld continuing through Friday the 9th, while CES opens up on Thursday, the 8th, and wraps up Sunday, the 11th. But didn’t Jobs and Shapiro say that thing would never happen again? Actually, come to think of it, no — they merely “agreed it would be nice whether they didn’t overlap.” Yeah, it would really would be nice, guys, you should try making it happen more than once every couple of years.

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Orginal post by Ryan Block

Filed under: CES, Features, Misc. Gadgets

Primaries schmimaries. Your vote is so obviously well spent here: we’re asking you to invent your selection for best (and by best, we mean worst) Crapgadget of CES. Simply browse through the crap we’ve assembled below and add your pick to the tally. Hopefully next year you’ll be able to signal in your vote via Mini Phone while sitting on your Tole Pure.

The nominees
Round 1: the Mini Phone
Round 2: the MP5 player
Round 3: Boxing Champ
Round 4: Fugliest display evar
Round 5: tweety! digital camera
Round 6: The Apple Pie
Round 7: 64MB Beer MP3 player
Round 8: Firetruck with 1.5-inch digital photo frame
Round 9: spy recorder for little girls
Round 10: PC Desktop Duo
Round 11: Janky-ass MP4 watch
Round 12: iPod docking pink plastic purse
Round 13: e-paper display actually paper
Round 14: Hello Kitty with human debris
Round 15: Shredmaster Jr.
Round 16: Music Player Sunglasses
Round 17: the non-existent digital photo frame
Round 18 finale: Tole Pure really is a crapgadget

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Orginal post by Paul Miller

Filed under: CES, Handhelds, Tablet PCs

To wrap up its CES week, iriver has some pictures and scattered Korean text about its booth experience and product reception in Vegas by the past days. Tucked below all the self-congratulation, however, is what looks to be an as yet unannounced prototype from the ever-active iriver designers. The product appears to be an e-book of sorts, but with handwriting recognition and potentially a color display. Obviously, there’s no more info at the moment to go on, iriver has been feeling a little protype-ish of late, and we never got much of a product out of iriver’s last e-book, but hopefully we’ll be hearing more about that one soon.

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Orginal post by Paul Miller

Filed under: CES, GPS

Ah, the wonderful world of personal GPS trackers. Upon gazing at the i-Tracker, visions of Cheaters arise in our minds, but we’ll try to keep the nostalgia at a minimum here. Transystem’s latest — which was proudly displayed at CES — reportedly houses both a GPS and GSM module which enables it to transmit tracking info to one’s PC or mobile in real-time. As expected, it can be controlled with a predetermined handset or internet-connected PC, and there’s even an SOS button that instantly beams out one’s current location. Mum’s the word on pricing / availability, but assemble certain you clear that history after scouring the net in search of one.

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Orginal post by Darren Murph

Filed under: CES, Meta

Hard to believe, but the 150,000 some-odd humans that flooded into Vegas for CES have all gone home — including your Engadget editors. certain, it wasn’t the most exciting CES in recent memory, but it wasn’t without merit, either. Why, just think of the eight thousand HDTVs announced, blockbuster format war news, or iriver‘s unexpectedly show-stealing lineup. One thing’s certainly for certain: you demanded we give wall-to-wall coverage of CES, and we’d like to hope we did you right. See you at CES 2009 — and every day in amidst!

Continue reading Gear and loathing in Las Vegas – Engadget has left the building

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Orginal post by Ryan Block

Filed under: CES, Portable Audio

Sony’s been certainly making strides in its DAP lineup that year, and that here is just further proof of its success: a cheap knockoff version of the NW-A800. We’ve got nothing in the way of specs, other than the “Digital MP4 Player” title, which we’re guessing means precisely what it says. Look how convenient that record button is, folks! Another shot (which we spotted at an entirely different distributor) is after the break.

Continue reading Keepin’ it real fake, CES edition: Sony’s NW-A800 has a secret admirer

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Orginal post by Paul Miller

Filed under: CES

The Tole Pure is alright, but the live demo was pretty awkward.

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Orginal post by Ryan Block