Becker’s Traffic Assist features an easy to control menu, an automatic on/off ignition switch, reality view, route planning, volume/mute control and a day/night design. It has convenient destination entry via alphabet/selection list on a touch screen, postal code entries as well as street addresses, intersections, rest areas and coordinates.
The Zivio, by Joby, is a Bluetooth headset that features an extendable flexible microphone boom to ensure you can communicate in noisy environments, such as CES events. It has an ultra sensitive, retractable microphone that eliminates background noise so you have a clear sound quality.
Back in August we showed you the dual Blu-Ray and HD-DVD USB drive Buffalo were planning on launching in Japan, and lamented its absence elsewhere in the world; well, at CES 2008 they’re announcing US availability, meaning that the format-indecisive can take their pick from both new standards, as well as the old favourites CD and DVD.
When they’re not trying to put Bluetooth into your car or your helmet, Parrot are attempting to get it onto your desk. Their new DS1120 Bluetooth Stereo Speakers use the wireless stereo A2DP profile to play back audio from your cellphone, laptop or PMP, with a Class-D digital amp in each unit adding up to a 30W RMS total power output.
If Audio-Technica’s new ANC7 cans are too big for your liking, but you still want some of that sweet noise-cancellation in your life, then the ATH-ANC3 in-ear earphones could be a better fit. Promising 85-percent ambient noise reduction, thanks to microphones in each ear bud and a box of magic tricks built into the cable, the ANC3s are powered by a single AAA battery.
Check out this nifty little gadget from Parrot! It connects to just about any helmet because it has some pretty flexible mounting options. On the outside you have the mic and the majority of the hardware and then they were ingenious enough to move the speakers to the inside of the helmet and they give you several different options mounting that on the inside of your helmet.
Sennheiser’s new IE headphones aren’t, I don’t think, an indication of in which direction their browser loyalties lie, but instead consumer versions of the company’s pro-headphone line. Dynamic transducers can supposedly cover the whole frequency range with just one unit and the cables are reinforced with Kevlar. Top of the range is the IE8, which has a low-frequency dial on each earpiece to adjust the bass response, while frequency response ranges from 10 to 20,000 Hz and passive attenuation can be up to 26 dB.
Mobile Edge has some new, manlier, laptop bags. All I have are pictures, but I can tell you that they are both messenger style bags.
The Navigon 7100 GPS comes with Reality View and Lane Assistant which will show you on the screen exactly which way/lane/road to take. It has an automatic traffic jam avoidance system which is very handy and Radar Info which tells you when a speed camera is coming up.
It has more than 2 million points of interest and has both 2D and 3D map views. The 4.3 full color touch screen is easy to read in it’s 16:9 widescreen format.
So this mini notebook is a cool hybrid cross between a UMPC and a Tablet PC. It has the same hinge as a convertible tablet, but the screen size of a UMPC. It also has a biometric fingerprint scanner and a 5.5 hour battery life, but Fujitsu have added 3G WWAN cellular broadband so as to maximise on-the-road use.
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