Tag archive for CES 2009

Westinghouse Digital unveiled full a range of LCD TVs and monitor displays at CES last week, ranging from 60 to 120Hz Full HDTVs, to WXGA and WUXGA resolution LCD monitors. These, together with a number of digital signage displays and Westinghouse Digital’s proprietary custom ad-builder applications, were hosted inside the private showroom at the Sterling [...]

If you’ve spent any time here at SlashGear you’ll probably know that we’re big fans of Sleek Audio.  We rated their SA6 in-ear monitor earphones highly, then their W-1 Kleer wireless adapter took a successful product and cut the cord.  At CES last week we stopped by the Sleek stand to check out their Customs, [...]

Your cellphone is great, and with the latest breed of smartphones you’re not just making calls but messaging, surfing the net, downloading and sharing photos.  All that is dependent on catching a decent signal, however, and a weak connection adds up to call failures, poor data speeds and overall frustration.  That’s why Wilson Electronics’ MobilePro [...]

pureSilicon might not be a name you’re currently all that familiar with, but expect to hear plenty more from this company in 2009.  They brought along a 1TB SSD, the Nitro, to CES last week; the highest-density solid-state drive available on the market today.  As well as high-capacity, the 1TB Nitro offers low power demands, [...]

Palm just won Best In Show as well as the People’s Voice Award over Sony’s new Vaio P at he Consumer Electronics Expo (CES) on Sunday with the announcement of the new Palm Pre. This new smartphone runs the new webOS operating system that Palm has been working on recently.

We know that people are widely giving up their landlines for mobile phones these days, but we happened upon a cordless phone that was just too beautiful to pass up. The VTech LS6245 is the first cordless phone for 2009 that features the DECT 6.0 technology complete with Bluetooth capabilities.

Newber is a new iPhone application that allows users to transfer calls to a landline for instances such as the phone dying. This application acts as a second business line for those who really get a lot of use out of their phones.
Using GPS this application can determine the pre-programmed number that you are closest [...]

We kicked off the week with our yearly visit to Macworld, finding a slightly subdued show floor but plenty of excitement about Apple’s final keynote address at the conference.  Anticipation was high, with several new products expected to launch; instead, however, the only hardware news was a 17-inch unibody MacBook Pro.  No Mac mini update, [...]

Routon have brought their latest Mobile Internet Device (MID), the P760, to CES this week, complete with a 4.8-inch 800 x 480 touchscreen, ARM11 processor and optional mobile broadband. The P760 is based on Linux and has either 4GB or 8GB of solid-state storage, 128MB of RAM and a 2-megapixel camera.

DigiFi’s first-generation Digital Opera headphones have only just gone on sale in the US, but the company has brought their replacement to CES this week. As well as that, they’ve also unveiled a set of over-the-air headphones and a PMP watch with an integrated Kleer wireless transmitter.