SlashGear stopped by the Pepcom Digital Experience in New York this week, and caught up with one of the more interesting netbooks on the horizon: Lenovo’s S12. While it may physically resemble one of the company’s previous models, albeit with a larger 12.1-inch display, what makes the S12 really special is the NVIDIA Ion chipset inside. The demonstration – which you can see after the cut – showed silky-smooth simultaneous HD encoding and playback.
Video demo of the S12 after the cut
So I stopped by the Intel booth last night at the Pepcom event, and they had a nifty little gadget they were showing off. Sadly they said it was an 09 gadget, but it was freaking awesome.
The Qosmio G45-AV690 is an amazing laptop with it being the first notebook with an HD-DVD R/RW drive being one of the many new features. It’s a 17-inch notebook with a 1080p resolution for HD-DVD playback. This Toshiba laptop also has the OpenCable or OCUR chipset in it allowing you to have a digital tuner for recording digital or analog TV both over the air or from a Digital cable service and even allows the use of a CableCard.
Pyramat had one other game enhancing product that was really hard to miss, the Laptop Sound Booster, and I can vouch for the boosting ability… I could barely hear myself think as I came up to it.
It has two full range illuminating speakers and connects via USB. It definitely amplifies the sound and can support laptops up to 17”. A good feature of this is that it will prevent your laptop from overheating on your legs or your furniture. It also doubles as a writing desk.
Pyramat which is all about performance gaming had a few different gaming chairs on show tonight. I got a relatively good look at two of them, the PM450-WR Sound Rocker and the PC Gaming Chair 2.1.
The PM450-WR Sound Rocker has speakers and a subwoofer with wireless audio reception. It has a cordless rechargeable battery and iPod,Mp3,DS Lite and PSP input. There’s a 24GHz wireless transmitter and it’s made from breathable microfiber fabric. It comes with a multiplayer connection, volume/base controls, headphone jack, a storage pocket and it folds away for storage and has carrying handles for easy transport.
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.
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.
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.
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