Ah, to not be in Germany and be a tech starved grad student. CeBIT generally has way cooler stuff than CES, but unless something really catches my eye, I will probably hold off and do a CeBIT round up this weekend as opposed to the daily lists I did for CES back January. Either way
Thursday CES Round-up
Wow…I figured the well would be dry on the last day of CES, but it seems there are at least a couple more tidbits for your perusal. GPS uPlay and golf GPS Visualization Samsung’s 3D plasma in action shows that it is actually an active stereo system. That is a serious refresh rate for a
Wednesday CES Round-up
The toys that are rolling out are diminishing in number, but there is still one more day to go. Here are the bits that were covered today. GPS Delphi’s dual-view GPS – Driver sees GPS passenger sees…something else Avis is upgrading their navigation systems iRiver’s M20 GPS/PMP – iRiver’s last foray into LBS was their
Solar Headaches to Come
National Geographic is reporting that we can expect a season of intense solar flares for the next few weeks and months. This is all part of a normal 11 year cycle in solar flare activity, but it can lead to some distinct headaches in our tech heavy world. As the article notes, this is the
Tuesday CES Round-up
Last year, everything seemed to dwindle after Monday, but this year the tech blogs are still going strong. Time for my highlights for Tuesday: GPS Nav N Go on Sony PSP Hands on with Magellan’s 5430 Clarion EZDrive Spectec’s tiny little miniSD and bluetooth GPS GlobalSat’s new device Neonode media playing GPS prototype Visualization How
Monday CES Round-up
A few more goodies were highlighted today. GPS Mio to be folded into Navman branding Mio has a “dual-front” GPS phone prototype Magellan shows off eight new devices More info on Garmin’s new toys Asus 3D GPS and PMP Monitors Alienware shows off curved monitor – we have talked a bit about our experiences with
Sunday CES round-up
So I have been following the bits and pieces on Engadget, Gizmodo and CrunchGear and have cobbled together my highlights from today. GPS: – toys toys everywhere Delorme released a new EarthMate Engadget looked at Garmin’s new line-up Pioneer’s new voice controlled GPS with iPod and bluetooth support MSI’s new line (I assume it is
BBC NEWS | Gates hails age of digital senses
While it is still a couple of hours before Bill Gates makes his final keynote at CES as grand pooba of Microsoft, apparently he has been bandying about his own prognostications that touch, as well as voice and vision, interfaces are the coming trend that will have a significant impact on computing technologies over the
SPOT communicator
Crunch Gear offers up the next LBS device. The SPOT Communicator is a GPS unit that can send your current position via satellite. The press release shows that the target market is the outdoor enthusiast and field workers who are often outside of cell range. Battery life is pretty good given the lack of screen,
Magellan and Google team up
The first bit of GPS news out of CES this year has Magellan releasing the Maestro 5340 which will include GPRS for cell network connectivity. This network connectivity will be used to connect to…you guessed it…Google search and data services. At almost $1300 for the unit it will not be for small of purse, and
































