The CES 2011 has seen a lot of top products on show and now we are starting to get the results of which ideas and designs have been most widely accepted and recognized as winners. One of the show’s sponsors, LAPTOP Magazine, has produced this list of the best products from 11 different categories in its traditional Best of CES Awards for the 2011 show. The awards show us that mobile and wireless technology is the big winner this year and here are the full details of the awards. Best Notebook. The Alienware 17x. Best Tablet. The Motorola...
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The Last Gadget Standing competition is always a popular CES event and this year it promises to be as exciting as ever. Saturday morning in Las Vegas will see 10 top new gadgets being put through their paces in a live demonstration which will see one of them crowned the king of this year’s CES machines. Which one will win it? Here are the ten which remain in contention. [singlepic id=64 w=160 h=120 float=left]Acer Iconia Two Screen Notebook. An incredible laptop which has two 14 inch touch screens and one of them can double up a keyboard....
One of the new products which has really got people talking at the CES 2011 is the Parrot Asteroid car stereo. The interesting thing is that this is far from being a normal car stereo as it includes a list of features which is hugely impressive and it is also very nifty looking. The machine has a 3.2 inch colour screen, is powered by Android and includes several USB ports. With these ports you can add on a 3G internet connection, a GPS dongle and your different iDevices all at the same time if you want. You can also plug in additional...
A presentation at the CES 2011 by the Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer aimed to prove to consumers that Windows has the “breadth and depth and flexibility” to maintain its reputation for excellence and stay at the head of the computing market for years to come. His display, which was streamed live on Facebook and on the Microsoft site, was largely based around how in the near future we will be able to control all our gadgets and computers through our voice and even our gestures in a simple, streamlined process which lets us link together...
Fans of BBC’s Top Gear, Doctor Who and music can rejoice today after a range of official audio devices have been launched at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2011. Speakal, the guys behind the iconic iPig docking station have teamed up to create some authentic designed speakers in collaboration with the BBC. Both the Top Gear (featuring the Stig) and Doctor Who speaker are said to feature ‘amazing sound’ combined with ‘outlandish’ style. From these pictures we’d have to agree with the aesthetics side but will...
Motorola are counting down the days, minutes and seconds to the launch of CES 2011 with a timer hosted on their website. They are promising an ‘tablet evolution’ with links to a teaser video for their new tablet hotly tipped to be named the Motorola Xoom. The video starts off with tablets of stone working through time until 2010 when it picks at the ‘weak’ points of the Galaxy Tablet and iPad. The video says the iPad is ‘like a giant iPhone’ and that the Samsung Galaxy Tab only has Android but only ‘Android OS for a phone’...
Samsung is going to launch their hotly anticipated Galaxy Player next week at the International Consumer Electronics Show – CES 2011. The device will be the first of its’ kind as it will run on Android 2.2 (Froyo) – critics and analysts are already hailing the device as a possible iPod killer, a bold claim but one that could be true, on paper at least. The device will be a mere 9.9mm thick, be powered by a 1GHz Hummingbird Processor, include a 4-inch touch screen, a DVB Tuner, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Dual-camera, GPS support, HD video...
HTC is preparing for the launch of their 4G handsets ahead of CES on 6th January and virtual titbits have started to arise surrounding the name of the cloaked handset. Up until now the Smartphone has been known as the HTC Incredible HD, this includes internal ‘leaks’ and advertising ‘mistakes’ over the past few weeks. However, the mobile communications giant recently included a web link in some pre-launch advertising that actually suggested the phone would be called the ‘Thunderbolt 4G’. Sadly the link turned out to be a dud...
A remote controlled drone that can be manipulated using either an iPhone or iPod Touch is being launched by aerial gadget firm Parrot, complete with augmented reality features and a high desirability factor. Parrot’s AR.Drone is going to hit the UK on the 18th of August this year, which is good news as it was only at the 2010 CES event a few months ago that Parrot showcased a prototype quadricopter that blew away many visitors to the conference. The AR.Drone will be controllable from a distance of up to 50 metres and it takes full...
Samsung has demonstrated an AMOLED display that is not only capable of showing moving images, but is also transparent, in what is an undeniably unique achievement. The 19 inch screen is an advancement on the 14 inch version of the technology that it showcased during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) at the start of 2010, with transparency levels on the latest model now reaching 30 per cent. Any sci-fi fan will know that movies have been portraying transparent advertising hoardings on shop fronts for years and this is precisely the kind...