There are a bazillion cool things coming up at the CES event in Las Vegas. I'm only focusing on a couple that appeal to me. These will be either things that I'd like ot have or things that are so cool it's hard to skip over them. Here are two things I heard about yesterday that I thought were worth mention...
Sony OLED TV - "OLED" stands for Organic Light-Emitting Diode. This is a beautiful TV - not big (yet) that is only 3 millimeters thick at its thinnest part. The TV has a very high contrast ratio which gives a truly dazzling picture. $$$, though - at least for now.
Netgear NAS - "NAS" means Network Attached Storage. This is a device that can live on your network and provide shared storage for all users. While this probably has big uses in the business/enterprise world, it mostly seems like a cool addition to a home network with multiple PCs, laptops, media players, etc. The model I heard them talking about included a BitTorrent client so you could absorb your selected torrents directly to the device. I haevn't BitTorrent-ed yet but it seemed like a big plus for those who do.
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Neato things from the Consumer Electronics Show
Since I went to CES a few years ago I've been interested in what comes out at the show each year. I heard about a couple of cool things yesterday.
One is the eye-fi card. It's an SD card that also has wireless network capability. You insert it into your digital camera and save images to it like any other SD card. However, you can also set it up so that it instantly transfers the images to your PC through your wireless network. Better than that, you can set it up so that the images can be instantly transferred out to social networking images sites like Flickr. Instant web posting of images as you take them. That's pretty snappy.
The other item is a GPS that includes a digital camera. The one I saw highlighted had only a two megapixel image size. Not ideal. Still, it stores the location information along with the images so you can do cool stuff like add your picutures as an overlay on Google Earth - showing the images and where they were taken. This could be VERY handy for those of us who have trouble, once some time has passed, in remembering where we were when we snapped a photo of that particular mountain view, beautiful church, or spectacular sunset.
One is the eye-fi card. It's an SD card that also has wireless network capability. You insert it into your digital camera and save images to it like any other SD card. However, you can also set it up so that it instantly transfers the images to your PC through your wireless network. Better than that, you can set it up so that the images can be instantly transferred out to social networking images sites like Flickr. Instant web posting of images as you take them. That's pretty snappy.
The other item is a GPS that includes a digital camera. The one I saw highlighted had only a two megapixel image size. Not ideal. Still, it stores the location information along with the images so you can do cool stuff like add your picutures as an overlay on Google Earth - showing the images and where they were taken. This could be VERY handy for those of us who have trouble, once some time has passed, in remembering where we were when we snapped a photo of that particular mountain view, beautiful church, or spectacular sunset.
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