Monday, April 10, 2006
Great gadget show
January is the time when many swanky gadgets make their apperance at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and this year in no exception. Techtalker takes a look at a few of them.
This is the world's smallest headset. The Motorola H5 Mini Bluetooth Headset fits inside (yes, inside) your ear, with no one even realizing that you are sporting one. The grand gizmo has the ability to pick up your voice through the ear canal. You may feel that you are working for the secret service when you wear this. But then, being such a small gadget, you could easily lose it as well.
For astronomy enthusiasts, Celestron has a telecope called the NexStar, which makes gazing more easy. It has launched a SLT series, where SLT stands for Star Locating Telescope. It does away with countless hours trying to locate stars. You can just type the ID number of the 4000 odd heaveny bodies and the computerized telescope locate it for you. It can even track the star as it moves across the night sky.
Plasma TVs are getting bigger. And at the CES, a Panasonic Plasma TV hung on the wall proudly claimed that it measured 103 inches diagonally. Also competing there was Samsung with 102 inches.
The Treo 700 model has also been unveiled. More than the cult phone, are two interesting packages that are an optional buy. ``Traffic for Treo'' smartphones lets you avoid unnecessary delays with up-to-date traffic information for many major US cities. Not only does it show you where jams occur, you can easily tap the screen for details on each incident. It also gives you a four-month subscription for mobile TV. You get minute to minute news, sports, weather, and more and this application has won a technical Emmy award from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
This is the world's smallest headset. The Motorola H5 Mini Bluetooth Headset fits inside (yes, inside) your ear, with no one even realizing that you are sporting one. The grand gizmo has the ability to pick up your voice through the ear canal. You may feel that you are working for the secret service when you wear this. But then, being such a small gadget, you could easily lose it as well.
For astronomy enthusiasts, Celestron has a telecope called the NexStar, which makes gazing more easy. It has launched a SLT series, where SLT stands for Star Locating Telescope. It does away with countless hours trying to locate stars. You can just type the ID number of the 4000 odd heaveny bodies and the computerized telescope locate it for you. It can even track the star as it moves across the night sky.
Plasma TVs are getting bigger. And at the CES, a Panasonic Plasma TV hung on the wall proudly claimed that it measured 103 inches diagonally. Also competing there was Samsung with 102 inches.
The Treo 700 model has also been unveiled. More than the cult phone, are two interesting packages that are an optional buy. ``Traffic for Treo'' smartphones lets you avoid unnecessary delays with up-to-date traffic information for many major US cities. Not only does it show you where jams occur, you can easily tap the screen for details on each incident. It also gives you a four-month subscription for mobile TV. You get minute to minute news, sports, weather, and more and this application has won a technical Emmy award from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
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