CES 2010: Gadgets I Really Want

Thanks to a certain Korean sponsor, I managed to land a trip to Las Vegas this year to cover CES 2010, mecca of gadgets and geeks alike. While last year’s CES was mostly a Palm Pre love-fest, this year’s show had a little more variety for us gadget geeks to slobber over. 3D HDTVs, newfangled e-book readers, fancy laptops that also doubled up as tablets (but minus the bulk), a dubious gadget charger that claimed to suck power from WiFi signals around you; the list goes on and on. So much that it makes me want to whip out the credit card and start swiping away.

Anyhow, while I restrain myself, here’s a quick list of the top 5 gadgets and tech gear seen at CES that I would really, really love to own. Continue reading →

Links for Tuesday, January 12th 2010

Oh wow, it’s certainly been quite some time since I posted here, since any one of us did, eh, EM? Anyhow, just to start off with, here’s a quick selection of some of the more interesting links that have popped up in my twitter feed. Here’s to more frequent posting on RG!

The Nexus One is finally out, and predictably, the Android 2.1 SDK follows.

I wonder how long it takes the AP and their affiliated sites to realize that they need Google more than Google needs them?

After a no-show at CES 2010, seems like we won’t be seeing Windows Mobile 7 till much, much later. Wonder if the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona will be an Android-only affair.

CES was quite fun this year, and having the internet also meant that you didn’t really need to be there to see what went down on the show floors. Scoble pretty much covers all the bases here, from 3D TVs to e-readers and so on.

It’s very interesting how something as decidedly low-tech as fonts could have so many issues when translated to supposedly cutting-edge platforms. Makes you want to rethink just how you use fonts on your machine.