Yahoo! COO Dan Rosensweig said Friday during the Yahoo! keynote that Yahoo!, Cingular, and the other cellular carriers know darn well that we're all carting around a ton of photos we've taken with our camera phones, but are sitting in memory, unused. Good thing printer manufacturers are trying to get us to do something about this, by printing our phone-photos via Bluetooth.
Just because we're blogging CES doesn't mean that everyone knows what a blog is. In fact, I've run into a couple folks at the show (who shall remain nameless) who don't know what blogs are. So, it's no secret that vlogs, or video blogs, are an even bigger mystery to the content-consuming masses.
Many products claim to be the world's smallest, but this one you have to see to believe. The Motorola H5 Mini Bluetooth Headset fits discreetly inside your ear, eliminating the obtrusive wireless headset look altogether. You'll almost feel like you're in the Secret Service when wearing one. But the truly innovative part of this tiny gizmo is its ability to pick up your voice through the ear canal.
You know we are a generation raised by Transformers. Why else would we try to build robots out of radios and TVs?
Imagine walking past a movie poster and being able to wave your cell phone in front of it to download a movie preview or buy tickets. Or checking out at the supmarket with the flutter of your mobile. Near Field Communication (NFC) wants you to be able to do just that. The company is showing off contactless payment technology here at CES that lets customers shop without swiping a card.
If a common question emerged from our CES blogging team, it was "Why do Vegas taxi drivers take the insane routes to get from one hotel to another?" But after that, it was "Why are there so many problems in getting gadgets to charge?" With devices using more and more juice every year, our straw poll indicated that everyone on the Yahoo! team had experienced some kind of problem keeping their batteries topped off. Part of the issue is incompatible and non-standard connectors -- the iPod is probably the worst example of this, featuring a connector that nothing else on earth uses.
You may not have heard of interactive gaming company XaviX, but if you're looking to spice up your fitness routine, you may want to check into their new fitness game called J-MAT.
Are you ready for TV on the go? Of course, I am. That's why I definitely was suffering from a little gadget envy after checking out Samsung's array of DMB (Digital Media Broadcast) players on display here at CES. Right now they are only available in Korea.
Russound's SMS3 doesn't look like much -- the usual black box -- but it's quite a snazzy little piece of home audio equipment.
