OLED TV prototypes - Sony branded
July 5th, 2007 by kukon
Sony’s gargantuan booth at CES 2007 covers a lot of real estate, and it’s always packed full of onlookers soaking up the sights and sounds. But the flashy booth hides a dirty little secret: Aside from a handful of headline products, very few of the devices on display are actually new. Instead, the company waits until late February to announce a detailed product plan for the forthcoming year (at which time CNET will have in-depth coverage).
In the meantime, there are a few gems on display in the form of prototypes. Designed to showcase a technology or a proof of concept, these products often lack model numbers and specific details. They’re hand-built (or simply plastic mock-ups), and they may or may not make it to your corner big box store in the next 18 to 24 months. Read More »
The EOS-1Ds Mark II is the sixteen (point seven) megapixel successor to the EOS-1Ds which was announced almost exactly two years earlier. Carrying on from the EOS-1Ds the Mark II has a full size 35 mm (36 x 24 mm) sensor which means it introduces no field-of-view crop, an 18 mm lens on this camera will provide exactly the same field-of-view as it would on a 35 mm film camera. At first glance it’s clear to see that Canon has stuck (as they did with the EOS-1D Mark II) with the same body and control layout. The timing of the EOS-1Ds Mark II’s announcement was interesting if not totally surprising coming just five days after Nikon announced the twelve (point four) megapixel D2X, the megapixel one-up-man-ship continues.
Acer’s tie up with Ferrari has proved very fruitful for the computer company and presumably also for the car company, since they’ve just repeated the exercise with a new pair of style-rich notebooks. The top-end machine, reviewed here, is the Ferrari 5000, and will set you back just under £1,700. It needs more than a couple of red flashes to justify that price tag.
Based on the Core 2 Duo platform, the Asus boasts a high-end video card as well as the next-generation draft-N wireless service. Combined with its sleek profile, those willing to pay a premium for looks and performance will certainly be enticed by the ASUS Lamborghini VX2.
Australian company SMS Developments Ltd has just announced the world’s first truly mobile GSM watch phone. From the pictures it doesn’t look much bigger than a conventional (albeit bulky) watch but also sports full voice and SMS capabilities. It’s surprising that this sort of technology has taken so long to hit the market. It just seemed a matter of time (no pun intended) before mobile technology was small enough to cram into an ordinary wrist watch. 
LG’s new KU250 is an excellent example for all cellphone manufacturers to follow when it comes to 3G handsets. This candybar phone features a 1.76″ LCD display, 3G video telephony, a 1.3 megapixel camera and VGA camera for video calls, Internet connectivity, and support for a vast array of audio formats including MP3 and WMA. The KU250 is widely tipped to come with a low price tag, aiming to make 3G affordable across all levels of society. The handset will be available at wholesales pricing (about 30% less than normal) and contains a chipset supplied by Qualcomm.
Recently, Motorola released a few tasty bits of info about its forthcoming Motorola SCPL mobile phone, which is set to replace the now-ageing RAZR sometime next year. Of key interest was Motorola bigwig Ron Garrique’s claim that the new phones will have five features that will make them stand out from their rivals. Motorola will “abandon” its proprietary P2K mobile phone OS — currently used in the Razr and other featurephones — in favor of a Linux/Java environment, reports PC Magazine. Additionally, the world’s number-two handset vendor is readying a Scpl (”scalpel”) product line.
