Stories by: Ramon G. McLeod

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    CES - Gesture control: New wave in consumer electronics? 09/01/2008 10:30:17

    The Nintendo Wii brought gesture control to game play, and it seems very likely that you'll soon be seeing variations on the idea in a lot more consumer products.
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    CES - The Internet refrigerator: back from the dead? 08/01/2008 08:08:45

    Five years ago, LG Appliances combined a refrigerator with a PC and it was a colossal flop. Now Whirlpool is taking their shot, albeit with a somewhat different approach.
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    CES - USBTV: USB your movies from PC to TV 11/01/2007 12:26:16

    There are many exotic, and not quite there, technologies that want to help consumers get video and other multimedia content from their PC to their TV, but SanDisk may just have come up with the easiest way of all: a USB drive.
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    CES - HP moves into home servers and Blu-ray drives 09/01/2007 09:47:49

    Hewlett-Packard announced that it is moving into the emerging home server market with its HP MediaSmart Server that will take advantage of the Microsoft Windows Home Server OS that was also announced at the 2007 CES by Bill Gates.
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    HD-DVD on a laptop: Toshiba's Qosmio kicks 09/01/2006 09:10:43

    Oh man, finally. Toshiba, one of the great innovators in both the PC and consumer electronics world is, at last, beginning to understand that a little sizzle doesn't hurt, especially when you've got to goods to walk the talk.
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    Samsung claims largest LCD HDTV 24/05/2004 08:38:38

    Samsung Electronics has introduced a 46-inch flat-panel LCD TV at the Home Entertainment Show in New York, claiming that it is the largest such set to hit the consumer market to date.
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    Epson merges TV, printer 13/01/2004 12:02:24

    In one of the most unusual product combinations, Epson America has rolled out a big-screen LCD projection TV with a built-in colour photo printer.
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    Tablet PC claims nine-hour battery 21/11/2003 07:27:05

    One of the busiest booths at the Comdex trade show in Las Vegas features a new, lightweight, Tablet PC with a claimed battery life of nine hours. That's an unprecedented amount of unplugged time that, if true, blows away what's available today.
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    Nvidia cranks up notebook graphics 19/11/2003 07:49:04

    Nvidia is stoking the action in notebook gaming with the introduction this week of the GeForce FX GO5700. The chip is expected to appear first in notebooks from Toshiba and Alienware in the first quarter of 2004.
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    Diskeeper update defrags in background 25/02/2003 07:12:20

    Executive Software has rolled out a new ver­sion of its Diskeeper 7.0 file defragmentation utility that is designed to demand fewer system resources during operation.
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    CES - New MP3 player allows playback over FM radio 13/01/2003 10:55:08

    Digital Innovations LLC has rolled out an MP3 player that can broadcast music for playback on an FM radio -- say, in your car -- over unused frequencies.
 
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