Genius intros portable G-Pen F-509 digital tablet

Unless we're mistaken, the last G-Pen device to come our direction courtesy of Genius was the M712 and M609, and at long last we've yet another to showcase. The G-Pen F-509 was designed for portable, in the car use, as it measures in at just 5.25- x 8.75-inches. Aside from sporting plenty of input real estate for that digital pen, it also features 26 programmable hot-keys for shortcuts of your choosing while the cordless pen touts a pair of buttons for controlling shapes and thickness. If the inner artist in you is just dying to wrap your arms around one, you can find it now for a buck oh nine.

[ Via: engadget ]
[ Tag: digital tablet, digital tablets, DigitalTablet, DigitalTablets, digitizer, e-pen, F-509, g-pen, G-Pen F-509, G-penF-509, Genius, KYE Systems, KyeSystems, tablet, wacom ]

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Texas Instruments out-picos itself with newer, tinier projector chip

We love pico projectors, we love phones -- so the combo pack known as the Samsung Show stopped us in our tracks when we first spied it at CES. Well, Texas Instruments, makers of the DLP projector chip that runs the Show, if you will, have just announced the second generation DLP chip which is -- you guessed it -- smaller! The second-gen chip is about 20 percent smaller and thinner in fact, and it boasts the ability to display WVGA resolution (the previous model has HVGA resolution), all while delivering a brighter display! TI's press specifically mentions mobile phones, so don't be surprised if the Show doesn't have a host of comptitors to deal with any day now. Texas Instruments is on hand at MWC, and their press conference is tonight, so we'll be watching, magnifying glass in hand, to see what else they have in store for us.

[ Via: Engadget ]
[ Tag: dlp, mwc, mwc 09, mwc 2009, Mwc09, Mwc2009, pico, pico projector, PicoProjector, projector, texas instruments, TexasInstruments, ti ]

Sony brings BRAVIA Engine 3, AppliCast on-screen widgets to HDTV lineup

Far be it for us to judge the decisions of a huge corporation and its ad campaign, but Sony announcing a new line of BRAVIA HDTVs while the vast majority of the consumer electronics industry is intently focused on cellphones in Barcelona seems a bit peculiar. For those who need a break from MWC 2009 shenanigans, we've got 19 new hi-def havens here, spanning 6 different models: WE5, W5500, E5500, E5300, V5500, and S5500. Boasted features include BRAVIA Engine 3 with 100Hz Motionflow and Image Blur Reduction for smoother images, a widget-rich on-screen AppliCast that gives you basic internet-on-TV functionality, DLNA for streaming media from a computer, and Sony's Xross Media Bar (XMB). Not every model here boasts all the new technology -- you'll have to invest in the V5500 (pictured, background) for the full experience. Sony boasts its 2009 LCD lineup is its "greenest ever," with most models carrying the "EU Flower" eco-friendly label from the European Commission, and not to worry, even some of the most coveted sets here carry the green mark. Hit up the read link for full specs.

[ Via: Engadget ]
[ Tag: bravia, bravia engine 3, BraviaEngine3, e5300, e5500, s5500, v5500, w5500, we5 ]

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Explay Colibri pico projector promises 70-inch images at SVGA resolution

Explay has been one of the early proponents of pico projectors, and it looks like the company is not showing any signs of abandoning the form anytime soon, with it now set to officially introduce its new, even smaller Colibri model at Mobile World congress next week. This one measures a mere 24 x 28.6 x 7mm, and can apparently pump out a 70-inch image at VGA, WVGA or SVGA resolution, all while drawing just 1.5W of power, which Explay says makes it the smallest, most efficient, and highest resolution pico projector on the market today. Unfortunately, the company doesn't seem have anything to say about the project actually finding its way into a phone or other device, though perhaps it's saving a little something for MWC.


[ Via: engadget ]
[ Tag: colibri, explay, explay colibri, ExplayColibri, pico projector, PicoProjector, projector ]

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Samsung's SyncMaster U70 is 7-inches of extra real estate

We can't get enough of these cute, fuzzy little add-on displays, and Samsung's chipping in with the new U70 SyncMaster unit which just hit Korea, and is already available in Europe. The 7-inch display runs at a fairly standard 800 x 480 resolution, and plugs into a single USB port for power and image. It's got 200 nits of brightness, a 400:1 contrast ratio and a 140 degree viewing angle, but like most of these displays is unfortunately Windows-only at the moment. You can pick one up for 99 Euro (about $127 US), but no word on whether or when this will make it Stateside.

[ Via: Engadget ]
[ Tag: add-on display, Add-onDisplay, auxiliary display, AuxiliaryDisplay, europe, korea, samsung, syncmaster u70, SyncmasterU70, u70 ]

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Samsung's SyncMaster U70 is 7-inches of extra real estate

We can't get enough of these cute, fuzzy little add-on displays, and Samsung's chipping in with the new U70 SyncMaster unit which just hit Korea, and is already available in Europe. The 7-inch display runs at a fairly standard 800 x 480 resolution, and plugs into a single USB port for power and image. It's got 200 nits of brightness, a 400:1 contrast ratio and a 140 degree viewing angle, but like most of these displays is unfortunately Windows-only at the moment. You can pick one up for 99 Euro (about $127 US), but no word on whether or when this will make it Stateside.

[ Via: Engadget ]
[ Tag: add-on display, Add-onDisplay, auxiliary display, AuxiliaryDisplay, europe, korea, samsung, syncmaster u70, SyncmasterU70, u70 ]

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SIM2 Solar Series infinite contrast HDR LCD ships in Q2

After several years high dynamic range lcd technology is finally ready for market, now that SIM2 and Dolby are showing off this Solar Series 47-inch screen at the 2009 Integrated Systems Europe show. Just like last year's prototype, it's both brighter (4,000 cd/m2) and has a greater contrast ratio than any flat panel currently available. The 2,206 LEDs can provide up to an infinite contrast ratio and supposedly match real world visuals thanks to 16 bit color processing. The only bad news is that even with a name change to Dolby Vision, that ugly wide bezel from the BrightSide days still remains. We'll have to wait until closer to the Q2 shipping date to find out the price, but with SIM2's high end reputation it won't be cheap.

[ Via: Engadget ]
[ Tag: bright side, BrightSide, dolby, dolby vision, DolbyVision, hdr, high dynamic range, HighDynamicRange, infinite contrast, InfiniteContrast, lcd, led, SIM2 ]

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Verizon Hub goes on sale for $199.99 on contract

We had a pretty good idea Verizon's Hub would be loosed on Super Bowl Sunday, and sure enough, the landline killing machine is now available for ordering. The device itself will run you $199.99 on a two-year contract (after all applicable rebates), and if you're still wondering whether or not this thing is even worth your time, why not have a look at our hands-on / impressions?


[ Via: Engadget ]
[ Tag: available, now available, NowAvailable, on sale, OnSale, phone, telephone, verizon, verizon hub, VerizonHub, VOIP ]

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Century's Plus One 8-inch USB monitor seems pretty OK for displayin' stuff

You know how it is, with so many apps fighting over that valuable desktop real estate. Luckily, there is no shortage of companies looking to fill the void in your life (or your workflow) with an additional 8 inches of USB-enabled monitorin'. The newest entry into the market is the Plus One LCD-8000U by Century, a digiframe-looking thing that sports an 800 x 600 resolution, 250 cd/m2 brightness, and supports either portrait or landscape mode. What's not to love, right? Well, the fact that it's going for $190 is not very lovable. Still, it's good to have options. Or something. Award winning video after the break.

[ Via: Engadget ]
[ Tag: century, digiframe, displaylink, LCD-8000U, Plus One LCD-8000U, PlusOne, PlusOneLcd-8000u, sideshow, usb, usb monitor, UsbMonitor ]

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Adapt MPJ-101 pico projector: tiny, cute, available

Go ahead, you can admit it: you're really, really into picos -- the best of us are. Adapt's update to its pocket projector, the MPJ-101 -- which is nearly identical to the previous model -- shouldn't fill us with joy, but it does. This little (125 x 55 x 23 mm) monster's got 1GB of built in memory, an SD slot, and two .5 watt speakers. It projects up to 10 lumens of brightness at a resolution of 640?480 from around 6 to 50 feet. All this excitement doesn't come cheap, though -- expect to shell out about a thousand bucks for this teeny bundle of joy. Oh boy.

[ Via: Engadget ]
[ Tag: adapt, mpj 101, mpj-101, Mpj101, pico, pico projector, PicoProjector, pocket, pocket projector, PocketProjector, projector ]

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Dell's 2209WA LCD monitor reviewed, deemed king of 22-inchers

Dell's 2209WA just surfaced a few days ago, and already we're seeing the first review of said panel courtesy of CNET's Australian branch. The 22-inch IPS display was said to boast "excellent color and viewing angles and great gaming performance" at a fantastic price point, with the only real knocks being the omission of 1:1 scaling and the inset design which occasionally caused reflections. Yeah, minor quibbles indeed. In fact, reviewers struggled to even find those, and they were downright giddy to hand out a 9 out of 10 rating along with this strongly worded quote: "This is the best 22-inch monitor we've seen." 'Nuff said, huh?

[ Via: Engadget ]
[ Tag: 2209WA, dell, IPS, lcd, lcd monitor, LcdMonitor, monitor, review, reviewed ]

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Eyes on with LG's near-production 15-inch OLED TV: come on summer

While Sony's OLED TV is little more than a beautiful, 11-inch novelty, lg is swaggering dangerously close to a respectable kitchen TV with this 15-inch AMOLED TV prototype. On display here at ces and planned for a production run sometime this summer, the image is absolutely stunning -- every bit as impressive as the Sony's XEL-1. Nothing else compares to the incredible contrast achieved by these OLED displays. Have a look in the gallery -- we've got the prototype pictured with and without its chubby TV bezel. It's credit-card thin (0.8-mm) and only on Engadget.
[ Via: Engadget ]
[ Tag: 15-inch oled, 15-inchOled, amoled, breaking news, BreakingNews, ces, ces 2009, Ces2009, ces2009breaking, featured, lg, oled ]

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Sony debuts four new Bluetooth-ready digital photo frames

We know, the digiframe market is just downright saturated with ho hum offerings that offer little innovation and oodles of boring, but Sony's got four out today at ces that are just a step or two above the rest. Kicking things off is the top-end DPF-X1000 ($300; March) and second-tier DPF-V1000 ($250; March), both of which offer 10-inch panels, an alarm clock, auto dimmer, a variety of slideshow functions, an auto orientation sensor and a bit of magic that "auto corrects the white balance" in your photos. The former model arrives with 2GB of internal storage and sports a black / wood-trimmed motif, while the latter fellow gets half the storage and a less striking silver trim. Following those two are the 9-inch DPF-D92 and 8-inch DPF-D82, both of which have a VGA panel, 1GB of memory and would love be wall-mounted.
[ Via: Engadget ]
[ Tag: alarm clock, AlarmClock, bluetooth, ces, ces 2009, Ces2009, clock, digiframe, digital photo frame, DigitalPhotoFrame, DPF-D82, DPF-D92, DPF-V1000, DPF-X1000, photo frame, PhotoFrame, sony ]

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Wrist-worn flexible OLED prototype is for the military, but kids like it too

Flexible OLED displays are becoming more and more commonplace (and festive), despite not actually being available in any devices you can buy just yet. When that day finally comes, Universal Display Corporation thinks one of those gadgets will be something like the above: a wearable, flexible, 4-inch prototype screen that ces attendees will be able to check out and maybe even try on -- albeit uncomfortably. It's been developed with military applications in mind (they always get the cool stuff first), but bendy consumer devices are naturally envisioned as well. There's no word on when we'll start seeing them in passports or flexi-phones, but we're thinking we have a while to wait yet.


[ Via: Engadget ]
[ Tag: ces, ces 2009, Ces2009, flexible display, flexible oled, FlexibleDisplay, FlexibleOled, oled, universal display corporation, UniversalDisplayCorporation, wearable display, WearableDisplay ]

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GestureTek brings 3D and gestures together for remote control

The idea of gesture-based remote control isn't new, but GestureTek has added in 3D tracking to the mix for, you guessed it -- even more expressive interaction with your TV. After all, you don't live in flatland, so why should your remote control gestures? Of course, adding in depth perception requires the use of more than one webcam, but maybe that's not a big tradeoff in our age of six and more speakers in the living room. The setup will be on display at CES (sans Xpletive), so we'll try and swing by for a, um, hands on while we puzzle over how to add voice commands to this system. Watching the big game with your buddies just might get even more entertaining yet.

[ Via: Engadget ]
[ Tag: ces, ces 2009, Ces2009, gesture, gesturetek, remote, remote control, RemoteControl ]

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Samsung prepping 6.5mm LCD for debut at CES

Samsung Korea has announced it will reveal an ever-so-thin hdtv prototype at ces this week -- a clear trend going into the show. There's a paucity of info about it as of now, but it's going to be between 6.5 and 7mm thick -- and it doesn't appear to be part of the possible lineup we saw leaked a while back. "Thinnest HDTV" ever, huh? We'll see about that soon enough: Samsung's Vegas press conference is scheduled for Wednesday.

[ Via: Engadget ]
[ Tag: backlit, ces, ces2009, hdtv, leak, led, samsung ]

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LG's super slim LED backlit LCD packing wireless HD, DivX HD

Finally ready to give up further details on its 24.8-mm thick LED backlit LH95 (apparently dubbed the LH9500 in the UK), revealing to Stuff.tv we can expect a 55-inch HDTV with wireless hd box included. DivX hd support on the panel itself (sorry, no word about any Netflix streaming abilities just yet) via USB or Bluetooth makes sure there will be plenty to watch on the 2,000,000:1 contrast screen with 240Hz technology. At least on paper, one of the slimmest, best looking LCDs we've heard about so far, we'll see if it impresses in person shortly.

[ Via: Engadget ]
[ Tag: 240hz, ces, ces 2009, Ces2009, divx, divx hd, DivxHd, lcd, led, lg, lh95, lh9500, wireless hd, WirelessHd ]

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3M's MPro110 pocket projector reviewed: okay for geeks, so it's okay for you

3M's MPro110 never set out to blow minds, just to wow those who thought projectors could never be this small. According to Gadling's hands-on review, it achieved its goal(s). With a brightness of just 7 lumens, the actual image that it produced wasn't exactly stunning, but it was deemed "far from useless." The biggest knock was just how limited it was in terms of real-world usage; unless the room was perfectly dark, it wasn't the most gorgeous thing to look at, which means those midday sales presentations may not fly if there's a window in the room. In the end, the MPro110 was found to be more of a geek's toy than a proper presentation tool, but who says that's a bad thing?

[ Via: Engadget ]
[ Tag: 3M, mini projector, MiniProjector, MPro110, pico projector, PicoProjector, pocket projector, PocketProjector, projector, review, reviewed ]

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Extended Task manager for Windows

Extended Task Manager shows you everything that the built in windows Task Manager does... and then some. This free utility offers a summary page which shows you al ist of running programs as well as a graph with your CPU usage, Page file usage, disk I/O use and network performance, among other things. And that's just in the first tab. The program has 8 separate tabs that provide detailed information about exactly what your computer is doing while you aren't paying attention (or even when you are).
The performance tab, for example, offers a more detailed look at your CPU, Memory, and Disk I/O usage and history. The graphs are similar to what you'd find in the windows Task Manager, but the Disk I/O graph is a helpful addition. And when you mouse over any point in a graph you get details including which running processes are using the highest percentage of your resources at any given second.

[ Via: Life Rocks 2.0 ]
[ Tag: extended-task-manager, task-manager ]

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