Archive for: hands-on

Motorola MOTOROI demoed on video in very cozy quarters

You don’t typically get this close to your phone unless you’re about to put it against the side of your face, but hey, we figure a little intimate time with a device you use this much can’t hurt, now, can it? Here we’ve got one of the first high-def hands-on experiences of Motorola‘s latest Android [...]

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Teenage Engineering OP-1 synth gets the hands-on treatment (video)

We see so many great concepts disappear from view before becoming reality that you could excuse us if by now we’re a little jaded. That said, we’ve been holding on to hope that Teenage Engineering’s pocket sequencer / synth / sampler / controller was the real deal. And what is this? According to the gang [...]

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Next-gen dashboards get Tegra 2, Moblin, Atom, we go hands-on

Intel Atom processors, capacitive touchscreens, NVIDIA Tegra 2 graphics, Moblin installs… sounds like a suite of hot next-gen ultra-portables, right? Think again. Those are just some of the technologies used in the dashboards of cars that will be appearing on showrooms in the coming months and years, dashes that were largely on display at CES [...]

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Ooma Telo HD, Handset, and iPhone app hands-on

We stopped by Ooma’s booth at CES for a quick hands-on with the new HD Telo and some time with the iPhone app. Voice quality on the service was pretty decent, although we did notice a pretty significant bit of lag — we’re assuming things would work better on a quality connection, as opposed to [...]

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First Else hands-on at CES: ‘still alive and kicking’

We caught up with Else at CES to check on how they’re doing with the First Else since we last saw them back in November. According to CTO Eldad Eilam, the basic functions of the ALP-based phone are finally done and dusted, so now Else will mainly focus on fine-tuning its snazzy visual effects until [...]

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Microvision laser projection gun hands-on

You didn’t think CES was over, did you? Saving a true gamer’s delight for last, we went along to meet with Microvision’s reps today and were introduced to its PicoP laser projector and gun gaming peripheral. The projection tech employed here is unique, as each pixel (848 x 480 resolution) is itself an RGB laser [...]

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Parrot AR.Drone hands-on: a quadricopter for the rest of us

The Parrot AR.Drone was definitely one of the highlights of our day; how can you top a quadricopter that can fight with another using augmented reality, is easy to fly, and only needs an iPhone to control it? You simply can’t — this is just pure joy and is exactly what a gadget should be: [...]

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Studio XPS 16 OLED concept laptop hands-on

Beautiful viewing angle and legitimately wide viewing angle, the Studio XPS 16 OLED concept laptop was on hand and turning heads at Dell’s CES suite. It’s definitely a beaut, claiming a super-thin 2mm screen, a 0.004ms response time, and a contrast ratio “exceeding 10,000:1.” The big catch here, as you can see in some of [...]

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Teleepoch’s Qualcomm-powered WMDP gesture phone in action

It might not look like much, but it really isn’t. The new handset prototype from Teleepoch is a flip phone with a miniscule display cut-out and nothing else of note. All functionality is controlled by tilting the phone up and down to scroll through menus and shaking the handset a particular direction to drill in [...]

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iType keyboard brings a physical keyboard to the iPhone, but there’s a catchAttention iPhone owners that have been praying for a physical keyboard for

Attention iPhone owners that have been praying for a physical keyboard forever: your prayers have been answers… kind of. Ion Audio has debuted its iType iPhone keyboard at CES, and we can confirm that it does indeed work as advertised. Once you pop your iPhone or iPod touch into the dock at the top of [...]

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