CES 2005: Show-Stopping Photos From Day 3
Rugged hard drives, data destroyers, and plenty of personal entertainment gadgets highlight today's photo gallery.
Photos by Rick Rizner, PC World
The CES show floor is officially open, and our editors have been searching every inch to find the coolest new gadgets you just have to see. Here's a peek at a few products that caught our eye on Thursday.
And for original reports from the show, check out our CES Staff Blog, where our editors are writing about these products and many more.
If you must go outside, but can't leave the music behind, why not snorkle with Oregon Scientific's MP120 MP3 player? You can go underwater with it in up to 3.2 feet deep for up to 30 minutes. It comes in 128MB, 256MB and 512MB capacities, and the company says the battery lasts up to 10 hours. Don't touch the fish!
Motorola used this ramp covered with snow to demonstrate its newest product in the parking lot of the Las Vegas Convention Center. The company has teamed up with Burton Snowboards to give the world a snowboarder's jacket designed to connect to a digital music player and any brand of Bluetooth-enabled cell phone.
The jacket's hood includes a pair of stereo speakers and a microphone and these are connected to a control pad on the outer side of the jacket's left sleeve.
Don't like the jacket? There's also a hat containing an integrated headset that can be used with a phone or music player equipped with Bluetooth. Blank, silvery stare not included.
This break from looking at glossy hardware is brought to you by Olympus who has live, non-digital music showcased at its CES booth. Here are two members of the Black Crowes trying to be heard over the din of the Las Vegas Convention Center. Ahhh, I love the '90s!
This $299 device with remote control has a built-in XM antenna and a rechargable battery that the company says lasts up to five hours. That's good because it can record up to five hours of XM satellite radio. Look for it in April.
PXact Communication's $340 XAct Rego XTR is a portable satellite radio receiver that can record up to four hours of any kind of satellite radio with its built-in flash memory. It also has a Compact Flash card slot to let you play your own MP3s or you can sync it with the music files on your PC. It includes a car kit and headset with built-in antenna.
This 4-megapixel camera has a 3-inch touchscreen display with stylus and lets you e-mail images directly--without a PC. In addition to connecting to your home WiFi access point, the company is also working with T-Mobile to offer easy, subscription-based access at more than U.S. 5200 hotspots. It will be available in June for $599.
Here's the Philips Wireless Music Center, the WACS700. It comes with a stylishly designed base and up to five satellite stations. The WACS700 can convert audio CDs into MP3 music files, store them on a 40GB hard drive (up to 750 CDs of music), and wirelessly stream your music. You can play the same music on all five or have up to five different music streams going at once.
InFocus showed a prototype of its battery-operated DLP projector, which uses an LED light source.
Why wait to get home to watch your favorite shows? Sling Media's Slingbox Personal Broadcaster lets you watch your home service over a broadband connection. The device costs $249.
Olixir added a 400GB model to its Mobile Data Vault series of ruggedized 3.5-inch hard drives. The new model costs $749, though smaller capacity models exist, beginning with a 120GB hard drive that costs $259.
Rather than shred your CDs or DVDs to protect the data, the Norazza Data Destroyer Office Pro imprints the discs to keeps others from recovering sensitive information. The product imprints 50 discs at a time, and costs $199.
Altec Lansing's new InMotion speaker set costs $99 and will amplify music from your MP3 player when you're tired of wearing headphones.
SageTV Media Center software now runs on Linux. Prices for the box, which will ship in first quarter 2005, begin at $400; media extenders to hook up additional TV sets will cost $99.
The Maxtor QuickView Expander adds recording capacity to a DVR. The device, which comes with 160GB or 300GB capacities, works with Scientific-Atlanta's Explorer 8300 series DVR products and will be leased by Time Warner Cable.
Sakar International's $30 MP3 Sound Case has a hard shell, and plays music from an MP3 player out of one speaker.
Previously available with up to 512MB of storage, Iomega's new Micro Mini thumb drive can hold up to 1GB of data. Also shown is the 20GB mini hard drive, which is host-powered via USB and costs $179; the 40GB version costs $279.
EVGA now makes motherboards. Pricing for the motherboards, which are based on the Nvidia NForce4 chip set, have not yet been announced.
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Associate Editor Eric Butterfield contributed to this report.
