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The weird side of CES 2012: Justin Bieber, Solowheels, a Kinect-powered skateboard, and more
Because CES is more than just Android phones and tablets. It's more than just Windows laptops, HDTVs with various levels of 3D interaction and 12K resolution. It's more than just virtual storage and refrigerators. This is the CES we really and truly love. This is Sony CEO Howard Stringer awkwardly hugging Will Smith on stage. This is a closet that will shake, steam, dry, and freshen your clothes up for you with a variety of selectable aromas. This is more than one instance of dancing robots and more than one celebrity cameo — and one time where both those groups intersected to make Joanna's heart skip a beat. This is our love letter to you, the Consumer Eccentric Show.
A special thanks to Borrow Lenses, who provided us with cameras and lenses for the week!
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January 16, 2012
4moms Origami is the highest tech stroller yet (hands-on video)
4moms Origami stroller recharges through motion, powers your smartphone, and collapses at the touch of a button.
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January 14, 2012
The Verge logo gets Cubified
We set the guys at Cubify a challenge — could they reproduce our geometrically impossible logo?
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January 13, 2012
Chaotic Moon Labs Board of Awesomeness: your hand is the throttle on this Kinect-controlled skateboard
We got a chance to ride Chaotic Moon Labs' Board of Awesomeness, an electric skateboard that uses your hand as a virtual petal.
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January 13, 2012
LG Styler 'New Concept Clothes Manager' hands-on (video)
Impressions of LG's Styler closet.
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January 13, 2012
ioSafe puts Thunderbolt drive to lightning test (hands-on and video)
ioSafe demonstrated its Thunderbolt-compatible Rugged Portable hard drive this year by shocking it with a million-volt Tesla coil.
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January 12, 2012
CTX MIseeTX is a computer, keyboard, mouse, and monitor in one tiny box (hands-on video)
We stopped by CTX's CES booth to test out the company's new computer, which somewhat redefines the term "all-in-one computer."
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January 12, 2012
Kyocera's prototype Speaker-less Smartphone (hands-on video)
KDDI's prototype "Speaker-less Smartphone" produces sound without a speaker.
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January 12, 2012
Hyperkin's $19.99 Game Genie for Nintendo 3DS (hands-on video)
Belkin's Game Genie is a $19.99 cheat device that's compatible with all of Nintendo's DS handhelds.
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January 11, 2012
Dancing with flying robots: the Parrot AR.Drone booth after hours
On our way out of the CES floor tonight, we happened upon a gleeful scene: representatives from Parrot, maker of the AR.Drone 2.0, decided to have a little impromptu dance alongside their flying quadrocopters.
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January 11, 2012
Justin Bieber. A dancing robot. CES 2012.
Justin Bieber demos the TOSY mRobo robot at CES 2012.
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January 11, 2012
TOSY Robotics mRobo Ultra Bass: 2 gigabytes of dancing robot (update: pics)
The TOSY Robotics mRobo Ultra Bass is a 2GB MP3 player that will dance pre-programmed routines to "virtually any" genre of music.
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January 11, 2012
Kopin and Motorola's Golden-i head-mounted PC (hands-on video)
Kopin and Motorola's Golden-i is a wearable PC designed for the enterprise, controlled completely by voice and gesture input.
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January 11, 2012
Behringer's iNuke Boom is the essence of Vegas
Behringer's iNuke boom is a giant iPhone dock. It's pretty silly.
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January 11, 2012
Cooler Master demos heatsink with a computer built in
the Cooler Master Hyper 212+ CPU heatsink, and if you're wondering it has "CPU" in the name, that's because it has a computer built into it. Behind a large fan and lots of aluminum fins for cooling down that processor in your gaming rig, there's an AMD E-350 Brazos APU on a micro motherboard.
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January 10, 2012
SpnKiX motorized skate shoes (hands-on pictures and video)
We just caught up with Peter Treadway, the creator of SpnKiX motorized skate shoes, at his booth at CES — he was gracious enough to strap them on and wheel himself around for us.
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January 10, 2012
Cubify.com builds your digital designs in five inches cubed of ABS
Cubify.com is a new service from 3D Systems which allows you to print your 3D models from nylon in up to 5-inch cubes. The service is also gearing up to sell the printers to end users for $1299.
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January 10, 2012
Vuzix transparent 'smart glasses' prototype hands-on
Vuzix is developing a set of transparent video 'smart glasses' that will allow for a variety of augmented reality uses. We were able to look at a proof of concept for the glasses, which may come out in 2013.
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January 10, 2012
Recon Instruments announces MOD Live SDK, lets developers build apps for ski goggles
Recon Instruments, maker of the MOD and MOD Live ski goggles, has released an SDK so developers can make Android apps for the dongle.
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January 10, 2012
Chaotic Moon's 'Board of Awesomeness' is a Kinect-controlled electric skateboard
Chaotic Moons Labs is showing a motorized longboard controlled by the combination of Kinect and a Samsung Windows 8 tablet at CES 2012.
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January 9, 2012
Sensics Smart Goggles put your head in the game (hands-on pictures and video)
We got a chance to play with the Sensics Smart Goggles, an Android-based helmet that makes for some seriously fun gaming.
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January 9, 2012
Victorinox Swiss Army launches ‘world’s smallest high-capacity SSD drive’
Victorinox Swiss Army announced today at CES what it says is the world's smallest high-capacity SSD.
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January 8, 2012
Thermador Freedom auto-sensing induction cooktop hands-on (video)
Here's Thermador's Freedom Induction Cooktop, a stove that senses your pots and heats accordingly.
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January 8, 2012
Disposable body metric patch from BodyMedia coming later this year
BodyMedia introduced two prototype body monitor devices at CES 2012: a patch designed for temporary monitoring and a 3G-enabled version. Neither product is currently available.