To top off a raft of tablets and strange hybrid netbook/tablet creatures (see the Asus Eee Pad Slider), the icing on the cake at the Asus press conference was this mad video for the extension of Waveface, which we heard about at last year’s CES. Meet Iris, a “concept extension”, which stands for Inspirational Research for Immersive Space. Don’t worry too much about what that actually means, as it’s highly unlikely this will ever see the light of day. Click through for the full video.
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Those whopping TVs and super-speedy PCs might have turned heads at CES. But there were plenty of futuristic flights of fancy helping us see just what life will be like in 2020, or even sooner. There was the official arrival of Sony Transferjet, the insanity of Asus Waveface and some nifty work with augmented reality. So, here’s our pick of the top five new technologies seen in Las Vegas.
CES isn’t renowned as a hotbed of mobile phone madness. That’s reserved for the cellular showdown that is Mobile World Congress, in Barcelona next month. However, that’s not to say Vegas wasn’t crammed with neat new blowers. Here’s our pick of the very best.
Asus Waveface sent our eyebrows skyward earlier this week, but while at first we thought it was all CGI concept stuff, it turns out Asus has built some of it for real. Want to see Asus Waveface in the flesh? Read on, and check out our photos.
The first day of CES 2010 threw forth an absolute flurry of fantastic tech but if you’ve missed any of it while you were sleeping, worry not. Read on for today’s CES Catch-up…
Electricpig first predicted it back in October 2009, now Amazon boss Jeff Bezos has confirmed it – the big screen Amazon Kindle DX is hitting the UK. The Kindle DX will ship to the UK from January 19 but you’ll need to use an adaptor for UK plug sockets.
Straight from the weird gadgets wing of CES, Parrot unveiled the Parrot A.R Drone. It’s an iPhone controlled quadricopter that’ll allow you to detect real life targets using an iPhone app interface. It’s not arriving until later in the year but check out the full story for pics of it in action.
CES 2010 has plenty of tantalising TV tech on show and the Boxee Box is one of the coolest bits of kit going. Electricpig got hands-on with the affordable HD media streamer and revealed a QWERTY keyboard concealed in its remote. Again, hit the full story for oodles of pics of the Boxee Box.
We’re bit fans of wireless charging and Powermat has unveiled a simplified version of its cable cutting charger. It’s ditched its gadgets in favour of new rubbery cases for HTC, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Blackberry, LG and Samsung phones. There’s also new Powermats and portable versions to peer at too.
And finally, Asus gave us a sneak peek at its vision of the computing future – the Asus Waveface system. It includes cloud computing via the ultra-sexy Asus Waveface watch and an Asus Waveface Light Laptop with a flexible display that can be flattened out into a tablet.
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The first day of CES 2010 threw forth an absolute flurry of fantastic tech but if you’ve missed any of it while you were sleeping, worry not. Read on for today’s CES Catch-up…
As names go, it’s possibly the most ludicrous we’ve ever heard. But Asus Waveface is the tech titan’s spanking new cloud concept. It includes a slew of stunning next-gen gadgets, which it reckons will be dominating the headlines over the coming years. From transparent watchphones to slinky new TVs, Waveface looks utterly insane.