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Top Ten Über Gadgets From This Week's IFA Electronics Show

The International Consumer Electronics Show in Berlin is a wealth of tech riches. These are our favorites.

Posted 9.4.09 at 12:30 pm 2 Comments

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Sony Vaio X-Series Ultrathin

The final flourish of Sony's press conference Wednesday was this 11-inch notebook. Its carbon-fiber casing is about a half an inch thick at its widest point and has two USB ports and an SD card slot. The demo model kicking around IFA was running an Atom processor, which files it more as a netbook than notebook. But...it's estimated $2,000 price tag make it more notebooky in the marketplace.
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Panasonic and Sony Full HD in 3D

I know, this Avatar statue is real-life 3D, but let's face it actual 3D movies don't really photograph well. This year, Panasonic and Sony are both making some big, 3D promises. Sony was up first with a promise of 3D Bravia TVs, PlayStation games, and Blu-ray in 2010. Not to be outdone, of course, Panasonic later announced and demoed their own 3D home theater setup of 1080p plasma TVs and Blu-ray players (and accompanying heavy metal movie props).
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Slagtron

09/08/09 at 5:26 pm

Philips Wireless HDTV Link

OK, now lets come down to reality a bit here. For teh list price of $650 I get one wireless HDMI that ranges no more than65 feet.

With that same amount of cash, I could have HDMI cabled 7 distributed anywhere in my home, 4 times over.

Unless somebody is severrely hard up for a new wireless gadget, I can't see this going anywhere until it's under $100, smaller than a cigarette pack and has a range of at least 100 feet. Add to that the range reducing factors in all homes, such as my rangemax wireless that drops to one bar only two rooms away; and you have something that might, if you're lucky reach the same distance as a long HDMI cable. ($45)

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Slagtron

09/08/09 at 5:28 pm

oops. typo: $850