Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On , a column about consumer technology. In its introductory press release, here’s what Sony has to say about the Dash , a “personal Internet viewer” that it announced at CES: “Featuring a vivid 7-inch color touch screen…
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Switched On: Sony’s forward Dash
Yeah, we know: you haven’t bought a pico projector and you really have no plan to do so. Still, it’s kind of fun to see them doing their thing, beaming little, dim images onto walls from improbably small boxes.
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Pico projectors caught in the wild, one on a camcorder, one in Samsung’s W9600 cellphone (video)
Sony doesn’t seem to have gotten around to an official announcement for this one just yet, but its WHG-SLK1 iPod shelf system was on hand at CES 2010, and the folks at Sony Insider managed to get a quick peek at it. Designed as much for video as for audio, this one packs a fairly large 9-inch screen front and center, and promises a full 100W of power, along with an iPod dock, a built-in DVD player, a USB port, and accommodations for both Memory Sticks and SD cards
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Sony WHG-SLK1 iPod shelf system surfaces at CES
If you liked what you saw of Dell’s Mini 5 / Streak Android tablet-MID-phone-thing at CES but didn’t feel like you had enough of a chance to really see it in action, the gray market has come through for you again. We’ve just gotten pinged with this video of our friend Six-fingers handling what looks to be a fully functioning device, replete with Dell’s custom Android skin
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Dell’s Mini 5 / Streak tablet UI exposed on video
Intel Atom processors, capacitive touchscreens, NVIDIA Tegra 2 graphics, Moblin installs… sounds like a suite of hot next-gen ultra-portables, right
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Next-gen dashboards get Tegra 2, Moblin, Atom, we go hands-on
This is soon enough to market that it’s hard to blame the iPod nano specifically for its appearance, but either way it seems that the Philips Cam is the newest member to the oh-so-small club of MP3 / camera combos.
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Philips Cam, Muse and Ariaz mark a renaissance for the boring PMP
We’re just cleaning out the rest of our memory cards from CES, and we totally forgot this moment of unintentional hilarity while grabbing a quick hands-on with Panasonic’s new point-and-shoot line — that’s the new touchscreen DMC-FP3, asking for the name of our baby. Sadly, we were not able to provide it with one, and it responded by continuing to have a somewhat wonky hybrid touchscreen-and-buttons control scheme
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Panasonic 2010 point and shoot line hands-on
We saw some incredibly cheap, ill-thought, Android-based videophones at CES this year, but this wasn’t one of them. The SoIP S1 from Inbrics is running Android, of course, but it’s under that same fine UI skin that Inbrics has coated its M1 Android slider in
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Inbrics’ SoIP S1 tries to make videophone converts out of us yet
Remember those elegant mantelpieces with OLED infusion launched at CES ?
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Nanobrick Miyoul OLED media frames are for your luxurious inner-self
We know, we know, it’s only $149! What could possibly be stopping us from entering the marvelous world of Android-powered netbooking? Well, maybe it’s the fact that it’s been tried before, and just didn’t make any sense
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Hivision’s $149 Android-based netbook reminds us we’re not really shopping for a netbook right now
