CES 2008: everything you need to see
We know there was an absolutely stunning amount of stuff going down at CES last week -- yet strangely enough nothing that really stood out. Before Macworld officially gets started let's bring it home with a few of the highlights of the news week you might have missed!
Bill Gates!
Mobile
Portable Media
HDTV / home theater
HD DVD group cancels CES press conference in wake of Warner announcement: daaamn
Sling announces SlingCatcher (again), SlingPlayer 2.0 with Clip+Sling, and Sling Cable modem (with hands-on)
Pioneer's Project Kuro: The 9mm thick, infinite contrast 50-inch plasma HDTV (hands-on)
Panasonic gets official with WirelessHD transmission system (plus hands-on)
Panasonic's gigantic 150-inch plasma is official! (with spy shot action)
Good times
Computing
Samsung intros Spinpoint M6 500GB standard height laptop drive, Hitachi be damned
Alienware curved display rocks Crysis at 2880 x 900 (with video, more details!)
Hands-on with Dell's XPS 630i desktop and 16-inch concept laptop
Digital imaging
Casio gets official with the EX-F1 60fps prosumer camera / camcorder (with video)
Canon's VIXIA HF10 16GB dual-flash camcorder and more (with video)
GPS
Dash Express powered by OpenMoko's neo open-source hardware platform
Garmin's new Forerunner 405 puts the 'watch' back in 'GPS watch'
Booth tours
We miss anything? Let us know!