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Neuros MPEG4 Recorder 2

Audio/Video, Home Theater, Gizmo of the Day / By Doug Felteau / March 5, 2006

The Geeks found a company that believes in your digital rights… Neuros Technology. Their Neuros MPEG-4 Recorder 2 is a digital VCR that allows you to record from a PVR/DVR, Cable, Satellite, DVD Player, Camcorder and VHS Player and playback on PSP, iPod, PC or TV without a needing a PC.

The biggest selling points of the Neuros R2 include converting video for use on the iPod video or PSP but this product is so much more. In the company’s wiki there were even testimonials from customers for various uses including wallet videos where a father stores 30 minute portable video created thanks to the R2 and a Glider pilot that uses his to receive video from a wireless camera mounted on the Glider wing allowing for a non-moving part capture of video.

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CES 2006: Day Three

CES / By Khalid Hosein / January 8, 2006

Day 3 was yet another long day at CES. Notable visits were with Dish Network, Intel, LG, Philips, Scientific Atlanta, Pioneer and to CNET’s Best of CES 2006 Awards. Starting from the end, CNET announced that the best of show product was the Creative Zen Vision, essentially a multimedia player. While we’re hardly saying that this product isn’t cool, we thought it was a little disappointing that this was the *best* of the show, given that these types of devices have been out there in the market for years. There were numerous other newer, edgier, interesting gadgets that featured more cutting-edge technologies that would have made worthy winners. But that’s just our opinion. After all, the People’s Voice Award went to the Pioneer Inno, which is an MP3 player that is XM Radio ready. You can see all of the winners at CNET’s CES site.

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CES 2006: Chief Gadgeteer’s CES Day 1 Report

CES / By Khalid Hosein / January 6, 2006

Wow, yet another huge Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas – 2,500 exhibitors, 130,000 attendees, 1.5 million net square feet of exhibit space and 4,500 of us media types. Day 1 was hectic and we were left wondering why this monster isn’t more like a week long instead of just 4 days. Notable things today included CNET’s Next Big Thing announcement, a panel sponsored by Popular Science on where certain technologies were headed, some cool gadgets at the “CES Innovations Design & Engineering Showcase Honors” along with a few other interesting gadgets and gizmos along the way.

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Sony LocationFree TV

Audio/Video, Home Theater, Computers, Gizmo of the Day / By Khalid Hosein / December 19, 2005

Sony’s LocationFree Player Pak base station (LF-PK1) is similar to Sling Media’s Slingbox (which we featured back in September). It hooks up to your home-entertainment system and to your broadband router and allows you to stream your TV, DVDs, and DVR-recorded programs to any Internet-connected PC. Sony ups the ante by also allowing you to stream media to your Playstation Portable (PSP). You also don’t even need to leave your house, but can enjoy your shows in another room wirelessly. Sony also produces a few different lightweight LCD LocationFree TVs: the 12.1″ LF-X11 and the 7″ LF-X5. The LF-X11 has a resolution of 800×600, while the LF-X5 goes to 800×480. Both have touch screens, on-screen keyboards and software that lets you send e-mail, surf the Web, and a photo album. The LF-X11 even acts as a universal IR remote.

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Sling Media Slingbox

Audio/Video, Home Theater, Gizmo of the Day / By Doug Felteau / December 2, 2005

Slingbox was featured as a Gizmo of the Day back in September, but we have to feature it as part of the “12 Gizmos of Christmas” as people that know about this product want this product.

Slingbox place-shifts (instead of TiVo’s time-shifting) so you can watch TV and control even your TiVo from a PC either down the hall or on travel with your laptop. This is the current ultimate gizmo for geeks!

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Sling Media The Slingbox

Computers, Gizmo of the Day / By Doug Felteau / September 20, 2005

Wouldn’t it be cool to be able to watch your TV while on travel or catch that day game at work? How about seeing if you should stop for a game of Golden Tee Live and a beer at a bar rather than fighting traffic after work by checking out the news channel’s traffic reports? Basically, instead of just “time-shifting” like Tivo introduced being able to “place-shift” allowing you to watch and control your Satellite, Tivo or Cable box over the Internet from any place. I can’t wait until something like this becomes reality… oh wait, Sling Media has created the Slingbox that can do all of this!

Welcome to the greatest thing since Tivo and your latest gizmo that you cannot live without and wonder how you made it through life so long without one… the Slingbox!

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Maxtor Leverages Mediabolic’s Media Server Software for New NAS Product Line

Audio/Video, Home Theater, Computers / By Doug Felteau / August 31, 2005

Maxtor, one of the world’s largest suppliers of hard disk drives, has licensed Mediabolic’s Media Server software to deliver a new line of UPnP- and DLNA-compliant network-attached storage (NAS) products with built-in media server capabilities. Maxtor incorporates Mediabolic’s media server software which elevates the NAS from a backup support PC peripheral to an entertainment hub for the digital home.

The Mediabolic Media Server is software that makes music, photo, and video files available over a network for streamed playback on connected entertainment products. The software resides on a PC, NAS, or DVR and aggregates media content so that it can be accessed by a variety of digital home products, such as a networked DVD players and digital media adapters. The Media Server software is ready-to-run on any Windows- or Linux-based system and can be ported onto other platforms as well. In addition, because the software is NMPR-certified and is designed to DLNA guidelines, the Media Server will interoperate with a wide range of digital home devices.

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TV-B-Gone

Audio/Video, Home Theater, Gizmo of the Day / By Doug Felteau / August 1, 2005

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are about 250 million television sets in the U.S. and we can guess that the majority of them are turned on a lot of the time. All in all, this is not bad (heck, we enjoy a good movie as much as anyone else) but there are some occasions when you just need to do everyone a favor and turn the TV off. A certain portion of television content is just plain questionable and about as healthy as second-hand smoke.

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Gadget Promos Creep Into TV Shows

Miscellaneous / By Doug Felteau / June 12, 2005

By Michael Grebb , Wired News

Tech product placement is going into overdrive, with several prime-time shows basing plot lines around hip gadgets and gizmos. And soon, thanks to interactive “object-tracking” technology, consumers may be able to buy featured products with a click of the remote. As consumers turn away from traditional advertising, tech marketers are picking up the slack by weaving lots of gadgets into the fabric of TV shows and movies. The net, video games and ad-skipping DVRs are forcing marketers to focus more attention on “branded entertainment.”

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CopyThis! Digital Video Enhancer

2 Comments / Audio/Video, Home Theater, Gizmo of the Day / By Doug Felteau / May 17, 2005

Don’t risk preserving your family’s memories to a format that can wear out! Sima’s new CopyThis! Digital Video Enhancer and Duplicator makes perfect copies of any VHS video onto DVD and VHS, automatically enhancing the video’s quality as it does so. Whether your home movies are currently on S-VHS, VHS-C, VHS, 8 mm or Hi-8, CopyThis! can transfer your precious videos to DVD or any other form of VHS. CopyThis! uses digital technology to improve video picture quality and to reduce sync “noise” for crisp copies. Increase the brightness of the video output level by turning a knob on the front panel as needed. Give your home videos an old-time look by eliminating color and creating black & white video. Simply slide the switch located on the rear panel from color to black & white to achieve this effect. Additional features include LED lights that show video input level.

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