CES 2008: WowWee Shows Off Helicopter-like Rotating Blade
Since last year’s Flytech Dragongly, WowWee has expanded the Flytech line and this year announced the Bladestar, which is a take on a helicopter. It has a rotating blade and opposing helicopter rear rotors. The robot take is that it has 3 obstacle sensors – one on the bottom, one on the top and one on the side. The cool thing is that these sensors help it avoid walls and ceilings and fly by itself. You can also control it using the remote control. But here’s the cool part – you can use your hands as moving obstacles to redirect the Bladestar. Just picture holding your hands up like a magician to control some object without touching it.
Billed as the world’s smallest RAID solution, the Norazza PocketRAID supports both RAID-0 (striping) and RAID-1 (mirroring). It holds 2 SATA drives (each in 80GB, 120GB and 160GB sizes). The interface to your computer is either USB or eSATA. About the only drawback to this product is the cost; the 2x160GB solution is listed at $720. Obviously, this is a portable solution, but for comparison, an external hard drive solution with 2x500GB hard drives typically 
We saw 3rd-party guitars for Guitar Hero or demos that used Guitar Hero as an example at least 5 times in just 2 days, and we weren’t even looking for them. And of course, there was the 
We liked the refresh of the OQO O2 UMPC which now sports a 64GB solid state drive, 1GB RAM, a display well suited for outdoor and 3G wireless broadband connection via Sprint or Verizon.