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CES 2008: Gatekeeper Pico – Hardened Linux in a USB Shell

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Yoggie PicoAs IT Security Geeks, one of the vendors the Geeks had to visit was Yoggie Security Systems. Yoggie’s Gatekeeper Pico was described as the “next generation of Internet Security” and is a Linux-based (520MHz computer) USB key-size security tool with 12 built-in security applications. Yoggie also has a Gatekeeper Pico Pro which is designed to off-load installed security software from your PC that extends corporate-level security to mobile laptops.

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CES 2008: Innovation Illusion with Aquallusion, the iTube Light

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While wandering through CES Unveiled, the official press event of CES where 80 leading technology companies that were Innovations Design and Engineering Honorees, the Geeks encountered an overly-zealous sales pitch for something called the iTube Light. Read on for more including a video of it.

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CES 2008: Pinnacle Video Transfer records video directly to your handheld

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Pinnacle Systems unveiled a small handheld device called the Pinnacle Video Transfer that would let consumers easily record video from a TV, DVD player, PVR, camcorder or set-top box directly to their iPod Video, iPod nano (3rd generation), Sony PSP or a USB flash drive. You can select 1 of 3 video quality modes which of course dictates how large the video will be on the destination device. On the input side, the Video Transfer has composite video, and an S-video input, and USB on the output.  Hit the jump to see more pics. …

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CES 2008: WowWee Shows Off Rovio, RC Surveillance Bot

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We attended CES Unveiled today and visited with a few vendors, one of whom was WowWee who is showing off an impresisve 20 new products this year. One of these new prodcuts, the Rovio (est $300), is an entry into a new space for them, the home remote surveillance market. It’s a cool looking device, although it comes across more of an RC toy than a serious security product. It can be controlled from either a Windows machine or a smartphone, and can stream video back to these devices.

CES 2008: The Consumer Electronics Show is here again; GfG covers it for you

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January has rolled around again and with it the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas. As we did last year, Gizmos for Geeks is on the scene to give our slant on what we see and hear. Stay tuned to the site – best way is to subscribe to our RSS feed.

If you are a fellow blogger coming to the show, learn from our past mistakes and read our articles on what to bring and tips for effectively covering the show. Fellow blogger Jeremy at LiveDigitally has produced his 2008 edition of how to survive CES. If this still isn’t enough info for ya, take a look at this huge article with a few dozen links to other articles with more info and recommendations.

CES 2007: Innovative Product Tour (and Booth Babes) at Sands

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Trimersion Babes While Chief Gadgeteer wandered “somewhat aimlessly” around the Sands Expo on Wednesday afternoon, I went in search for innovative gaming products for our Gaming Geek. Ok, perhaps I may have wandered somewhat aimlessly too…

First of all, I was really interested in Wildcharge but simply could not find their Innovation Pod. With limited time I sadly had to move on, but WildCharge promises to answer a solution of charging your mobile devices. Rather than having to plug in each device and carry heavy adapters for all your devices you could carry a Wildcharge charger. The really cool part of this product is that you simply place the devices on a pad to recharge… that’s right, power without wires and plugs.

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CES 2007: What Was Popular?

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I’ve heard lots of people at the show, and even on the plane back say that it [the show] was boring and/or there was nothing that stood out. So I wondered how could I figure out what the most popular thing(s) was/were. I decided that in this day of user-generated content, particularly videos, that YouTube would be a great, if not scientific, way of getting the pulse on what was popular.

I did a search for “CES 2007”, and then sorted by both the View Count and the Rating. By View Count, the #1 video is one called “A Look at Steve’s MacWorld 07 AV Kit”; it’s 18 seconds long and doesn’t contain anything useful, so I’m discounting it. Out of the first 20 results, Honda’s Asimo robot is tops; there are 4 entries for new WowWee robots, including Elvis and the Roboquad; Bill Gates’ keynote gets a lot of coverage, and also notable is the 3D wheel remote by Hillcrest labs. There are other things, but you can take a look at the full list when you get a chance.

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LG Super Multi Blue: The War Between Blu-ray and HD-DVD Continues

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The guys from Techlore just got back from CES, and one of the cool things they saw was LG’s new “Super Multi Blue” drive. It reads HD-DVD’s and reads and writes Blu-Ray discs. No HD-DVD write action yet.

Either way, it’s slow (4x) and expensive ($1200), but it’s out … soon. The good news is that the connections are there – HDMI, component and composite for video, and optical, coaxial, and discrete 5.1 for audio. And the even better news… 50GB disc storage capacity for either format. That’s about 9 hrs of 1080i and 23 hrs of standard def. Rock on! Beats the daylights out of the 2 episodes of Battlestar Galactica that can fit now on current DVDs.

Source: TechLore

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CES 2007: Bloggers and Vloggers Party at Bloghaus

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Nerd Rap The Bloghaus party in the Bellagio Hotel on the last night of CES 2007 was the place to be for all bloggers, podcasters and vloggers at CES… even the guys from Neuros Technology snuck in the door before admission to the suite had to be shutdown because it was too crowded. Hosted by Podtech’s Robert Scoble, free food and booze were flowing as fast as the dedicated T1 line in the suite.

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