CES 2006 - Day 3: Playstation 3, Quarter-size Hard Drives, SED and lots of TVs
by Anand Lal Shimpi & Manveer Wasson on January 9, 2006 1:25 AM EST- Posted in
- Trade Shows
Stereo Bluetooth Headsets
Another cool new item displayed on the show floor was the Bluetooth stereo headset. Both Motorola and Jabra showed off their implementation at their booths. The Motorola HT820 and Jabra BT620s are actually very similar in design and features. These units take advantage of Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP) in Bluetooth to support stereo wireless streaming audio.
The headsets support up to two simultaneous connections. For example, you can listen to music via your laptop's Bluetooth connection and still be synced with your cellular phone. If you receive a call, you will hear an audible indication in the headset. You can answer the call by tapping the side of the headset. When you answer, your music player will automatically pause and the headset will communicate with the cell phone. Once you're done with the call, simply tap the headset again and you will switch back to your laptop's music player. You can also control both calling functionality and music playback from buttons on the headset. Features such as play/pause, next/previous track, answer/end call, call hold and voice dialing are available from the buttons on top of each headphone.
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quanta - Friday, January 13, 2006 - link
From page 8:Actually, that only exist if at least 1 dimension of display content dimensions isn't integer divisor of display's native resolution. Secondly, DLP can overcome this by shining at only the biggest subset of mirror in the DMDs that do not cause distortions, then use adjustable sets of lenses to perform zooming, with each set zooming at only 1 axis.
Kensei - Monday, January 9, 2006 - link
Please do a review of this thing when it becomes available. I'd love to see how its output compares to Blu-ray and HD-DVD. I'm sure it's not as good... but just how much worse is what I'd like to know.highlandsun - Thursday, January 12, 2006 - link
Samsung has pretty good scaling technology, but it seems to me this is something you only need in your display. (And Samsung TVs do pretty good upconversion already.) So, kind of silly.VooDooAddict - Monday, January 9, 2006 - link
Raptor X.I feel so guilty. I'm drooling over a hard drive that costs more then a 7800GT.
I've wanted a windowed Hard drive for ages though... but don't have the dremmel skills nessesary to add a window to an existing drive.
Questar - Monday, January 9, 2006 - link
Nobody has the dremel skills. Drives are assembled in clean rooms. Beaking the seal will be the end of a drive.Clauzii - Monday, January 9, 2006 - link
I´ve seen a drive approx. a year ago on the net - modded with blue light - woring - 20Gig. Damn where was it....?Clauzii - Monday, January 9, 2006 - link
But also found this .. it´s nothing new .......Clauzii - Monday, January 9, 2006 - link
This: http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Transparent_20disk_...">http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Transparent_20disk_...Clauzii - Monday, January 9, 2006 - link
woring = working...Eris23007 - Monday, January 9, 2006 - link
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