Not sure why we’ve been putting this off, but we’ll just come right out and say it: there’s no doubt that this was the year for 3D at CES. We walked the show floor for countless hours and can tell you that just about everyone was showing something related to 3D at their booths. Most of these demos required a bit of a wait to experience them (thanks, hype), and everywhere you went people were talking about 3D. Granted, not all of that talk was positive, but it was talk nonetheless. Whether or not the technology will be seen in history as a success in the market place is obviously still up in the air, and much like a finely crafted episode of Lost, 3D at CES this year was littered with more questions than answers.
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The Entourage eDGe dual-display clamshell netbook is great, if you don’t mind toting a rucksack all the time, but what if you’d prefer something a little more pocket-friendly? Tucked away at CES 2010 was Astri’s E Ink ereader, an Android-based mini-me version of the eDGe with a 5-inch Wacom touchscreen epaper panel on the left and a 4.8-inch WVGA LCD touchscreen on the right.
Video demo after the cut
Like the eDGe, the Astri device – which appears to be called the MID, or My Interactive Device, just to confuse things – is targeted at the education market. It’s based on an unspecified Marvell chipset (in fact was on display at the Marvell booth) and is currently a reference design being shopped around to OEM/ODM customers.
Basically, you can read ebooks and other documentation on the E Ink panel, making annotations and notes with the Wacom active digitizer, while navigating the Android LCD display on the other side for web access, multimedia and email/IM. No final word on connectivity, but this is a far more portable device than other similar form-factors we’ve seen.
[via ARMdevices]
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Home automation controller specialists iPort have been talking about using an iPod touch as a budget A/V controller for years now – we last wrote about their in-wall docking cradle back in 2007, no less – but if you’ve been looking for a more permanent solution than a simple dock then they’ve a prototype that may appeal. At CES 2010 last week the company was showing off the iPort Control Dock, intended to semi-permanently mount an iPod touch for in-wall use.
The system consists of a docking cradle – which is inserted into a section cut out from your drywall – and a magnetically-attached faceplate that snaps in front. The iPod touch is powered via the dock, and two hardware buttons are used to control its power and Home keys. Both landscape and portrait orientations are possible, and since many companies have iPod touch clients for use with their A/V and home automation systems it’s reasonably platform agnostic.
It sounds like iPort are yet to decide whether to put the Control Dock into production; VP of sales Jason Sloan told CE Pro “we’re looking at that right now.” While sandwiching an Apple PMP in the wall might seem extreme, compared to how much many integrated color touchscreens cost even a brand new iPod touch starts to look like a bargain.
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