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Car MD Improves Used Car Buying Experience

The CarMD device plugs into your car's OBD port and reads diagnostic information from the car's computer, immediately indicating the diagnostic status with a red-yellow-green light, and then downloading ALL of the computer information so that a more detailed analysis can be created after gathering code data from the web.

Cellular/Wireless

Verizon MiFi 2200 Review

The size of a credit card, Verizon's MiFi 2200 is a game changing device, creating a WiFi internet hotspot for up to five devices of ANY kind wherever you travel, at a hotel or restaurant, at a seminar or meeting, or even in your car or on a train while moving.

Computer

Intel Core i3, i5 and i7 Processors

Intel, after delivering amazing performance with their Core i7 processors last year, announced the new i5 and i3 processors for Mobile applications this year, plus a variety of nore Core i7 models. The core i* ultra-thin super fast processors represent a leap from the predecessor Core 2 processors.

Digital Living Room

Sony's 3D OLED Prototype

At CES 2010 in Las Vegas, Sony demonstrated that OLED is definately the wave of the future offering thinner displays, blacker blacks, snappy gaming and 3D images, and lower energy costs. However, with even smaller displays not expected for a few years, the wait is killing me.

Digital Imaging

Skiff eReader - Biggest So Far The battle over the eReader space is mostly about two things: exclusive content agreements and form factor, and in the format wars, it looks like Skiff is the biggest and best looking of all of the eReaders announced to date, but we wonder if bigger-is-better makes for a winner in this hotter-than-hot competitive market. Read more...

Japanese Firm Introduces the World Camera

Health/Fitness

Jitterbug Offers Wellness Calls for Seniors

An onslaught of new wellness features coming out in 2010 will no-doubt make Jitterbug the first vertical market consumer cell phone to provide enough service and software innovation to actually make seniors go out and buy what is otherwise an unremarkable cell phone.

Fitbit 24 Hour Health and Fitness Monitoring

Entertainment

Absolutely everyone dreams of making music -- it is in our soul, but only a small number of us are truly gifted. That is where Beamz comes in, because this little device can make asbolutely anyone musical, because the melodies are already preprogrammed and all you have to do is "conduct" the musicians.
Beamz Makes Anyone Musical

Embedded

Canesta Controls Electronics with Hand Gestures The innovators at Canesta believe in the future, every room in the home will include devices that are controlled entirely with hand gestures, and so they have developed the chips, software and imaging technology to make this possible. What still remains is for manufactures to incorporate this new technology into products. Read more...

Smart Home

Bulogics Bridges Zigbee Smart Grid to Z-Wave

For the past several years, there has been an all-out-war between the Zigbee and Z-Wave standards/protocols to become the market leaders in home automation technologies. Both have hundreds of products supporting each standard, with many supporting both, but BuLogics may provide Z-Wave with a missing Zigbee feature to level the playing field.

Websites/Apps

Estibot.com - Free Domain Appraisals

www.estibot.com offers a variety of tools for domain owners, and is currently the most reliable automated FREE tool for valuing any domain that you own or wish to purchase. The newest version of Estibot analyzes more than a dozen different aspects of the domain and/or the keywords in the domain and suggests both a wholesale price (for bulk sale of a portfolio of names to another domain investor) and a retail value (the price that a business owner would pay who intends to develop the domain).

Xtras Accessories

YoGen Ripcord Charger

Solar powered chargers require light and take too long to provide a charge, and battery-based chargers are bulky and are never charged when you need them. The most "reliable" solution to the extra-battery whenever you need it problem may be the human-powered YoGen ripcord charger.

TECH2 LAKE HOUSE

UPDATE - The exterior of the Technology Lake House is complete and we are now working on interior finishing and electronics. Last year, San Francisco's Channel 7 ABC News ran a special video report on the construction progress of the Technology Lake House, and we expect them back for a follow-up soon. Click HERE for a DLINK Live Video Feed with pan and zoom features (userid=user, no password, daylight hours only).

Ron Rosberg's current project home, the Technology Lake House, is currently under construction on the shores of Clearlake in Northern California. Even though the house is a wireless demo house, we have installed more than seven miles of wires in the walls for dozens of flat panel TVs, speakers, control panels, and sophisticated lighting. So far, more than a dozen technology and fixture manufacturers have agreed to sponsor this project, which has been simmering in Ron's head since he attended the first CES show in New York in 1967. The 7,500 square foot project (plus three existing rustic cabin guest houses) is being built on a five-acre Honeymoon Cove resort with 500 feet of beach directly across from Konocti Harbor Resort. This summer retreat will host technology gatherings annually, inviting Western states home builders, contractors, and technology consultants for a live open house showcasing the latest in home technologies. There is room to park plenty of boats, so plan on coming up for some lake fun after the project is complete. For more info, send email to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , or call 707-995-2683. To see the latest photos, visit Ron's Flickr gallery.

We are currently looking for products to evaluate in these areas:

Home automation: lighting, security, and entertainment
A/V technology for the 500 SF home theater media demo room

Hot News on Cool New Features: The ENTIRE front of the home is made of 21 sliding NanaWall glass panels that fold into the walls, opening the entire home up to the lake during demo days.

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