Best of 2006 CES 2006 - New Gadgets to Lust After
In case you haven’t been keeping up on all of the gadgety goodness on Engadget’s coverage of the Consumer Electronics Show, here’s a recap of their Best of Show. This isn’t a comprehensive listing of the very best products out there, but the ones they’re still talking about after seeing thousands and thousands of toys. Which ones do I lust after the most?
- Toshiba Gigabeat S Series – Portable Media Center. Portable video players are a dime-a-dozen these days, but the new Gigabeat looks like it'll have the skills to take on the iPod: a sleek, thin, light brushed aluminum casing, a crisp, bright QVGA display, and -- and here's the really important part -- it offers full integration with Vongo, that new online video download subscription service from Starz that'll let you download as many movies as you want from their catalog and watch them on your portable device.
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Dell 3007WFP 30-inch LCD monitor – Michael Dell stressed that this isn't a living room television (they already sell those). It's a supersize PC monitor for IT admins, graphic designers, and multitasking gadget bloggers (and lawyers [emphasis added])who surf, post, email, IM, watch Galactica and submit CES expense reports all at the very same time. Instead of upgrading your clock speed, try spreading out with more screen space. As those moronic Jaguar ads say, gorgeous pays for itself.
Wow. Those look like fun. Can you imagine, double 30” monitors? 60 inches of cases, research, e-mail, internet browsers, word processors and images on the screen at once? Hmmmm…. All of a sudden I feel like Homer Simpson. “Ummm……..monitors.” Click on the link to see all of their favorites.
