Microvision’s PicoMagic apps bring touch interactive, 3D mobile displays to your pico projector

Microvision unveiled a slew of new tools for pico projector enthusiasts today, with its new PicoMagic platform. Fueled by the company's PicoP Gen 2 HD laser display engine, PicoMagic offers a host of new applications to pico presenters, including two on display at this year's CES -- touch interactive and 3D mobile displays. The former, rather obviously, allows users to manipulate images and icons with their sure-handed fingers on any surface, while the latter, known ...
Simple.tv DVR / placeshifter frees free TV from the constraints of location, time

One of the many innovative products we checked out tonight was this ViXS XCode 4210 powered Simple.TV box, which tunes into free, unencrypted channels (even in HD) via cable or antenna. Where it starts to differ from other boxes like Sling and Monsoon however, is that it eschews any direct video out or even passthrough, working solely to transcode those feeds to variable bitrate MPEG-4 streams for playback on internet-connected mobile devices and TV boxes. Besides the missing ...
CES Press Day Live

[CES 2012] In case you didn’t already know, CES (Consumer Electronics Show) is the world’s largest technology-related event that is held each January in the Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas. This year, 2,700 companies will be coming together to showcase their latest and upcoming products at the event. With so many companies showing off their products and technology, you can be sure that there will be tons of interesting devices to check out, and as usual – we’ll ...
Wi-Spy Helicopter and Intruder RC toys put the childlike wonder back into spying on your neighbors

Sick and tired of spying on the neighbors the old-fashioned way? Good news, all. Interactive Toy Designs showed off two new products in its not-so-subtly named Wi-Spy line of remote control vehicles. Really driving the notion home is the Intruder, the name given to the little red sports car. The helicopter, on the other hand, is called just that, though we're sure you can intrude upon people with the thing, if you really put your mind to it. Both vehicles have built-in cameras that ...
Always Innovating HDMI Dongle gives your TV Android

[CES 2012] Want Android on your TV? Well, the folks over at Always Innovating have come up with a solution called the HDMI Dongle, which is essentially Android on a stick. All you have to do is plug it into the HDMI port of your TV and you’re good to go. The dongle features an onboard processor: a TI dual-core OMAP 4 to be specific, 256-1GB of RAM, support for a MicroSD card for storage, WiFi, ...
China trumpets completion of ‘world’s largest battery energy storage station’

See that above? That's the world's largest battery energy storage station, or so says the State Grid Corporation of China and BYD. The two entities have just wrapped up construction on the Zhangbei-based project, which marries 40 Mega-Watts of renewable energy generation (both wind and solar), 36 Mega-Watt-Hours (MWh) of energy storage and a smart power transmission system. The goal? To provide a "stable solution for transferring vast amounts of renewable electricity safely to the grid on an unprecedented scale." As ...