Another goody we saw at CES but must've missed, inbetween all that pink Taser-ing and Mini Washer-ing we did over there, JBL unveiled their On Air Control 2.4G wireless speaker system. Being wireless, it's perfect for a clutter-free area, whether being used with your home theatre, iPod, computer, or even the ol' cassette player, and includes a pair of wall-mountable loudspeakers with the wireless transceiver and amplifier, plus a transmitter/receiver module and remote control. It's being churned out in your nearest JBL retailer from February this year, for around $349.
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Microsoft has been spreading its love around a lot recently, as we saw at
Whilst on the plane over to Vegas, I asked the other four Shiny members what headphones they’d recommend I purchase, and they all threw about 3 models at me each. Needless to say, I haven’t bought any yet, simply because I’m so confused over the matter, every brand touts theirs as being the best, most innovative, or noise-cancelling on the market. So when a company like
Whilst passing through the stalls at CES, I passed a rather gaudy looking booth which quite frankly looked like some of the shops at the dodgy end of London's Oxford Street - you know the type, the electronics-version of your local kebab shop. However, sometimes those shops have little diamonds in the rough, and so did this stand. I stumbled across some rather nifty speakers for your MP3/iPod from the Gifts At Princess booth. Called the ‘Light Show’ speaker system, there’s several different styles, the ‘Duet’, ‘Twin Spin’, or ‘Matrix Cubes’. They connect to any music source with a line out (headphone jack), and display visuals similar to that of a Mathmos product, or Windows Media Player visuals. Perfect for entertaining a ‘guest’ in your bedroom, the prices are not confirmed yet, however will more than compensate for the ‘discussions’ you and your ‘guest’ will ‘share’. [Kat]
As time goes by, things get smaller and smaller - just look at Nicole Richie or Gordon Ramsay’s latest restaurant’s portion sizes for reference. So, it’s only fair that Casio would launch the world’s slimmest digital camera (with a 7x optical zoom lens). Let me reiterate - it’s not the world’s thinnest camera, it’s the world’s thinnest, with a 7x optical zoom lens. Sorry I made you wet your pants in anticipation there! The Exilim Hi-Zoom EX-V7 features 7.2 mega pixels, four blur reduction technologies, including the new CCD shift system that compensates for camera shake, the newly designed Exilim Engine 2.0 image processor, and a whole bevy of other beauties. It’s going to available to us mere mortals in March, for the RRP of $399. I tell you, this is one camera which may make me discard my only 6-month old Exilim Card. [Kat]
According to Built NY, they’ve just released a line of laptop sleeves and accessories made out of a durable, stretchy wetsuit neoprene material, called ‘Electic’. I had the chance to eyeball some of their funky designs, like the Laptop Portfolio Case, Charger bag (to throw all those numerous cables into), the Electric Pocket (to fit digital cameras, PDAs, mobiles, and the ubiquitous iPod), and of course, the humble Laptop Sleeve. You’ve got a choice of navy blue, green, black, brown, or my favourite, ’stripe’, which is a very Shiny Shiny suitable collection of colours. [Kat]
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