Spike TV Announces 2008 Video Game Awards Winners

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Spike held its Video Game Awards last night to crown the winners of some of the best video games of 2008. The show was hosted by Jack Black and was held for the sixth year to recognize outstanding games.

Best Game of the Year went to Grand Theft Auto IV; GTA IV also won best action adventure game of the year. Studio of the year award went to Media Molecule, which I have never heard of. Gears of War 2 won the title of Best Shooter, best music game went to Rock Band 2, and best soundtrack went to Rock Band 2. Read more

Posted on Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:00:00 CST | by Shane McGlaun

CES 2008 Booth Babe Photo Gallery Round-Up

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Besides all the new gadgets CES 2008 also saw its fair share of beautiful models spicing up the booth of many technology companies.

After Day 2 we got distracted with actual work at the CES 2008 and got blind eye for the ladies. Still I think we published a good selection of CES booth babes in this Gallery of Day 1 and in this Gallery of Day 2. Read more

Posted on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:43:06 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

The Best of CES 2008

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The CES 2008 is now in the past and it has been a great ride through exciting new product announcements and cool new gadgets that will be coming on the market in 2008 or further in the future. After our daily look at the top gadgets of CES, now it is time to name our Best Gadgets of CES 2008.

The Best of CES 2008:

150 inch Panasonic Plasma
A bold statement that Plasma is not a dead end. Read more

Posted on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 05:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

CES 2008: Castrol Top Tuner Super Saturn Sky

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At the CES there is also a whole Car audio and media equipment show going on. Shane brings you photos of the totally pimped-out Saturn Sky.

This Saturn Sky has boxes everywhere and lots of other amazing tunings built-in. It still looks good too. Read more

Posted on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

CES 2008: Pioneer Project KURO Photos

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Shane took some photos at the Pioneer booth of the Project KURO area exhibiting the 9mm 50 inch flat panel display and the absolute black.

The KURO technology concepts demonstrate how Pioneer is continuing to challenge the industry and stay above the commoditized flat panel television market. Read more

Posted on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 03:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

CES 2008: LG Booth Tour

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Shane takes you on a tour through the LG Electronics booth with these photos.

LG held a bit back this year with new product announcements at the CES 2008. A lot of their press-releases just talked about already released or slightly improved TVs, dual format HD format player and phones already on the market. Read more

Posted on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

The two hottest PC Monitors at CES 2008

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With Apple not exhibiting at the CES 2008 two other companies take home the title of hottest PC monitor at the CES 2008.

Albeit not ready for production the Alienware curved multi-DLP monitor got many gamers all excited at the CES. This new monitor promises great immersive game play and looks just stunning.
More details about the Alienware Curved Monitor. Read more

Posted on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:23:15 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

CES 2008 Recap in Numbers and Stars

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The World's largest Consumer Electronics Show came to an end. It was even larger than last year with a record breaking 1.85 million net square feet of exhibit space.

The CES show floor buzzed with excitement as more than 20,000 products were introduced to the market. More than 130,000 industry professionals were in attendance, with a final audited number available in May. Read more

Posted on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

CES 2008 Day 4 and Show Wrap Up

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Today wrapped up CES 2008 and this was definitely the year of entertainment. Everything was centered on delivering entertainment to your computer, phone and other sources. Take Logitech for example, their CES product line all dealt with media computers and delivering content to PC users other than video games.

I admit that I was disappointed that there wasn’t much on the gaming side of things this year. Razer only introduced a new gaming mouse pad and focused more on its new endeavor called Joot!, which is a music sharing device for MP3 players.

This was the year of the thin HDTV with most major manufacturers showing off thin HDTV sets in their booths. These HDTVs are cool and all, but really how thin do we need them? If you are going to wall mount thin is nice, but I would wager the vast majority of HDTV owners simply set them on an entertainment center where the thinness is really a moot point. Read more

Posted on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:47:58 CST | by Shane McGlaun

The Gadget World Records of CES 2008

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The CES 2008 is almost over and the electronics manufacturers dazzled us with lots new World's biggest, World's thinnest, World's smallest, and so on gadgets.
I took a moment and put together the most interesting new world records in the gadget world that have been set at the CES 2008.

The World's largest Plasma TV
Panasonic showed with the 150 inch Plasma HDTV the world's largest, until they beat themselves again. More details. Read more

Posted on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:30:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

CES 2008: Philips 42PFL5603D Eco TV wins CNET Best in Show

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The Philips 42PFL5603D Eco TV wins CNET's Best in Show award at the CES 2008.

"Our editors were so impressed with the number of innovative products that were launched at the show, but in the end they awarded the Philips 42PFL5603D Eco TV as the Best in Show," said Jai Singh, editor-in-chief and vice president of CNET. "With its power saving features, the Philips 42PFL5603D Eco TV showed us that a TV manufacturer could embrace 'green tech' in a way that benefits the eco-conscious and those who just want to save money." Read more

Posted on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

CES 2008: Samsung Booth Tour

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Shane already calls out the Samsung booth as the most impressive in his CES Day 3 Summary. He is smitten by the Samsung 31-inch OLED TV.

Shane says about the Samsung 31-inch OLED TV: "Not only is the set very thin, but the image quality is exceptional. This set has the deepest blacks I have ever seen and reds were better than I have seen as well. "
See more of the Samsung CES 2008 Booth in this Photo Gallery. Read more

Posted on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

CES 2008: Casio Exilim EX-S10 10MP Camera

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Casio announced the EXILIM EX-S10 the world's smallest and thinnest 10.1 megapixel camera at CES 2008.

The Casio EX-S10 features a bright Super Clear LCD featuring a high contrast ratio and a wide field of view. Measurements of the EX-S10 are 3.71" wide, 2.15" high and .59" thin (.54" at the thinnest part). Read more

Posted on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:47:08 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

CES 2008: Asus G1Sn with GeForce 9500M GS

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Hothardware spotted the new GeForce 9500M GS Mobile Graphics at the CES 2008 inside the Asus G1Sn notebook.

Quote from the report: "The Asus G1Sn notebook you're seeing here is equipped with an NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS mobile graphics processor. Read more

Posted on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:30:35 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Coolest Stuff Day 3 at CES 2008

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It has been a busy few days here at CES. Today the coolest things I saw were the huge 150-inch plasma TV at the Panasonic booth and the Samsung OLED TVs. The TV is gynormous and has a very nice picture as well. Panasonic wasn’t releasing pricing or availability info on the huge screen. The closest I could get was a statement from the PR gal showing me around that the 103-inch plasma was selling for around $75,000. I wouldn’t be surprised to see the set come in at around the $100,000 area.

Samsung has the most impressive booth at the show with its fantastic looking 31-inch OLED TV. Not only is the set very thin, but the image quality is exceptional. This set has the deepest blacks I have ever seen and reds were better than I have seen as well. Samsung also had a small OLED TV that appeared to be around 11-inches on display as well. Read more

Posted on Wed, 9 Jan 2008 19:52:45 CST | by Shane McGlaun

CES 2008: Hitachi Booth Tour

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Shane takes you on a tour of the Hitachi CES 2008 Booth with these photos.

Hitachi shows at the CES a 1.5 inch thick Plasma as well as their earlier announced 1.5 inch LCD TVs. Read more

Posted on Wed, 9 Jan 2008 09:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Top 5 CES 2008 Products of Day 2

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Day 2 of CES 2008 is behind us and we continue our series of the Top 5 CES 2008 Products we saw that day (Before the Show, Day 1). At the end of CES, we will of course feature the overall top 5 hottest products at this years' Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

1) Sharp shows the World's largest LCD TV at their booth. At 108 inches LCD is behind Plasma by 42 inches. Read more

Posted on Wed, 9 Jan 2008 06:05:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

CES 2008: Sharp Booth Tour

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Shane takes you on a tour through the Sharp booth at the CES 2008 with this Photo Gallery.

For the first time in the U.S., Sharp is showcasing a line of large screen next generation LCD TVs.
These prototype LCD TVs are only 20mm thin (main display section; 2.9 cm at the thickest part) for a 52” screen size model, a bright room contrast ratio of 3,000:1 and a power consumption level that is half that of today’s LCD TVs. Read more

Posted on Tue, 8 Jan 2008 13:59:12 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

CES 2008: Intel Menlow based MIDs

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Intel demonstrated the Menlow platform for mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) at CES 2008.

Several companies have already designed next generation mobile internet devices on the new Intel platform. Some do not look that different from the UMPC's that are currently available.
The FreeScale LimePC platform might enable more radical devices as it is squeezing a PC motherboard with graphics and audio cards, PCI, Ethernet, SATA, and USB into a device smaller than an iPod Nano. Read more

Posted on Tue, 8 Jan 2008 10:42:04 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

CES 2008: Sandisk 12GB microSDHC Card

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Sandisk announces at the CES 2008 a 12GB microSDHC card.

Sandisk already started shipping samples of the 12GB microSD card to mobile phone manufacturers. So you can expect mobile phones in 2008 that will support microSD cards with up to 12GB capacity. Read more

Posted on Tue, 8 Jan 2008 10:27:41 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Top 5 CES 2008 Products of Day 1

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The first day of CES 2008 is over and we are entering day two of the largest gadget show on earth. It is time to look at the top 5 hottest products from the first day of CES 2008, before the second Day of CES 2008 takes its course.

Top 5 of CES 2008 Day 1:
1) We waited 3 years and now it is officially announced - the Mitsubishi Laser TV. It will still go on sale in 2008, but the revealing still left many questions open. Read more

Posted on Tue, 8 Jan 2008 07:30:44 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr