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Wireless connectivity is put to a whole new stature by Tenqa, with its line of Bluetooth technology-based wireless headphones, wireless speakers, wireless audio transmitters and wireless car speakerphones, which the makers intend to unveil at CES 2009. The Tenqa wireless headphones, on connecting to the music player or a cellphone, function both as wireless headphones and a stereo Bluetooth headset.

While on the other hand, the wireless transmitters, with the help of any standard 3.5mm headphone jack, transform the iPod or other music device into wireless audio transmitting gadgets to stream wireless audio to almost any kind of device. The wireless speakers are equipped with Bluetooth wireless A2DP technology, and are compatible with almost all music devices and your home computers. The wireless car speakerphone can be placed on the car’s visor and could be a great solution in the time when using cellphones while driving has become illegal, given its clarity.

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Transforming your clothes into speakers sounds weird, but science is working hard to bring fiction to reality. Like most of the technological breakthroughs these days, this one also seems possible with the help of nanotechnology. Researchers at Beijing’s Tsinghua University noticed that sending an audio frequency current through carbon nanotubes resulted in good quality sound.

These “fabric loudspeakers” can work in a wide frequency range, without the requirement of any movable parts or magnets. The basis of operation here is the Thermoacoustic effect. Alternating current heats up the surrounding air, which then expands and contracts, creating the desired audio wave.

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The MacBook Pro could soon have a new look. And if sources at AppleInsider are to be believed, it could be as early as the Macworld Expo beginning this week, wherein a new version of the Mac Mini is also expected.

Apple is likely to introduce a 17-inch MacBook Pro, which like the earlier 13- and 15-inch models, will share the same unibody construction, but will have a battery fixed in one place, similar to battery in the MacBook Air. Both the Mini and the 17-inch MacBook Pro will be stuffed with chipsets from Nvidia, which were introduced to the MacBooks Q4 of last year.

Via: CNet/9to5Mac

Lenovo claims its Idea Centre A600 all-in-one PC is the thinnest of the lot. To debut at CES, the PC has a keyboard with a touchpad, an air mouse, a “Motion Drive” remote that doubles up as a VOIP handset and a 21.5-inch 16:9 display. Hard drive storage space can go up to 1TB, and the maximum RAM limit is the usual 4GB. Most of the components of the PC go to the bottom of the device, enhancing its “thin” appearance. These PCs will be available for $999 onwards when they go on sale in April.

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Coming to CES, Lenovo’s Y-series consumer notebooks look smart and interesting. The new series has a 14-inch Y450, a 15-inch Y550 and finally the 16-inch Y650 notebooks. All devices have a 16:9 widescreen display, LED backlights, 1366×768 screen resolution, Blu-ray, up to 500GB of hard drive storage and 4GB DDR3 memory. And then there obviously are the usual functions you’d expect from a notebook.

The weird part, as Gizmodo points out, is that the 16-inch notebook is both lighter and thinner than the 14-inch and 15-inch versions, and somehow, all notebooks manage to have the same screen resolution. These notebooks will be available in March, with the Y450 and Y550 selling for $830, while the Y650 will go for $1200.

Via: Gizmodo

After USB 2.0 having delivered the goods, it’s time now for USB 3.0 to take over the reign. There hasn’t been a product demonstration of the superspeed USB 3.0 yet, therefore backing well on the opportunity, Symwave in collaboration with Seagate has come up with a USB 3.0 storage solution.

Symwave will put the storage solution on demonstration at CES 2009, wherein using USB 3.0 with specification revision 1.0 data will be streamed at speeds that haven’t been possible before, possibly at 10 times the speed we currently have.

Ultra slim HDTVs are coming to CES, and this time it’s Samsung doing the honors. Measuring at only 6.5mm thick, these LED backlit TV panels will be seen at CES 2009. We’ve seen a lot of thin TVs hitting the fray, but these 6.5mm displays from Samsung could surely take the crown this time, if some other maker doesn’t have something thinner cooking under the hood that we haven’t seen yet. These ultra-thin Samsung LED TV panels will support 240Hz with color ControlPro promising a wide color spectrum. No mention on the pricing or availability yet.

Every electronics manufacturer is seeking a way to go thin, be it with the displays or frames. In the thick of things, a couple of days from CES we see JVC introducing a 32v-7mm thin LCD, which the maker’s claim is the lightest in the world, weighing only 5 kg.

Developed with the next-generation flat-panel liquid crystal display technology, the Victor, a 32-7mm thick, full HD LCD will be exhibited at CES ’09 in Las Vegas. Also living to the green mantra, the LCD aims at reducing the environmental impact by about 50%.

The basics of modding and hacking is to keep things quick and simple, but in the event most just cross over. In uncertainty of fanaticism for the unusual, TeleToyland and RoboRealm have teamed to build a crazy little robotic base on wheels for your notebook. The robot uses two web cams and a RoboRealm software for the controls, so that you no more have to carry the lappy around, but have the bot-carrier drag it behind you.

Housing the important motor power switch and a handle, given the load and task at hand we believe some more batteries could have been stuffed in there to make it a bit more powerful. However, if like us, there is something that’s lured you into the robotic laptop carrier, then catch all the making details here.

Via: HackaDay

Space is always a problem with PCs, but putting a PC onto the wall, Originatic has brought out a solution to the quandary. Scheduled for the CES ’09 debut is the all-in-one wall-mounted Smart-Leaf PC, designed with space-saving intentions. So if you’re a casual PC user, there isn’t anything better coming your way anytime soon, therefore this rugged PC with all eminent features is worth a gaze.

In Vegas, Originatic will showcase two PCs, the Smart-Leaf Oasis and the Smart-Leaf Mountain. While the former with touchscreen, fold-out keyboard, trackpad, TV tuner and Wi-Fi, will be perfect for the home, the latter with all keyboard lock and trackball in addition to the others mentioned but lacking the TV tuner, will be perfect for business use.

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