It was announced on Thursday that Kodak will be discontinuing their camera products. Both of these cameras will not be released. Nonetheless, it was a great interview with Jennifer Cicney of Kodak.
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Interview by Jeffrey Powers of Geekazine and Steve Lee of Waves of Tech
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Mike Wallenfels of Timbuk2 joined us at the TPN CES Live coverage to talk about their bags. They create innovative bags since the days of the messenger bag. Now with the Deluxe laptop messenger, you can keep your laptop safe from water.
They also have cases that allow air flow. These padded cases cools off your hardware twice as fast. Timbuk2 has several bags you can get for affordable prices.
Many different prices on cases for iPad, Kindle, PC and Mac. If you go to their website, you can also customize your case.
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MXL was at our booth talking about their newest Mic, the MXL Tempo. This is a microphone that connect to an iPad.
The challenge of connecting a condenser mic to an iPad is the power. The iPad sends a lower power signal, so you need to adjust at the microphone.
MXL Tempo uses the camera adapter to send the audio signal to the iPad.
Tempo is available now for $79.95
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International company Panashiba showed off the Panashiba AIO-101 – an all in one iPad, iPhone dock for your night stand. Additionally, this is a 4-port HDMI splitter.
You can have a DVD or Blu-Ray player close to your night stand, and switch to your TV at the foot of the bed. With an app (available soon), you will be able to watch from the TV, or turn to your side and watch a movie right from the iPad.
The AIO-101 is expected to be in the US shortly, and is expected to be $169.99.
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Motorola showed off the MOTOACTV fitness watch at CES. This is the world’s first GPS fitness tracker and smart music player.
Wear MOTOACTV on your wrist, or connect to a bike. It will keep track of the calories, steps, and more. If you have a Bluetooth heart rate monitor, connect it to the MOTOACTV, and it will track your results.
You can download your information to the computer and put up on the Motorola MOTOACTV website. Share with your friends, and have little healthy competitions.
The built-in MP3 player also can determine which songs affect your exercise. The performance playlist will help you power through. You can also set a “Fit song”, which could help you when you need that extra boost.
MOTOACTV is available in 8 GB ($249) and 16 GB ($299) models.
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Boxee is showing off the new Live TV tuner is a USB dongle that you connect to the Boxee. Plug your cable or antenna to the dongle, and watch your shows from the Boxee box. There is also a social network option to this device that will help you find shows your friends are watching.
The Boxee live TV tuner USB only works on Boxee box. They have put out version 1.5 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, but also announced they will be moving away from those platforms to focus on the Over the Top TV device.
Boxee Dongle is $49. The Boxee is available at $179
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We found a company called Mionix at Showstoppers during CES. They were showing off the Mionix Disciple 60, as well as a mouse pad that gives you more precise movements.
The keyboard is the Mionix Deciple 60. It has mechanical switches and a steel plate on it. Keys can be removed so it can be re-configured for MMO gaming. It lasts 50 million keystrokes. It’s thicker cable also brings USB and audio jacks to the back of your keyboard.
The NAOS mouse is also an ergonomic mouse that can do 128 dpsi recognition. However, your surface might be the bigger issue.
The mouse comes with software that can tell you how your mouse is fairing on the surface. Mionix does sell what they call the “World’s Best Mousepad”. This is perfect for gamers or artists that need that precision movement.
The Desciple is $149.99 – $79.99 – and the World’s best mousepad is $49.99.
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The World from a Kid’s Point of ViewKidzvuz is a Safe environment , targeting eight to ten year olds, allowing them to comment and learn how to create a digital footprint and build skills in digital content. All of the content is moderated, and parents have total control of what is actually released and published on the site. The site is free to use, supported by brands who want to reach the audience, who get great user generated content, but in full compliance with the Child Online Protective Act.
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The Need for SpeedMousing around is one of the not-so-secret productivity killers, stealing time from creative types around the world. Keyboard shortcuts allow you to keep your fingers in motion – but unless you excel in the game “Missing MatchUps” with your kids, it’s hard to remember hundreds of combinations. And they are all standard patterns, except when they aren’t – like between every applications that you need to use on your project.
KBCovers offers a full range of apps. In both US and European keyboards, for video and photo editing, the covers are made of ultra thin silicone, and offer full color coding to help you learn and remember the shortcuts for your daily use.
Interview by Andy McCaskey and Courtney Wallin of SDRNews for the TechPodcast Network.
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It’s a new way to stay in touch.Feedair provides a non-intrusive alphanumeric display, and apps that can pull in your unread gmail,Google weather, CNN News, or other messages. You program the feed by selecting one of the visual widgets in the iOS or Android apps. It aggregates your social feeds from services including Twitter and Facebook, and displays them all in one place.
The product was announced at CES, and is scheduled to ship in March, 2012.
Interview by Andy McCaskey of SDRNews for the TechPodcast Network.
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