Oops, I missed a Samsung tablet. I actually saw the Galaxy Tab 7.7, but I just passed over it because I thought it was old. And it kinda is old. This thing was announced I think half a year ago or longer. Then Apple sued Samsung over it and it got pulled. Now they are releasing it. And still rocking Android 3.2. No price or release date. And coming on Verizon, so of course that automatically means it'll be expensive.

sigh, so basically nothing I want (high res tablet).Hopefully the ipad 3 is announced next week, if not, I might get one of the current ones.

 

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I'm not sure if the future will be better or worse once they get OLED tech to the point where it gets put everywhere. Being able to have something completely transparent like a piece of class one second and the next second it is displaying a beautiful picture. I know it will be awesome in 99% of the cases I just am not looking forward to advertising taking advantage of it.

Had a vision when I first saw the tech of taking an electric car cross country, when low on charge plugging in at a charge station and watching a movie using the windshield of the car.

Boo now I'm excited about OLED tech taking off again.

as always ravy puts together everything for us. Thanks man, I know it takes time to do all this.

 

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A new Razer Naga mouse.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/10/razer-naga-hex-gaming-mouse
http://store.razerzone.com/store/razerusa/en_US/pd/productID.244052300
This time it has 6 side buttons in a circular pattern. In the middle of the buttons is an adjustable thumbrest, so you and still easily move the mouse around with the thumb without inadvertently pushing one of the side buttons. Otherwise has the same shape as the original Razer Naga.

Roccat has a new keyboard, mouse, and headset and all talk to each other.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/09/roccat-invades-us-gaming-market-brings-peripherals-to-ces/
You can adjust the mouse's settings from macros on the keyboard, such as changing it's DPI. Which could be handy if you want to free up the buttons on the mouse for other things.

Viewsonic launched 3 crappy tablets... not even going to bother with links, they are that worthless.


Razer has a Windows 8 tablet coming in the later half of the year. It'll use an Core i7 Ivy Bridge CPU and has two handle bar controllers mounted on the side. I hope this isn't close to the final design, because it really doesn't look all that comfortable to use for more than 5 minutes. I think they should go for a larger bezel and built in small buttons and a d-pads into that instead, more like the PS Vita.

No other details other than it should be under $1,000.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/10/project-fiona-raises-the-stakes-for-gaming-tablets-packs-ivy-br

Toshiba shows off a 13.3 and 7.7 inch tablet prototypes.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/10/toshiba-13-and-7-7-inch-tablet-prototypes-hands-on

I would love to have a 12 or 13 inch tablet, especially now that they've made 10 inches light as a feather. I imagine a 13.3 inch tablet now would probably not weight much more than last years 10 inch models.

Toshiba has not decided if they'll make them yet, so it may never launch. But hope it does or someone does it eventually.

Couple of BenQ 24 inch gaming oriented monitors.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/10/benq-xl2420t-xl2420tx-gaming-monitors-to-north-america

Both are 16:9 (assuming 1920x1080) 120Hz monitors certified for Nvidia 3D Vision 2. The TX model also includes glasses.
The monitors allow you to manually adjust to screen resolution (I assume directly from the monitor and not needing to use the video drivers), which sounds kinda neat. Would be good if playing a heavy game your graphics card can't handle to just hit a button and bump down to a lower resolution. Hopefully the scaler can keep the image quality still looking good at non native resolutions (we'll see).

Also loaded with dynamic contrast, enhanced colors, and FPS profiles that adjust various setting for certain games.

It's quite pricey though, $500 to $600 for these monitors. That is a hefty price tag for a monitor with a TN panel. But if you want a 3D gaming monitor with all the bells and whistles, it might be worth it. There are no 3D ready IPS panels available yet that I know of. If you aren't 3D gaming, I'd go with a monitor with an IPS panel which is also in this same price range.

The only 'oh [profanity]' moment I saw at CES was OnLive announcing their entry into the enterprise, cloud computing market. Streaming Windows 7 with core office support to iPads and Android tablets using their game compression technology is nothing short of awesome. I can't wait to pitch this at work.

I agree, it looks like just a huge hand held gaming device. They need to get rid of that crap so people can use it for stuff other than games.

 

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