D-Link is showing off a low cost gadget called the All-In-One Mobile Companion. It plugs into the wall and has two ports: USB and ethernet.
Plug it into the wall and ethernet, and you’ve got a wifi hotspot. Plug mass storage into the USB port, from a USB stick to a big hard drive, and you can access it remotely from a tablet or smartphone with an app. It also works remotely, basically making this an economy NAS.
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Dish Network just announced a new set-top box named Hopper with a companion small remote box named Joey. Includes 2TB HDD and the ability, with one click, to automatically DVR all primetime programming from the 4 big broadcast networks every day for on-demand access.
Also, they gave these out.
Here we are at CES getting sorted out.
So far we’ve navigated the giant registration tent, and a bit of the South Hall. Most of the exhibitors are still setting up their booths. Nvidia has a fancy sports car underneath an inflatable shed that looks like a bouncy castle.
Sometimes when I get off a plane I like to look back as I enter the gate area and take note of where the plane I was on is going next. In this case, the next person to sit in my seat will be going to …
Anyway, dear reader, I am pleased to report that I have arrived safely in Las Vegas, NV to join my IPG Media Lab colleagues in covering CES. En route I got caught up on reading Wired Magazine, spending the better part of Michigan -> South Dakota with the December 2011 issue. Things I dog-eared for further research:
• Ceiva Digital Photo Frame – integrates with major photo sites and allows your friends to photo bomb you by sending pictures to the frame
• Bump.com – apparently lets drivers swap chat messages using license plate as a unique handle. I wonder how this is supposed to work.
• Pepsi’s Social Vending System – soda machine with mobile app integration and social features
• Pleo rb robot dinosaur – has lots of sensors built in. I’m going to be an uncle soon so I need to be on the lookout for this sort of thing.
• BitCoin – I really wonder what’s haappening next with theae guys. What if it really is just riding the hype-cycle right now and will take off again one day? Didn’t previously know about the secrecy surrounding its creation.
• Art.sy – Pandora for art. Seems like a neat idea and has got me thinking about other Pandora for ________ ideas.
Posting this from a Viewsonic Android tablet, the ViewPad 7. Not the most flashy tablet out there, but it works for basic things just fine. I borrowed it from the lab over the holidays and discovered Fruit Ninja, and thus I will always regard this device fondly.
Will I be a little self-conscious bringing a tablet that’s over a year old around documenting CES? Nope.
Cool gadgets are great, and obviously CES will feature lots of them. But while exploring the list of exhibitors, I found these guys: Postcards On The Run. They make an iOS/Android app that creates actual postcards that get sent to your friends, loved ones, or enemies via actual United States Postal Service mail.
Part of why I’m sure I like this is that I have a thing for postcards in general. I collect ones that I like from all the places I travel. I used to have them pasted up on my wall in a big collage. I even have a special subset collection within my collection of airport postcards. Not postcards bought at the airport, postcards that feature the airport. As in, “Greetings from SFO, wish you were here!” But I digress.
Postcards On The Run works like this:
