Toshiba will invite visitors to the Consumer Electronics Show, CES 2009, to experience Digital Life Innovation and how Toshiba’s latest advances in digital technologies create new products and new services, and realize the potential of the “ultimate on-demand experience.”

The company will also showcase its leadership in combining the latest technological achievements with promotion of environmental initiatives. CES 2009 will run from January 8 to 11 in Las Vegas, and Toshiba will …

SanDisk today unveiled the new Sansa® slotRadio™ player and companion line of slotRadio music cards designed especially for the casual music consumer. The Sansa slotRadio player is a small, stylish, portable music device that comes bundled with a slotRadio card preloaded with 1,000 songs handpicked from the Billboard® charts, and professionally arranged into a variety of genre-themed playlists.

“slotRadio’s unprecedented simplicity will have even the most time-pressed music fans enjoying a …

Garmin announced today that it would offer nüMaps Lifetime, a single fee program that enables customers to download the latest map and point of interest information every quarter for the life of their personal navigation device (PND). The nüMaps Lifetime program was announced in conjunction with the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, and will be on display at the Garmin booth (South Hall 4, #35832).

“Having the most current and up-to-date maps help our customers get …

Garmin announced today the z?mo 660, a new motorcycle device that integrates the slim and sleek design of the nüvi® with specific features made exclusively for motorcyclists. The z?mo 660 was announced in conjunction with the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas (Garmin booth, South Hall 4, #35832).

“The z?mo can change your entire experience of touring or everyday rides because it helps you find amazing places to explore,” …

Garmin today announced its first touchscreen handheld designed exclusively for the golf course, the Approach G5. The latest breakthrough in Garmin’s expansive outdoor recreation and fitness line, the Approach G5 was announced in conjunction with the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, and will be on display at the Garmin booth (South Hall 4, #35832).

“The Approach G5 shows golfers the precise distance to the center of green or …

Newer Technology debuted the new NewerTech Voyager Q Hard Drive Docking Solution today at Macworld Expo, booth S-2322, in San Francisco.  The new Voyager Q turns any 2.5″ or 3.5″ Serial ATA (SATA) I/II up to 2.0TB hard drive into a fully bootable and hot-swappable external drive solution and features four interfaces: FireWire 800, FireWire 400, USB 2.0, and eSATA for maximum data transfer performance and connection flexibility.
 
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At the Consumer Electronics Show and Macworld Conference and Expo, Shure Incorporated today unveiled the SE115, the newest, most affordable, and most colorful member of the Company’s acclaimed family of Sound Isolating™ Earphones. The SE115 arrives in four vivid hues – Blue, Pink, Black, and Red – and at a $99 price point. Already a likely icon for its aesthetics and affordability, this newest earphone, like the Company’s other SE models …

As more and more families transition to high definition, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (WDSHE) concentrates its efforts on offering consumers unprecedented quality, value and portability in the purchases of their favorite Disney Blu-ray movies with the announcement of its new Blu-ray + DVD Combo Packs.

Disney’s Combo Pack will be extended across an exciting new slate of Disney-branded theatrical and Platinum titles releasing on Blu-ray between February and October of 2009. …

Gibson Guitar announced today the limited availability of the Gibson Dark Fire guitar. Embracing the spirit of innovation and technical advancement that inspired the original Gibson Digital guitar in 2006 and Robot guitar in 2007, Gibson’s Dark FireTM guitar is poised to change the music industry overnight.
The world’s most technically advanced guitar will rock the music industry to its core and will soon become the most sought after musical …

LG Display thin-film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) technology, today introduced a new concept in
LCD TV panel that allows LCD TVs to be used as a digital picture frame when it is switched off.

LG Display’s 47-inch ‘Digital Photo TV’ allows users to capture their favorite photo, art or a scene from
a TV program and display the image on the screen when the TV set is on …

AOL announced two new applications for iPhone and iPod touch – a SHOUTcast Radio app and an ICQ instant messaging app – as well as an updated version of AIM. The applications will give users easy access to SHOUTcast Radio’s leading directory of online radio stations, and two of the world’s leading instant messaging networks.

AOL will be demonstrating these and its other products for the iPhone and iPod touch this …

Toshiba America today announced that Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd. (TMD) will be previewing technology at International CES 2009 that enables mass adoption of 3D viewing in handheld devices. In a technology demonstration, TMD has integrated an advanced 3D film with small and medium sized LCD displays that use Optically Compensated Bend (OCB) mode to deliver clear, true autostereoscopic viewing at a glance, without the need for special glasses. …

Further underscoring the demand for simple USB-based docking solutions, Acer has selected DisplayLink Corp.’s USB graphics technology as a key component in Acer’s first monitor with a matching multimedia dock.

Part of Acer’s P4 consumer display series for media applications and games, the 22-inch Acer P224 monitor comes with a powerful multimedia dock designed to augment and simplify a user’s computing experience.

While the dock’s Dolby® Virtual Speaker technology delivers outstanding digital …

This week, at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, 3M™ will unveil the MM200, a new design in the company’s expanding miniature projection portfolio. Offering brilliant color and VGA resolution with an exceptionally thin profile, the 3M MM200 represents an evolutionary leap in mobile projection technology. Just a year ago, 3M debuted its first generation mobile projection engine at CES. Since then, the company has successfully integrated that engine …

NEC Display today announced the 26-inch MultiSync® LCD2690W2-BK-SV and 30-inch LCD3090W-BK-SV widescreen displays with SpectraViewII™ color calibration sensor and software, as well as the new SpectraViewII Kit (SVII-PRO-KIT), which enhances select models of NEC displays.

The new MultiSync LCD2690W2-BK-SV and LCD3090W-BK-SV displays can be seen at the 2009 Macworld Conference and Expo (NEC Display Booth No. 2510) today through January 9 at The Moscone Center in San Francisco, Calif.

The SpectraViewII Color Calibration …