It’s hard to tell whether CES 2012 beat out last years show for tablet numbers, but there were plenty of slabs less likely to throttle your wallet in 2012. Coby has leapt onto that very bandwagon, with a whole slew of tablets
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Coby unveils its family of Ice Cream Sandwich slates, we go hands-on (video)
This may have been a fairly big CES for Windows Phone , but it looks like Microsoft still has a fair bit of convincing to do in order to bring all the carriers fully on board. That includes Sprint, which does currently have a Windows Phone in its lineup (and is apparently considering more in the “August-September time period”), but remains decidedly unenthusiastic about the platform as a whole.
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Sprint remains tepid on Windows Phone at CES, confirms no new WiMAX phones are planned
CES may be over , but we’ve still a few interesting gems to share from our weeklong trip in Las Vegas. Far off the beaten path of glitzy booths and familiar brand names, we discovered a few companies that are looking to bring Android gadgetry into automobiles.
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Android integration for car stereos and rear-view mirrors, hands-on (video)
As we continued to explore deeper and deeper into the underbelly of CES , something sparkled in the corner of our jaded eyes as we flitted between rows and rows of anonymous stalls. Already festooned with engineering awards, this animated laser display works by beaming a laser generated image onto glass planes containing a film of nanoparticles
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Sun Innovations show off Transplay Animated Laser Display, projects blueish vision of the future (video)
Sammy’s transparent OLED displays may not be the freshest piece of tech at CES, but its still pretty dang awesome. We first saw Samsung’s 46-inch 1920 x 1080 digitally augmented window back in March, but dropped by its CES booth for a second look
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Samsung gets tired of neighbors watching its Transparent Smart Window, installs blinds
Sure, there’s really not much of a DIY presence amongst the shiny new mass produced gadgets that line the halls of the Las Vegas Convention Center during CES, but MakerBot’s public appearances at the show managed to leave an impression on just about everyone who spotted the company’s newly announced Replicator 3D printer . Founder Bre Pettis stopped by our stage at the convention center’s Grand Lobby, becoming our final interview of the show. We managed to get him to print something out during our conversation, but the real draw was, no doubt, the large plastic rocket ship lamp sitting at the end of the stage, a pretty solid visual reminder of the concept of being able to print out just about anything you can imagine with one of these devices.
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MakerBot Replicator hands-on (video)
As CES comes to a close, we’ve got the second and final Engadget HD Podcast of the show ready for your listening (and viewing) pleasure. The guys of Ceton Corp were good enough to stop by, and they brought their slick six tuner Windows Media Center Embedded DVR and extender boxes with them. After that, we moved on to the rest of the things we’ve seen here in Las Vegas, including the latest from TiVo, the new LG and Vizio Google TV hardware, Ultraviolet, gesture control and even the fight that broke out on the CES show floor (in the ring, it was a promo for ESPN 3D)
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Engadget HD Podcast 282: CES 2012 – 01.13.2012
There seems little doubt that CES 2012 will go down as the year of the Ultrabook , and like clockwork, Sony’s getting in on the action, as evidenced by that 13-inch laptop on display behind a plate of glass. Granted, it’s not quite as sexy as the further-off hybrid devices we saw the other day — or even, say the Acer Aspire S5 and HP Envy Spectre , but Sony certainly knows how to design a handsome laptop. And, heck, there’s no telling how much the final version will look when it’s released later this year — Sony’s not really letting up a lot of information at the moment.
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Sony shows off 13-inch VAIO Ultrabook behind glass, we go eyes-on
Getting to and from an announcement, meeting, or keynote is one of the things we find ourselves doing countless times a day. To truly appreciate just how far we sometimes have to trek to get to the things we’re covering at CES is hard to understand unless you’ve done it
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Behind the scenes at CES 2012: getting to a hands-on (video)
MakerBot has sparked a mini industrial revolution, giving us the DIY tools to fabricate our dreams. MakerBot founder Bre Pettis joins us live at 7:30PM ET .
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Live from the Engadget CES Stage: an interview with MakerBot