After a day of walk the CES show flooring ( OK , just the South Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center , to be exact ) , and sense like my Tevas were bear to the nub , I must say that I did in fact see some cool products . In my bestJulie Andrews vocalisation , here are a few ofmy favorite matter .
• Of its several novel Bluetooth headset , Jabra ’s coolest is theJX10 , a fashionable and small piece of hardware that you could wear with or without an ear hook . The $ 179 headset offers up to six hour of talk time ( 200 hours of understudy ) , Digital Signal Processing ( DSP ) technology that automatically adjusts the volume to gibe the calling surroundings , and can be excite via USB from a computing machine .
•Shureintroduced its E500 Sounds Isolating Earphones . They have three hi - definition driver ( one tweeter and two woofer ) for extremely precise audio reproduction ( meaning great speech sound ) and stop between 30db and 37db of outside noise . Also include is Shure ’s new Push - to - Hear ( PTH ) control switching , which let you mute your music and learn what ’s going on around you ( or even have a short conversation ) thanks to a built - in microphone . The E500 earphones will be available in May for $ 499 . The PTH add - on will also be available at the same time for other E Series earphones for $ 59 .
• HP has seven newdigital camerasthat it will be rolling out between February and April 2006 . The top of the stemma is the HP Photosmart R927 , an 8.2 - megapixel camera with a huge , three - column inch LCD and a 3x ocular soar . It let in automatic in - camera violent center removal and HP Design Gallery effects and borders . ( And the smart matter is , it creates a extra of your image , so the original stick untasted . ) It derive with a standard moorage post , but an optional Wireless Dock Base lets you divvy up photos using a wireless web . The price is $ 399 , and the television camera should be available in March .
• Iomega has a pile of new product , including the MiniMax Desktop Hard Drive , a combination hard drive and USB and FireWire hub created to match the Mac miniskirt in size , form , and aim . Both good example have three USB 2.0 port wine and three FireWire 400 port , and either160GBfor $ 200 , or250GBfor $ 250 . And the drive powers up and down along with the mini itself . The company also register off several other storage product , including the 60GBScreenPlay Multimedia Drive($220 ) for portable audio , video , and photo storage to unite to a TV ; the StorCenter connection Hard Drive ( $ 200 for160 GB , $ 290 for250 GB ) with Gbit Ethernet for immobile , centralized reposition that includes work up - in UPnP livelihood ; and the aptly namedMicro Mini heavy Drive(4 GB for $ 130 , 8 GB for $ 170 ) with a tiny one - inch , 4200 - revolutions per minute hard drive , USB 2.0 connectivity , and jounce protection .
• And for the truly paranoid , Taser International , makers of the taser stun gas pedal , were present off the $ 999Citizen Taser X26c . This futurist - looking agency of ego - Department of Defense sends 50,000 volt into a would - be attacker without the want for being too close . The selling cloth proudly proclaim it to be legal to convey — concealed or otherwise — in 43 states ( just do n’t plan on using it to daze a mugger in Manhattan or take down a carjacker in Providence ) .
