The best ultrathin laptops and touchscreen slabs from the tech industry’s biggest trade show.
CES 2012
Asus MeMo 370T: The 7-Inch, Quad-Core, $250 Dream Tablet
Asus is promising what seems like the impossible with the MeMo 370T, a 7-inch Android Ice Cream Sandwich tablet with a quad-core processor for $250. I got my hands on a prototype during CES 2012, and I’m happy to say it’s real, …
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Ultrabooks: Bringing Sexy Back to PCs
Once upon a time, the PC had no rivals. Back in the era before smart phones, tablets, Internet-savvy HDTVs and other gadgets-come-lately, it was the most important technology product in the world, and therefore inherently …
Samsung Series 9 Notebook Knocks the Wind Out of Apple’s MacBook Air
In the interest of avoiding confusion, Samsung has shied away from calling its second-generation Series 9 computers “ultrabooks” since it didn’t refer to the first generation — which launched last year before Intel birthed the …
The Coolest Smartphones at the Consumer Electronics Show
The smartphone front was quiet at this year’s show, but a few phone makers still managed to be interesting. Here’s who impressed us the most.
Photos: Day Five of the Consumer Electronics Show
Slide to Unlock, Then Rock with the ‘Guitar Apprentice’ iPad Accessory
Shown off at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show, Ion Audio’s Guitar Apprentice iPad accessory has already been a fixture on every local, regional and national broadcast news outlet’s segment, the formula being that the anchors …
Highlights from Day Four of the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show
We’ve reached the home stretch, also known as the day before the last day of CES; a day when everybody goes home despite there still being another day.
At around 11pm, I received a disturbing automated e-mail from Fitbit, the …
The Looming Cloud-Streaming Game Wars: OnLive Partners with Google TV
Forget “what’s in your wallet,” what’s in your TV? If you’re looking to pick up one of these newfangled Google TV-based televisions, make that OnLive, the cloud-streaming game service that lets you play high-end video games over …
Up Close with Nikiski, Intel’s Concept Laptop of Tomorrow
Although Intel doesn’t build laptops, the chip maker showed off a bit of design flare at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas with Nikiski, a concept notebook that folds up into a touchscreen virtual …
Photos: Day Four of the Consumer Electronics Show
Samsung’s 5.3-inch Galaxy Note: Giant Phone Meets Tiny Tablet
When it comes to smartphones, apparently big is the new small. Thin is still in, to be sure, but screen sizes have been steadily inching their way into the weird limboland between phones and the current crop of 7-inch tablets. …