The system uses special carbon-fiber spring pucks to isolate the sensitive electronics from external interference. It also features the newly developed and 96 and 192-kHz oscillators with minimal phase noise and high thermal stability.

Burmester Audiosysteme’s 069 Reference Line CD Player sits on its proprietary aluminum base (supplied as standard with the unit), and is available with a silver housing with a chrome front panel. It will set you back by $49,995!

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Unfortunately it cannot connect to your mobile phone and the adapter simultaneously. On the brighter said it does give your receptionist a tech savvy look.

I personally love the part when a gang of burgelers wanted to break into bond’s car and got a hand zapped with a bolt of current on the door lever. Well what if you get into your car and don’t want to be surprised by an unexpected visitor.

It’s only a concept at this year’s CES, but it shows what an iPhone, smartphone, or Blackberry might do for your car. Delphi has been working on smart key fobs, one using the same inking technology as on the Sony Reader, that presents an image on the fob showing if the car is locked or unlocked, or which door is ajar, before you press the button.

From there, Delphi engineers wondered how they could expand the functionality. The result was a Bluetooth link from the phone, to the key fob, to the car, with dozens of functions. The combination is powerful enough to locate you car and report its status a mile away in a parking garage, which really means, according to Delphi’s Craig Tieman, that no matter how deep you are inside your house, the remote will work. If it’s hot or cold outside, you can turn on the engine, turn on the climate control, and watch the temperature rise or fall. Or if you don’t want to burn gasoline, you can just roll down the windows.

If you’re concerned someone might have broken into the car and be lying in wait in the back seat-a big fear for some, despite the low odds of it happening-you can see if the car has been broken into before you walk or, if you forgot to lock the car, see if it’s occupied.

Delphi showed how you can monitor tire pressure, see if you have enough gas in the tank for the drive to work, even tell the condition of your oil and brake fluid. Type A’s will love the remote. Right now, Wireless Vehicle Access-the key fob or the smart phone link-is a working concept. With a little work it could be a real product. makes me wonder if the guys at James bond’s lab got downsized now.

The Tru2way technology is a standard that eliminates the need to rent a set-top box from a cable company and also enables two-way communication over the cable network for access to the full range of digital cable services. The AnyPlay P-DVR Model TZ-LC100, which features a 60-Gbyte capacity, incorporates digital video recording functionality into a Panasonic portable DVD player platform. When docked, the AnyPlay serves as a traditional DVR, recording and playing TV programming. However, consumers can remove AnyPlay from the docking station and take it everywhere they go. The AnyPlay includes an 8.5-inch folding LCD screen, integrated stereo speakers, and dual audio headphone jacks so that consumers can watch their recorded programming on the go. It will also play DVDs and audio CDs.

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It looks like iriver is positioning the Lplayer as a sort of Clix mini, with a 2-inch display surrounded by almost zero bezel, and that same D*Click interface. Iriver looks to be further stressing the simplicity of the device with an ultra-minimal interface, but is spicing things up a little with a color selection of white, purple, brown and cyan.

With the amount of new technologies that Apple have developed, patented & locked from the public domain other companies are in race against each other to come up with a even newer technology breakthrough that they can call their own. Nokia now on overdrive has come up with the S60, that seems straight out of a harry potter novel. After the iPhone announcement, instead of trying to reinvent the wheel, Nokia engineers went shopping for the alternatives to Apple’s multi-touch technology. Since iPhone relies so heavily on a capacitive multi-touch display and covered a lot of ground here with public and not yet public patent applications, that was out. One of the touch technologies that Nokia settled on, was Active Matrix LCD with Integrated Optical Touch Screen. They have licensed AMLCD technology developed by Planar inc., covered by a couple of patents, threw in some electronic perception capabilities covered by these three patents from Canesta Inc., and went on to develop their own multi-touch device. What they’ve got is AMLCD technology based touchscreen that is able to recognize multi-touch gestures quite well. In this implementation, the device has optical sensors embedded throughout the display, that can identify fingers placed on it and record their movement. These recorded movements are then translated into control gestures using pattern recognition methods. Various one, two or multiple finger gestures can be used to perform different operations.

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