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- Unity 3D gaming table uses Android and iPhone as gamepads: video
- LG booth tour: screens, screens, and some more screens
- MSI WindPad 100A Android tablet hands on photos
- MSI Kid Pad: a tablet for toddlers
- ICTR-3000 cassette to MP3 converter for under £50
- Asus PrimeSense camera: hands on with a Kinect rival
- Samsung booth tour: TX100 scramble, giant camera and 3D screen array
- Polaroid Lady Gaga unveiling: See the video!
- Polaroid Twitter camera prepped
| Posted: 06 Jan 2011 08:11 PM PST 
Based on the insanely popular mobile game Angry Birds, this latest take on the addictive title is a charming tabletop game where two players compete for points. Players build obstacles, complete with replica birds and pigs from the game before catapulting them into a blocky mess. Here’s the clever bit. It’s also a card-based strategy game. Player One pulls a mission card. Player Two then builds the structure shown on the card for Player One to attempt to knock it down to grab as many points as possible. The first to 1,000 points wins. In the box you’ll find three Angry birds replica figurines, four pigs, one slingshot launcher, 14 blocks and 56 mission cards. Angry Birds Knock on Wood will cost $14.99 (about £9.70) and won’t be in shops till May 2011 worldwide. Out May 2011 | $14.99 (£9.70) | Mattel Related posts:
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| Unity 3D gaming table uses Android and iPhone as gamepads: video Posted: 06 Jan 2011 08:10 PM PST  We’ve seen cross platform Android and iPhone games before, but the Unity 3D Interactive Media Table does things a little differently. You use your smartphone as a gamepad, and face off in splitscreen on the table. See the adorable Android mascot take on an Apple logo in a wave race, after the jump.
As you can see in the video, two gamers face off in a race using an HTC Evo 4G Android phone and an iPhone 4 as controllers, connected over Wi-Fi. You can even see the boat’s cockpit on the screen of each, and the layout changes depending on the game. The table itself is running on Windows 7, but sadly, is merely a demo to emphaise the face that Unity 3D is a totally rad cross platform video game development tool. Still, it’s hard not to find yourself rooting for the little Android driver as he faces off against an Apple logo. Out TBC | £TBC | Unity 3D Related posts:
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| LG booth tour: screens, screens, and some more screens Posted: 06 Jan 2011 07:57 PM PST  The LG booth is chock a block with all sorts of screen set ups that are enough to demand sunglasses. Click through for our full gallery of the LG booth (it’s not just screens).
As ell as the cascading monitor wall, the super sized 60 inch screen array, the world’s biggest 3D screen, and an entrance archway built from screens, LG also had 3D gaming on show, plus its LG Smart TV Upgrader (which is super neat and sleek looking), and a nifty display showing the energy that different screens are using, in comparison to a standard lightbulb. What piques your interest? Fancy an LG screen array in your living room? Related posts:
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| MSI WindPad 100A Android tablet hands on photos Posted: 06 Jan 2011 07:46 PM PST  We found the MSI WindPad 100A chilling at the back of MSI’s CES stand today in Las Vegas, and after playing with it, we can see why MSI made no mention of the Android tablet in its press conference on Tuesday. It’s so far from finished, we actually broke it just by touching it.
The MSI WindPad 100A is running Android, that much we manage to figure out, but before we could find out what version, we managed to crash the blighter simply by hitting an icon. And because it’s an early prototype, MSI forgot to put a home or back button on it (a dummy model behind glass had the standard Android buttons on, so they’re coming), so there it stayed. Whoops. It’s certainly in need of some software “optimisation”. Still, the design of the 10-inch, 1024×600 MSI WindPad 100A is pleasant enough. It’s not so thin, but it is sturdy, and sports full size HDMI output, a full size SD card slot and mini USB. Inside, it’s set to be powered by Nvidia’s Tegra 2 system on a chip, while GPS and a 3G SIM card slot will also make the cut. MSI says the MSI WindPad 100A will be out in the second quarter (April to June, folks) globally, price TBC, but with Android 3.0 competitors like the Motorola Xoom, and maybe even the iPad 2, it’s got an uphill struggle ahead of it. Out Q2 2011 | £TBC | MSI Related posts:
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| MSI Kid Pad: a tablet for toddlers Posted: 06 Jan 2011 07:28 PM PST  The MSI Kid Pad is an interesting take on the tablet. It’s aimed specifically at children, with a big curved and rugged design, and even a handle case that twists 120 degrees. It’s strictly a concept, so MSI doesn’t even specify what operating system the 10-inch tablet runs, but whatever it is, it can play Cars, and the company obviously things infants are capable of using the two USB ports and 3.5mm audio on the top. So would you buy this? Maybe if enough people comment, MSI will put it into production. Related posts:
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| ICTR-3000 cassette to MP3 converter for under £50 Posted: 06 Jan 2011 07:09 PM PST  In with all the shiny bright modern technology here at CES, we managed to seek out what looks at first glance to be the most obsolete lump of gadgetry at the whole show. But look closer, and this little cassette walkman converts your old handmade mix tapes, copies of Now That’s What I Call Music, and recordings of John Peel’s radio shows straight to MP3.
The icing on the cake was the price point, the ICTR-3000 (suitably retro name we think) has an RRP of $50 in the US, which is about £32 over on our side of the pond. The folks at Innovative Technologies who make the gadget assured us that the ICTR-3000 is available in the UK, but as it’s brand spanking new and one of its announcements for CES, we’re waiting on details for where you can buy one. It’s powered by USB or battery, comes with earbuds, and works as a cassette walkman as well, with an FM radio. It’s got big chunky buttons for volume control, play, fast forward, stop, reset and scan. It also comes with free audio editing software Audacity for cleaning up the crackle on your old cassettes. Do you want an ICTR-3000? Shout out in the comments! Related posts:
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| Asus PrimeSense camera: hands on with a Kinect rival Posted: 06 Jan 2011 07:04 PM PST  Today we tried out the Asus PrimeSense camera, or Asus WAVI Xtion to give it its full, awful name. Given that PrimeSense provided the hardware behind Microsoft’s Kinect motion controller for Xbox 360, it’s easy to see Asus’ model as a PC based rival with no hacking required. Is it? Read on, find out, and see the video.
At a glance, we must admit that both are very similar indeed. While the Asus PrimeSense camera is considerably smaller than Kinect (it’s lacking an RGB camera, mic and movement motors), there’s something ever so familiar about the design, something that becomes even more obvious in the software we saw it running. Hold your hand over a large square tile for a while to trigger a selection? That’s how you navigate around using the Asus PrimeSense camera. Calibrate and see your body’s outline in a window in the bottom right hand corner? Yup, that’s another thing it shares with Kinect. But there are some crucial differences, and we must admit, gaming aside, the Asus PrimeSense camera has the potential for seamless media watching from the comfort of your sofa, and to even better Kinect. You see, it comes in two parts: one that hooks up to a Windows PC, and streams content via wireless HDMI to the second part, the camera hooked into your TV. Read our Microsoft Kinect review now You can play games – we were treated to a demo involving a green monster whirring swords matching your arms’ flailing. And the movements were closely in sync. People moving in front didn’t drop the connection, though calibration time definitely seemed longer than we’re used to with Kinect. But the really exciting aspect of the Asus PrimeSense camera is the ability to pull up your own media with a wave of your arm. That’s right: not what’s available on Zune, Sky Player or Last.fm, but your own pictures and videos on your own hard driven, easily Kinect’s most glaring omission. You can scroll through endless thumbnails of your piccies at speed, and because the connection is via wireless HDMI, crispy sharp movies at the wave of a hand should be no trouble either. One crucial missing aspect however is that the Asus PrimeSense camera is not capable of voice control as Kinect is. This was entirely Microsoft’s input in Kinect, and Asus doesn’t look to have included it here, instead opting for a not particularly wieldy on screen QWERTY keyboard. We’re told the Asus PrimeSense camera is out before July, with an estimated price of around $199.99 (£130). Which, conveniently, is exactly what Kinect costs. So, which will you be buying? Related posts:
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| Samsung booth tour: TX100 scramble, giant camera and 3D screen array Posted: 06 Jan 2011 06:51 PM PST  Samsung had some secrets it saved for its booth today, including the announcement that the Samsung Galaxy Tab would also be going 4G. That doesn’t make much difference to us in the UK, as we don’t have it, but to make up for it Samsung had some good tech spectacles on show. Step this way for a full gallery.
There was a scrum to get a look at the Samsung TX100, but we weren’t allowed to film any video because the version there was only a prototype. Samsung was also one of the companies still showing off 3D with glasses over and above glasses free, and had an enormous 3D TV array that went floor to ceiling in the conference hall. Also on show was a giant camera which we really wanted to be functioning but wasn’t, and a lot of really good looking TVs of all shapes and sizes. What do you think of the Samsung announcements? What are you most excited by? Related posts:
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| Polaroid Lady Gaga unveiling: See the video! Posted: 06 Jan 2011 06:27 PM PST 
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