CES

There were so many products introduced at the 2010 CES trade show earlier this month, we could write on them all year (and probably will!). Casio announced at the show four new EXILIM digital cameras, the High-Speed EXILIM EX-FH100, EXILIM EX-H15, EX-Z2000 and EX-Z550.

The High-Speed EXILIM EX-FH100 features Casio's high-speed burst shooting, 10.1 megapixels, a wide-angle 24 mm 10X optical zoom lens, and has a maximum burst rate of 40 shots per second for still images. It also enables up to 1,000 fps high-speed movie recording that captures motion that is ordinarily too fast for the human eye to see. The EX-FH100 has a mode dial for manual exposure burst shooting, as well as a mode that makes high-speed burst shooting easy, by choosing the optimal rate just by selecting the type of scene. Low-noise, high-quality photos can be taken even in dim indoor lighting thanks to the highly sensitive CMOS sensor. Price: $349.99.Read more

At the recent 2010 CES trade show, Kodak introduced several new cameras, but the one that has been generating a lot of buzz is the Kodak Slice, a touchscreen digital camera.

The 14-megapixel Kodak Slice features a 3.5-inch, 16:9 touchscreen display, 5X SCHNEIDER-KREUZNACH lens, 720p/30fps HD video capture, built-in optical image stabilization, a share button for uploading photos to Facebook, Kodak Gallery, YouTube, Flickr and email, and a Kodak Slice Search Feature that makes it easy to sort, locate and share pictures. It also has Face Recognition and Kodak's Smart Capture which analyzes scenes and automatically adjusts the camera settings for great pictures. And, up to 5,000 can be stored on the cameras' internal memory!

The Kodak Slice Touchscreen Camera will be available in April 2010 for $349.95. Best Buy will be the first retail store to carry the Slice.

At CES, Olive and THIEL announced that they have teamed up on a new networked HD music system, the Olive+THIEL HD Music System. The multi-room system combines the Olive 4HD music server with THIEL's SCS4 IP-based loudspeakers for high-resolution audio anywhere in your home network.

The Olive+THIEL system streams music over Ethernet in HD quality directly into THIEL's IP-based SCS4D speakers. The system features a built-in touch-screen LCD to easily find and play music, and a free iPhone app is available to allow an iPhone or iPod touch to act as a remote. Music can be copied to the hard drive via the built-in CDRW drive (which can also burn playlists for the car), or from a networked computer. The system can also connect to your TV via HDMI. Did I mention that this system can store a whopping 6,000 CDs or 20,000 24-bit HD music tracks in lossless quality?Read more

Numerous desktop PCs were announced at the recent 2010 CES trade show, but HP's new Pavilion Elite High Performance Edition (HPE) PCs were what caught our eye. Several new high performance edition models were announced at the show, with prices lower than you would expect for a high performance PC– they start at just $599 online. Retail models start at $809.

The new HP Pavilion HPE PC series is available with a choice of AMD Phenom II Quad-Core processors or future Intel Core processors, ATI Radeon or NVIDIA GeForce graphics and include Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, up to 2TB of hard drive capacity, up to 24GB DDR3 memory, a 15-in-1 memory card reader, SuperMulti DVD burner with LightScribe, Wireless LAN 802.11a/b/g/n networking, optional TV tuner, and optional pocket media drive and Blu-ray drives.Read more

Olympus has added a new shockproof, waterproof and freezeproof compact camera to their lineup, the Stylus Tough-3000. This is the first Stylus Tough camera with HD video, and it also adds features like Magic Filter and AF tracking (which even tracks your pet!).

The Stylus Tough-3000 has 12 megapixels, a 3.6x wide-angle optical zoom, Dual Image Stabilization, Intelligent Auto Mode, an In-Camera Panorama mode, SD capability for up to 32GB of capacity, and shoots 720p HD videos.

It also has a new graphical user interface (GUI) for intuitive operation and new OLYMPUS [ib] software with browsing, editing and photo organizing functions. You can organize your photos by person with automatic face recognition technology, by location with a Geotagging function or by the event.Read more

Last week at CES, Haier unveiled its ultra slim LED TV lineup. Available in early February, the 19-inch and 22-inch models are ENERGY STAR 4.0 qualified and use about 30% less energy than standard units by lowering the On Mode power consumption levels. The effective date for the Energy Star Version 4.0 requirements is May 1, 2010. With LED panel technological breakthroughs, it is now possible for Haier to achieve exceptional picture quality with energy efficiency.

The 19" and 22" models are sized perfectly for use in the kitchen, bedroom…even the office. Hang it on the wall or place it on the stand; then hook up your Xbox 360, PC and audio equipment and you're set. Read more

Last week at CES, Samsung unveiled a TV remote control that has its own television screen. Yes, you read that right, this remote actually has it's own TV screen on it! Scheduled to come out later this year with Samsung's new 9000 Series HDTVs (but sold separately), the touchscreen "All-in-One Premium Remote" looks somewhat like an iPhone and allows you to watch a different TV channel than the TV that it controls.

Why would you want to do this? Say you're watching football while your spouse wants to watch their favorite TV show. With this remote, one of you can watch on the remote control, the other on the TV. (Hmm...do you see arguments over who gets the "big TV"? You're on your own there...) Headphones can be used for the person watching TV on the remote. The All-in-One Premium Remote can even be taken into the other room and still work (how far away, we don't know yet).

Pricing has not been announced, but the All-in-One Premium Remote is due to come out later this year. Stay tuned!