CES 2013 Announcements

[Wmcmanus]

What's the point of buying the HD800, currently TOTL of Sennheiser's offering from an expensive boutique?

The "Orpheus service" of course! They show how to place the headphones on your head, how to plug them in, etc.

[Hopstretch]

This may be pushing the boundaries of "mobile" somewhat.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C59VqSUPM2Y 

Edited January 8, 2013 by Hopstretch

[deepak]

This may be pushing the boundaries of "mobile" somewhat.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C59VqSUPM2Y 

Those wacky kids

[robm321]

Sony's Xperia Z - looks promising

[blessingx]

Sony's Xperia Z - looks promising

 

Yanksrock certainly thinks so. WTH? 

 

 

Yanksrock1000 13 hours ago

 

"I'm not one to make conclusions, but I think this is the best phone on the market. Hands down." 

[blessingx]

Some more info on the BMC DAC...

http://www.audioholics.com/reviews/processors/bmc-audio-puredac-converter

[Voltron]

Not earth-shattering, but new and up to date plasmas make me happy.  http://www.techradar.com/news/television/panasonic-shows-off-new-flagship-plasmas-1123233

 

What does my client have in store for TVs?  http://www.techradar.com/news/television/samsung-to-unveil-unprecedented-tv-design-at-ces-2013-1121952

[VPI]

^Maybe they will finally make one that works.

[robm321]

Yanksrock1000 13 hours ago

 

"I'm not one to make conclusions, but I think this is the best phone on the market. Hands down." 

 

 I guess it's confirmed then 

[blessingx]

Now we're talking...

physically transforming touchscreens/keyboards

http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/08/tactus-morphing-touchscreen-keyboard-hands-on-with-video/ (w/video)

 

Edited January 8, 2013 by blessingx

[justin]

Sennheiser is displaying the orpheus setup at CES this year, and that may coincide with an announcement of a new stat, if the rumor mill has their timetables right.

 

i hope their announcement isn't limited to displaying that their best sound quality came 20 years ago

[justin]

^Maybe they will finally make one that works.

 

i'll take one that isnt shiny

[VPI]

I'll take one that doesn't hear itself and try to switch to some cheesy app in the middle of a show.  Or one that actually sees you when you are trying to use the hand controls and not only when you move your hand to grab a drink.  I could sit there for ten minutes telling it to turn on and it will not hear me but every time it hears something about netflix, or youtube or hulu TV or exercise it switches the TV to a whole new interface that is a pain to get back out of.

[Dusty Chalk]

What does my client have in store for TVs?  http://www.techradar.com/news/television/samsung-to-unveil-unprecedented-tv-design-at-ces-2013-1121952

It's not 'translucent'.  I don't know what's wrong with their (TechRadar, not Samsung) eyes, it's obvious even to me that the horizon on the inner screen is not a beach horizon, but the one outside the screen is.

 

I mean, it might be translucent, but I don't get that from the pic.

[blessingx]

Here we goooo!

 

 

 

http://www.tuaw.com/2013/01/08/ces-2013-imusic-bodyrhythm-wants-to-pummel-your-shoulders-via-t/

Edited January 8, 2013 by blessingx

[justin]

The "Orpheus service" of course! They show how to place the headphones on your head, how to plug them in, etc.

 

i have a feeling this is where the rumor of a new electrostatic headphone came from

[robm321]

nvm

Edited January 9, 2013 by robm321

[spritzer]

i have a feeling this is where the rumor of a new electrostatic headphone came from

Nope, it comes from Sennheiser showing and auditioning a prototype at the international distributor meet last year. That event was meant to show the distributors what R&D were up to.

Edited January 9, 2013 by spritzer

[RudeWolf]

No HD650? Well, fuck you then, Sennheiser! I didn't want to be in your club anyways...

[TMoney]

Microsoft Surface Pro makes an appearance:

 

http://gizmodo.com/5974705/microsoft-surface-pro-hands+on-this-is-what-it-should-have-been-all-along

 

http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/9/3857076/microsoft-surface-pro-in-depth-impressions

 

After reading the glowing impressions this is a day one buy for me. No question.

[blessingx]

Cool, but that first reviewer really doesn't understand RT (or the iPad, tablets, etc.).

[TMoney]

It seems like there haven't been that many big announcements this year, but this Tablet-PC convergence thing is really cool. Its the future. That, and Smartphone-PC convergence.

 

It's nice to see Intel get their heads back in the game. While the Intel-based tablets don't match the ARM-based tablets on power consumption, they trounce them on performance. I'm sure its not the case for everyone, but I would gladly trade a few hours of battery life for 3-5x greater performance.

 

ARM is going to have a real problem once Haswell and its successor Broadwell start hitting that 5W and below range.

[blessingx]

The Verge Awards: the best of CES 2013

[Dusty Chalk]

It's not a "tablet" if it's 20 inches, is it?  "-let" is to make the word diminutive, so should this be a "table"?  Alright, no, tablet comes from "slab of stone", so maybe it should be called a "slab".  "Slate"?  What's a good augmentative?  Superblet.  Megablet.  Maxiblet. 

 

Whatevs.  4K?  Want.

[blessingx]

Carpal tunnel meets pinch to zoom in 3, 2, 1...