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iTwin is billed as an "infinite capacity thumb drive" but this sells the device short - it's much more than this. Andy finds out what its capable of from Akash at CES Showstoppers. The basic premise of iTwin is a pair of USB devices, one of which goes in your work desktop, the other in your home (or laptop) computer.
KB Covers offer specialised keyboard covers for Apple Macs and MacBooks. Rather than dust covers, these are keyboard overlays which re-label for foreign languages or show keyboard shortcuts. A good example for the former is a foreign language student who wishes to use a keyboard with the studied country's layout and alphabet. Imagine the convenience for students of Arabic or
I remember building a PC many years ago and at that time, Diamond Multimedia was one of *the* graphics card companies. I even seem to remember that it was VL-bus card, so that dates it to a pre-Pentium era. Anyway, it's great to see that Diamond is still around when so many others have fallen by the wayside. Todd interviews
AViiQ is a product innovation company that specializes is in cool travel gadgets. Andy and Courtney see the latest toys with Alan Yeung of AViiQ. First on show is a portable laptop stand that unfolds from a flat strip that's about 13" long, 2.75" wide and only 0.25" thick. Made from a material called Hylite, it's a composite of aluminum
SiriusXM is best know for their in-car satellite receiver head units but the latest Lynx unit combines satellite with Internet radio and an mp3 player. John finds out more with Sirius sales manager, Paul Truman. The Lynx SiriusXM receiver combines the traditional head unit with features more usually found on a personal media player. Large touchscreen - check, mp3 playback
KidzVuz is an on-line community for children that lets them review and comment on kids' gear. Andy and Don talk with co-founder Rebecca Levey about the site's features and how they're tailored to children. Children are often left out of the on-line world as the major social networking sites such as Facebook enforce age restrictions on their members, and rightly
Silence is golden and Silentium are working hard to achieve this with their active noise reduction technology. Andy and Don keep it down with Yossi Barath. Silentium has developed an active noise reduction system that can be implemented in a single chip. The complex (and proprietary) algorithms programmed into the chip use noise cancellation (destructive interference) to reduce the amount of