At CES, Adriana and I got a chance to shoot with the new Lytro camera. While our hands-on post can be found here, the Lytro team has just started to put up select images that we and the other journalists captured in the Wynn Lobby in Las Vegas. Check out that Buffalo style! Note: Click on different parts of the image to change the focus. Sometimes the Lytro focusing...
Are your teens just hitting the open road? Do you manage a fleet of young, phone-obsessed drivers? Do you need your own personal texting and driving intervention? The Scosche cellCONTROL module might be the answer to those questions. Driving accessory manufacturer Scosche announced the Scosche cellCONTROL accessory at CES 2012 and it's just starting to gain popularity. The system works...
Has it really only been a week since the Consumer Electronics Show started winding down? I took away a lot of thoughts from it, but there was one memory that really stands out. There I was at the Skunk Juice booth, shooting Noah as he checked out the company’s unique magnetic earbud system (which can click together up to four earbuds in one line, at once). The product is a novel idea...
When it came to digital imaging, the biggest stars of CES 2012 were Canon, Nikon, Fujifilm and Lytro. Panasonic, Sony, Olympus, Pentax and Samsung stuck to their current lineups on the show floor, but I know most of the lot will be unleashing new cameras within the next few months. Then there was Casio. Oh, Casio. The company unveiled two high-speed point-and-shoots equipped with...
If you’ve never been to the Consumer Electronics Show, it can feel like a massive tech carnival — a wonderland of gear covering practically every area of life imaginable. There are rows upon rows of cars, home appliances, mobile devices, accessories, smart TVs, and myriad other machines and gadgets, all clamoring for attention. For some tech geeks, this would be heaven. Content...
1. It’s never too late to play the game if you’ve got enough dough Intel finally joined the 21st Century by unveiling the first smartphone running on their silicon, the Lenovo K800. Powered by a Intel Atom Z2460 running at 1.6GHz, the phone features a full 720p display and dazzled most everyone who saw it in action despite having only one processing core. Any other company entering the...
Samsung has announced its plans to merge its own bada smartphone operating system with the open-source Tizen platform that the Korean company has recently been working on with Intel. The Linux core of the two platforms will be matched so that the Tizen OS is capable of running bada applications, and vice versa. Samsung’s Senior Vice President of the Contents Planning Team, Tae-Jin Kang...
Asus has issued a statement today in which it insists its quad-core Transformer Prime tablet will not get 3G data connectivity. The announcement follows a leaked Asus roadmap that was published last week, suggesting a 3G-equipped device would launch in March. Unfortunately for those of you who got your hopes up, Asus is denying all knowledge of the device and claiming that “no such...
During the time span of four days at the Consumer Electronics Show 2012 in Las Vegas, many smartphone and tablets were released. Here at TechnoBuffalo, we know that it may be hard to disseminate and make sense of all the phones announced. To help you out, here’s a summary of the many phones released at CES this year, sorted by carrier. Feel free to click on a phone and explore the...
The votes are in, and if polls can be trusted you all really like yourselves hot new mobile tech! We’ve tallied the results, and here are the winners of TechnoBuffalo’s CES 2012 Readers’ Choice Awards as selected by you, The Herd: Nokia Lumia 900 (18.6% of the vote) Nokia’s new flagship phone was built specifically for the US market and will be available on AT&T’s LTE network in...