CES 2011: A telescope that let’s you see thousands of years into the past

Celestron‘s new Sky Prodigy 130 was unveiled at this year’sCESand just picked up an Editor’s Choice Award fromPopular Mechanics. The $800 telescope features a 130mm lens and a 5″ mirror powerful enough to bring Saturn’s rings and Jupiter’s moons into focus. With 4,000 celestial bodies in its database, viewers are able to identify and see stars that once were, some even thousands of years in the past. “In three minutes, you’re an instant astronomer,” said Celestron’s Michelle Meskill....

1 min · 203 words · Aaron Powell DDS

CES 2011: Hands on with Motorola’s XOOM tablet and the Bionic 4G smartphone

Motorola Droid Bionic 4G Finally an Android phone fromMotorolathat doesn’t feel like I’m carting around a dictionary! Motorola’s latest star Android phone is the Bionic 4G. As one reporter put it aptly, “Motorola! You’re back!” The Droid Bionic is a dual-core, Cortex-A9, NVIDIA Tegra 2 based phone with a 960×540 screen that is just a little bit thicker than the Droid X because of its LTE capabilities. Still it doesn’t feel as bulky and it is in fact lighter than its Droid predecessors because it shed the sliding QWERTY keyboard....

3 min · 479 words · Donna Ellis

CES 2011: Love to run? Check out Nike Plus’ new GPS powered watch.

Last night at thePopular MechanicsCES Editor’s Choice awards, Nike took home a trophy for its new Sportwatch with TomTom’s GPS technology. “This is a gadget for people who are competitive runners and truly data obsessed,” said Jim Meigs, PM’s Editor-in-Chief. Nike’s “running technology” has come a long way since their iPod savvy sneakers featured embedded pedometer-like accelerometers in 2006. Thanks to a partnership with GPS technology company TomTom, Nike’s new Sportwatch includes built-in GPS and a USB port so you can download all of your running information with a simple plug-in....

2 min · 222 words · Brittany Robertson

CES 2011: Polaroid’s GL30 Instant Digital Camera

Digital Retro? This camera pretty much captures it. This year at CES, Polaroid teamed up with none other than Lady Gaga to unveil its new GL30 Instant Camera. I’ve never heard point and shoot photography sound so confusing as I did when listening to Lady Gaga demo the camera. Fortunately the simplicity and beauty of the camera speaks for itself. The boxy, tapered shape of the digital incarnation shares a similar aesthetic to the much-loved Polaroid cameras from the 80s....

2 min · 245 words · Matthew Stephens

CES 2011: The future of food is wireless in the store and in your home

Imagine being out in your car and suddenly having the urge to bake cookies. Do you have eggs at home? Do you have milk to drink with your cookies? An app on your phone tells you that you have 12 eggs, more than enough to make Tollhouse cookies but you are out of milk. It then gives you directions to the nearest supermarket that has your favorite brand of organic soy milk....

3 min · 560 words · Tammy Carlson
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