2007 Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show "HighLights"

What is the 3style Mouse?
The 3style Mouse is like a cross between a wireless mouse and a jog wheel. As well as working in the normal 'X' and 'Y' directions, the whole mouse can be rotated, spinning freely and smoothly on its ball bearing pad.

Using robust sensing technology unique to this product, the mouse can sense when it is being rotated and sends this rotational data to the computer as 'Z' or scroll data. This 'Z' data, which is a third degree of freedom, can be applied to many tasks in the computer software being used with the mouse.

The sensing technology is also used to make sure the mouse always 'knows where it is going'. That is, unlike a normal mouse which must be held in a certain direction so that 'up is up', the 3style Mouse will know that 'up is up' no matter which way it is rotated. Because of this, it can be used to simultaneously control three dimensions.

How is the 3style Mouse used?
The 3style Mouse works on the desktop or a mouse pad just like a normal mouse, except that you can spin it and use it an any angle.

The small white arrow shaped button is the orientate button. Pressing this button while the arrow points forwards on your desktop sets that as the 'up' direction for pointer movement on screen no matter how the mouse is rotated. This only needs to be done once for any particular desk or working environment.

Because the mouse can be used at any angle you can also use the buttons at any angle. There is one 'push' button which can be operated from any part of the top of the mouse, and a series of 'squeeze' buttons which also work from any angle to give a 'right click'.

The third 'Jog dimple' button can be used like the dimple on a jog wheel to rotate the mouse. This button can work like the scroll wheel button on a standard mouse or switch to left-right scrolling when pressed.

Audio application example*For video and audio editing applications, the cursor can be positioned over an on-screen knob such as on a virtual mixing panel, and the knob can be operated directly by rotating the mouse. Many current applications already support scroll wheel control of on-screen knobs and sliders, and can work easily with the 3style Mouse.

The 3style Mouse can be used as a jog wheel to navigate through linear sequences such as audio waveforms and video timelines. If multiple timelines are present on-screen, the mouse can be pointed directly at a particular timeline then used to control that timeline.

As compared to typical physical control surfaces, the 3style Mouse has the advantage that there is no need to map hardware controls to on-screen software controls, since mapping occurs by moving the mouse pointer on the screen.

Applications in colour correction also have potential to leverage the additional input dimension.

Similar usage may apply in industrial simulation and control environments including medical and military applications.

For 3D applications, an object, scene or camera viewpoint can be rotated in three dimensions simultaneously. This is useful for examining objects while modelling, and for setting up camera angles prior to rendering. Simultaneous panning and zooming is also possible.

For gaming applications, a major advantage is the ability to quickly change point of view in a first person shooter environment. That is, look to the side or behind then back again, while maintaining the use of the 'Y' mouse movement for vertical aim. The 'X' mouse movement remains free for strafing or weapon changing, for example. There are however many other possibilities that might arise in the gaming area from providing an extra dimension of input.

Rapid 2-way scrollingFor general applications such as web browsing and word processing, the rotation of the mouse is used for scrolling, replacing the need for a finger operated scroll wheel. This has ergonomic advantages, since the movement involves the whole hand and arm instead of just one finger, reducing strain and increasing blood flow. In addition, the rotational motion of the mouse is more fluid and continuous than with a finger operated scroll wheel.

By pressing the 'jog dimple' button the mouse can scroll left-right as well as up-down.

Wi-Fi Player will Allow for PC-Free Subscription Music, Streaming Internet Radio and Photos on the Go

SanDisk® Corporation the second largest seller of MP3 players in the United States, today announced the Sansa Connect™—a Wi-Fi enabled MP3 player that lets consumers enjoy and recommend music from almost anywhere1—won two “Best of CES” awards at the International Consumer Electronics Shows (CES) in Las Vegas last week.

The sleek-looking Sansa Connect un-tethers consumers from their PCs allowing them to connect to music and online photos through any open wireless “hot spot” Internet connection. Designed to work with premium Internet services, the flash-based MP3 player will grant music aficionados access to a wide range of new music via subscription services and streaming Internet radio1. It will also contain community features for recommending music and photos with the simple click of a button and a “live” Wi-Fi connection.

According to CNET’s expert editors, SanDisk’s Sansa Connect was recognized as the hottest product in its respective technology category for its “unmatched innovation and creativity, and the Company’s ability to excite consumers about portable music players that can make their way into everyday life.” CNET’s editors received and reviewed more than 600 total entries from products unveiled at CES, awarding only 10 products top honors in a variety of categories.

“The CNET Best of CES Awards is a prestigious award, honoring the hottest products that set the standards in consumer electronics,” said Eric Bone, product marketing director for SanDisk’s Sansa audio/video line. “We’re thrilled that both CNET and LAPTOP editors—who see the best new devices every day –recognized the Sansa Connect as an exceptional MP3 player. We’re very excited to bring this to market for consumers to enjoy.”

The 4-gigabyte (GB)2 Sansa Connect will be distributed to store shelves in the United States in late March with a suggested retail price of $249.99. The device will be available in Canada in the latter part of 2007.

SanDisk teamed with ZING (ZING.net), a new mobile entertainment technology and services company, to develop the product.

SanDisk is the original inventor of flash storage cards and is the world’s largest supplier of flash data storage card products, using its patented, high-density flash memory and controller technology. SanDisk is headquartered in Milpitas, CA and has operations worldwide, with more than half its sales outside the U.S.

(2) 1 megabyte (MB) equals 1 million bytes; 1 gigabyte (GB) equals 1 billion bytes

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ATLANTA - Sunday's CES Show Highlight - A Brand New Laptop for under $150...

Atlanta based "Lite Appliances" introduced a $150 laptop that avoids using expensive components, such as Microsoft software, Intel & AMD processors and even a hard disk drive.

Utilizing diverse software and hardware as building blocks, the company promises to bring its users a complete computing and Internet experience.

Jack Knocke, senior VP of business development, claims that their product not only delivers the Internet in full, but it possesses word processing capabilities as well.

A barebones LiteComputer is available now for additional customizing by developers. At present, the inclusion of an LCD monitor currently add about $100 to the price of the laptop, and will be available in mid-2007.

The laptop is built around Analog Devices' Blackfin processor; Lite Appliances has developed its own custom software, including an Internet browser, a media player, an instant messaging function, and a VoIP software-based telephone.

The firm also has created a proprietary real-time operating system. "You don't have to worry about Microsoft software," said Knocke. "You can mix and match components according to your needs."

He said the laptop operates with Google's Docs and Spreadsheets as well as with other online office software such as ThinkFree, which offers a free online clone of Microsoft's Office software. USB ports enable users to hook up keyboards, mice, and flash memory. The laptop will have no hard disk drive, although Knocke said external hard drives could be connected via the USB ports.

One claimed advantage of the laptop is its "instant on/off" flash memory combined with the firm's operating system; the feature makes expensive antivirus software unnecessary. "The LiteComputer has no expensive Microsoft operating systems, no hard drive to corrupt, and no software vulnerable to viruses and worms," said Lite Appliances CEO Simon van Roosendaal in a statement.

Knocke said there are hopes to eventually offer a clamshell version of the LiteComputer, probably in the third quarter of 2007 if all goes according to plans. He sees a place for the inexpensive laptop scattered in homes and offices for use as auxiliary computers. Files developed by browser, office software, and other applications can be easily transferred to standard PCs running on proprietary hardware and software, Knocke said.

The device's hardware and software systems were built by Unicoi Systems, an Atlanta firm that says it has 200 customers, including many large computer and electronics companies. Unicoi specializes in taking original product concepts and turning them into production-ready reference designs.

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The LiteComputer is a all in one solution, hardware and software, which give the user everything they need to use the internet, including:

The appliance was built by Unicoi Systems, an Atlanta software. The product is similar to the famous $100 laptop out of MIT, but as has it differences.

One really cool feature is the instant on/instant off capability. The OS in in flash memory requiring no boot up time.

It will be interesting to see how these low cost solutions fare around the world. There is definitely a need for such and appliance in lower income areas of the world.

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COMMENTARY: A high-def look at the real consumer electronics show

By Steve Johnson

LAS VEGAS - So there are, I've learned this week, two Consumer Electronics Shows.

There's the CES of techno-myth, the one trumpeted in a hundred breathless TV news reports as the launching pad for glamorous gadgets that we all have to buy pronto, or we'll be pathetic also-rans in the modern era.

I didn't find that CES, except back in my hotel room, watching TV news. There, Fox News Channel anchor Shepard Smith promised that the upcoming report on the CES would showcase "the brand-new gadgets we gotta get."

In journalistic terms, this is like saying President Bush's latest speech outlines "policies we gotta support," and yet unabashed gadget boosterism is the tenor of most of the CES broadcast reportage.

In contrast to this journalism-challenged fantasyland, where every step yields the iPod of tomorrow, there's the CES of reality. It contains some nifty new devices, sure, but also an overwhelming abundance of ordinary consumer electronics business: the car widgets, camcorder cases and plasma-screen wall mounts that make Circuit City a big box rather than a shoebox; the Roombas and the Slingboxes that do exciting technological things but fail to light firecrackers in the marketplace.

And, meanwhile, the gadget that really excited tech fans and the stock market this week was unveiled further west, at Macworld Expo in San Francisco. There, Apple debuted a spectacular-looking cell phone/music player/Web device, the iPhone.

At CES, killer gizmos were in short supply. Even Sharp's "world's largest LCD" TV screen -- at 108 inches diagonally -- didn't incite techno-lust so much as visions of where it would go in my home sports arena, if only I had one.

Sony's Reader, e-book device, which has been out awhile, didn't make me fear for the future of the printed page. The one-page tablet, supposedly the best iteration yet of this long-held geek dream, was like runes on a rock next to good old black ink on cream-colored paper.

A similar yawn greeted life/ware's NextGen "Digital Lifestyles" Home, a tricked-out portable house outside the main convention halls in the "CES Plaza." This supposed glimpse of the domestic future had showgoers waiting in line to walk through, and, yes, it would be nice to have, if someone was willing to do the work and foot the bill. But for five figures and up, I'll turn off my lights from a wall switch, thank you, and if I feel like going high-tech, I'll install a $10 dimmer. Or maybe The Clapper.

There are always limits to technology, as I was reminded by watching Las Vegas' expensive and insufficiently useful new monorail (too far from the Strip), by reading early criticisms of the iPhone (low battery life among them), and by what I'll deem the Best Quote of the CES:

"Tranquilizer darts can stabilize children, but not cameras," said a representative of a very large camera company, in explaining the limits of the company's image-stabilization feature.

Indeed, after three-plus days of the CES, I began to think the only gadget that would truly blow me away was a replaceable lower-back module so I could recharge the aching, mal-engineered Version 1.0 model I've got.

What TV reports do get right about the CES is its awesome size. It takes up so many football fields of space that their numbers lose meaning, and it showcases more than 2,700 exhibitors. Its 140,000 attendees probably outnumber even the working prostitutes in Vegas, though the volume of (poorly) printed come-ons strewn about every sidewalk made me wonder.

Connectivity, as Microsoft's Bill Gates outlined in his keynote speech Sunday night, is the CES theme, if there can be said to be a theme to such sprawl. The platforms, such as Windows new Vista operating system, now exist; it's up to the manufacturers to make the devices and the data streams talk to each other in a manner that doesn't leave the average user pining for the days of rabbit-ear antennas.

Are we there yet? No way. Struggling to maintain Internet dominance, Yahoo showed off its new Go service, for pumping Web data to certain cellular phones. But as useful as it might be to type in "pizza" and get a list of parlors near you, the jury is still out on whether Americans want their phones to be little Web browsers.

Sony got a lot of credit for a sleek little set-back box that pushes Internet video material to TVs, but it only works with Sony TVs and with content from the Internet folks Sony has signed deals with, including Yahoo and AOL. What needs to happen -- and an executive at high-definition wireless video streamer Tzone promised that next would be the year for this -- is for all this connective tissue to be incorporated inside TV sets, stereo amplifiers and the like.

"2007 is all about the dongle," said Mike Coop, the company's vice-president of strategic alliances. "2008 is inside the television."

"Dongle" is tech-speak for a "plug-in thingie that does something," just like "gadget," which used to refer to those monomaniacal kitchen implements found in the bins at Crate & Barrel, now means "electronic device of some forward-questing nature."

It can be easy, in such an environment, to catch gadget fever. But being on the bleeding tech edge can look like an exercise in cash disposal only slightly less logical than doing so at the craps tables. The house always wins.

A great lesson here is that the vast majority of people -- not only those of us quite content with $10 Virgin Mobile cell phones that, you know, make telephone calls -- are better off buying behind the curve, when the prices go down, the bugs are worked out and some sense of the market has emerged. This is a truth in the real world, even the real world of CES.

But over on the CES as presented by the likes of Fox News, Shepard Smith shows a picture from the show and says, "That is a brand-new, high-definition, you-gotta-see-it video camera that could be yours."

There are hundreds of thousands of them here, so the competition for worst gadget is stiff. But your humble correspondent is confident he has found the champion.

Rounding a corner yesterday evening on the central "CES Plaza," behind the Nokia tent, I was stunned to see the garishly painted "Girls Gone Wild" RV. Out front were four "girls" who looked as if they had already gone wild or might go wild at any second.

I was even more stunned to find there was an actual consumer electronics product on display.

But there it was, the Girls Gone Wild branded digital video camcorder, all wrapped up in the impenetrable plastic that is the hallmark of little digital devices.

And I knew I had found my Worst Gadget at CES: a cheap little camcorder of limited functionality bearing a brand built on enticing young women to strip in front of camcorders.

The wild-going girl behind the counter allowed that it would cost about $70 and be on sale a few months hence. But she didn't use the word "hence." In fact, she used as few words, in as grudging a tone, as possible.

Perhaps going wild is more draining than one might imagine.

More forthcoming, and decidedly mild, was Mike Morian, vice president of marketing for Five-D, the Massachusetts company that's paying Girls Gone Wild to use their good name.

"It's a brand that a lot of America has embraced, for a lot of obvious reasons," he said. "And what better way to promote freedom of expression?"

Morian spoke inside a trailer next to the GGW truck that was filled with Five-D's other branded electronics: the Kidz Bop music brand, Honda cars and For Dummies.

"We've embraced a variety of different brands, and this is one of them," Morian said.

There's also a Girls Gone Wild branded DVD/CD player/LCD screen, to further promote freedom of expression.

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