Cisco Systems on Wednesday unveiled Cisco Umi, its consumer-focused telepresence offering that lets people connect to each other using videoconferencing on their HD television in their living rooms.
Logitech on Wednesday showed off its forthcoming Revue set-top box, which will be one of the first consumer products to take advantage of Google's new Internet television system.
High-quality, high-definition videoconferencing is coming to the living room, but consumers should expect to pay top dollar for it.
Logitech's line of Pure-Fi iPod speaker docks has swelled to seven, so you could be forgiven for mixing them up. The latest entry--the Pure-Fi Anytime--is basically a cheaper entry-level version of the Pure-Fi Dream.
The Logitech Illuminated Keyboard is about as simple as it gets, so you get no built-in USB ports, scroll dials, or any of the other features in more expensive devices such as the Logitech G15.
The Microsoft LifeCam VX-5000 offers vastly superior performance and a much improved design compared with last year's LifeCam NX-3000 model.
Razer's new Lycosa gaming keyboard has several unique features. The rubber coating on the keys provides a soft, comfortable touch. You can switch between three backlight configurations via a touch-sensitive control pad. You can even use Razer's software to program each of the Lycosa's keys to work as a separate macro, either individually or in combination with one another.
Digital audio is great--especially if you've got a multigigabyte music collection sitting on your computer or you subscribe to an "all you can eat" music service like Rhapsody.
The Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 is nearly identical to the QuickCam Pro for Notebooks Webcam, except for the fact that it's a better fit for laptops. This $99 desktop Webcam is larger than its laptop sibling, but its flexible, two-hinged stand works equally well resting directly on your desk or atop your desktop's LCD or your laptop's screen.
MICROSOFT'S WIRELESS LASER DESKTOP 6000 features an ergonomic curved layout, which took some getting used to but did eventually make typing easier. The bundled mouse boasts an addictive InstantViewer function that let me see all the open windows on my desktop at once by clicking the scroll wheel. MSRP: $104.95
The Microsoft LifeCam NX-3000 is an inexpensive, basic Webcam for laptops that delivers acceptable video quality and little else. The bundled LifeCam software is third-rate -- we prefer the apps that Creative and Logitech bundle with their Webcams -- although the design mirrors the Creative Live Cam Notebook Ultra, which we like.
In designing its new Sidewinder Gaming Mouse, we imagine Microsoft's product designers going over the features of the Logitech G5 and the Razer DeathAdder and asking "what else can we cram in there?" For a suggested price of $80, the Sidewinder delivers all of the complexity hardcore gamers demand in their mice, plus it goes a few steps farther.
Working from home can be as or more productive than renting yourself out daily, but only if you have the right equipment.
Last year, we liked the Logitech VX Revolution Cordless Laser Mouse so much that we gave it an Editors' Choice award. Now the company's follow-up to that device, the smaller VX Nano, has likewise earned our affections and the Editors' Choice designation.
We remember when Logitech released the first Bluetooth headphones for the iPod back in 2005. In fact, we still have those antiques here at our office.
In the world of laptop accessories there are laptop stands and there are keyboards, but the $99 Logitech Alto occupies a niche all its own.
Logitech has been gradually going more upscale with its PC-programmable Harmony remotes, so it's no great surprise that it's finally entered high-end territory with a touch screen, tablet-style model, the Harmony 1000.
Some alluring alternative keyboard designs are hitting the market nowadays. I put five new models through their paces at Blue-Sky Solutions, my graphics firm in Brick, N.J.By Matthew Terranova, FSB Magazine
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Sohrab Vossoughi hates the Motorola Razr.
SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) - Sometimes the most useful gear isn't the newest.
­ According to the taxi drivers, this is the busiest Consumer Electronics Show in years, with more than 30,000 visitors dashing around town to see the latest gizmos and gadgets from an increasingly global and vibrant industry.
Money Magazine: Universal Appealupdated: Sat Oct 01 2005 00:01:00
So you have a remote to turn on the TV, another to power up the cable box and a third to control the volume on your audio receiver. And don't forget the ones for the DVD, the TiVo and the VCR. All ...
CNNMoney: Universal appealupdated: Mon Sep 26 2005 10:16:00
So you have a remote to turn on the TV, another to power up the cable box and a third to control the volume on your audio receiver. And don't forget the ones for the DVD, the TiVo and the VCR.
Memories of the burst tech bubble still haunt Wall Street, but there are some signs of life for technology stocks.
CNNMoney: Building evangelistsupdated: Thu Aug 11 2005 14:22:00
As far as desirable demographics go, you can't do much better than QuakeCon.
CNNMoney: PC buying tipsupdated: Tue Aug 09 2005 13:01:00
When it comes to laptops, there's a notorious trade-off between performance and mobility.
Business 2.0: Getting Into a New Gameupdated: Fri Apr 01 2005 00:01:00
One of the most entertaining aspects of the PlayStation 2 game SOCOM: U.S. Navy Seals is the feature that lets you bark orders at soldiers using voice commands--a trick that works only if you're us...
FSB: Pen Palupdated: Wed Dec 01 2004 00:01:00
Let's face it: you're probably never going to spring for a Tablet PC. In fact, if you're going to take notes, it's going to be with a real pen, right? It might be the most expensive pen you'll ever...
Here's the problem if you've got an avid gamer on your holiday shopping list: They probably have all the hot holiday games already.
Some People Join the Navy not knowing how to swim. I've met dog trainers who never learned to whistle, baseball players who can't spit, and executives who aren't able to knot their own neckties. We...
CNNMoney: The bigger-screen TVupdated: Wed Aug 04 2004 11:03:00
The next time you find yourself sitting in a dim conference room staring at a PowerPoint presentation, forget the message about market share and focus instead on that crystal-clear, 10-foot-tall pie chart.
The next time you find yourself sitting in a dim conference room staring at a PowerPoint presentation, forget the message about market share and focus instead on that crystal-clear, 10-foot-tall pi...
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. --Lord Acton
In October 1945, 5,000 people waited outside Gimbels Department Store in New York City for the chance to buy a revolutionary new writing tool, the first ballpoint pens sold in the U.S. This fall a ...
Windows XP may be an innovative product, but it is not going to pull the PC industry out of its doldrums anytime soon. No software upgrade could solve the kinds of severe problems PC makers are fac...
Fortune: Cool Toolsupdated: Mon Apr 30 2001 00:01:00
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One smart man has been thinking about how groups can work smarter--companies, divisions, teams, whatever--longer than anyone else. Better than anyone too: His ideas--long incubated, long promulgate...
Try to be cool and you're Conan O'Brien. Stop trying, and CBS pays you $42 million to host the Late Show. Try to be cool, and you're 3DO. Stop trying, and you're Logitech, the company that decided ...
Those who think the personal computer is man's best toy are in for a shock. A poll commissioned by Logitech, a computer company in Fremont, California, best known for making mice, or pointing devic...
Fortune: PRODUCTS TO WATCHupdated: Mon Sep 23 1991 00:01:00
PC PLAYMATE Kids will squeal with delight when they spot this critter, a computer mouse designed just for the 3- to 8-year-old set. Kidz Mouse by Logitech of Fremont, California, looks like a real ...
Fortune: PRODUCTS TO WATCHupdated: Mon Jan 28 1991 00:01:00
THE PERRY CHAIR Who says chairs that are stackable have to be synonymous with backache? Sculptor and architect Charles Perry has designed one that's kind to the human form. Its single-piece frame f...
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