CEBIT new gadgets

As GadgetMan, I love to look at new gadgets, hence my name! Here are some from CEBIT that have piqued my interest.

1. Samsung's Ten Megapixel SCH-B600

Oh my, and I thought my digital camera with 5.0 Megapixels wasn't enough! Samsung has released a 10 megapixel camera in a phone!



I guess the cell phone as the truly ubiquitous device is really here. It's got 3x optical zoom, flash, S-DMB support, Bluetooth, EV-DO, TV-out. What else it doesn't have? Oh a bottle opener, car key opener, RFID tag for paying gas at the gas station.

2. Samsung SGH-i310 cell phone



8 GB of storage on this baby, oh my! It's designed to knock off the Nano because it stores more songs than it. Samsung is really putting the moves in the cell phone market, watch out Nokia, Motorola and Sony Ericsson!

3. Toshiba High definition DVD laptop

The first laptop with HD-DVD format is available now, and it's from Toshiba. However, it's still a battle between HD-DVD and BluRay. Kind of reminds me of the battle between Beta and VHS.

4. BenQ cell phones with Google software

BenQ Mobile, a part of BenQ has shown off their new cell phones, the business which they inherited from acquiring Siemens mobile phone business (which I didn't know about), that have built-in Google software in them. The Google software will allow to do searches but with an interface and speed appropriate to the cell phone and cellular network. I know BenQ because I have a BenQ mouse and I bought a BenQ monitor, I didn't know that BenQ was also in the cellular phone business. BenQ is really making it in the computer industry, and they're based from Taiwan.

5. Ultra-Mobile PCs



Or otherwise known as Microsoft's Origami. I blogged about this. Apparently, reports show that they have poor battery life. Don't know how it will fare, but I don't think I will get one anytime soon. Unless someone is willing to give me one for "testing purposes".

6. Gold-plated USB stick



Ok, so what's this with gold plating everything? We have gold-plated cell phones for the rich people, now gold-plated USB sticks? A 1GB version with 14-carat gold coating and five diamonds costs in excess of 2,000 pounds (about $3,500). I guess if you're as rich as Bill Gates, the amount of money for this is peanuts. For me? I'd rather get one from Pacific Mall or buy one from China that will be like 1/100th the price.

7. Cell processor



IBM showed a demonstration of the Cell processor for intense graphics. I first read about this in a IEEE Spectrum issue, and I heard about a talk at CASCON from an IBM vice-president. It's going to power the Sony PlayStation 3.