Back at CES this week, iriver had quite a bit of new products to show – some were closer to production than others, but all looked slick. One of their new products that we got some hands-on time with was the P10 media player/viewer. The device has a 4.0-inch TFT LCD touch-screen display at 800×480, and pretty much supports anything you can think of: video, music, voice recording, T-DMB, Office viewer, PDF viewer, picture viewer, and an e-Dictionary. To hold all of this media madness, the P10 boasts 33GB of memory crammed into a 1.3″ internal hard drive. The P10 comes with Flash Lite 2.1 pre-loaded, has a customizable GUI, and is a touch-screen, of course. Read on for the supported file-formats…

Click for a larger image. Not only did we have the chance to stop by Blu-ray’s booth, but we also strolled through the HD DVD booth. As you can see by the pictures in the photo gallery, the HD DVD booth was nice, but didn’t have that huge feeling that the Blu-ray camp had. Maybe more »

Click for a larger image. At CES this year, Blu-ray had a pretty slick setup. Not only did they tout their recently announced partnership with Warner Bros., but they also had a speaker talking about their superiority while facing the HD DVD booth… which turned out to be very funny. The Blu-ray booth had such more »

Here is the first shot of the Cadillac Provoq. It the first auto introduction at CES. It uses no petroleum and no emission other than water. It uses 5th generation technology, drives 300 miles on a full tank of hydrogen. It can go 100 mph and 0-60 in 8.5 seconds.

The full GM press release is below.

Click for a larger image. Over at the Pioneer Booth this year, we’ve been liking what we’ve seen. For over a year now, the company has been touting their high-end KURO line of projects. At this year’s CES, the company has show their latest concept Plasma’s, and hight-end home audio equipment – which takes the more »

Earlier today, I had the chance to sit in on Pioneer’s KURO Booth Theater, where they showed their Extreme Contrast Concept extension to the KURO line. If you’re not familiar with the KURO line, it is a very high rated line of Plasma TVs – which are essentially le creme de la creme in the industry today.

Pioneer reps sat us in a pitch black room, told us to turn off our cellphones not to take pictures, and turned on 3 of their current line of KURO Plasma TVs. The big thing they’re hyping this year is “Black is everything” and “Black like never before.” Of course, their current line of KUROs (PDP-5010FD) had a pretty strong light source coming from the panel – which lit up the screen even when nothing was on it. However when they turned on the new Extreme Contrast Concept, you could barely even see it sitting there since it was such a true-black image, or as Pioneer puts it, absolute black. The video they were playing was a wide screen format, so there was a bar on top and bottom — which allowed us to compare the black levels in those regions.

Yes I know that day one of CES is over but who doesn’t love to reminisce. Here is a glimpse of what the CES floor looked like, less than 24 hours ago.

This years Panasonic booth featured the prerequisite giant flat screen and seemingly thousands of others, but the really promising products, were not the ones in the bright spot light. Take the bluetooth femtocell unit that allows you to put the home base in a spot in your house or apartment and then transfers the calls more »

Click for a larger image. Monster Cable’s press event at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show had a few surprises. Most notably, Noel Lee, Head Monster of Monster Cable / Power announced a new partnership with Dr. Dre on a set up high-end studio headphones, dubbed Beats by Dr. Dre. The company was clearly ecstatic to more »