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Some Cool Gadgets From CES 2010

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WHILE THE LOUDEST NEWS COMING FROM the 2010 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas has been centered on 3-D TV, newer and more powerful netbooks, here are some things that the 30-second reports on the news shows are not covering:

First is this LED television from Samsung that is claimed to be the slimmest tv that is planned to be released.  Some thinner models have been made, but they are not going into mass production.  This model which is 0.3 inches thick also comes with a remoted control device that is a touch-screen:

Next up is this pocket-size Radar Gun.  Not a radar detector, but a device that measures speeds of hurtling objects.  I don’t know what kind of beam they are using, but this cool gadget will be coming on the marketplace in March for $250.  But what would you use it for?  Take a look:

Mechanized weight-reducers have been fleecing people’s pockets for over a hundred years.  Digital microchips carry on the tradition:

 

I still don’t know what good a transparent laptop screen is, but it certainly is a remarkable technological achievement.  Can somebody please tell me why you would want one?

The word was out that the market will soon be flooded with Kindle-type wannabe’s, and sure enough, there was an entire area devoted to the new devices that will be slugging it out for market share:

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