subject: Our Top Picks Of Ces 2011: The Gadgets That Blew Us Away [print this page] CES 2011 has come and gone, and before it becomes totally passe to talk about the annual event, weve thrown together a list of each of our favorite pics for CES this year. Is this a list of the top gadgets of CES? Not necessarily, but this is a list of each of our favorite picks that we saw on the show floor.
The Motorola Atrix is a power house of an Android phone. It has all the features you could possibly want in a new smartphone: 4G, a beautiful (qHD) screen, front and rear cameras, not to mention dual (yes dual) 1GHz processors and a full gigabyte of RAM. Impressive, indeed. BUT, thats not just why were gaga about the Atrix. Motorola is releasing a Laptop Dock, which mounts the phone and allows you to harness the Atrixs raw power on a nice large laptop screen, complete with a trackpad and keyboard. Using the Atrix innards, the laptop dock displays a beautiful Mac/Ubuntu-looking user interface with multi-tasking, a media center, a virtual view of the phones screen, and a full version of Firefox. While all of this amazingness is taking place, the laptop dock is actually charging the phone so you leave with a nice happy battery meter. Motorolathis is why we love technology.
Im more or less an eBook junkie, so I was excited to see that the Hanvon eInk eBook Reader has a color eInk screen! This e-reader also promises 30+ days of battery life which should be the standard for most eInk readers, and a 9.7 touchscreen. Unfortunately, besides for Hanvons new Ebook Reader, I was looking forward to seeing more ebook readers at CES this year, but was rather disappointed.
Ok, maybe Im biased, since as far as Im concerned Lady Gaga can do no wrong. But Im still blown away by the Grey Label GL20 Sunglasses with Built-in Camera that she designed with Polaroid. Leave it to Gaga to design something totally futuristic. Sure, this gadget is a year in the making, and it wont come out until the 2011 holiday season, but I know more than one Chip Chick that will be lining up to get it.
