CES 2007: Dash Teams With Yahoo! For Improved Navigation

makers of internet-connected GPS devices, are teaming up with Yahoo to add search results to their directions. Dash, if you weren't aware, provides multiple routes to your destination weighted on historical road traffic data and info from other two-way connected Dash devices in order to get you where you're going faster.

With Yahoo, Dash users can search for Thai food, movie theaters, or various other things people search for already. Once you find what you want, the results are presented as address cards which you can activate and get directions to instantly. We're looking forward to seeing some hands-on demos of this at CES because seriously, we can't find our way to the bathroom without getting lost. – Jason Chen

NetFront LocationFree Player For Windows Mobile PPC

If you've managed to buy yourself a Sony LocationFree to stream your TV to wherever you are, you might as well hock up another $19 and watch shows on your Windows Mobile phone as well. NetFront's LocationFree player for Pocket PC lets you stream MPEG4 over the air—or more likely, over Wi-Fi—from your Sony LocationFree at home to your phone on the go.

Using the phone, you can also operate external devices, fast forward and rewind—same as on any other LocationFree streaming devaice. Not a bad looking player UI-wise, and the video quality actually looks somewhat watchable consdering that you're stuck on a 320x240 screen. – Jason Chen

Nintendo Sony PSPboy

I'm going to put my Sony and PSP hating aside to just mention how freaking awesome this mod is. The credit for this mod goes to a person by the name of MOD SOUL, according to Kotaku. (Surprised it wasn't Ben Heck?) I mean come on, a PSP, inside of an older Gameboy, how awesome is that? – Travis Hudson

The Very Fake Very Nice Looking PSPboy [Kotaku]

Edit: Whatever, it's fake, I'm over it.

Gadgets and New Inventions

Almost everyday, a new gadget or invention hits the market providing convenience, enjoyment or luxury to the user. People using their imaginations and ingenuity can create new gizmos and gadgets that are useful and fun. Take, for instance, the iRobot Corporation who patented the iRobot that washes your floor and the Roomba that vacuums your rugs without you guiding it.

Other new gadgets that have or are about to hit the market are the Hidden Wall Outlet Mini Wall Safe. It looks like an electrical outlet, but opens to hold a valuable piece of jewelry. The Simkey Simcard Backup comes in handy when you lose your cell phone and all those important contact numbers. This backup system saves your data and recalls it in a flash. It also has mini PDA functions like a date scheduler, memo, alarm clock, world and local times, currency converter and password protection. The compact MP3 alarm clock has 127 MB memory and can upload music directly to your PC. It has a snooze function and an LCD display with backlit controls comes in handy to help you program your alarm. Researcher Deb Roy developed a new baby monitoring system that utilizes cameras and microphones hooked up throughout a house, monitoring baby 14 hours a day. You can record baby�s development and turn off the cameras when you need to.

In order to monitor his child�s early language development, researcher Deb Roy has wired his house with 11 cameras and 14 microphones. The baby will be monitored for 14 hours per day in order to watch his development over time. Roy and his wife can erase recordings or turn off the cameras if they need to get intimate or cuss each other out, but at the end of the day the video is sent to MIT for computerized processing. Dr. Roy�s goal is to find out how babies learn language using computer algorithms.

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