The Inter­na­tional Con­sumer Elec­tron­ics Show 2008 just launched today in Las Vegas! It will take place Jan­u­ary 7-10. A lot of gad­gets & good­ies will be released during these days. One I would like to show you is this enter­tain­ment system called the Lady­bug from Vestal­ife.

There’s simply noth­ing quite like the Vestal­ife Lady­bug. Flip out the speaker “wings” on this sleek, high-​tech device and you have an iPod-based enter­tain­ment system fea­tur­ing a built-​in sub-​woofer for lots of bass, a dig­i­tal ampli­fier and one of the coolest soft-​touch fin­ishes you’ve ever expe­ri­enced. Sit it on a counter. Take it with you. The Vestal­ife Lady­bug is designed to be part of your life.

For all ya gadget lovers out there, Dane Elec announced the future avail­abil­ity of a pencil allow­ing record­ing your text as you write it.
The system is based on 2 com­po­nents: a pencil and a small USB key (on the top) which fea­ture micro­phone and elec­tron­ics able to local­ize pencil’s posi­tions and move­ments. Vector-​based infor­ma­tion are then recorded on the 1GB NAND memory included, you will then simply trans­fer the writ­ten text to a com­puter thanks to a ded­i­cated appli­ca­tion (Mac OS X ver­sion avail­able).
The ZPen should be avail­able for Q1 2008 and its price is announced around €129.

Adobe today released a new appli­ca­tion called Adobe Light­room. It will com­pete with Apple’s Aper­ture on many fronts, though it’s still in beta stage it looks like a lean, mean and clean appli­ca­tion. It’s avail­able now for testing!

Aper­ture, a rel­a­tive new appli­ca­tion was added recently to the pro line-​up. I have already devel­oped a love-​hate rela­tion­ship with this new Apple pro appli­ca­tion! I should con­cider it just a 1.0 release and hope that this poten­tially great appli­ca­tion will evolve grad­u­ally in time. Hope­fully Apple will sup­port my Canon EOS 350D soon! In the mean time I’ll have to do with the Raw.plist hack or just shoot in JPEG.

I have added an 5G iPod (Video), to our iPod line-​up. I was a little skep­ti­cal at first, but after having played with it at an Apple Centre I was con­vinced. The video/audio qual­ity of this device is really amazing!

Okay I had to buy a new camera, a new SLR (Single Lens Reflex) dig­i­tal. I had a ‘happy snapper’ but i missed my good old Canon EOS 500. So after a little research between Nikon D70 and the Canon EOS 350D, I decided to go for the Silver Canon EOS 350D with USM (Ultra­sone Motor) lens. In the the future i’ll buy a IS (Image Sta­biliser) USM lens. O, boy what a camera! Soon I will post some pic­tures made with it…

harman/kardon today intro­duced The Bridge, a unique iPod acces­sory that con­nects a com­pat­i­ble iPod to a range of spe­cial harman/kardon The Bridge-​ready AVR 40 Series audio/video receivers, The Bride, which does not require a power adapter, pro­vides a direct audio and con­trol link between the iPod and the receiver. “Elegantly designed to match harman/kardon prod­ucts, The Bridge enables a host of advanced iPod capa­bil­i­ties, such as dis­play­ing on-​screen menus, on front panel dis­play of AVR 40 Series, on TV or video dis­play, pro­vid­ing oper­a­tion of the iPod via the receiver’s remote con­trol and charg­ing of the iPod.” harman/kardon’s The Bridge will be avail­able in Octo­ber 2005 for €100.