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2011: The Year of Too Many Tablets

John Paczkowski in Mobile on January 26, 2011 at 3:15 am PT

I’m not quite sure how to view this list of tablets that debuted at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month–as a monument to competitive spirit and move-the-story-forward innovation or as a memorial to vaporware. Either way, this canonical categorizing of the multiplicity of slates and e-readers by CEA Chief Economist and Director of Research Shawn DuBravac is pretty stunning.

A CES Long Shot: Meet the Beamz, Guitar Hero's Odd Cousin

Peter Kafka in Media on January 7, 2011 at 4:00 am PT

One of the little pleasures of the Consumer Electronics Show is checking out the quirky, weird stuff produced by small-time companies working off of a gut feeling. Like this odd game/instrument, which retails for $200.

Remember the Parrot!

Peter Kafka in Media on January 6, 2011 at 4:30 am PT

There’s lots of cool stuff on display at CES this week. But bear in mind that lots of it will be DOA–or worse, it will never arrive, period.

Game On: Time Inc. Shows Off a Tabletized Sports Illustrated

Peter Kafka in Media on December 2, 2009 at 8:24 am PT

Last month, Condé Nast played show-and-tell with its concept of a digitized magazine. Today it’s Time Inc.’s turn: The publisher is demoing a concept version of Sports Illustrated it says will be able to run on whatever tablet Apple or any else has up their sleeves.