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Gadgets & Gizmos

Aired January 09, 2003 - 11:53   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: If you want the latest, the coolest, the pinnacle of high tech, you have to go to Vegas. The 2003 Consumer Electronics Show is opening today. Our tech guru Daniel Sieberg is there to give us the gadget gizmo once over.
Daniel, you're just in heaven, I know. This is what you live for.

DANIEL SIEBERG, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, it's true. I would call myself a gadget geek in the most complimentary sense.

KAGAN: What do you have.

SIEBERG: We're an hour away from the show floor officially opening here at the Consumer Electronics Show. They're expecting about 100,000 people here, about 2,000 exhibitors, showing, literally, hundreds of thousands of gadgets here.

What have I got around my neck? Well, I'm going to talk about this first. This is a prototype, going to be coming out from Phillips. The idea is it works with an MP3 player. And if you see here, there are little raised buttons. You can see the minus sign there and a skip ahead. It's wearable technology, so you can literally slide your fingers along it to control your MP3 player, which you might have in your pocket. This is coming out from Phillips later this year. That's one thing. You can easily get overwhelmed here.

We're joined by Suzanne Kantra, the technology editor at "Popular Science" magazine, to help us sort through.

Good morning.

Well, let's start with some more Phillips products. These are all prototypes.

SUZANNE KANTRA, "POPULAR SCIENCE" MAGAZINE: From Phillips, we have, this is called the key, key chain device, and it would plug into the that lanyard (ph) that you're wearing here. It's an MP3 player. You plug this directly into your computer so you can download your files directly on to it. What's even cooler, I think, is this digital camera.

SIEBERG: That's the whole digital camera right there.

KANTRA: The whole digital camera, right there in my hand. You pop off this piece, plug this directly into your computer again. It's so easy to download the files, that why not take more pictures. Two megapixels, you're going to pretty good quality 4x6 prints.

SIEBERG: From still video, let's talk about this now, this is also a prototype called the Lyra. What can you tell me about this?

KANTRA: It's called the AV jukebox, and MP3 players aren't good enough anymore. You have to be able to carry your video and your digital still pictures, so that's what RCA has done.

You can see here, we have a video clip that's going to be coming up. You can download your favorite, your movies and maybe some TV shows, that kind of thing, and you can bring that with you on the road as well as your...

SIEBERG: 20 gigabyte storage space -- that's pretty healthy space.

KANTRA: That's great space. You're going to get thousands of songs and a good amount of video as well.

SIEBERG: All right, we've got about 30 seconds left. Let's talk about the flash power technology. This is pretty interesting stuff.

KANTRA: Well, for anybody who has left their charger behind on a business trip, this is a wonderful solution. This technology could be built into desks. It could be built into public charging stations. You just put your device on top of the charging pad, and it will charge up == no plugs required.

SIEBERG: You can have as many devices on here as we want.

KANTRA: Exactly. So you could have a big desktop blotter. You could put your laptop, your PDA, and also your cell phone.

SIEBERG: OK, well, great. This is in the prototype phase. They'll be licensing this technology to manufacturers who can then put it in the cell phones and their PDAs. Not out now, but it's going to be fairly cheap.

Suzanne Kantra, from "Popular Science" magazine, thanks for joining us. It's a gadget lovers heaven. What can we say. So much to see and do here, an we'll be bringing it to you throughout the course of the week.

KANTRA: We'll be looking for you to show us the coolest stuff. Leon and I, by the way, we like that charger-plate thing. That was a good idea.

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Aired January 9, 2003 - 11:53   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: If you want the latest, the coolest, the pinnacle of high tech, you have to go to Vegas. The 2003 Consumer Electronics Show is opening today. Our tech guru Daniel Sieberg is there to give us the gadget gizmo once over.
Daniel, you're just in heaven, I know. This is what you live for.

DANIEL SIEBERG, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, it's true. I would call myself a gadget geek in the most complimentary sense.

KAGAN: What do you have.

SIEBERG: We're an hour away from the show floor officially opening here at the Consumer Electronics Show. They're expecting about 100,000 people here, about 2,000 exhibitors, showing, literally, hundreds of thousands of gadgets here.

What have I got around my neck? Well, I'm going to talk about this first. This is a prototype, going to be coming out from Phillips. The idea is it works with an MP3 player. And if you see here, there are little raised buttons. You can see the minus sign there and a skip ahead. It's wearable technology, so you can literally slide your fingers along it to control your MP3 player, which you might have in your pocket. This is coming out from Phillips later this year. That's one thing. You can easily get overwhelmed here.

We're joined by Suzanne Kantra, the technology editor at "Popular Science" magazine, to help us sort through.

Good morning.

Well, let's start with some more Phillips products. These are all prototypes.

SUZANNE KANTRA, "POPULAR SCIENCE" MAGAZINE: From Phillips, we have, this is called the key, key chain device, and it would plug into the that lanyard (ph) that you're wearing here. It's an MP3 player. You plug this directly into your computer so you can download your files directly on to it. What's even cooler, I think, is this digital camera.

SIEBERG: That's the whole digital camera right there.

KANTRA: The whole digital camera, right there in my hand. You pop off this piece, plug this directly into your computer again. It's so easy to download the files, that why not take more pictures. Two megapixels, you're going to pretty good quality 4x6 prints.

SIEBERG: From still video, let's talk about this now, this is also a prototype called the Lyra. What can you tell me about this?

KANTRA: It's called the AV jukebox, and MP3 players aren't good enough anymore. You have to be able to carry your video and your digital still pictures, so that's what RCA has done.

You can see here, we have a video clip that's going to be coming up. You can download your favorite, your movies and maybe some TV shows, that kind of thing, and you can bring that with you on the road as well as your...

SIEBERG: 20 gigabyte storage space -- that's pretty healthy space.

KANTRA: That's great space. You're going to get thousands of songs and a good amount of video as well.

SIEBERG: All right, we've got about 30 seconds left. Let's talk about the flash power technology. This is pretty interesting stuff.

KANTRA: Well, for anybody who has left their charger behind on a business trip, this is a wonderful solution. This technology could be built into desks. It could be built into public charging stations. You just put your device on top of the charging pad, and it will charge up == no plugs required.

SIEBERG: You can have as many devices on here as we want.

KANTRA: Exactly. So you could have a big desktop blotter. You could put your laptop, your PDA, and also your cell phone.

SIEBERG: OK, well, great. This is in the prototype phase. They'll be licensing this technology to manufacturers who can then put it in the cell phones and their PDAs. Not out now, but it's going to be fairly cheap.

Suzanne Kantra, from "Popular Science" magazine, thanks for joining us. It's a gadget lovers heaven. What can we say. So much to see and do here, an we'll be bringing it to you throughout the course of the week.

KANTRA: We'll be looking for you to show us the coolest stuff. Leon and I, by the way, we like that charger-plate thing. That was a good idea.

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