Add another one to the ( short ) list of obscure things that slipped our net at CES. 3M, a company concerned with the materials and components that go into your delicious new gadgets, spent its time in Vegas this month discussing a new way for building capacitive touchscreen panels. By employing silver as its conducting material, 3M says it has made it possible to shrink the circuits at the edge of a touch panel by a whole order of magnitude, resulting in finger-friendly screens unhampered by bulky bezels.
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3M touts capacitive touchscreens with tiny bezels, 10x faster responsiveness
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Sound Byte: GPS buying advice, and an interview from CES 2011
Click here to play the Sound Byte: GPS features that matter . (MP3 software required.) podcast: Consumer Reports It's hard to believe how far portable GPS navigation units have gone in just a short time
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CES 2011: What we saw in car technology
The electronics and automotive worlds are converging, and the Consumer Electronics Show reflects that. At this annual tech event, you'll find new navigation and information systems, entertainment products, and safety-related equipment—even new-car introductions
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Toyota Tries to Be More Entertaining
Toyota’s new entertainment system relies on a driver’s smartphone to work.
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Engadget’s gear of CES 2011
Another year, another CES — and another mountain of new gear put to the test of rapidfire media production for 20+ hours a day. CES 2011 was Engadget’s biggest and best ever, and while we didn’t use that many new tools from CES 2010 , we did try some interesting new things — and a lot of updated old reliables.
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3-D Comes to Photo Printers
3-D photo printing comes to a new low-cost printer from Kodak, but the quality of the print isn’t very good.
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Active-i sunglasses slyly capture video, plays it back on integrated display
Interactive Group — the same folks who ruined our lives last year with Cyber Clean — are back. Seriously back. The company’s latest gimmick gizmo is the Active-i sunglasses, hailed as the planet’s smallest standalone video and audio recording / playback device.
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Ford Tries to Relieve Range Anxiety for Electric Car Owners
Ford has a way to reduce a fear that electric vehicles will run out of battery power in the middle of a trip.
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3D Sound for a 3D TV
While 3D TV was everywhere at CES, the audio-software company DTS showed a 3D sound system that requires a dozen speakers.
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