Digital Downtown Gadget Showcase

New York’s Consumer Technology Showcase is held at the World Trace Center from June 12-14, 2008 in association with International CES in an effort to provide consumers with an overview of upcoming mobile deices, video games platforms and other technology devices and appliances. As of now visitors have enjoyed with hundreds of new products and interesting prototypes, among which we have brought for you the following report.
 

BENQ

BenQ, a company that was about to disappear of the technology scenario after its fusion with Siemens, is back with a non yet named prototype product, but it is basically fall into the Ultra Mobile Category that we are seeing around us lately. At BenQ’s Stand the only information available is that it comes packed with a RSS reader and it’s ideal for social network.

Gigabyte

Gigabyte upgrades your life… or at least is what the slogan of this Taiwanese company claims. Although Gigabyte develops a wide array of products such as mobile phones, server and storage facilities, PC peripherals, desktop PC, laptops and many more, its non-named yet prototype features another of the new and already popular Mobile Ultra PCs. This model is built with Intel Centrino Atom Processor and Linux operating system, featuring email and MSN Messenger facilities.

Lenovo

Lenovo is a company headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, with offices in China and Singapore, resulted from the acquisition of the IBM Personal Computing Division. Lenovo is introducing a product called “Ideapad” and the idea behind it a handheld resembling an Apple iPhone in conjunction with a Sony Mylo released back in 2006. However, Ideapad is a Linux-based device built with 1 GB internal memory, 2-megapixel camera, audio recorder, video player and other basic features, plus Wi-Fi, USB and Bluetooth connectivity.

Fujitsu

Another company targeting the Ultra Portable PC market, introducing Lifebook featuring an Intel Atom Processor, Microsoft Vista Basic Operating System, 7-inch +/- touch screen display, 20GB HD, Mini PCI Express slot, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity. Lifebook comes with a docking-station, apart of several other innovative features for an UMPC of its kind.

Emotiv

This in an electronics Australian-based company focusing on brain-computer interfaces based on EEG (electroencephalography) technology. At Digital Downtown, Emotiv is presenting the EPOC Headset, a gadget that serves to read a user’s brainwaves and translate them into a game adventure, sort of living your own Tron movie. EPOC connects to PC via a wireless USB making easy load new game settings to enjoy your feelings and thoughts virtually.

Compal

Compal Electronics (not to be confused with Compaq) is a Taiwanese manufacturing company best known as producer of a large number of notebooks and monitor models for Dell, Compaq, Hewlett Packard, and Toshiba. However, Compal is now introducing a non-named yet prototype of Ultra Mobile PC with MSN messenger, keypad, and some of the Lenovo’s Ideapad characteristics.

You are still on time to meet technology experts and see their products exhibited at Digital Downtown in New York’s World Trade Center. Otherwise, summer is just around the corner, time in which many new gadgets will be released.

Sources:
Digital Downtown
PC Magazine 

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