HP on laptop design similarities with Apple’s: it’s a struggle as we drive to simplicity

HP’s spent the afternoon here in Shanghai to share some details about its latest products and strategy, and to our delight, there was one session dedicated to “Style Meets Function,” during which Vice President of Industrial Design Stacy Wolff talked about his design philosophy and design goals for the current market. Most notably, we learned that some of HP’s latest laptop designs were based on the work of its research centers from 11 different cities, and the company isn’t afraid of admitting that it used consultants for an outside perspective as well.

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The Distro Interview: MSI Senior Vice President and co-founder, Jeans Huang

The MSI brand should be no stranger to connoisseurs of desktop motherboards, graphics cards and gaming laptops, but did you know that this Taiwanese company started off as a computer terminal maker 26 years ago?

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Oregon Scientific Time & Wireless Charging Stations hands-on

Buried within the pile of gadgets at Oregon Scientific’s CES booth were these two Time & Wireless Charging Stations. On the left we have the entry-level clock that’s already out in the market, whereas the bigger ” plus ” model on the right made its debut at the show, boasting the extra clock projection and weather forecast feature

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Oregon Scientific’s Portable WiFi Projector comes with a hinge, flirts with your ceiling

A projector from Oregon Scientific , you say? Nope, it’s not one of those clock and weather projectors, but rather an actual DLP pico projector

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A Red Scarlet-X 4K tour around CES 2012 (video)

For the third CES in a row, our old friend Ted Schilowitz has stopped by to let us drool over Red’s latest high-end cameras. And boy, this is one helluva camera we have this time. You may recall that last year we were shown a working Scarlet prototype with 3K video resolution and a fixed lens; but fast forward to 2012 and we have the Scarlet-X, a sturdy 4K beast that not only supports interchangeable lens, but it’s also actually out on the market

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Travel Gear Holiday Gift Guide

The holiday season is upon us. To some that means nothing but joyous nights spent making gingerbread cookies, tying ribbon around your gorgeously wrapped presents, watching classics like A Christmas Story , It’s a Wonderful Life , and A Charlie Brown Christmas , and sitting around the fire with a cup of spiked eggnog

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