Geek Grotto

So what you see above is what Vuzix's and Nokia's new technology is capable of. A holographic type overlay that is very "Start Wars"sie! The best part? It can be used with standard glasses frames. For those of us that have prescription glasses, this is awesome news! We already had a Vuzix interview scheduled for CES, so we will be able to see this in action! Read the full press release after the break!

While at CES, we also had a chance to talk to Craig from Archos again. This time about the Archos Gamepad, a 7" Android Table running Jelly Bean and featuring actual buttons for gameplay. The best part is Archos' Game Mapping tool that allows you to map your touchscreen controls to the buttons on the tablet. Watch Craig tell us about the Gamepad after the jump!

While running around from booth to booth at CES we caught a glimpse of Wicked Audio. While I am not familiar with the company, they were more than happy to let us play around with their headphones! Read more after the jump!

At CES we had a chance to visit ARCHOS' booth and play with some of their upcoming tablets, especially the Titanium line. These are low priced Google certified devices with AMAZING IPS screens. Do not let the low prices fool you as these are very capable machines. We here used to own a few Gen 8 101IT's and well, besides near flawless media playback, were just "meh". That is no longer the case as the 97 Titanium comes with a 9.7" 2048x1536 pixel screen, Dual Core 1.6 Ghz A9 CPU, and a Mali 400 GPU. Even better, you get FULL HD 1080P HDMI out, 2 USB Ports (1 host and 1 to connect to your PC) and a MicroSD slot that is compatible with up to 64GB cards! All this at a little over a pound! After the Jump, ARCHOS' Craig TerBlanche walks us through the Titanium line!

While at CES we had a chance to speak with Dennis Taussig of Aftershokz about their current line of products. What sets Aftershokz apart from mere headphones is that there are no speakers! These headphones use bone conduction to pump the sound straight into your eardrum without covering your ears, thus allowing you to still hear everything around you. We tried a set at CES and let me tell you.... We were blown away. Even after maxing out the volume I could still hear everything around me and the audio was crystal clear. This is the same tech the Military and Law Enforcement has been using for years now at home! I could go on and on, but we'll just let Dennis Taussig, the Vice President and CMO of Aftershokz tell you himself after the break!

While visiting Synology's booth we also had the chance to talk with Robb Moore, CEO of ioSafe, about the N2. What's so awesome about the N2? Well, it's a fire and water proof NAS running on Synology's DSM platform.What that means is that besides keeping your data safe from floods and fire, you also get access to Synology's apps like E-Mail services, VPN access, movie and music streaming and so much more.. So head after the jump to view more...

The Viewsonic Girls Well, we had 1 full day at CES and there is only so much you can do... But we did have fun and snapped up some pics to share! Peek at them after the jump!

PowerBag has some new competition, and from what we have seen, they should be scared! The Tylt Energi, expected sometime in April of this year, is the latest in battery powered backpacks. From what we got to see at CES, this bad boy has some features the PowerBag really needs! Read more after the jump!

How do you confuse a bunch of people at CES? Walk around with an N-Gage in your bag with Bluetooth visible... Reactions are funny to say the least... Sent from my Windows Phone

400 participants in 70 teams this weekend... 3 devs, 2 minutes to pitch, winner gets 30 Grand, 2nd gets 10Grand, looser 5... 1st pitch... Good times A hacked neko mimi... Calls filtered my your mood...   really neat. So if your angry, your phone will reject the call. 2nd pitch- HearHere Built on Windows Phone at the moment. Share your voice on social networks... It's also its own social network... Powered by your voice. 3rd pitch- Talk To You Now Txt to voice and vice versa.... In real time My vote went to Good Times Update: Good Times WON! 

Last years highlights, like Devlab, sphero, Watson speech API, and more... App resource optimizer getting full windows 8 support. New Speech API features...gaming, social, Chinese French, German, Italian, and Japanese. Advertising API. 80% rev goes to devs $100 gets deva the ability to have 1,000,000 API transactions. Alpha API program- gets devs directly with the API creators and more. Things like real time SMS translations,. Customer profile API... Shai Leib from Ask Ziggy...  In alpha... Entering just your phone number will enter all your customer info from AT&T. Webrtc- real time communications via browsers with no plugins. Mozilla and Chrome on board. Calling and video chats using the Call Management API. In Alpha, it gives you Google Voice type features ... Johns Wantz and Kyle Schei from Mya Number... Your 1 AT&T number using webrrc and you can call on your phone, tablet, connected car, web and more. Mya Number is demoing. If I decline a call, i...

Digital Life- 100% wireless home security... Controllable for smartphone/tablets. Allows for the user to add-on and upgrade themselves Mobile Payments- AT&T, T-mobile and Verizon working with ISIS mobile payment system.... To compete with Google Wallet. Already in test in Salt Lake City. Connected Car-  Maps, streaming music and rear seat entertainment... Video... Connected car controlling digital life security... Voice email, gps, Uverse, video calling, online ordering and payment via ISIS all from your car. Sent from my Windows Phone

Ralph De La Vega is on stage giving a quick rundown if the summit... LTE on AT&T is fastest claim by 3rd parties... Quotes on screen backing up the claim. Sent from my Windows Phone

Finally had some hands on time wit Miracast... A wireless video delivery system. LG had a tv powered by the same Marvell chip in the current Google TV lineup and an unmarked Android tablet... From what I was told by the rep, it leverages the 5Ghz band for WiFi N.. So possibly no Nexus 7 love? Anyways... In a room saturated by an insane amount of WiFi traffic, the demo ran pretty well, well just some minor video distortion similar to Youtube when your bandwidth drops. With a delay of about less than a second, it seems like a viable way to connect to your TV... Sent from my Windows Phone

Well, last night Nvidia announced its follow up to the Tegra 3 SOC (Kal-El) with the 72 core gpu Tegra 4 SOC (Wayne). So far NVIDIA's new Shield portable gaming unit and Vizio's new 10 inch tablet are confirmed to be using it... MadFinger's Dead Trigger 2 was shown running off the Tegra 4 and shows almost current gen console quality... Maybe early Xbox 369 and PS3 quality... Time to sell the Nexus 7? Sent from my Windows Phone

Ok, more like goody... Upon entry to CES Unveiled, everyone was given a Bcoda JAK, a USB device that allows you to stream from your Android or IOS device to anything that accepts a USB flash drive. So, for example, I can plug it into my Tv and select audio or video files from my Nexus 7. The TV sees it as a flash drive and will stream from my tablet. The best part is that it works great! Now I wish I didn't get a pink one and they made a Windows phone version. Read more here http://bcoda.com/jak.html Sent from my Windows Phone

Tonight you have a few press conferences and CES Unveiled.... A pretty show for CES... I have no idea what to expect.... But I'll have photos later tonight! The festivities start at 4pm PST...

We had some time to chat up Alpine about the upcoming INE-Z928HD in car entertainment unit. What we saw blew my mind and made my current IVA-W505 seem like some decades old radio! This unit comes with GPS, Bluetooth, Pandora Radio, iPod integration, and more! At anestimated $1499 price point, it still seems like a deal for Alpine quality. View more and be amazed after the jump!

Murata manufactures a huge myriad of products. One of these was basically an accidental discovery. They now  distribute waterproof speakers. It's tech that you wouldn't really think about, but it's useful in a huge number of products. Check out our interview with Peter Tiller of Murata about their waterproof speaker tech.

Murata Boy has been a staple of CES for several years. He's basically a PR stunt. But he's a pretty epic one. Murata takes all of their technology...tech that you may not know they make, and they jam it into this little adorable robot to raise awareness of their products. It's cute, it's clever, and I enjoy watching him every year. Check out our interview with Mark Waugh of Murata to see what's new with this year's update...Eco Murata Boy.