Author Archive: Efren Toscano

  In a little hole-in-the-wall spot in Central Hall, we found a thirty-point infrared multi-touch system developed by the Korean Institute of Technology (KIST). The system uses two black bars which bounce infrared light and thereby detect movement. The project was funded by the South Korean government and is looking for companies to license the…continue reading.

  Finally, at Digital Experience Clear Wire showed us their WiMax device (based off of Clear Wire’s 4G mobile broadband network) and explained a little bit about how their device works and what may be in store for Los Angeles hopefuls.     The folks from Poynt, a Blackberry app with location-based services services that…continue reading.

Image by StrebKR via Flickr Next up in from Digital Experience are movie books from Viewsonic We weren’t big fans of the movie books resistive touch screen but the screens, featuring 1080p video, are nice. The Blackberry presenter is a Powerpoint module which hooks up to the Blackberry to make your slides that much more…continue reading.

Image via Wikipedia   Last night’s Digital Experience event hosted more than 100 technology companies. Throughout the day, look for some of the interviews we took on the latest in consumer tech.   First up: Griffin Technologies is coming out this month with a power booster for phones which should help bring a little juice…continue reading.

Today is the day! TechZulu is heading out to CES and we got tons of products/gadgets/games/companies to review and interview. We want to hear from you as well and get what you are really interested in. Make sure to follow us on Twitter (@TechZulu) for all your CES goodness. We will be at CES from…continue reading.

Looking back at 2009 we had our ups and downs within the industry but the need to innovate, produce amazing content and the creation of great gadgets still remained.  As we look forward to 2010 let us not forget what we have learned from the past and continue to succeed.  Below I’ve compiled a list…continue reading.

TechZulu is very pleased to announce that we are partnering with Sony during CES.  We are going to be streaming ‘Live’ From the Sony tower on January 7, 2010 from 4pm-5pm PST (possibly until 6pm).  We already have a huge list of amazing products we are going to be covering, but we want to know…continue reading.

Greg Ferenstein is our local Fast Company expert blogger, educator of improved and needed skills in the 21st century at UCI (University of California, Irvine), and all around fantastic guy to know.  Greg is the kind of guy that likes things short, sweet and to the point as most of us on the web are,…continue reading.

It’s that time of the year again.  Time to get any last minute shopping done for all you procrastinators out there.  Time to catch up with all the family gossip :) Then for some, at the stroke of midnight or early Christmas morning, time to open up all the presents under the tree. We here…continue reading.

At the LeWeb conference, my fellow Traveling Geek – Ewan Spence – tempted me with a sneak peek of the PsiXPda pocket computer. It slides! It tilts! It has a touchscreen AND a backlit keyboard for conference environments. It runs WindowsXP, but is compatible with Ubuntu, JoliCloud and other Linux operating systems (hackintosh, anyone?) Check these…continue reading.