Ion now has a portable document scanner capable of saving scans to iOS and Android. They had me at 'portable scanner' but lost me at '$180'.
A company called GlobaTrac is showing off a device called Trakdot that you stick in your luggage to locate your bags. It uses cellular triangulation instead of GPS and is estimated to last two weeks on two AAs. The device itself will cost $50 + $9 activation fee and run $13/year for service. The devil's in the details but methinks this thing combined with a soldering iron, velcro and universal charger from Radio Shack might just make a decent poor man's LoJack.
The details on the HP Pocket Playlist are still fuzzy but it sounds as if when combined with PC software and a subscription to a service called PlayLater, it allows you to download Netflix and Hulu videos to this gadget and stream them to Wi-Fi capable devices for later viewing. It's a great idea in theory but you gotta wonder, if Netflix and Hulu didn't mind us downloading copies of their content for offline viewing, why wouldn't they just build the option into their own apps like Rhapsody does with its music service? $129 for a gadget and $5/month is a lot of money to invest in something that may or may not have the blessing of Netflix or Hulu, let alone the studios that own the content itself. Early adopters beware!
Lenovo is pulling out all the stops this CES. The IdeaPad Yoga 11S convertible touchscreen laptop will be available in June, starting at $799. It'll have a full blown laptop processor running Windows 8. 1600x900 screen resolution, 0.68" thick, 8 GB RAM, and 128 GB SSD.
