This is old news, but Swiss watchmaker Vacheron Constantin commemorated their 250th anniversary last year by launching a wrist watch with the greatest number of complications. The dual-face Tour de I’lle has a total of 16 complications, 834 parts, with a price of 1876250 CHF at auction.

The functions are impressive, but want for a chronograph:1. [...]

Here’s another kick at the eBook can - iRex Technologies announced their ER 0100 eBook last year (Sept ‘05), and plans to roll them out next month (Apr ‘06). The “iLiad” is spec’d out at 8.1 inches 1024 x 768 pixels 16 grey-level monochrome electronic paper display, weighs in at 390 grams (0.86 [...]

Lenovo has a new digital music player, the Easy Cube M500.
The M500 is quite mobiBlu-esque, right down to rounded corners of it’s similarly-cubic competition, the DAH-1500i. Lenovo however has replaced the display screen with a speaker, ramped up the dimensions to 70 mm (2.75 in) cubed, thrown in 4 AA batteries and an SD/MMC expansion [...]

Gartner Inc. had a look at the just-released Origami Ultra Mobile PC devices, and decided to demur.
While the Gartner reviewers declare these new Origami Tablets to be ‘promising’, they go on to add that today’s hardware cannot deliver on that promise. They cite the low battery life (3.5 hrs), the high price ($799+), the [...]

infoSync World gives us their take on the ten best gizmos to be found at the just-finished CeBIT 2006 in a just-published article. The list is Samsung-heavy, but includes the requisite variety of offerings from other manufacturers. The reviewers especially liked the Nokia N92 smartphone for its digital TV reception, the “glorious” 2.8 inch QVGA [...]

Toshiba showed a new dual-display eBook reader at CeBIT 2006. Storage is via an SD memory card or the built-in 1.8 inch hard disk. No word yet on screen-res, battery life, DRM or options for content management.
This new Toshiba eBook is a relaunch/rebranding of the Toshiba SD-Book circa 2003-2004.
Toshiba eBook - Aving News, [...]

Forbes Magazine has come up with a list of the 20 most important tools ever invented. The list is heavily pre-industrial and decidedly non-electronic and could be considered a compendium of the coolest gadgets of the 18th century. Forbes selected the knife as the top tool, citing the it’s ability to cut, slash, spear, prick [...]

We made note of Chi Mei Optoelectronics and their remarkable quadruple-HDTV LCD TV panel back in January. Well, they’re back with their 3840×2160 resolution model V562D1 TV at CeBIT 2006 and Trusted Reviews has a brief review and some images.
The TR article abounds in accolades and laments the lack of 4x HDTV content for [...]

Samsung is displaying it’s recently announced HL-S5679W LED DLP TV now at CeBIT 2006. The 56-inch 1920 x 1080p 1-chip DLP is the first to replace the color wheel & lamp with an LED light source. The LEDs deliver a better color gamut and a 10000:1 contrast ratio.
The $4,200 TV was declared the [...]

LG Philips announced the world’s largest LCD TV - at 100 inches - a few days ago. The 7.2 x 4 ft HDTV panel offers has 3000:1 contrast ratio, better than 5ms response time and 6.2 million pixels. This new prototype is 50% larger than the previously largest LCD panel and is close to [...]