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" NEW YORK, Nov. 13 -- Across the table from me is a man with pucks strapped to his wrists. It&amp;#039;s a technology called Lightglove, which uses accelerometers and image sensors to detect the movements of your wrists and fingers. &amp;quot;It lets you type in mid-air,&amp;quot; says Bruce Howard, who has been promoting the technology he developed since 1999. &amp;quot;It could help with carpal tunnel syndrome.&amp;quot; Indeed, it could, but Howard needs funding, and partners, and, most importantly, someone to pay attention to his idea. I&amp;#039;m at CES Unveiled, the walkup to the crazed spectacle of gadgetry that takes place every January in Las Vegas. As the technology industry has grown, so has the Consumer Electronics Show, into a Leviathan convention that swallows every technology into its gaping maw, gulping down the good ideas with the bad. It presents to the world one big, huge spectacle of technology, and each year it becomes that much more difficult to pick out the diamonds from the coal.  All of this has made the New York CES preview that much more important every year. Because it precedes the convention by two months, it provides a relatively uncluttered platform for interesting new technologies to get noticed by media, by analysts, by anybody. I noticed. There are plenty of good ideas in the technology industry these days, and here are a few of the standouts coming down the pike.    SanDisk Vaulter There was a variety of flash-based solid state disks (SSDs) at the event, but SanDisk had an innovative new way for using solid-state memory to improve the performance of laptops at a lower cost. The Vaulter is an 8- to 16-GB flash-memory PCI Express module that would link directly to the motherboard of a laptop and hold only the computer&amp;#039;s operating system. Additionally, the laptop would use a conventional spinning disk drive to store all programs and content, allowing for both the performance advantages of flash as well as the larger capacities of hard-disk drives.    Sling Media SlingCatcher This one was promised at last year&amp;#039;s CES, but it was worth the wait. Selling in 2008 for $249, the Sling Catcher performs several tricks. It can compliment an existing Slingbox by allowing users to stream video from one set-top box to another within a house. It can also pull video off of a USB-attached hard drive. And, perhaps most importantly, it can pull any content from the Internet to your television. This could potentially provide a robust delivery platform for a variety of content providers. Sling Media wasn&amp;#039;t revealing details on who those content providers will be, but since the company was recently acquired by Dish Network&amp;#039;s parent company, EchoStar, which also has a heavy investment in Internet movie download service CinemaNow, it would seem a logical assumption that those guys might want to work together.    Parrot RK8200 I must have seen 10 new iPod integration kits at the CES preview. All of them seem like a pain in the butt to install, but not this little guy. The device, which should come out in mid-2008 for around $280, replaces your stereo head unit as a slide-in solution. The faceplate pops off to reveal an empty cavity with wired iPod connectors. Just shove your iPod inside the cabinet and close it up, then tune through the faceplate. Don&amp;#039;t want to use an iPod? Plug in any player through the USB, or you can use an SD card, or even just upload directly to the stereo--the face plate has 1GB of memory in it.    AutoPage C3 Cellular Car Communications This gadget sort of cheated its way into this show, since it really debuted last month at SEMA, but I like it anyway. The installed device allows you to control aftermarket door unlock, engine start and even GPS tracking systems for your car through your cellular phone. Plus, if someone tampers with your vehicle, you get an alert over your phone.  CES 2007 &amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt;  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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