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"  LAS VEGAS \u2014 Last night was CES Unveiled, the &amp;quot;official&amp;quot; preview event before the Consumer Electronics Show press day, which is before the official opening of CES ... but after CES Unveiled New York, which happened two months ago. This is the place where journalists go to get an advance peek at products which will be making news all next week ... but might have already made news when they were first unveiled at the first CES Unveiled in New York. Anyway, even though we were thoroughly confused about what was really being &amp;quot;unveiled&amp;quot; here, we did see an awful lot of stuff: new robots, remote controlled beer coolers, haptic phones, tingling chairs and laptops for both the rich and poor. Some of it we&amp;#039;ve seen before, but here are a few items we hadn&amp;#039;t.      Pulse~Link/Westinghouse Integrated Wireless HDMI High-Definition TV  This year seems to be, finally, the year of wireless high-def transmission, and Pulse~Link has the slickest solution we&amp;#039;ve yet seen. They&amp;#039;ve worked with Westinghouse to create a fully integrated solution that transmits signal over ultra-wideband (UWB) from a base station to an antenna inside the set. The set itself requires only a single wire to your wall outlet. Westinghouse is promising the set in the second half of the year. Pulse~Link has also made news recently with another partnership with Gefen cables to transmit HDMI over coaxial cables. That means that hi-def can be networked around the house through wiring that many homes already have installed in the walls. Pulse~Link is working on computer networking solutions, too.     Viable Videophone  No super high tech here, but a damn good idea. Viable is a VoIP-based visual communication device that essentially combines a Webcam and a 10.2-in. touchscreen into a Wi-Fi enabled communications tablet. Viable has a simple interface that allows the hearing impared to communicate using sign language, much as they would in a face-to-face conversation.  Of course, this could all be accomplished on a computer, but Viable&amp;#039;s solution is far simpler and less intimidating. Plus, it can also take advantage of video relay services (VRS) that use an operator as an intermediary to help those for who are not fluent in sign language.     Samsung Mysto for Helio  In this post-iPhone world, it&amp;#039;s hard out there for a cellphone-maker. Samsung is putting up a major fight, not by pushing bells and whistles, but with clean, elegant design. The new Mysto, which Samsung&amp;#039;s reps believe (but can&amp;#039;t confirm) is the slimmest slider on the market, looks and feels slick. The two touch-sensitive buttons dish out a satisfying bit of haptic vibration feedback with each press, and the glossy, gunmetal finish is flat out classy. Too bad it&amp;#039;s only available for Helio, and even then, it&amp;#039;s been &amp;quot;soft-launched&amp;quot; by the upstart provider here in the states. A wider rollout is slated for early this year, with no price announced so far.  So while we like this phone because, we&amp;#039;ll admit it, we think it&amp;#039;s easy on the eyeballs (and grubby fingers), it also embodies the continued mayhem that is the cellphone industry. If this phone were available to everyone, would it take off? Can this phone, or any phone, save Helio? And does any provider (other than AT&amp;amp;amp;T) really benefit from exclusive phones? We don&amp;#039;t have answers, and anyone who does is probably trying to sell you something.     Cables To Go Rapid Run  Cables To Go, which might ring a bell as one of the cheaper (but completely worthwhile) HDMI cable-makers, has a smart solution for anyone attempting their own home entertainment installation. If we haven&amp;#039;t lost you yet, check this out: The RapidRun system runs lets you switch the type of signal running through the cable--say, from composite, to component--by simply changing the terminal. So instead of ripping out the entire cable to put in a new one every time you upgrade your gear, this lets you quickly swap the break-away leads, and that&amp;#039;s it. There are other advantages here, like not having to deal with multiple terminations for each cable, but here&amp;#039;s the point: self-installation is cheaper than calling a contractor, but it&amp;#039;s painstaking, and time-consuming. RapidRun is the only digital modular cabling system we&amp;#039;ve seen, and might save serious DIYers some blood, sweat, and tears.     SanDisk Cruzer Titanium Plus  Are USB thumbdrives still worth talking about? Not for long, but here&amp;#039;s one we&amp;#039;re impressed by: The Cruzer Titanium Plus from Sandisk, a 4GB flash drive that runs for $60. For roughly the same price as an equivalent size model, this drive comes with six months of online storage. So every time you drag a file onto this drive, the included software automatically e-mails a backup copy online.  If you lose the thumbdrive, the data is still saved, and its accessible from any Web browser (provided you have the password). There&amp;#039;s no need for file management--when the online storage fills past the 4GB mark, the older files are simply bumped. So what the Cruzer Titanium Plus really amounts to is a painless intro to the data cloud, also known as, the future.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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