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" The Good TransferJet, or what Sony is calling Near Field Technology, which isn&amp;#039;t a product yet, but seems promising. Compatible devices placed on (or near, within 1.25-in.) the receiver can transfer data to a PC at up to 560 megabytes per second. Sony demonstrated the technology with prototypes, showing how a camera places on the TransferJet device automatically uploaded 45 photos to the attached computer. Similar to Microsoft&amp;#039;s Surface demo, this kind of hassle-free wireless transfer has huge potential. However, there&amp;#039;s no timetable for when TransferJet products would be released, or how much they would cost. For the technology to fully deliver, it needs to be ubiquitous, and available on non-Sony devices as well. Still, it&amp;#039;s an excellent start.  Also impressive was an 82-in. LCD TV with 8 million pixels. Called the 4x 2K, this behemoth concept display lets you watch one image at four times the resolution of a standard 1080p set, or four smaller split-screen images, each at 1080p. Again, no word on when, what price, or even why, but its good to know that someone&amp;#039;s upping the ante on hi-def resolution.  As far as products you might ever be able to buy, Sony&amp;#039;s Digital Noise Canceling Headphones seem like a smarter way to snuff out ambient noise, supposedly blocking 99 percent of it by automatically switching between three different modes: Airplane, Bus/Train, and Office. Sony calls this auto-switching feature &amp;quot;artificial intelligence.&amp;quot; Let&amp;#039;s not get carried away. Due out in February, these headphones appear to be taking on Bose in the high-end range, with a price tag of $399.     The Bad  The Mylo was never a sure thing. This Wi-Fi &amp;quot;communication device,&amp;quot; first released in September 2006, was essentially a $350 smartphone without the phone, with a full keyboard for easy instant messaging and e-mailing. But for very obvious reasons, it never took off. Forcing you to rely on Wi-Fi hotspots defeats the purpose of a go-anywhere IM device, and in the wake of increasingly impressive smartphone releases, not to mention the iPhone, the Mylo was yet another red-headed stepchild in the Sony lineup. But Sony is a tenacious company. It won&amp;#039;t let go of the UMD bite-size disc format for its PSP, it won&amp;#039;t add the kind of functionality that would make the PSP useful or truly competitive, and it took years to finally kill the Aibo, the ridiculously overpriced robot dog that never had a market. And in this spirit, a new Mylo, now with a camera. It might take a long time to wheel around a ship as massive as Sony, but this is a corporate habit worth breaking.  Another bad idea: the release of two new 1080p LCD sets, with screen sizes of 32-in. and 37-in. This is a shameless trick, since industry experts agree that noticing the difference between 1080i and 1080p on a display smaller than 40-in. is practically impossible, unless you&amp;#039;re crammed up against the screen. Sony no doubt knows this, but many consumers don&amp;#039;t. This is a pretty shameless way to fleece the uninformed.     The Rolly  Although my fellow Popular Mechanics contributing editor, Glenn Reynolds, sees the kid-friendly appeal of the Rolly, I simply can&amp;#039;t forgive it. Sony claims to have invented a new product category with this almost indescribable thing, a rolling, twitching 2GB music player that Sony is calling a &amp;quot;Sound Entertainment Player.&amp;quot; You can program its movements, and use Bluetooth to stream music from your phone or computer. Again, Sony calls this an entirely new kind of product, akin to the original Walkman. I call it a Dancing Santa, a dressed-up wobbly speaker, only less cute, and probably far more expensive. Sony also claims the Rolly incorporates advanced robotics. That seems like a slap in the face for the entire field of study. Limited edition Rollys will be available in the first half of this year, in case you&amp;#039;re interested.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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