Despite the coolness of owning a projector for its ability to maintain decent picture quality over a huge amount of space, most of you probably decided against a projector after reading up about low lamp life and expensive replacements. LG’s HS101 LED projector, displayed at CES 2007, struts ahead of the competition by showing off it’s extremely long lamp life of 20,000 hours (just long enough to show The Lord of The Rings trilogy in succession).

The unit measures 154×117mm and weighs 750g, about the average size for a run of the mill projector on the market. While it’s not as sleek as some of the others, it makes up for it with brute longevity. The extra-long lamp light of the HS101 is sure to attract the attention of big companies who tend to use projectors more often for their presentations. Imagine playing the Wii on this thing. That’s some big time table tennis.

Would it even be possible to host a 20,000 hour TV marathon? Of course hosts would have to take shifts sleeping, but damn, that’d be some intense marathon madness.

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The announcement of the Apple iPhone was perhaps the biggest story that bloggers have latched onto like a suckling calf. It’s almost guaranteed to be the biggest story of 2007, and we’re not even half a month through it yet. So, it’s understandable that other companies are jumping on the band wagon of integration.

Haier announced its Y-MP3190 to an eager audience at CES 2007. The MP3 phone is small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. With a sleek black design and a miniscule measurement of 3.5×1.25×0.75-inches of compact technical glee.

The Haier phone supports MP3 playback, OLED display options, an FM stereo tuner, a Bluetooth stereo transmitter, a USB memory drive, a voice recorder, an internal memory of 128MB, and a trans-flash memory expansion slot to cater to data hounds and MP3 pirates.

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Razzle dazzle may not be a word you normally hear used to describe a computer keyboard, but Luxiium’s Luxeed sparkles like no other keyboard before it. Each key can be personalized with a choice of 512 colors with pre-made color templates preloaded. Not only colors can be changed, but rhythm. The skins can be coordinated to move to the beat of a song as well. And you’ve gotta admit. The old black, white, and gray keyboards are beyond boring at this point (although they do get the job done). Light sequences can also be triggered and personalized by launched programs. The customization is actually pretty incredible. — Andrew Dobrow

CES 2007: Luxeed Interactive Keyboard [Chip Chick, via Crave]

No doubt about it. Buying your first LCD screen is an enlightening experience. While testing the product at the store, your mouth salivates with anticipation and awe at the clear color. Once you’ve made the decision to own one of these flatscreen suckers, the trouble begins. How do you hang the damn thing up without losing your pride and asking a handyman to do it? The Monster PowerMount (shown at CES 2007) puts the power of the handyman in your grasps, creating this useful contraption that makes DIY LCD installment a simple task. While the mount only works on LCDs up to 24 inches, the PowerMount has a built in cable management system to ensure no dangling or misplaced wires, not to mention a lower risk of tangling. While mounting the LCD still does involve work and effort, it at least can be done as a DIY project, with the ending result being a rousing success. — Andrew Dobrow

Monster makes LCD mounting DIY [SCIFI]

CES 2007 is 5 days away and counting and more details are pouring through the wire as the 8th approaches. Eclipse Solar Gear is said to be displaying it’s Hybrid Notebook Case which not only looks like it could secure a laptop through a nuclear war, but also has the very cool feature of charging your laptop through solar panels on the case. If it sounds like a helping hand to over heat your lappie, think again. The Hybrid case also includes a thermal cooling system for those hot days.

And if that wasn’t enough, the case also supplies an auxiliary battery capable of giving your Mp3 player and cell phone a charge if they are on the fritz. The case will be available in a variety of shapes, sizes, and casing depending on your needs. — Andrew Dobrow

Eclipse Solar Gear to display Hybrid Notebook Case at 2007 CES [Laptoping]

More CES rumors are flooding in and it seems like it’s going to be a great year for gearheads. LG is planning on introducing it’s LG-K970 at CES 2007, which seems to be the same phone that was featured in T3 magazine, then called the 3G Shine. With its signature mirror display and the 2 megapixel camera, the K970 is shaping up to be a very, very cool piece of gear. The LG Shine line of phones are designed just for people like us, who love their phones like they love their woman. Productive, modern, and pretty. — Andrew Dobrow

LG introduces LG-K970 Shine Mobile Phone at CES 2007 [I4U News]

When we hear of any new and hot cooling technology that could allow us to use the new four-core processors to their full potential, we listen. With the introduction of “Black Ice” cooling systems into Dell computers, we can see that the full power of a Core 2 is yet to be seen. With rumors and speculation showing that “Black Ice” might be better than any other cooling system on the market, our already incredibly quick four-cores might just be able to reach over-clock status without having a heavy burnout. When computers start smoking, that’s some nasty business. Rumors are just starting and no release date has even been hinted at except for a possible showing at the CES 2007. Burn, baby, burn! — Andrew Dobrow

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