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Best of CES: Optimus Keyboard, ‘Absolute Black’ Plasma and Porn TiVo

Check out Wired’s picks for standouts at CES 2008. Some are more pleasant on the eyes than others.

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Video Gallery: Best Vintage Tech Commercials

We take a look back at how companies try to convince an incurious public to buy computers or videogames during times when TV audiences weren’t as tech savvy as they are today, and find some comic results.

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The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry

After suffering bumps in the road to development, Apple’s iPhone takes the wireless industry by storm, and turns a power structure between carriers and manufacturers on its head in the process.

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Set-Top Box Delivers Unlimited Porn for $10 a Month

At the Adult Entertainment Expo, held concurrently with CES in Las Vegas, FyreTV demonstrated an internet-connected set-top box that provides all the high-definition porn video you can watch for $10 per month.

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Exclusive Video: Sony’s HDD Camcorder Blows Us Away

In this exclusive video from the floor of CES, Wired’s Daniel Dumas takes a look at the Sony HDR SR12, a sleek, image-stabilized camcorder that records full 1080p video to its internal hard drive.

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Coming TV Conversion Raises Fears Among Suppliers

Millions of Americans will need digital converter boxes when television stations make the switch from analog to digital signals in February 2009. Demand will skyrocket and companies that will supply those converters hope they’re up to the task.

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Apple Adjusts iTunes Pricing Policy to Appease EU, Britain

Customers in Great Britain will now pay the same for music downloads as those in the European Union after Apple agrees to bring the prices into alignment.

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Apple Macworld Highlights to Include Mac Upgrades, iPhone Apps

Apple is playing its usual, tight-lipped corporate self, but ultraslim MacBook tablets, movie rentals, an Apple TV renewal of some sort, HD content and ditching plastic cases for aluminum also look to be on the docket.

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Cult of Mac: Apple Plotting an Avon Power Play?

When cosmetics chief Andrea Jung joins the Cupertino juggernaut, it raises the question: What is Steve Jobs hiding up his sleeve? Commentary by Leander Kahney.

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Radiient Technology Touts Wireless Speakers for Audiophiles

Wireless speakers sound like a great idea, but so far no one has made them work very well — sound quality and latency are just too problematic. Now a new ultra-wideband, mesh-networked wireless-speaker technology aims to fix that.

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