Later, Carpenter (Willem Dafoe) takes him to strip clubs and, worse, keeps introducing the latest video gadgets.
It seems that wireless providers will be ignoring that pesky "phone" part in "cellphone" in the coming months, instead promoting them as portable video gadgets.
Backseat video, gadgets that automatically notify the authorities of a crash or help drivers navigate, sophisticated diagnostics; in the mid-1990s in-car informandon and entertainment services such as these, which go under the umbrella name of telematics, were expected to offer the slow-growing car industry a flood of new revenue.
And just like in previous years, everyone was excited about the high-quality audio and video gadgets.
A pair of stereo speakers and a microphone on the front make the Q1P a two-way audio-video gadget, letting you watch movies and talk on an Internet phone service.
The YouTube category that they usually use for their videos – Gadgets and Games – is gone (see it listed quite clearly in this old screenshot).
Despite my awkwardness in the video, the gadget is really fun to use.
To offset the creepiness of having Facebook's camera and microphone in your house, its new Portal video chat gadget needs best-in-class software.
Bloomberg also says the video chat gadget will include a wide-angle camera, built-in microphones and speakers, with artificial intelligence tech used to improve its photographic (offering zoom and lock features on people's faces) and audio performance.
Video: New gadgets at the CES 2014.
The company, based in Tokyo, which has businesses spanning video games, gadgets, music and movies, also said it bounced back to an operating profit of 32 billion yen, in line with analyst expectations, after a 227.8 billion yen loss a year earlier.
