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Tactical Fanboy – CES 2012 – G-Shock GB-6900

Saturday, January 14th, 2012

We sent Tactical Fanboy out to Las Vegas early this year to cover the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show. This article is on the upcoming G-Shock GB-6900. To see all of TF’s coverage visit www.tacticalfanboy.com/category/ces/

Casio’s latest offering in the G-Shock line of watches is the GB-6900. It’s the first in the line to use Bluetooth Low Energy Wireless Technology, which is really Newspeak for this thing will be studying your daily habits to better plan the eventual machine takeover. All joking aside, it’s a pretty useful bit of hardware.

It connects to most smartphones to automatically adjust and correct its own display time and includes an alert signal that notifies the user of incoming calls and messages. Any ring alerts and vibration can be stopped by tapping a button on the watch. Similarly, phone alarm and vibration functions can be activated with a button press if the phone is misplaced. The Bluetooth signal features a data transfer rate is abound 1 Mbps with a signal range of 2m and a 128-bit Advanced Encryption Standard.

As a watch, the GB-6900 isn’t too shabby either. It has five independent daily alarms, a stopwatch, countdown timer, and display options for 35 time zones in 100 cities, including Coordinated Universal Time and the option to enable Daylight Savings Time. Like other G-Shock models, it has a shock-resistant body and is rated for immersion up to 200 meters of water. A battery life of approx. 2 years is provided by a single CR2032 disk battery, assuming the communication function is used for only 12 hours per day. It’ll be available in Japan in March. The USA, and presumably everyone else, will get it by the end of the year.


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CES Report

Monday, January 10th, 2011

SSD was lucky enough to have a correspondent on the floor of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas! Here is his report.

The state of the industry – at least as it relates to Electronics – is well, BOOMING –

At the CES, (Consumer Electronics Show) which is managed by the CEA, (Consumer Electronics Association) you would be hard pressed to believe there is any recession or downturn in the economy right now, or at least here in the Las Vegas Convention Center next to the Hilton in Las Vegas where the CES is in Full Swing!

Thursday morning when the doors officially opened the HORDE, and I do mean HORDE, of people flooded the floors of the convention center. For the first day the aisles throughout the whole convention center were literally jammed with people eagerly checking out the Newest, Latest and Greatest, or Upgrades from last years Latest and Greatest in Electronics. Yes, the whole convention center is filled with Electronics – for the Home, Car, Workplace, and most importantly People on the Go! Everything from Stereos, Home Audio, Televisions – Hold the phone there Soldier Systems. Yes, I said Televisions and I mean there are some OMG Televisions on display at this event for sure and for certain! Shape, Size, Definition, Sound, etc…the quality of televisions on display and the sheer numbers are staggering! Yes, absolutely Staggering!

There is one of the most unique sections of displays I have ever seen, which is dedicated to the i – anything and everything i – it is called the iPavillion – Where you find things like the iRadar, iGrill, iGear, iMic, etc…anything whether it’s an accessory for your iproduct, like an iPad power-booster, iPod speakers, iPhone covers/jackets/power-packs/guards/iLinks & LOKSAK can all be found here in the iPavillion.

I understand this has been quite a successful venue in the past, but it has only been open to the Industry. Distributors, Dealers, Buyers, Manufacturers, Vendors, etc…However, this year a select number of Visitor’s were offered the chance to wander the endless halls of Electronics. Let me just say, that this show is AWESOME!

I have had the chance to speak with a few of the really unique vendor’s about their products which I feel the readers of Soldier Systems may benefit from, which I will provide a more in depth review and assessment of later – But for now, CES is calling and I feel the tug of the show beckoning me to get back to Day Three of a Four Day show of everything Electronics. Let me just close with this – If I had all four days dedicated to visit this event, I could not see everything they have on display!

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