CES digital entertainment gems

Opinion
Jan 18, 20072 mins

Keith Shaw’s Cool Tools Alert

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Keith uncovers three cool products to make your digital entertainment experience better: The Sansa wireless music player, Netgear’s Digital Entertainer HD and a 3D gaming monitor from Neurok Optics.

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One of the first questions I ask when looking at a new device, software or service at a trade show, including last week’s Consumer Electronics Show, is whether the product will solve an immediate problem. If it just looks good and has some neat features, it usually goes onto my “eh” list or sticks in the back of my mind as something nice to have if I had lots of money and lots of free time. Fortunately, there were enough products at the show that didn’t make the “eh” list but rather look to solve some immediate problems.

Keith Shaw is an award-winning editor at Network World. In addition to creating the Cool Tools universe of columns, blogs and videocasts, he also edits the weekly DEMOletter newsletter http://www.demo.com/demoletter and is the senior editor of product testing at Network World http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/. You can reach Keith at mailto:kshaw@nww.com