Computers-Plus

Hot on the heels of Vizio’s announcement about its 3D TV with passive glasses, LG follows suit and will show one off at CES.

We recently reported that Vizio would be releasing a 3D TV that used passive glasses, but it looks like there will be some competition. LG announced similar plans today to unveil a 3D TV that also pairs with the light-weight, battery-free passive glasses that will premiere at CES next week.

LG’s LW6500 is a Smart TV that features LED Plus, HDMI 1.4, complete with access to LG’s app store. LG

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Microsoft is reportedly going to attempt to conjure some magic from slate computing at next month’s CES event in Las Vegas.

According to the New York Times, which cites people familiar with the matter, Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer will announce a number of devices built by hardware pals Samsung, Dell and others.

Apparently, the Samsung tablet will be “similar in size and shape to the Apple iPad, although it is not as thin”.

So would-be slate consumers can expect a chunkier slab running Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system in landscape mode, compared with its Jobsian rival.

A layered interface will pop up when the keyboard is hidden and the gizmo is held in the portrait position.

This won’t be the first time Ballmer has attempted to big up slate computing.

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We’ve alublished our Best of CES, which is our own take on what was cool at CES, but if we look at the top 15 stories (sorted by views) other themes bubble up: computers and phones are still extremely popular. If you have not looked at them yet, do it now. At CES 2010, the Alienware M11X has been the most viewed item in our CES coverage. <

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Although CES will go on for on for another day, the show is done for me. I’ve spent much of the past few days meeting with everyone from motherboard manufacturers to ARM to GlobalFoundries.Some of what I’ve learned you’ve already read about, but much of it will appear in the weeks and months to come. I don’t believe there’s ever been a time quite as exciting as this.

I’ll start with Intel – the makers of two out of the three most exciting things I saw at CES (Dell made the third if you’re curious, but I can’t explain why just yet).

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