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Audi e-tron Spyder and the hottest gizmos!

Last updated on: January 7, 2011 17:16 IST

Image: Audi AG Chairman Rupert Stadler poses with the Audi e-tron Spyder concept car at CES, Las Vegas.
Photographs: Rick Wilking/Reuters.
The Audi e-tron Spyder is the centre of attraction at the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas.

The open sports car accelerates to 100 km/h (62.14 mph) in just 4.4 seconds, and top speed is electronically controlled at 250 km/h (155.34 mph).

The Audi e-tron Spyder weighs only around 1,450 kilograms (3,196.70 lb). The combination of a highly efficient TDI and electric drive also provides for excellent fuel economy and low emissions.

It requires on average just 2.2l diesel/100 km (106.92 US mpg), corresponding to CO2 emissions of 59 g/km (94.95 g/mile). A range of more than 1,000 kilometres is possible with the 50-litre (13.21 US gallons) tank.

The open sports car can also drive strictly on electric power and thus with zero emissions over distances of up to 50 kilometers (31.07 miles), such as in urban areas. The top speed of 60 km/h (37.28 mph) is just fine for normal driving.

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Audi e-tron Spyder and the hottest gizmos!

Image: A worker cleans the Pioneer car audio booth displaying an Aston Martin DB9.
Photographs: Rick Wilking/Reuters.
The Aston Martin DB9 is a 2-door, 4-passenger luxury sports car, or convertible sports car, available in two variants -the Coupe and the Volante.

Audi e-tron Spyder and the hottest gizmos!

Image: A demonstrator plays a racing game on an Android-based Motorola Atrix smartphone.
Photographs: Steve Marcus/Reuters.
Dubbed as the most powerful smartphone, Motorola has unveiled a new smartphone with a laptop docking station that gives a full size keyboard and screen.

The Atrix 4G is a dual core Tegra 2 handset, with each core running at 1GHz, and 1GB of RAM, as well as Wi-Fi and 16GB of storage and microSD support

Audi e-tron Spyder and the hottest gizmos!

Image: People look at Polaroid G30 cameras after the they were introduced by singer Lady Gaga.
Photographs: Steve Marcus/Reuters.
Lady Gaga introduced the Polarez GL20 sunglass camera, the Polaroid G30 digital camera with built-in printer, and the Polarprinter GL10 mobile printer.

Besides, printing the Polaroid camera can save photos digitally. The camera will be available by the end of this year.

Audi e-tron Spyder and the hottest gizmos!

Image: A Polaroid Polarez GL20 sunglass camera, part of Lady Gaga's Grey Label line.
Photographs: Steve Marcus/Reuters.
The sunglass camera enables the wearer to take photos and display the images on OLED screens in the lenses.

The photos are stored in a memory embedded in one of the earpieces. The earpiece can be removed and connected via USB to a printer.

Audi e-tron Spyder and the hottest gizmos!

Image: Singer Lady Gaga holds the Polaroid Polarprinter GL10 mobile printer.
Photographs: Steve Marcus/Reuters.
The mobile printer can print from bluetooth-enabled mobile phones and uses ZINK zero ink technology. The printer takes a cartridge of 10 sheets of paper.

Audi e-tron Spyder and the hottest gizmos!

Image: HTC CEO Peter Chou holds a HTC Thunderbolt 4G Verizon smartphone.
Photographs: Rick Wilking/Reuters.
The HTC Thunderbolt has a 4.3-inch WVGA display, an 8-megapixel camera, HD video recording, and wireless DLNA capability. It runs a 1-GHz Snapdragon processor and includes HTC Sense 2.0.

Audi e-tron Spyder and the hottest gizmos!

Image: A Canon professional digital camera.
Photographs: Steve Marcus/Reuters.
Anthony Sundermeier looks over a Canon professional digital camera with a 400mm f2.8 telephoto lens.

Audi e-tron Spyder and the hottest gizmos!

Image: JK Shin, president Samsung's mobile communications business, holds up a new 4G Galaxy Tablet.
Photographs: Rick Wilking/Reuters.
The Galaxy Tab offers a 7-inch TFT display with 1024 x 600 WSVGA resolution, and will be powered by Android 2.2. It also has a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera to go with the front-facing 1.3-megapixel camera for video chat.

Audi e-tron Spyder and the hottest gizmos!

Image: A Motorola Xoom tablet.
Photographs: Steve Marcus/Reuters.
Motorola Xoom stand outs with a 10.1-inch dispaly and a resolution of 1280 800 pixels. It has dual cameras, 5 MP rear-facing camera with dual LED flash and a 2 MP front-facing camera for video chatting.

Xoom offers 32 GB in-built memory and a micro SD slot which supports up to 32 GB. Xoom has a total memory of 64 GB and a Nvidia Tegra 2 dual core processor.

Audi e-tron Spyder and the hottest gizmos!

Image: A reporter touches a 75-inch, full HD 3D LED television by Samsung Electronics.
Photographs: Steve Marcus/Reuters.
The stylish LED TV offers a full high definition clear and crisp video quality, consumes less power.

Audi e-tron Spyder and the hottest gizmos!

Image: A man looks over 2.9 mm thick OLED televisions by LG Electronics.
Photographs: Steve Marcus/Reuters.
The OLED TV has a full HD of 1920 x 1080 pixels and is only 2.9 mm thin. LG plans to introduce this device in mid 2011.

Audi e-tron Spyder and the hottest gizmos!

Image: XBox 360 gaming console.
Photographs: Steve Marcus/Reuters.
People play a Kinect boxing game on an XBox 360 gaming console at the Microsoft booth.

Audi e-tron Spyder and the hottest gizmos!

Image: Rick Wilking/Reuters.
Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha shows the company's new Xoom tablet at the Consumer Electronic Show at Las Vegas.

Audi e-tron Spyder and the hottest gizmos!

Image: Jeff McDowell, senior vice president Research in Motion, holds a prototype Blackberry PlayBook.
Photographs: Steve Marcus/Reuters.
Lighter than the iPad, the Blackberry PlayBook is a seven-inch tablet, with a 1024 x 600 screen that weighs 0.9 pounds. It has a dual-core 1GHz processor and 1GB RAM.

Audi e-tron Spyder and the hottest gizmos!

Image: Gage Eller tries out a prototype 3D head mounted display at the Sony booth.
Photographs: Steve Marcus/Reuters.

Sony unveiled a futuristic prototype of a 3D head-mounted display that features a 720p OLED display for each eye, simulated 5.1 surround audio, and super-slick blue LED piping.

Audi e-tron Spyder and the hottest gizmos!

Image: 3D glasses-free DVD player.
Photographs: Steve Marcus/Reuters.
Sony executive deputy president Hiroshi Yoshioka shows off a prototype 3D glasses-free DVD player.

Audi e-tron Spyder and the hottest gizmos!

Image: Bob Scaglione, chief marketing officer for Sharp Electronics USA, holds a Galapagos e-Media Tablet.
Photographs: Steve Marcus/Reuters.
Galapagos E-media Tablet consists of two models -- one with a 5.5-inch screen and the other with a 10.8-inch screen.

The tablets will connect to a Galapagos e-bookstore where consumers can buy books, magazines and newspapers as well as music, movies, TV shows and other apps.

Audi e-tron Spyder and the hottest gizmos!

Image: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer holds a Windows 7 phone.
Photographs: Rick Wilking/Reuters.
Microsoft first unveiled Windows Phone 7 on February 15, 2010. The phone has generated a lot of interest with some outstanding features. Several features of the phone are organized into 'hubs', which combine local and online content via Windows Phone 7's integration with popular social networks such as Facebook and Windows Live.

Audi e-tron Spyder and the hottest gizmos!

Image: Steven Sinofsky, president of Windows and Windows Live Division at Microsoft.
Photographs: Rick Wilking/Reuters.
Steven Sinofsky shows an example of System on a Chip architecture on the tip of his finger, also shown on the video screen (background), as he talks about the next version of Windows running on System on a Chip (SOC) at a news briefing at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas