Panasonic Offering Time Warner Cable IPTV and DVR Access App

With IPTV coming more popular with AT&T U-Verse, Verizon FiOS, and more, at CES 2012 Panasonic is showing off TWC streaming TV channels with a new application. Panasonic is demonstrating TWC with DLNA(Digital Living Network Alliance) streaming access to anything stored in a DVR on the same network. The app will be able to work on 2012 and 2011 Panasonic HDTV's but there is no word of a release date. No one is clear on whether cable companies are finally going to make the full jump toward IPTV yet or anytime in the near future. This technology is going to be launching on more platforms later this year, and may fully remove set-top boxes.

Pioneer's Airplay Compatible iPod Docks

Pioneer has just announced two new iPod docks with the Airplay streaming. There are two new models, Pioneer X-SMC3-S(Pictured Above) and the X-SMC4-K Elite(Below). If you do not want to use AirPlay you can choose wireless or the 30-pin iPod dock connector, an Aux input and a USB port. The systems are almost exactly the same except the elite offers bluetooth as an add-on. They will be available in October for $400 for the X-SMC3-S and $480 for X-SMC4-K Elite.

Magma ExpressBox 3T Offers 3 External PCI Express Slots

 Magma has announced the ExpressBox 3T which is there latest product for expanding PCI Express slots externally. With this being one of the first Thunderbolt PCIe expansion slots with up to 10Gbps. You will be able to daisy chain not 1 or 2 Thunderbolt devices together but up to 6. It is geared toward video capture and editing, broadcast video, pro audio, communications, data acquisition but can be used for much more. Magma will start accepting preorder in 4Q(October 1st to the end of the year) with a price slightly under $1,000. If you are interested you can sign up on the company website to get more information. 

27" Thunderbolt Displays Finally Shipping To Stores

According to MacRumors Apple is beginning to ship 27" Thunderbolt Displays to stores and resellers in the coming weeks. Customers should now be able to experience the display in person and hopefully pick one up. The new Thunderbolt displays add all the different connections in just one cable, including firewire 800 port, three USB ports, and is also able to carry audio over, and there is even Gigabit Ethernet. You will also be able to daisy chain another display to another which will allow you to run two displays at once off one cable. Apple showed off these displays back in July and are presently available for pre-order for $999

Makayama iPad 2 Movie Mount

Are you looking to drastically improve your video capabilities on your iPad 2? Well if you are here is this perfect new product announced, the Makayama iPad 2 Movie Mount. It allows you to further enhance your video recording on your iPad 2 by providing you with tripod mount for stabilization, being able to add different lenses, wide and macro, and also be able to attach and external mic. It is available now for $69.95. Also video below.

LG Announces World's First Scanner Mouse

LG has just put two simple ideas together, a scanner and a mouse. You can easily scan something by holding down the scan button and dragging over the media and save in a variety of formats -- PNG, JPEG, TIFF, PDF. If this isn't enough there is also Optical Character Recognition that converts text from the images to an editable Word document. You can pick up this bad boy in the UK for £89.98 (around $148) but not available in the US yet. Check out the device in action in the video up above.