Gadmei is a Chinese manufacturer mostly known for its cheap tablets, and which also has made intermittent splashes over the past couple years for introducing glasses-free 3D tablets. Today was the first time I've gotten a chance to play with their latest model, the E8-3D, and holy smokes, this thing actually works.For you spec dorks, it's an 8.1 inch 1280x800 capacitive display, runs Jelly Bean with an Amlogic 1.5 ghz dual-core processor, has eight gigs of storage, one of ram, and has USB, microSD, and HDMI ports. Gadmei also claims it can convert 2D video into 3D, although I didn't see that in action. It rendered preview videos without trouble, and yeah, the glasses-free 3D effect actually works, even if it made me nauseous in about 30 seconds. (3D doesn't agree with me usually, so take that with a grain of salt.)
I certainly didn't have an in-depth review with it, but hey, it's pretty cool, and all for around . More than that, it just confirms an overarching theme of this year's CES: 3D is not going anywhere. It doesn't matter that there still isn't a robust amount of content (use your 3D camera to make your own), manufacturers are still holding on to the 3D dream. I wonder if it's because manufacturers are running out of specs to advertise. I mean, gadgets can only get so big, so thin, and have so many megapixels. Are we at the point now where the only thing left is to hype 3D and offer new colors? In the long term, no. But at present it sure feels that way.@derektmead