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You are pathetic and must live a truly sad life.

That's a bit of an assumption.

I actually live a pretty good life. I laugh, I play, I love, I appreciate the beauty in the world -- no less beautiful if I believe it to be accidental than if I believe it to be the design of a Creator.

And I do enjoy a debate, although you may have caught me at a bad time.

Unless you are a 911 dispatcher or some other emergency service needed; than you should take the day off work.

Actually, I enjoy what I do, and we have something to present at CES which isn't done yet, so taking today off means I probably lose a weekend. What eventually convinced me to take the day off was a Stephen Hawking book I started reading, an Erlang book that I'm maybe halfway through, and that I can't seem to get this fire started in my wood stove.

You are just over analyzing this completely too much and seem very bitter/jealous towards other people in life.

I do tend to overanalyze, although, as I said, I enjoy it. But bitter and jealous? Actually, I was mostly playing Devil's Advocate. In reality, people mentioning Jesus does annoy me, but I enjoy the rest of the season -- people dressing up as elves and hugging each other for no reason, lights all over the place, complete waste of power but often beautiful...

The technology for playing records by 'reading' them has been around for quite a few years, I believe the original example being the Finial turntable that came out in the 80s, later seen as the ELP turntable.

I've seen and heard the ELP 'tables on several occasions, mostly at the Consumer Electronics Show. They require the records to be scrupulously clean in order to avoid read errors and be playable. The sound quality is OK but nothing to write home about.

http://www.cesweb.org/attendees/awards/innovations /rd_2007honorees.asp?category=110

This should hopefully give people a better idea to folks that there were a whole bunch of interesting gaming technology being shown there and that although Sony won best of category (http://www.cesweb.org/attendees/awards/innovation s/rd_2007honorees.asp?boi=1), they were just one of 11 honorees.

Hardly a roundup, if you just pick the fattest bull out of the herd and let the rest of the valuable cattle get away (the article did pay attention to the Headplay viewer, something I'm not sure made any honoree list.. basic searches don't come up with anything so far).

Also, CNet (http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-12760_7-6676861-1.ht ml?tag=bubbl_1) has their own awards too. I only mention them because they are at least the most officially attached media outlet to the event it seems.

http://www.cesweb.org/attendees/awards/innovations /rd_2007honorees.asp?category=110

This should hopefully give people a better idea to folks that there were a whole bunch of interesting gaming technology being shown there and that although Sony won best of category (http://www.cesweb.org/attendees/awards/innovation s/rd_2007honorees.asp?boi=1), they were just one of 11 honorees.

Hardly a roundup, if you just pick the fattest bull out of the herd and let the rest of the valuable cattle get away (the article did pay attention to the Headplay viewer, something I'm not sure made any honoree list.. basic searches don't come up with anything so far).

Also, CNet (http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-12760_7-6676861-1.ht ml?tag=bubbl_1) has their own awards too. I only mention them because they are at least the most officially attached media outlet to the event it seems.

Have you ever heard of the international CES? Thousands of electronic companies showing new and upcoming products to over a hundred thousand people. You get to see the glossy screens, the new look and feel, size and power of those products. I'm sure you've seen or heard about the Sony PS3 right? The Nintendo Wii? How about Windows Vista?

Researching a little further, that $499 price may include a TV tuner with PVR functionality.

A few more links:
http://www.cesweb.org/attendees/show_floor/product _locator/product_details.asp?prodid=7004
http://wifi.consumerelectronicsnet.com/articles/vi ewarticle.jsp?id=36714

Now I'm kind of excited to see how this FIC comes out on the market. $499 for out of the box PC and DVR functionality in a nice package, I may just have to buy one.

-dave

I'm not going to CES but if someone is can they please check http://cesweb.org/attendees/directory/rd_exhibitor _details.asp?exhibid=7059/ I just have to know Whiskey Tango Foxtrot with this thing. I't has been driving me crazy since September.

There stuff looks really cool... also probably fake..... Either way i cant wait to see what they actualy bring. Apparently there registed for CES 2006 http://www.cesweb.org/attendees/directory/rd_exhib itor_details.asp?exhibid=7059&

The scary part about that site is the link to this: http://cesweb.org/attendees/awards/innovations/rd_ 2005honorees.asp?category=48 - yes, that's right kids, they got an award in the Computer Components category at the CES (Consumer Electronics Show) for a completely fictitious product. A-fricking-mazing.

No, it will be $6,000. Check out this website that contains info on their RAM. Then if you factor in the $5,000 price of flash storage it will be $11,000 just for RAM and storge. A double amputee is able to count on his fingers the people who are lined up to buy this laptop. But what I would really love to do is get some hands on time with the system pictured in TFA, make sure that it is not a fake.

No, it will be $6,000. Check out this website that contains info on their RAM. Then if you factor in the $5,000 price of flash storage it will be $11,000 just for RAM and storge. A double amputee is able to count on his fingers the people who are lined up to buy this laptop. But what I would really love to do is get some hands on time with the system pictured in TFA, make sure that it is not a fake.

The "1TB non-volatile Quantum-Optical Synchronous RAM" storage fits into an SODIMM slot & is due to be priced at $6000 (!!) according to this page

The contact details are here:

http://www.cesweb.org/attendees/directory/rd_exhib itor_details.asp?exhibid=7059

Everyone ring in *now* and ask about this product and post your results below :)

On the fence on this one myself, but this does seem to ligitmize them a bit more:
http://cesweb.org/attendees/awards/innovations/rd_ 2005honorees.asp?category=48

Now... they do have a crappy website and the optical 1/8" jack "memory modules" tickle the crap out of me, but it looks like this may actually have some legs.

Also see the under-the-hood photos at: http://p2pnet.net/story/6160

I'm sure Thomas Edison's first light bulb experiments didn't look all that ligitimate either...

cheers,
Levendis47

Scroll down a bit on this page to the NVIORAM pictures. Not only does it give you TB's of storage, but it also lets you plug your headphones into your record player.

And also, proof the US Patent office will give a patent to anything from anybody

You can check out their quantum-optical headphone jacks for yourself at their CES booth

The link also contains some contact info.

For sure, it's fake. No question about that.
I thought it could be a website for a scambaiter at first but they are not talking about the possibility to buy anything... and moreover, they have a link showing they were at CES 2006!
How can they pay the fee to attend to that kind of shows? Is that a hobby for some rich old man?

While certainly a hoax, it's an unusually thorough one. Check out their appearance as a CES Innovations 2005 Awards Honoree.

This is most likely a fraud but it does contains some interesting tid-bits of info that make it appear that it could be true.

First off they won an award for there laptop by CES.
http://cesweb.org/attendees/awards/innovations/rd_ 2005honorees.asp?category=48

Second, Windows 2003 Datacenter (64-bit) edition does support 1TB, maybe they hacked Windows XP with those files to get 1TB (If they are so super smart you would think they could do this).

Ref: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/64bit/x 64/datacenter.mspx

Third, They are going to CES to show off there product: http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page5.html

So these pieces of info make it seem in the realm of possibilty even though that chance seems so small

Look at the pictures. You can see they have been edited. The screenshot that shows available space on the drive had a real hack job done to it. The TB doesn't even line up straight with the rest of the line. What about the picture of the goofs in clean suits. Looks like they are sitting at a beuty shop. What about the fact that the web page is extremely lack luster? I mean it looks like they used Microsoft paint to do their very amateur editing. This doesn't even begin to look like a good hoax. Ok, if you do a search of Atom Chip Corporation you may come across a CES site that lists them as attendees (http://www.cesweb.org/attendees/directory/rd_exhi bitor_details.asp?exhibid=7059). But, their email address are @optonline.net See they were too cheap to even pay for webhosting that would at least allow them to have email addresses using the atomchip.com domain. Oh well, maybe high quality hoaxes will make a come back some day!

But they are going to be showing at CES so it must be true!</sarcasm>

They actually registered at CES 2006 with their fantastic product specs, the 2TB CF-card for example.

Apparently this "magical computing" corporation has sprinkled their pixie dust on others too. They're actually registered for the next CES:

http://www.cesweb.org/attendees/directory/rd_exhib itor_details.asp?exhibid=7059

Personally, I'd rather have the pixie dist they're using then whatever supposed invention they're presenting :)

http://cesweb.org/attendees/directory/rd_exhibitor _details.asp?exhibid=7059&

I would love to be there to see a demo... While being at CES doesn't mean its ready for the world it does mean this is more then just a prank.

Its a real company, with possibly real products although they could just be fishing for stupid investors also, Wish I could be there to find out

I posted this story earlier but had it rejected... If it's all a fantasy, which sounds fairly likely, they're going to look rather daft on the 5th of January:

http://cesweb.org/attendees/show_floor/product_loc ator/product_details.asp?prodid=5420

I'm really disgusted that the mac mini is included in these awards. Why? it's a complete ripoff of the sonos device here.

Preview photos of the sonos were circulating in February 2004, almost an entire year before the Mac mini was released.

I think these awards are more pandering to Apple than really looking for good design.

If it's for the retail channel, it's probably at CES. If it's for business, there are other shows. That's why Comdex is dead.

Original press release
Engadget reivew
From the CES show

My problem with this so far is that the alphabetical layout is about as bad for your wrists as QWERTY. And I type too many numbers and symbols to seriously consider this type of keyboard.

Not to mention it has a Windows XP ^W^W Fisher Price theme.

oops, correction: the device is called MediaMVP
linkified: MediaMVP

CES stands for Consumer Electronics Show. Although, I found that their website doesn't really define the acronym unless you do some digging.

More Pictures!

Personally, I'm waiting for the TiVo version, which won Best of Innovations for 2004.

Pics here

Personally, I'm waiting for the TiVo version, which won Best of Innovations for 2004.

Pics here

The DVR-921 won CES (Consumer Electronics Show) Best of Innovations for 2003. Of course, it should have won it for 2004 since that is when they will actually be available.

Regarding this comment:

new LED's on the front including "Temp" for those sure to be occurring overheats.

I've looked at the photo. Try as I might, I don't see any such LED. The only LEDs I can see are labeled 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, PWR, and REC. Maybe the little TiVo logo guy lights up when he gets too hot.

Perhaps you meant to complain about some other non-TiVo device that I don't see a picture of.

"A lightweight, Linux+Java powered, Wi-Fi computing device with an 8-inch color screen"

mmmmmm, I want one.

(What's the thing on the top right corner?)

There was a picture of a mouse

Echostar just announced an HDTV-capable DishPlayer PVR at CES. And it won an award, too.
Link is here

The link in the post erroneously points to CES International, a company that provides B2B ORM solutions. The correct CES URL.

This is the correct link to the CES:

http://www.cesweb.org/