Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Cebit 2004 Coverage

Posted by timothy on from the modern-cornucopia dept.

Koen writes "March the 18th, Teamhardware.com visited Cebit 2004, the largest IT fair in Europe. We made tons of pictures and gathered a lot of information. Topics of discussion: Intel, nVidia, ATI, XFX, Abit, Epox, Shuttle, DFI and more." Espectr0 writes "BBC News has an article with pictures of the new gadgets being shown at Cebit 2004. Some of them are: 3D screens, heads-up displays, all-in-one USB memory sticks and portable video players!"

19 of 112 comments (clear)

  1. New Technologies? by jg21 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I wonder if it's true that we've reached a technology plateau or were there fundamental new technologies on show. Anyone?

    1. Re:New Technologies? by MoonFog · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Most of the latest technologies are derivates of older ones. 3D screes, mobile phones with cameras etc etc. I guess it all comes down to how you define fundamental. Most of the gadgets are either as said derivatives or new places for old technology, for example a portable tv with hard-drive.

    2. Re:New Technologies? by dealsites · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Yeah, the goods are just getting better. You can always improve an item by adding features, but I'l like to see some real new inventions/gadgets. TIVOs were pretty hot at first, now they got competition and HTPCs being built with free software. Wireless will be the latest thing to get integrated into everything. Wireless DVD players, home phones, hand-helds, etc. Soon if an electronic item doesn't have wireless it won't be able to compete.

      --
      Check here for the best price on tech gear. Sundays are crazy with all the new store offers.

    3. Re:New Technologies? by NeoThermic · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Remember, one can never say that we've made everything as its the unexpected inventions that change our world.
      Remember the quote from the patent office in 1899, something along the lines of 'Everything that can be invented has been invented'?

      Look at what we have now, 105 years after that quote. Also to those who never thought SMS would take over.

      There is only such thing as a percivable technology plateau. Everything that we see around us seems to be the end all. We can't see why we would realistly need 32 TB of ram for instance. But just leave it a good 5 years, and I'm sure that someone out there will say 'I need more than 32TB for running this'.

      Fundamental new technologies are being invented as we type and read this, we just don't know about them yet. Once its released, it has the oppertunity to change it all. Think about the AT -> ATX standerd.. and the new one [PTX?]. Once released, it should change everything.

      Who knows... mabey in 15 years time, rather than watch our character on the screen run around the UT world with a gun shooting at the other people, we will be immersed in this game, made so real its impossible to tell the diffrence.

      Who knows... that just might require 32 TB of ram...

      NeoThermic

      --
      Use my link above, or to view my server, NeoThermic.com
    4. Re:New Technologies? by jg21 · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Well there's an intriguing technology timeline that BT in the UK released for example, which for 2004 alone comes up with some pretty imaginative possibilities - it continues through to 2040 btw. Just wondered what at CeBIT comes close to any of these hypothetical inflection points that's all.

    5. Re:New Technologies? by jellomizer · · Score: 4, Insightful

      What were you expecting, the holodeck or something like that. Heck when the lightbulb was made I am sure people went. Why do we need this, our gas lamps work perfectly fine. Or when the car was first invented, wow thats kinda cool but our horses are still better. Technology and most any other types of advancements like art, music, etc... Are a process of derivation of one idea to the next. Lets find a way to take a picture, (the Camera), Lets find a way to make pictures move (the movie camera), Lets find a way to make the pictures in color (color film), Lets find a way to send pictures across radio frequencies, (TV), Ok now lets make that color (Color TV), Now lets find a way people can record their own movies for TV (The Camcorder), Lets make it smaller and cheaper, Now lets find a good way people can distribute their own movies (VCR), Lets make them cheaper, Lets improve the image quality on the screen (HDTV), Lets improve the ability of the VCR (TiVo),...

      Each step in the process in not a major change and people can usually take or leave the technology for a while to let it mature and having the other devices to give it extra value. Heck they said the same that you did back in the late 1800's that science and technology is about to plateau. But don't be suprised that you will show your grandkids your Old Apple G5 3Ghz or ultra small 64ghz laptop system and they call it an old, slow, big piece of junk, the way that we see the old mainframes today.

      --
      If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
    6. Re:New Technologies? by GlasWolf · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I completely agree that the majority of the new gadgets and gizmos are either refinements or the merging of two technologies, but I'm surprised you put 3D screens in that category. It's a technology that could eventually drive a fundamental change in how we interface with computers - calling it derivative is a little unfair IMO.

    7. Re:New Technologies? by Espectr0 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Remember when your OS came in 5 1/4 disks?

      And now, some of then come in DVD?

      It's scary. Software programs will get so big that to a point humans won't be able to develop them.

      Now, a decent game takes near 3 years to develop, when those old commander keen games were done in 3 months

      --
      Open Source Java Web Forum with LDAP authentication
  2. Wonderful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm no troll, buy maybe a bit off topic.

    It's wonderful how the consumer technology market is always ahead.
    But about the technology to help save humanity(eco, stupidity, famin.. etc)!

    I know that people rarely think about these kind of things, let alone do something about it, cuz we have better things to do, but one day all these things that we push to the side will bite us when we least expect it.

    If you don't believe me, just wait and see!

    1. Re:Wonderful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful
      You can't fight stupidity. A stupid human will still remain one, even if he has a machine doing all the thinking for him.

      Famine is pretty much caused by there being too damn many of us. It's hard to fight this, as well (mass murders aren't a solution).

      As for ecological problems, no technology by itself isn't enough. A drastic change in mentality is also required -- one that would make people understand that this planet is not for us alone. That we need all those other species as well. That even though we're different from other animals in many ways, we are not the "crown" of the nature, we don't rule it -- we're a part of it.

      And yes, this is going to be the hardest part.

  3. largest IT fair in Europe.... by Uzull · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Cebit 2004, the largest IT fair in Europe." Funny. Here we say that it is the largest IT fair in the world (www.heise.de) !

    1. Re:largest IT fair in Europe.... by Sique · · Score: 3, Informative

      It is the largest IT fair of the world, if you count the numbers of the exhibitors, the number of the visitors, the area of the fair and the gross yearly revenue of all participating entities.

      --
      .sig: Sique *sigh*
  4. Microsoft Targets Portable Porn Market by amigoro · · Score: 5, Funny
    Last Image

    Here is the pocket multimedia player we have heard so much about recently. Sporting an 80 GB hard drive, this beauty can store and play all your pictures, music files and video files, (in Windows WMV format).

    Nuff Said.

    Moderate this comment
    Positive: Offtopic Flamebait Troll Redundant
    Negative: Insightful Interesting Informative Funny

    --


    Nothing to see here
  5. Nicest thing for me is the nanode by Space+cowboy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    a gorgeous box using the nano-itx layout referred to earlier on /. I think a set-top box is coming my way :-)

    Simon

    --
    Physicists get Hadrons!
  6. Re:No evidence of manmade global warming by darius779 · · Score: 3, Funny

    This may or may not be true, I am not sure. However, I am a Master of the Obvious, and common sense tells me that the old saying "Don't shit where you eat" also applies on a global scale. How about "Don't shit where what you eat - eats"? Hmm.. unless it is a mushroom.. then I guess its ok

  7. Here is MY coverage by Zone-MR · · Score: 4, Informative

    Just posted this entry on my blog.

  8. knoppix 3.4 by sewagemaster · · Score: 4, Informative

    this is the same Cebit fair where knoppix announces/showcases their 3.4 release (Kernel 2.6 included in the bootCD).

    --
    my blog
  9. Re:This is Europe (main difference) by datalife · · Score: 5, Funny

    Look here to see the main difference between Europe and USA.
    It's no goatse.cx link..

    --
    There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary and those who don't.
  10. Everything that can be invented.... by D.+J.+Keenan · · Score: 4, Informative
    Remember the quote from the patent office in 1899, something along the lines of 'Everything that can be invented has been invented'?
    This letter to The Economist gives different perspective on that old story:
    It is an historical myth that the commissioner of America's Patent Office recommended it be abolished in 1899. Rather, he asked for a funding increase because of the heavy load of applications, arguing that anyone who would deny him additional funding must believe that "everything that can be invented has been invented."

    It's interesting, too, to see how little times have changed since then--the patent office saying that it was overloaded and needed more resources.