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CES 2005 Day 3 - Return to the Show Floor
TheTechLounge writes "On day three I tried to catch up on some of the vendors I skipped over or just plain didn't see on days one and two. The sheer number of vendors boggles the mind and there is no way any single person can get a good look at everything. I narrowed my search and with a slightly better spatial relationship established with the convention center I set out to track down nVidia, Belkin and some other bigwigs." Here is day one.
And yes, the long awaited Babes of CES is on the way too!
Appropriately
perhaps, but did you rtfa?
Where is Day 2?
I have always wanted to go to a tech trade show. But they never have any near where I live. I've read a lot of stuff from this one, and it looks like it's been fun!
Shiny. Let's be bad guys.
If anyone saw G4Tech TV's story on this, Bill Gates tried to show something, and both times, he got the Blue Screen of Death. Also, over with the X-Boxes, a demostration of some new features included, you guessed it, the Blue Screen of Death!
Someone who needs a book called "Web TV For Dummies" probably shouldn't be on the Internet.
Your post, rife with insight, curdles my entrails.
etc., etc.
Could it be? Slashdotter's actually RTFA?
way too jaded.But I don't find trade shows to be that exiciting anymore.
Timang tinggi tinggi
parang sudah asah
alang alang mandi
biar sampai basah
/me sings "Burn server burn, slashdot inferno"
Seriously though, why don't the submitters/editors include Coral cache links?
Please, won't someone think of the servers??
Its such a waste to visit a tech show and focus on the major players. This is where the little guy truly has a place to shine. Startup's aren't able to catch much press with their news releases because they don't command the attention a fortune 500 company does. But small innovative companies that can raise enough money to get a small booth often has the slickest technology. Many companies have also been bought out because of the exposure they've gained at these kind of events -- such as Jana, who was later acquired by Microsoft after they gained enough attention just from being booth neighbors at Comdex.
"Wow! Matt Damon likes HP!" They must be good!
Why am I not rapping? I am rapping with you in a way.
...there's allways http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/ec9b95f940ee106cd 75fb0fd8ba050be/index.html Mirrordot!
There were no BSODs. His Media Center remote controll stopped responding (the system continued to work fine). The XBox game crashed and dumped some debugging info to the screen but it did not kill the system, so I don't think you can classify it as a BSOD. But don't let facts stand in the way of spreading Microsoft (Micro$oft?) FUD (Slashbots will eat it up).
Introduction
.audio90, which I reviewed last year.
On day three I tried to catch up on some of the vendors I skipped over or just plain didn't see on days one and two. The sheer number of vendors boggles the mind and there is no way any single person can get a good look at everything. I narrowed my search and with a slightly better spatial relationship established with the convention center I set out to track down nVidia, Belkin and some other bigwigs.
Hewlett Packard
I headed first to HP's massive floor space. Of course they were showcasing their multitudes of laser printers and desktops. But what really nabbed my attention was the HP Instant Cinema ep9010 Digital Projector. Quite nice. It was displaying a demo movie starring Matt Damon singing the praises of HP. I also played with one of their wide screen laptops. I'm not the biggest fan of HP, but this model seemed to sing right along and had a nice sized display. I also registered to win something... but I don't think I won.
Plantronics
Right across from the HP exhibit was Plantronics' demo space filled with round tables full of headphones. I've used Plantronics headsets and have always been impressed with what they churn out. Showcased at CES this year were iPod-matching earbuds, Bluetooth ear-pieces and their newest brainchild: the Halo2 GameCon headset. Plantronics partnered with Microsoft to develop this Halo-specific design, and they were mighty proud of them. I also spied a slightly redesigned
Garmin
I've been checking out Garmin's handheld GPS units and secretly wishing they would send one to me for review. Their booth was filled to the rim with handhelds, palmtop and in car navigation units. I especially liked the pocket pc palmtops... just in case any Garmin reps are reading this. They also had their full line of eTrex handhelds, some of which have built in walkie-talkie functionality. Another interesting product that has come to the market lately was a personal training aid that not only records your location and distance traveled, it also keeps track of your pace times all via GPS.
Belkin
And with another diagonal jump, I landed in Belkin's show space. Of particular interest to me was their newest iPod related toys. Friends of mine have been complaining that there isn't a good in-car adapter for the iPod that both holds the player AND recharges it. Well, now there is. Belkin is proving their intentions to build the best iPod aftermarket accessories with products like the Tunebase FM for the iPod mini. This unit plugs into your car's cigarette lighter and not only holds the mini still, it recharges it AND transmits your tunes to the stereo via FM receiving. Sadly there is no Tunebase FM scheduled for the normal size iPod. The full-size unit's weight is causing a bit of droop and counter measures are currently being developed. Of course Belkin is making aftermarket in-car holders for Dell, Creative and other non-Apple media players as well. And look for their line of VoIP products this year too.
nVidia
On day one I mentioned ATI's display of yet to materialize X850XT's. nVidia wasn't introducing anything exciting on the video card tip either. But, they were showing off plenty of other goodies. A few 6800 OCs and Ultras lined the display wall, but it was the water-cooled machine with the funky neon green anti-freeze filled lines and the bowling ball inspired Sphera PC that stood out to me. Well, that is until I got a peek at demo rigs running the yet to be released Battlefield 2 from EA Games. nVidia and EA were hosting demos of the modern combat shooter. Exhibit attendees could try their hand at BF2 while fragging real-time with the EA development team back at EA headquarters. Needless to say, I was pretty excited and impressed with this game scheduled for release in the Spring or early Summer.
nVidia was also helping out some of their business partners with demo kiosks of cell phones and handheld games that featured nVidia guts. The Motorola pho
nVidia and EA were hosting demos of the modern combat shooter.
pffft. ya... Circa 1995. EA ate up everything and nothing has changed. All the FPS are the same.
Check journal for info on Anti-TextBook, an idea by me.
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The author went to Mot's booth, saw the 'Razr' phone (which, when it comes down to it, is just a 'thin' cellphone), and made no mention of the Ojo videphone at the same booth?
Is the author a geek, or what?
The videophone was pretty cool, IMO! (actually worked)
AnandTech to the rescue, again.i =2317
http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?
from TFA:
"It includes PDA functionality and a 1 megapixel camera that took average looking phone pics."
Heh. Wake me up when you break the 2 megapixel layer, and have QVGA on the device (like I see every morning on the train here in Tokyo).
Sorry to sound smug, but it baffles me how slow the US is on cell phone/PDA gear.
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http://shit.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/13/0 011203
CES is a show to hype up and coming products...
The site mentioned is talking about Logitech's MX1000.
I'm typing this reply from a computer that has a MX 1000 attached to it.
That I bought months ago...
From Best Buy.
"Well kids, you tried your best, and you failed. The lesson is, never try." -Homer Simpson
In November 2003, it was reported that Belkin had added code to the firmware in their routers that every 8 hours would grab a random HTTP connection and redirect it to advertising on their web site. I personally no longer trust them or their products.