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CES 2005 Day 3 - Return to the Show Floor

Posted by samzenpus on from the buy-stuff dept.

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.

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  1. Nothing to see here, move on by karvind · · Score: 2, Funny
    From the last page of the report
    And yes, the long awaited Babes of CES is on the way too!


    Appropriately .. nothing to see, move on !!

  2. Day 2 by tektek · · Score: 2

    Where is Day 2?

    1. Re:Day 2 by acvh · · Score: 1

      C'mon, everyone knows day 2 is for sleeping off the hangover.

    2. Re:Day 2 by tektek · · Score: 1

      Ok, thanks. I didn't actually "read" any of it yet~ :)

    3. Re:Day 2 by mollyhackit · · Score: 1

      You missed it? Day two was "Revenge of the show floor"

    4. Re:Day 2 by Cymage · · Score: 1

      here it is...I had to look around for it... day 2

  3. Re:Bill Gates made a fool of himself there.... by mordors9 · · Score: 1

    I read somewhere that it is the new screen saver that MS is putting on all their products... yeah that's the ticket, its a screensaver....

  4. Thank ye, o noob reader of the slashing dot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Your post, rife with insight, curdles my entrails.

  5. Re:cool by Lindsay+Lohan · · Score: 1
    have always wanted to go to a tech trade show
    They're fun and somewhat informative. I enjoy them for the relational stuff. It's amazing how much recruiting goes on at CES, last year anyway.
  6. And this one time, at band camp.... by geekfat · · Score: 1

    etc., etc.

  7. Slashdotted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Could it be? Slashdotter's actually RTFA?

  8. I'm probaly.. by Tracer_Bullet82 · · Score: 1

    way too jaded.But I don't find trade shows to be that exiciting anymore.

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    1. Re:I'm probaly.. by Kris_J · · Score: 1

      Nah, it's just that there's nothing interesting released this time round. 2003's pre-xmas season rocked -- I bought heaps of stuff. This season, my biggest purchase was a domain. Hardly riveting stuff.

  9. Slashdotted already??? by Arghdee · · Score: 1

    /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??

  10. Such a waste... by MLopat · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Such a waste... by gl4ss · · Score: 1

      but they're a tech site and want to whore off for the same stories everyone else has too...

      you know to differentiate themselfs from the rest.

      oh wait... drooling over products that have been on adverts already for weeks kind of SUCKS as journalism on a trade fair that's supposed to have groundbreaking stuff...

      or at least some exotics.

      no offence but fuck, that 'report' could have been written without even going to the whole damn show!

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    2. Re:Such a waste... by BenFranske · · Score: 1

      As someone who has attended CES more than once let me say that because of the sheer number of vendors it is impossible for a single person to cover the show and find much "groundbreaking stuff." You can really do one of two things, either visit the big guys and maybe randomly chance on something great from another booth you pass OR focus on one area of technology (eg. I'm going to hit everyone with wireless networking stuff or everyone with photo stuff, etc.) the only way to cover the whole show is to divide it up with a team of experienced people who stick to their area only.

    3. Re:Such a waste... by gl4ss · · Score: 1

      seriously, you're saying that because it is so vast it's impossible to find anything intresting? because there's so much stuff the guy can't find anything we haven't bumped into before elsewhere? because it is so vast he can only report about ~4 booths per day? because it's so vast he can only use 30 minute to write out his experiences after using 1.5 hours to check things out?

      shouldn't it be _easy_ to find stuff that's both intresting and NOT on every other media site publishing information about the event.

      you see, on this article the 'cool' stuff the guy shows is something that has been on places like engadget for months before this("ooo.. gizmondo! cool!", not.). so it's actually pretty boring, he could have written a more intresting article by surfing the web - which makes the money spent on the ces trip seem like quite a waste(i believe it was a cool experience for him but he did an awful shitty job of covering it).

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    4. Re:Such a waste... by TheTechLounge · · Score: 1

      Check out the other two showfloor articles, there are other gadgets. We visited tons of booths each day and... well... they aren't all that great. We pulled the most interesting stuff we found and wrote about them. We have two other articles from the Pepcom Digital Experience and Lunch @ Piero's that have more interesting products. You can even check out our coverage of Antec's entire new line of products if the other stuff isn't new enough for you. Or you can just continue ranting about how the article doesn't live up to your expectations. Sorry we couldn't please you ;-)

    5. Re:Such a waste... by gl4ss · · Score: 1

      seriously, read slashdot AND couple of gadget oriented semi-blogs like engadget etc, actually, just forget slashdot.

      mp3 oakleys? that's so last summer.
      a picture of a gizmondo? that's so last summer too. fanless zalman.. that's so last year(and fanless heatsink htpc cases have been available for purchase too already).

      antec? i could buy the phantom already, but why bother when there's totally passive psu's available as well(Yesico for example).

      you see, it would be nice to have some journalistic work in there to put these products into place with other things, if they're fresh and what catches they have and how likely you are to see it already on sale, for sale tomorrow, or for sale ever(vapor) - for readers that don't follow tech scene.. so they could have realistical expectations about the products.

      where is the robopets coverage? pepperpads?(just as examples!) if you cover old products at least try to get something new out from the company or make some creative writing to tie the articles up! the point is, you could have featured most of these products WEEKS before the show and done it more in depth too(now the articles only claim to fame is that it's about ces).

      (even links to actual pages about the products shown would have helped it, now the articles are just picture shows without easy way to instantly get to more information about the products, could leave some people thinking that the products indeed would be so cutting edge that there wouldn't be any info anywhere)

      but i'm sure you guys had fun there :)

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  11. Matt Damon! by Ian+Action · · Score: 1

    "Wow! Matt Damon likes HP!" They must be good!

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  12. Re:If the site is down... by krbvroc1 · · Score: 1

    ...there's allways Mirrordot!

    You know, I went there. However, only the first page of the 5 page report was 'mirrored'. Am I doing something wrong or is mirrordot just worthless in these cases?

  13. Re:If the site is down... by Arghdee · · Score: 1

    No, it's not you...

    Just like google caches are useless for sites with lots of images etc.

  14. In yesteryear... by UlfGabe · · Score: 1

    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.

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  15. A Much Better Article Here by Hack+Jandy · · Score: 1

    AnandTech to the rescue, again.
    http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i =2317

    1. Re:A Much Better Article Here by Hack+Jandy · · Score: 1

      Ah, yes, Anand's articles are certainly less fullfilling than these wonderful gems of journalistic laurels. After all, why talk about ATI video card availability when you can comment on their booth babes. I feel safe trusting my news to the guys who couldn't find the ATI video cards in the ATI booth.

  16. camera phones are late in the USA by davejenkins · · Score: 1, Interesting

    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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  17. Re:Wrong once again. by gomadtroll · · Score: 1

    So it the prezentation did not work, blame it on /. or Apple or anyone other than MS stuff (technical term for you /.'ers). bottom line, MS presentation did not work, spin it anyway you like.

  18. Re:If the site is down... by gl4ss · · Score: 1

    go to your favorite online hw retailers site.. you'll see all the products(more intresting too, as they didn't report on _anything_ genuinely new on their 'report'..).

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  19. Explain this to me: by GrandCow · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

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  20. Belkin are not to be trusted by alanw · · Score: 1

    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.

    1. Re:Belkin are not to be trusted by runamok1 · · Score: 1
      When the article said "Bigwigs like ... Belkin", I kind of tilted my head in a quizzical manner and said "What? Since when!"

      It seems that the majority of Belkin's products consist of things like $39.99 usb cables. Which Best Buy, etc. stocks right next to the $100.00 HP, Epson, etc. printers that *don't* include a USB cable. Anyone else smell some collusion?

      Oh. Here is a little hint. Add the aformentioned amazingly overpriced cable into your cart. Enter the code "12345" into the "redeem coupon" field near the top and click the button.

      This magically lowers the price to $20.00. Now they are only making 300% profit!