CeBIT Video Coverage

Charbax writes "I walked around CeBIT 2005 for two days with a headmounted colour camera connected to a harddrive Mpeg-4 recorder in the pocket (the Archos Pma430) and an external microphone. The result is hours of CeBIT video coverage . - check for some Siemens set-top-box, Intel high-tech car, KiSS-Technology 1080p DivX Video-on Demand-players, Chinese and Taiwanese Pmps, WiFi SIP phones, a remote-controlled Linux-running Canadian airplane. And more videos to be added tomorrow. All videos are on BitTorrents."

Comments

Huh?

[commodoresloat]

Am I the only one who thought we'd see Chinese and Taiwanese pimps?

Re:Huh?

[blaksaga]

And stupid me, I showed up with my face painted like Gene Simmons expecting to see KiSS.

Thanks

[n2rjt]

Wish I were there!

So...

[lennywood1]

Am I the only person that read that as "Chinese and Taiwanese Pimps"?

2 hours of video on the front page?

[d1v1d3byz3r0]

Let the slashdotting begin.... now.

Re:2 hours of video on the front page?

[d1v1d3byz3r0]

I retract my earlier statements. I missed the torrent links.

Re:2 hours of video on the front page?

[SilverwoodUG]

first 100 clicks get a http download :), after that, It's only torrents.

Re:2 hours of video on the front page?

[spuckupine]

woot, get to exercise my publicly funded near-unlimited upstream of my university's connection. that means goodie for you people.

finally get to thank all the college students torrenting by becoming a college student and torrenting

Re:2 hours of video on the front page?

[Randy Wang]

Now if only there were an easy way to slashdot a 500-byte torrent file... =)

So.

[FireballX301]

I walked around CeBIT 2005 for two days with a headmounted colour camera connected to a harddrive Mpeg-4 recorder in the pocket (the Archos Pma430) and an external microphone. In other words: I duct-taped a digital camcorder to my head!

Stalker

[barnaclebarnes]

I walked around CeBIT 2005 for two days with a headmounted colour camera...

Did all the stand bunnies run for cover shouting 'Stalker Nerd Alert!'?

Re:Stalker

[ciryon]

That first sentence is probably the geekiest thing I've ever read on Slashdot..... Good work!

All in one torrent?

[mollyhackit]

Can't we get an all inclusive torrent? Well, I assume they at least aren't split into .rars. Seriously, who keeps doing that crap?

Re:All in one torrent?

[malfunctionus]

A-men brother/sister!

Re:All in one torrent?

[Anonymous Coward]

What I love are the web installers that come as a Winzip self-extractor which extracts a single executable which extracts its contents to a temporary directory, then copies each file it just extracted to the install directory, then deletes the original extracted copy of each file. (for example the MS DirectX SDK)

Re:All in one torrent?

[Nogami_Saeko]

Yup, it's split up way too much for me to bother with.

Make one file that has everything and I'll take a look...

N.

Pmps!

[Anonymous Coward]

If you want to know what a pmp is, go here.

Re:Pmps!

[commodoresloat]

Pmps are often found on street crnrs slapping their btchs.

Re:Pmps!

[Anonymous Coward]

That's because you're ugly and your mother dresses you funny.

Whoa

[Anonymous Coward]

Another CeBit article, these seem to be quite common now.

had to be asked...

[dirvish]

Any footage of hot promo-girls?

Re:had to be asked...

[commodoresloat]

just the ones hanging out with the Asian pmps.

Re:had to be asked...

[zerojoker]

check www.messebabes.de ;-)

Re:had to be asked...

[Zone-MR]

There were some hot and barely dressed ones doing shows occasionally. I didn't manage to take any decent pictures though as the view quickly became obstructed by a crowd me sweaty nerds ;-)

Re:had to be asked...

[Zone-MR]

s/me/of (I posted that message from my phone while at CeBIT, and the words 'of' and 'me' are typed the same way using T9).
---

To add a little more, there were a LOT of hot promo girls at CeBIT - and that isn't neccessarily a good thing.

When you first walk into CeBIT, you look around and see hot girls wearing little but AMD/Intel/Microsoft/Whatever bras. Superficially it seems like every geek's dream.

On the second day, you realise it's all rather depressing. You see stands where guys are trying to present genuinely interesting innovations. They are highly knowledgable, and appear to have spent many years actually working on the projects they are trying to demonstrate. Yet they are mostly ignored, and the crowd+cameras attention is stolen by the we-make-yet-another-standard-video-capture-card companies, who hired a few skankilly dressed ladies to dance around and hand out brochures.

On the third day, you begin to look at the promo-girls with a little disgust. They try and win the geeks over by wearing tight leather clothes with geek-lingo slogans, but you begin to realise that they usually don't even understand the product they are trying to advertise. Try asking them an in-depth technical question and you'll get a blank stare.

What makes their presence a bad thing, is that they create a stereotype which tarnishes the reputation of every woman at the event. It's difficult to tell appart the few geek girls who are genuinely fascinated by technology.

Re:had to be asked...

[Anonymous Coward]

While I doubt there's a standard for it yet, I would tend to think "skankilly" should be spelled with just one l.

CeBit footage

[kobotronic]

Charbax' Rube Goldbergesque headcam cyber setup was pretty interesting - Terry Gilliam would surely approve of all the visible wiring - reminds me of early designs from Steve Mann. Now Charbax only needs to find a way to broadcast live! Thanks for sharing these.

Re:pimps...

[Zorilla]

No, you weren't the only one.

If I had a camcorder hooked up to my head.

[zymano]

I would be scoring tons of women !

Re:If I had a camcorder hooked up to my head.

[ciroknight]

Sadly, I fear it works in reverse. Women see cameras as devil incarnate, and will do their best to stay clear of the camera's view angle, meaning you'll never come face to face to a woman again.

So, if you *really* want to attract women, put the camera on the BACK of your head, and they'll flock to you.

Re:If I had a camcorder hooked up to my head.

[Anonymous Coward]

Right, of course you'd add music to it. Just sets the tone.

Re:If I had a camcorder hooked up to my head.

[LiquidCoooled]

I don't know.

There seems to be plenty of women desperate to get on camera. Most of the time, their clothes mysteriously fall off at the same time.

Re:If I had a camcorder hooked up to my head.

[Fred_A]

There was a slight typo, the above should have read :
"I would be scaring tons of women !"

Re:If I had a camcorder hooked up to my head.

[Anonymous Coward]

like http://www.streetblowjobs.com/ ?

basically the plot is that the guy has a hidden cam in his head and goes out and buys sex from everyday women(the fun parts are when he is haggling for the price with the women).

Re:If I had a camcorder hooked up to my head.

[smithwis]

Silly geek; thats just in porn.

or

Silly Geek;
Tricks are for rich playboys.

Asian Pmps are nothing new

[scourfish]

Anybody who has been to asia in the the last few centuries knows that asia always had such things as pmps and hkrs.

Re:Asian Pmps are nothing new

[Zorilla]

I see a new application naming convention inspired by language impediments coming on. Soon we'll be using editors like Txtpd and paint programs called brshpnt. Take that, KDE!

The guy on the video with the laser...

[Anonymous Coward]

If you shoot a laser in your eye you may risk damage, but you also get to experience colors that you won't see anywhere else. Its sort of like drugs, you have to decide if the risk is worth it.

question

[Anonymous Coward]

is that a harddrive Mpeg-4 recorder in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

Any iPod 'Super Shuffle' footage?

[darekana]

Is there a stupidity prize at cebit?

Supppper. Supa Shuffle. Do tha supa shuffle.

Restroom footage

[rf0]

Please tell me you cut the bits of you going to the bathroom :)

Rus

Re:Restroom footage

[LiquidCoooled]

Pah!
He was a true geek, the sloshing sound and section of hose pipe sticking out of the bottom of his pants proves it.

Tracker

[Inda]

He seems to be using the owntracker.com free tracker. Not the best choice in the world. Many of the files aren't seeded. Some of the torrents have hash errors.

http://owntracker.com/Charbax/

Maybe someone could help him out..?

Stand working at CeBIT'04

[apharov]

I was a stand worker at CeBIT 2004, and I find the highly modded "hot stand bunnies all around"-comments as somewhat infantile. From my surveillance walks (I had another guy to share the stand with) during three days the main feeling I was left with was being overwhelmed by the sheer amount of companies making almost exact duplicates of each others' low-end products.

The reality of the exhibition was quite far from nice gadgets and women everywhere. Unless you knew where you should go to find interesting stuff you would not find it by wandering around. Knowing _what_ you were looking for was not necessarily enough either as the exhibition area was/is too vast to go through and the hall definitions are mostly somewhat vague.

Re:Stand working at CeBIT'04

[Anonymous Coward]

I've been there yesterday and there were gogo girls performing a show at one stand. Instead of calling the people infantile who name these women for what they are, I'd put the blame on the exhibitors who use such cheap attractions. THAT is infantile. They're trying to sell computer equipment and services and the most prominent display on their stand is a bunch of half nude women?

Re:streamload

[Anonymous Coward]

Torrents work with firewalls, are you stupid or what? RTFM! It will even share out too.

I suspect...

[Anonymous Coward]

...CeBit is about the only public gathering in the world where you can wonder around with a head mounted video camera and get away with it.

Re:streamload

[RetardSmith]

If I wanted your lame-ass response I would have given it to you. It is a nice and ignorant assumption on your part, that I actually have control over the firewall or proxy, but thanks for playing our game. Back to the original question at hand (and ID 10 T's, like the above moron, need not reply).

My coverage

[Zone-MR]

Here is my coverage which I submitted two days ago. It got rejected because my method me documentation wasn't sufficiently nerdy.

interesting footage

[Agabus]

Looks like there's some interesting footage there. I wanted to download the 'Waterproof Wifi company' torrents, but they didn't work. Now i'm getting the ones from Intel with the car in the picture.

Correction

[Zone-MR]

Err. I meant here.

Chineese Pmps (not another pimp comment)

[mobby_6kl]

Very fun Chineese companies talk about their Pmps, and make fun of my Archos.

I'm sorry, but it's not the Archos they were making fun of ;)

mobile gaming..

[unknown_host]

I wonder what is the bottleneck in playing games real-time on mobile devices.. Is it the bandwidth available on phones? the speed of the encoding process? Why can't you have Halo running on a fast server and just transmit realtime encoded frames to your cellphone.

Re:mobile gaming..

[whimdot]

Of course this is technically feasible, but much of the cost of wireless networks goes into the last-mile network, so there is limited bandwidth and relatively high latency there.

Running high power games on a handheld uses too much battery. Mobile communication devices have to provide 24 hour+ standby times and this just doesn't fit with the same power model as a video card that draws 40W on its own.

Re:mobile gaming..

[unknown_host]

thats exactly my point.. you don't need to have the latest nvidia 6800 running on your cellphone. All you need to do is to transfer images rendered elsewhere to your phone and just display them. If you have fast enough encoding/decoding and a decent bandwidth, it can be almost realtime.

Anyone Watch the Divix Booth Video Yet?

[GoodNicsTken]

He's DivX a young supposedly hip in-touch company. Then up walks this guy with a camera, shooting legal video people want to watch, and it was almost like this:

Hey what the hell are you doing? Why are you making video of my booth? Is this going to come back to haunt me?

I suspect it will when a DivX executive sees the immage you just put out to thousands of /. readers.

Re:Anyone Watch the Divix Booth Video Yet?

[Anonymous Coward]

I didn't get that feeling at all. It sounded like the DivX guy just fixed his camera. Looking forward to this version 0.0

Piano over IP

[Anonymous Coward]

The guys that developed this (Music Path Software) were my Electronic Music professor (Dr. Both) and my Advanced Algorithms professor (Dr. Diamond). The kid that it was invented for (Lucas Porter) goes to my church and is an incredible talent.
Read more here: http://www.exn.ca/dailyplanet/story.asp?id=2004030 253
and http://musicpath.acadiau.ca/main.htm

Knoppix 3.8 hunt

[IntenseTech]

heh.. am I only only one frantically hunting torrents and this story for info on how to get my hands on the new Knoppix 3.8 that was supposed to be "released" at Cebit?!?!

please PLEASE!! reply to this with a torrent that has the ISO, or something...hehehe..

Re:Knoppix 3.8 hunt

[Anonymous Coward]

I've got it... Go to the knoppix forums http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17398 and then follow the tread and someone has the torrent link posted. I downloaded mine last night, well worth the wait. It fixed all my wlan problems. Just make sure you boot knoppix lang=us(shift+0) or you'll need some german.

Re:Knoppix 3.8 hunt

[Lars-UT]

The following torrent worked for me: http://www.boegenielsen.dk:6969/torrents/eb7069965 6df36ddf044fb0513b96afe413c28a7.torrent

bittorrent non-sharing

[fullofangst]

Wow, considering how many pro-bittorrent people we have on Slashdot, it's really quite depressing to see so few seeds on the torrents.

Come on guys, share out :(

1 or 2 items?

[Anonymous Coward]

Is " KiSS-Technology 1080p DivX Video-on Demand-players" one item or two?

KiSS-Technology 1080p DivX Video-on Demand-players

[Anonymous Coward]

Shouldn't it be: MPlayer-Technology 1080p DivX Video-on Demand-players by Kiss?

Cool

[flajann]

This surely rocks.