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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."
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.
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).
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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.