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CeBIT Video Coverage

Posted by timothy on from the commitment-worth-commitment dept.

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."

18 of 79 comments (clear)

  1. Huh? by commodoresloat · · Score: 3, Funny

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

  2. 2 hours of video on the front page? by d1v1d3byz3r0 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Let the slashdotting begin.... now.

    1. Re:2 hours of video on the front page? by SilverwoodUG · · Score: 2, Informative

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

  3. So. by FireballX301 · · Score: 3, Funny

    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!

  4. Stalker by barnaclebarnes · · Score: 4, Funny
    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!'?



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    1. Re:Stalker by ciryon · · Score: 4, Funny

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

  5. All in one torrent? by mollyhackit · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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?

  6. had to be asked... by dirvish · · Score: 4, Funny

    Any footage of hot promo-girls?

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    1. Re:had to be asked... by Zone-MR · · Score: 2, Funny

      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 ;-)

    2. Re:had to be asked... by Zone-MR · · Score: 2, Interesting

      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.

  7. CeBit footage by kobotronic · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

  8. Re:Pmps! by commodoresloat · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pmps are often found on street crnrs slapping their btchs.

  9. Re:pimps... by Zorilla · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, you weren't the only one.

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  10. If I had a camcorder hooked up to my head. by zymano · · Score: 3, Funny

    I would be scoring tons of women !

    1. Re:If I had a camcorder hooked up to my head. by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 2, Funny

      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.

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  11. Restroom footage by rf0 · · Score: 3, Funny

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

    Rus

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  12. Tracker by Inda · · Score: 2

    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..?

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  13. Stand working at CeBIT'04 by apharov · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.