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A CES Preview: CES Unveiled
moto writes "ThinkComputers is reporting from CES Unveiled, and they have the scoop on all the latest gadgets coming out this year, from the article: "Well CES is only a day away now, but there is a special press only event called CES Unveiled. This event gives manufacturers a chance to showcase new products before the big event. There are only a handful of companies that chose to exhibit at this event, and there is free food and drinks, which makes it even better. So today we will be showing you some of the cool new products that were shown at this event.""
Nothing about the PS3.
Bugs and delays. Bugs and delays.
Which is so much tastier than the not free complementary food and drinks.
Dang. only one post and the server's already been 'dotted.
Han shot first.
That was a quick and painless death to a server.
Sound waves should be free!
Also, am I the only one seeing the site loaded with php failures? I'll only list one as an example, since there are too many to count:
A new low, even for Slashdot. I shudder to think what might be found in TFA.
The coolest looking product at the AMD table was the Samsung Digital Photo Frame. This is a 7 inch LCD frame that has Ethernet, USB, SD, and CF connections.
What, no wireless connection?
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wow that was cool!
The shrimp was in a huge ice bowl, which added some extra style to the platter.
Platters are not flattered by your icy comment.
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Which is so much tastier than the not free complementary food and drinks.
So true, but I think you (and moto, the submitter) mean complimentary.
I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.
"There are only a handful of companies that chose to exhibit at this event..."
I'm sure only the most wonderful, coolest, slickest stuff we'll be shown at this non-event with (marketing dollars) free (marketing dollars) chow (marketing dollars) and (marketing dollars) drinks (marketing dollars).
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So not only was the food free, it was also "complementary". If a Slashdot post is saved from redundancy by a spelling mistake, is it still a horribly-composed post? Yes. Yes it is.
... food and drinks". If I can learn Perl, then surely someone at the Slashdot editors' bunker can learn English!
Also: "were showed" and "there was
I can't give much credence to a bunch of guys who gave more attention to the food table than they did to the products we want to know about.
Yup ...
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and I'm not sure if this will help, but:
http://www.thinkcomputers.org.nyud.net:8090/v2/in
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The site is loading, but the server is choking. Half of the images are not loading, and for some reason none of the banner ads are either. Article text is there tho. Complete text follows for karma-whoring purposes Introduction Well CES is only a day away now, but there is a special press only event called CES Unveiled. This event gives manufacturers a chance to showcase new products before the big event. There are only a handful of companies that chose to exhibit at this event, and there is free complementary food and drinks, which makes it even better. So today we will be showing you some of the cool new products that were showed at this event. The Event The event was held at the Bellini Ballroom at the Venetian. It was a really cool setup, but a bit cramped. Products were displayed on small tables so there was not that much to look at. Most companies focused on 2 or 3 of their new products, some of which were announced the day of the event. Before we get into the products I wanted to let you guys know what kind of food they were serving. The best thing they had was the seafood. There was a huge platter of shrimp, crab, and oysters. The shrimp was in a huge ice bowl, which added some extra style to the platter. Also to eat was many different types of lunch meat, bread, breadsticks, pasta, and much more. The best part was it was all free! Logitech Ok enough with the free stuff, let's check out the products. First let's start out with a company you all know, Logitech. Logitech did not have many new things to debut, but they did have 2 new Bluetooth headsets, the HS 200 and HS 210. These headsets are basically the same. The HS 200 has round ear pieces and the HS 210 has square earpieces. These will work with any Bluetooth device including your phone. These headphones also have microphones so you can answer your phone while listening to music. These headphones will be available in spring 2006 and will retail for around $129. Logitech also has revamped the G7 mouse and made it look a little bit better. Another product Logitech has redone is the Harmony 880. They have come out with the Harmony 890 which has the added RF capability. AMD Some new digital media players have been announced based on AMD's Au1200 processor. The first one is the Humax PMP platform. It is designed for Direct TV's new 2 Go service. It has a 4 inch widescreen LCD, 20GB hard drive, and a user-replaceable battery. It is expected to hit the US in early 2006 retailing for around $399. Next is Digital Cube's PMP series of devices. There are 3 different devices that feature a 4.3-inch TFT LCD touch screen, 14/7 hours of audio/video, direct downloads from multiple sources, and GPS navigational features. The coolest looking product at the AMD table was the Samsung Digital Photo Frame. This is a 7 inch LCD frame that has Ethernet, USB, SD, and CF connections. A great feature of the digital photo frame is that you can send pictures directly to it from your camera phone over the web. This is out in Korea now for $299, and when it ships to the US it is expected to be lower than that. Lexar Lexar had some very cool new entries in USB drive segment, one in particular is the Lexar JumpDrive Mercury. Take a look at the pics, it has a 'digital paper technology' display on the outside that displays the drives remaining capacity. The meter is displayed even when the drive is unplugged! The availability will be around 2nd quarter 2006. They also introduced a mini JumpDrive called the FireFly, extremely small and portable. FIC FIC made a nice showing at CES unveiled tonight with more than just motherboards. They premiered some very cool new laptops, but the most interesting thing was the GE2, The Golden Gate Entertainment PC. This was by far one of the coolest new things I saw there today. The GE2 is extremely small is size with dimensions of 226x172x42 (mm) and weighs in at just 1.3kg. When I first saw it I thought it was another hard drive enclosure, it is that small. It features an Intel Yonah Dual-Core CPU, and Intel 945gm Chipset, supports ddr2 mem,
I have a little Mini-ITX system hooked up to a flat panel display on my wall, running gqview set to randomly walk the image directory tree with a new image every 30 seconds.
All my computers use rsync to nightly update a copy of the master image directory onto this picture frame machine.
So whatever machine I download images to from my camera, the pictures find their way to the big photo frame by the next day.
I also have a web server on the machine, which displays an autoupdating page with the current image on it, so my parents can run a web browser remotely which synchonizes it's picture with whatever is on my wall at the moment.
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) (with MGM Home Entertainment) has announced 20 initial titles, including The Fifth Element, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Desperado, For a Few Dollars More, The Guns of Navarone, Hitch, House of Flying Daggers, A Knight's Tale, Kung Fu Hustle, The Last Waltz, Legends of the Fall, Resident Evil Apocalypse, RoboCop, Sense and Sensibility, Stealth, Species, SWAT and XXX. Black Hawk Down and The Bridge on the River Kwai will also be available on 50 GB, dual-layer Blu-ray Discs Summer 2006.
At Blu-ray Disc launch, Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment will release Four Brothers, Sahara, Aeon Flux, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, The Italian Job, Tomb Raider, U2: Rattle and Hum, Sleepy Hollow, We Were Soldiers and The Manchurian Candidate. Paramount will continue its roll out of Blu-ray titles throughout 2006 and beyond, including the highly anticipated release of Mission: Impossible: III alongside Mission: Impossible and Mission: Impossible 2. These titles will also be available for HD DVD, the format competing with Blu-ray, which the studio supports as well.
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment's initial titles include Fantastic Four, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Behind Enemy Lines, Kiss of the Dragon and Ice Age along with others that will bring Fox's total number of first wave releases to 20 titles.
Liongate will add to the mix 10 titles, including Lord of War, The Punisher, The Devil's Rejects, Saw, T2: Judgment Day, Reservoir Dogs, Total Recall, Dune and Rambo: First Blood. The line-up will also include the upcoming feature film See No Evil.
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At least once. really. Seeing as how I work for DivX, and we have a booth there (not to mention a million cabs driving around with DivX ads, apparently) I've been hearing about this for months, and while you guys are just getting to it, I'm almost tired of hearing about it already. I almost had to go myself. I did go last year, and I can officially say that every engineer and tech should go at least once, if nothing else, just to fully comprehend the madness that is marketing and new product design. This is your opportunity to see things that are such bad ideas that you will never ever see them on store shelves. If you think the products that make it to market are bad...you should see the crackpot crap that doesn't make it!
Well, you see, there's no original error. "Free complementary" is not redundant. The food and drink complements the event, see?
Upon further reflection, it appears the food may complement the drinks and vice versa. *looks around shiftily*
Dang, the grammar nazis are foiled by the conjunction of two apparent errors. Two wrongs DO make a right, apparently.
Indeed they do, and since these discussions usually (and almost religiously) follow the same path...
Two wrongs make a rite.
I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.
Failed in the marketplace.
I'm not sure why. Price of LCD panels?
Honestly, I think it's a dynamite idea. Parents would love to give one to their parents and then update the pictures themselves. So instead of having to email pics of their grandkids to them, you just put them on a server and this thing gets them from time to time and updates what is being display on the frame (whereever it is).
One such product did this exactly (over a phone), others did 802.11. But anyway, none sold.
I've never actually had one. Maybe it's a gimmick that gets old too quickly?
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I think the best part was that one I got the site to load the ad servers were still unable to handle the /. load.
I give the /. ad-blocking services a 3/5, great ad-blocking but unfortunately it makes browsing the site a bit of a pain.
Try to get that fixed by the beta and I think you will have a real winner guys.
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Dude, they released the iBrator in 1999. Welcome to last century...
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Anyone have any updates from the second floor? I would love an autographed 8x10 black and white glossy close up of some porn star's, uhm...prune donut.
Gizmodo seems to have a better write up.
Hi,
we have actual video reports from the CES Unveiled event.
watch them here:
http://video.i4u.com/
I don't care what's 'cool' - 'cool' tends to be anything but, in my experiences. What if I'm more interested in a well-made, quality product or advancement in technology? Something novel and pushing the boundaries? What then?
Who needs CES when AVN is just a few minutes away? And I will be there!!
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and they have the scoop on all the latest gadgets coming out this year
There are only a handful of companies that chose to exhibit at this event
Erhm, ok.
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