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CES 2008 Hall of Shame

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the natural-financial-selection dept.

Romana Reynolds writes "The CES 2008 Innovations Design and Engineering Awards Showcase honored the Atom Chip Corporation, which was exhibiting the same 100GB, 500GB, and 1TB 'quantum optical' memory chips back in 2006. We actually wandered by, but long gone are the 'SolarMemory' chips, and he didn't know anything about Duke Nuk'em Forever. A little easy digging shows that they'd been making the same extraordinary claims and exhibiting prototypes at CES during the past three years, long enough to make 'atom chip hoax' the fourth suggestion on typing 'atom chip' into Google. I'm amused that the 'preeminent' panel of judges failed their vetting and gatekeeping functions. But I fear that Atom Chip will gather investors based on their recognition at CES, and continue in the game for many years to come, while honors at CES become a Hall of Shame."

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  1. The "atom chip" Huh? by AltGrendel · · Score: 4, Funny

    Aren't they going to use that in the Phantom console?

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  2. 'Quantum optical'??? by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 3, Funny

    Quantum optical? C'mon, is it just me or doesn't that just sound like they made that up after watching a Star Trek: The Next Generation marathon on Spike?

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    1. Re:'Quantum optical'??? by operagost · · Score: 3, Funny

      This company is clearly a hoax. Everyone knows you have to divert your quantum interconnects through the main deflector to avoid overloading the holographic matrix.

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  3. Re:what by east+coast · · Score: 3, Funny

    Quick! Hire him as an editor!

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  4. Mmm... Atom Chips... by FlyingSquidStudios · · Score: 5, Funny

    Atom chips go great with quarkamole.



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  5. Re:Worst Website Ever! by thomas.galvin · · Score: 5, Funny
    From the Time Cube site:

    This site is a collection of data for a coming book Please, let this be true.
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  6. Re:Corporate Image by king-manic · · Score: 4, Funny

    PATENT PANDING, it's nto a typo. They are pandering for a patent.

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  7. Re:A display on a memory chip? by poot_rootbeer · · Score: 3, Funny

    This page suggests that the memory devices they are creating have a small display to show the free space on the chip. Wouldn't this suggest that they are making these chips filesystem aware and able to read free space?

    Nah, they just treat every memory cell storing a 1 as "used", and every cell storing a 0 as "free".

    That calculation's much easier to do with the modest computing power of a USB stick than actual filesystem awareness would be.

  8. Re:Worst Website Ever! by kalel666 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Awesome, from the website: "I HAVE CUBIC WISDOM THAT TRANSCENDS AND
    CONTRADICTS ONE DAY GODS"

    That is my new answer to anything my wife and/or boss asks me. Fuck it, thats my new sig, too.

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  9. Re:Worst Website Ever! by noamsml · · Score: 3, Funny

    Timecube: the goatse of the thinking man.

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