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CES 2008 Hall of Shame
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."
Aren't they going to use that in the Phantom console?
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- Douglas Adams
Seriously though, if their intention is to promote snake oil in the hopes of attracting investors then the least they could do is put more than an hour of effort into what is pretty much (at least in this industry) the primary corporate representation.
At least they didn't create it in Word. Now that would have really irked me....
Incidentally, I did a little digging on this, and it seems its owned by a Russin Scientist called Shimon Gendlin (based out of Long Island), who as per information here in 1997 owned two companies both pitching along a simmilar theme
Windows in 6 Bytes (IA-32) : 90 90 90 90 CD 19
Nope... that award still goes to the Time Cube for use of an ugly background, random font sizes and random font colors, as well as the layout (centered text in a narrow column spanning well over 25 pages), and I'm not even talking about the content of the site here...
After 3 days without programming, life becomes meaningless
- The Tao of Programming
Hmm lets see, about 1/2 the Panel is made up of CEO's and Prisident/Founders of various businesses. People so far removed from the technology they work in they probably couldn't tell you how their own products actually work.
Most of the other half are made up of Salesmen, Journalists, Evangelists and Marketing agents. People who don't know the right end of a lightbulb usually.
I saw maybe 2-3 people in that whole list that *might* have a clue about how technology works.
CES needs to get a new panel of judges who know their stuff. Maybe get some leading professors in the field to come judge? How about senior product "Engineers", you know the people actually making the stuff that ends up in CES?
Atom chips go great with quarkamole.
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The fact this has only got 25 comments several hours later means that nobody has got a clue what this story is about. This summary is made of fail.
Their WHOIS record shows the registrant as "Domain Discreet," and their contact email as random-jumble-of-letters@domaindiscreet.com. If that doesn't scream "hoax" (kinda like everything else about them), then I don't know what does.
Thomas Galvin
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.
I HAVE CUBIC WISDOM THAT TRANSCENDS AND CONTRADICTS ONE DAY GODS