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Slashdot Asks: What would you like to see at CES?
This year's Consumer Electronics Show has nearly arrived. Later today, I'll be hurtling (or perhaps just slogging) across the West Texas desert, bound for Vegas. CES is far too big an event to see very much of, no matter what: the endless aisles (highways!) of cheap laptop bags and e-cigarettes alone take up an incredible amount of floor space, but the good stuff takes up at least as much. The categories represented aren't necessarily new, but the trends vary each time: remote-controlled helicopters, from Parrot and others, have been been getting more capable for a few years running, along with 3D televisions, action cameras, ever-bigger displays, toys for kids, toys for adults, and the newest/slimmest/priciest/cheapest laptops and handhelds. Last year I had a chance to get close-up video views at Ubuntu TV and the successfully crowdfunded TouchFire keyboard, as well as interviews with John Ryan of Pixel Qi and Raspberry Pi instigator Eben Upton. I'll be on the lookout for some of my usual obsessions (open source in consumer products, bright LED-based projectors, interesting input devices), but what would you like to see up-close from this year's crop of exhibitors (sorry, it's a long list), and why?
Dish washing, floor maintenance / put stuff away, laundry, dusting, wash the windows, make the beds.
I'd say take out the trash, but I suspect that's just a highly efficient way to get your robot stolen.
And if it could cook, that'd be great.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
I'd really like to visit the Basis booth and check out the Basis band (watch/health monitor). It looks like a solid product and I'd like to try one out before I buy. Their initial stock went so fast that if you blinked you missed the opportunity.
Half the items shown at CES will be vaporware. Most of the rest will come to market too late to be of any value. The only thing worth seeing are the good ideas that some new or small company has come up with that Zuckerberg, Apple, or some other company can clone or otherwise knock-off and then present as their own (as FB likes to do) or as some new thing no one has ever thought of before (Apple I'm looking at you). I just hope it doesn't scroll or have rounded corners.
Booth babes.
Titties and beer
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
Bill Gates, Steve Balmer, and that Elop character in a dollar per throw dunk tank filled with ice water.
* Carthago Delenda Est *
The headline ends in a question mark, so... no!
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
Five hundred male feral hogs given ecstasy and let loose on the floor of the CES, after the representatives from Sony are covered in pheromones from a female feral pig.
[Don't look at me like that. You asked.]
You are welcome on my lawn.
No, that's a given. The submitter's question is actually "What would you like to see at CES, apart from flying cars and personal jet packs?" but he reasonably omitted the redundant second half of the sentence.
Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.
Personally, I'm waiting on the iPhone shuffle.