ShowStoppers isn’t exactly related to CES, but many of the CES exhibitors showed up at this media event, showing off neat products ranging from a GSM-to-VoIP call router to a 3D printer, along with a service that will ensure Jeff Porten never gets a second date again.
Monthly Archives: January 2010
TidBITS: CES: Living in the Past
As I mentioned in my last article, the coolest thing about being at CES is catching glimpses of the future: seeing the technologies which will become part of the normal landscape of the next generation. So it’s a damn shame how brutally we’re reminded that, by comparison, right now we’re living in the past.
TidBITS: CES 2010 Day 1: Blending the Future
Here at the Consumer Electronics Show, the most amazing thing I’ve seen so far is a blender. Don’t get me wrong – there are some truly cool technologies on display here, but this was one heck of a blender.
Macworld: D-Link Boxee Box brings couch potato paradise
If your New Year’s resolution was, “I never want to leave my living room again,” the Boxee Box from D-Link will go a long way towards fulfilling your goal.
http://www.macworld.com/article/145464/2010/01/boxee_box_ces.html
Amateur Hour at CES
Lots of things going surprisingly wrong here on Day 0 of CES. No separate lines for pre-registered and onsite press registration. The Press/Blogger lounge has free coffee, but no wifi — so not much blogging going on. Folks there said it was “still being set up”, but seeing as how the Venetian just asks for a registration code to use their existing network, it’s not clear how much setup is really necessary.
Amusingly, I’m writing this from a free (albeit slow) wifi hotspot elsewhere in the hotel.
The CEA Visions magazine says we should all flock to social.cesweb.org to network with the other 110,000 people here — and that page has the 2010 version of a Geocities “under construction” page. They’re “working around the clock for a beta release.” Beta? The show goes live tomorrow, guys, and a bunch of us are already here.
No complaints — already the press is getting free stuff, and Toshiba came through again with a nifty ballistic nylon shoulderbag. I just sort of figure that CES would have the kinks ironed out by now; seeing them drop a few minor balls is surprising.
Macworld: Report: Apple to move into mobile advertising
Do you wish Apple would provide you with mobile, targeted information which connected you with great products and services? Well, now there’s an ad for that.
TidBITS: CES 2010 Day 0: Rolling the DECE
Your intrepid roving reporter is back again this year, ready to leave no Playboy playmates unturned in my quest for interesting CES… er, tidbits.