CeBIT Video Coverage

Charbax writes "I walked around CeBIT 2005 for two days with a headmounted colour camera connected to a harddrive Mpeg-4 recorder in the pocket (the Archos Pma430) and an external microphone. The result is hours of CeBIT video coverage . - check for some Siemens set-top-box, Intel high-tech car, KiSS-Technology 1080p DivX Video-on Demand-players, Chinese and Taiwanese Pmps, WiFi SIP phones, a remote-controlled Linux-running Canadian airplane. And more videos to be added tomorrow. All videos are on BitTorrents."

Huh?

[commodoresloat (172735)]

Am I the only one who thought we'd see Chinese and Taiwanese pimps?

Re:Huh?

[blaksaga (720779)]

And stupid me, I showed up with my face painted like Gene Simmons expecting to see KiSS.

Thanks

[n2rjt (88804)]

Wish I were there!

My coverage

[Zone-MR (631588)]

Here [zone-mr.ath.cx] is my coverage which I submitted two days ago. It got rejected because my method me documentation wasn't sufficiently nerdy.

Correction

[Zone-MR (631588)]

Err. I meant here [zone-mr.net].

So...

[lennywood1 (571226)]

Am I the only person that read that as "Chinese and Taiwanese Pimps"?

2 hours of video on the front page?

[d1v1d3byz3r0 (758848)]

Let the slashdotting begin.... now.

Re:2 hours of video on the front page?

[Randy Wang (700248)]

Now if only there were an easy way to slashdot a 500-byte torrent file... =)

Re:2 hours of video on the front page?

[SilverwoodUG (853342)]

first 100 clicks get a http download :), after that, It's only torrents.

Re:2 hours of video on the front page?

[spuckupine (764161)]

woot, get to exercise my publicly funded near-unlimited upstream of my university's connection. that means goodie for you people.

finally get to thank all the college students torrenting by becoming a college student and torrenting

So.

[FireballX301 (766274)]

I walked around CeBIT 2005 for two days with a headmounted colour camera connected to a harddrive Mpeg-4 recorder in the pocket (the Archos Pma430) and an external microphone. In other words: I duct-taped a digital camcorder to my head!

Stalker

[barnaclebarnes (85340)]

I walked around CeBIT 2005 for two days with a headmounted colour camera...

Did all the stand bunnies run for cover shouting 'Stalker Nerd Alert!'?

Re:Stalker

[ciryon (218518)]

That first sentence is probably the geekiest thing I've ever read on Slashdot..... Good work!

All in one torrent?

[mollyhackit (693979)]

Can't we get an all inclusive torrent? Well, I assume they at least aren't split into .rars. Seriously, who keeps doing that crap?

Re:All in one torrent?

[Nogami_Saeko (466595)]

Yup, it's split up way too much for me to bother with.

Make one file that has everything and I'll take a look...

N.

Re:Pmps!

[commodoresloat (172735)]

Pmps are often found on street crnrs slapping their btchs.

had to be asked...

[dirvish (574948)]

Any footage of hot promo-girls?

Re:had to be asked...

[commodoresloat (172735)]

just the ones hanging out with the Asian pmps.

Re:had to be asked...

[zerojoker (812874)]

check www.messebabes.de ;-)

Re:had to be asked...

[Zone-MR (631588)]

There were some hot and barely dressed ones doing shows occasionally. I didn't manage to take any decent pictures though as the view quickly became obstructed by a crowd me sweaty nerds ;-)

Re:had to be asked...

[Zone-MR (631588)]

s/me/of (I posted that message from my phone while at CeBIT, and the words 'of' and 'me' are typed the same way using T9).
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To add a little more, there were a LOT of hot promo girls at CeBIT - and that isn't neccessarily a good thing.

When you first walk into CeBIT, you look around and see hot girls wearing little but AMD/Intel/Microsoft/Whatever bras. Superficially it seems like every geek's dream.

On the second day, you realise it's all rather depressing. You see stands where guys are trying to present

CeBit footage

[kobotronic (240246)]

Charbax' Rube Goldbergesque headcam cyber setup was pretty interesting - Terry Gilliam would surely approve of all the visible wiring - reminds me of early designs from Steve Mann [wearcam.org]. Now Charbax only needs to find a way to broadcast live! Thanks for sharing these.

If I had a camcorder hooked up to my head.

[zymano (581466)]

I would be scoring tons of women !

Re:If I had a camcorder hooked up to my head.

[Fred_A (10934)]

There was a slight typo, the above should have read :
"I would be scaring tons of women !"

Re:If I had a camcorder hooked up to my head.

[LiquidCoooled (634315)]

I don't know.

There seems to be plenty of women desperate to get on camera. Most of the time, their clothes mysteriously fall off at the same time.

Re:Asian Pmps are nothing new

[Zorilla (791636)]

I see a new application naming convention inspired by language impediments coming on. Soon we'll be using editors like Txtpd and paint programs called brshpnt. Take that, KDE!

Any iPod 'Super Shuffle' footage?

[darekana (205478)]

Is there a stupidity prize at cebit?

Supppper [engadget.com]. Supa Shuffle [luxpro-corp.com]. Do tha supa shuffle [itmedia.co.jp].

Restroom footage

[rf0 (159958)]

Please tell me you cut the bits of you going to the bathroom :)

Rus

Re:Restroom footage

[LiquidCoooled (634315)]

Pah!
He was a true geek, the sloshing sound and section of hose pipe sticking out of the bottom of his pants proves it.

Tracker

[Inda (580031)]

He seems to be using the owntracker.com free tracker. Not the best choice in the world. Many of the files aren't seeded. Some of the torrents have hash errors.

http://owntracker.com/Charbax/ [owntracker.com]

Maybe someone could help him out..?

Stand working at CeBIT'04

[apharov (598871)]

I was a stand worker at CeBIT 2004, and I find the highly modded "hot stand bunnies all around"-comments as somewhat infantile. From my surveillance walks (I had another guy to share the stand with) during three days the main feeling I was left with was being overwhelmed by the sheer amount of companies making almost exact duplicates of each others' low-end products.

The reality of the exhibition was quite far from nice gadgets and women everywhere. Unless you knew where you should go to find interesting stuff you would not find it by wandering around. Knowing _what_ you were looking for was not necessarily enough either as the exhibition area was/is too vast to go through and the hall definitions are mostly somewhat vague.

I suspect...

[by Anonymous Coward]

...CeBit is about the only public gathering in the world where you can wonder around with a head mounted video camera and get away with it.

interesting footage

[Agabus (850058)]

Looks like there's some interesting footage there. I wanted to download the 'Waterproof Wifi company' torrents, but they didn't work. Now i'm getting the ones from Intel with the car in the picture.

Chineese Pmps (not another pimp comment)

[mobby_6kl (668092)]

Very fun Chineese companies talk about their Pmps, and make fun of my Archos.

I'm sorry, but it's not the Archos they were making fun of ;)

Anyone Watch the Divix Booth Video Yet?

[GoodNicsTken (688415)]

He's DivX a young supposedly hip in-touch company. Then up walks this guy with a camera, shooting legal video people want to watch, and it was almost like this:

Hey what the hell are you doing? Why are you making video of my booth? Is this going to come back to haunt me?

I suspect it will when a DivX executive sees the immage you just put out to thousands of /. readers.

Knoppix 3.8 hunt

[IntenseTech (860852)]

heh.. am I only only one frantically hunting torrents and this story for info on how to get my hands on the new Knoppix 3.8 that was supposed to be "released" at Cebit?!?!

please PLEASE!! reply to this with a torrent that has the ISO, or something...hehehe..

Re:Knoppix 3.8 hunt

[Lars-UT (681868)]

The following torrent worked for me: http://www.boegenielsen.dk:6969/torrents/eb7069965 6df36ddf044fb0513b96afe413c28a7.torrent [boegenielsen.dk]

KiSS-Technology 1080p DivX Video-on Demand-players

[by Anonymous Coward]

Shouldn't it be: MPlayer-Technology 1080p DivX Video-on Demand-players by Kiss?

Cool

[flajann (658201)]

This surely rocks.

Re:pimps...

[Zorilla (791636)]

No, [slashdot.org] you [slashdot.org] weren't the only one. [slashdot.org]

Re:streamload

[RetardSmith (540223)]

If I wanted your lame-ass response I would have given it to you. It is a nice and ignorant assumption on your part, that I actually have control over the firewall or proxy, but thanks for playing our game. Back to the original question at hand (and ID 10 T's, like the above moron, need not reply).

Re:mobile gaming..

[whimdot (591032)]

Of course this is technically feasible, but much of the cost of wireless networks goes into the last-mile network, so there is limited bandwidth and relatively high latency there.

Running high power games on a handheld uses too much battery. Mobile communication devices have to provide 24 hour+ standby times and this just doesn't fit with the same power model as a video card that draws 40W on its own.