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CES 2005 Day 3 - Return to the Show Floor 62

Posted by samzenpus from the buy-stuff dept.
TheTechLounge writes "On day three I tried to catch up on some of the vendors I skipped over or just plain didn't see on days one and two. The sheer number of vendors boggles the mind and there is no way any single person can get a good look at everything. I narrowed my search and with a slightly better spatial relationship established with the convention center I set out to track down nVidia, Belkin and some other bigwigs." Here is day one.
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  • From the last page of the report
    And yes, the long awaited Babes of CES is on the way too!


    Appropriately .. nothing to see, move on !!

  • Where is Day 2?

  • Slashdotted (Score:1, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Could it be? Slashdotter's actually RTFA?
  • way too jaded.But I don't find trade shows to be that exiciting anymore.
    • Nah, it's just that there's nothing interesting released this time round. 2003's pre-xmas season rocked -- I bought heaps of stuff. This season, my biggest purchase was a domain. Hardly riveting stuff.
  • /me sings "Burn server burn, slashdot inferno"

    Seriously though, why don't the submitters/editors include Coral cache links?

    Please, won't someone think of the servers??

  • Such a waste... (Score:5, Insightful)

    by MLopat ( 848735 ) on Wednesday January 12, 2005 @09:11PM (#11343930) Homepage
    Its such a waste to visit a tech show and focus on the major players. This is where the little guy truly has a place to shine. Startup's aren't able to catch much press with their news releases because they don't command the attention a fortune 500 company does. But small innovative companies that can raise enough money to get a small booth often has the slickest technology. Many companies have also been bought out because of the exposure they've gained at these kind of events -- such as Jana, who was later acquired by Microsoft after they gained enough attention just from being booth neighbors at Comdex.
    • but they're a tech site and want to whore off for the same stories everyone else has too...

      you know to differentiate themselfs from the rest.

      oh wait... drooling over products that have been on adverts already for weeks kind of SUCKS as journalism on a trade fair that's supposed to have groundbreaking stuff...

      or at least some exotics.

      no offence but fuck, that 'report' could have been written without even going to the whole damn show!
      • As someone who has attended CES more than once let me say that because of the sheer number of vendors it is impossible for a single person to cover the show and find much "groundbreaking stuff." You can really do one of two things, either visit the big guys and maybe randomly chance on something great from another booth you pass OR focus on one area of technology (eg. I'm going to hit everyone with wireless networking stuff or everyone with photo stuff, etc.) the only way to cover the whole show is to divid
        • seriously, you're saying that because it is so vast it's impossible to find anything intresting? because there's so much stuff the guy can't find anything we haven't bumped into before elsewhere? because it is so vast he can only report about ~4 booths per day? because it's so vast he can only use 30 minute to write out his experiences after using 1.5 hours to check things out?

          shouldn't it be _easy_ to find stuff that's both intresting and NOT on every other media site publishing information about the even
          • Check out the other two showfloor articles, there are other gadgets. We visited tons of booths each day and... well... they aren't all that great. We pulled the most interesting stuff we found and wrote about them. We have two other articles from the Pepcom Digital Experience [thetechlounge.com] and Lunch @ Piero's [thetechlounge.com] that have more interesting products. You can even check out our coverage of Antec's entire new line of products [thetechlounge.com] if the other stuff isn't new enough for you. Or you can just continue ranting about how the article doe
            • seriously, read slashdot AND couple of gadget oriented semi-blogs like engadget etc, actually, just forget slashdot.

              mp3 oakleys? that's so last summer.
              a picture of a gizmondo? that's so last summer too. fanless zalman.. that's so last year(and fanless heatsink htpc cases have been available for purchase too already).

              antec? i could buy the phantom already, but why bother when there's totally passive psu's available as well(Yesico for example).

              you see, it would be nice to have some journalistic work in t
  • "Wow! Matt Damon likes HP!" They must be good!
  • <i>nVidia and EA were hosting demos of the modern combat shooter.</i>

    pffft. ya... Circa 1995. EA ate up everything and nothing has changed. All the FPS are the same.
  • from TFA:
    "It includes PDA functionality and a 1 megapixel camera that took average looking phone pics."

    Heh. Wake me up when you break the 2 megapixel layer, and have QVGA on the device (like I see every morning on the train here in Tokyo).

    Sorry to sound smug, but it baffles me how slow the US is on cell phone/PDA gear.

  • Explain this to me: (Score:4, Interesting)

    by GrandCow ( 229565 ) on Thursday January 13, 2005 @12:53AM (#11345621)
    CES is a show to hype up and coming products...

    The site mentioned is talking about Logitech's MX1000.

    I'm typing this reply from a computer that has a MX 1000 attached to it.

    That I bought months ago...

    From Best Buy.
  • In November 2003, it was reported [slashdot.org] that Belkin had added code to the firmware in their routers that every 8 hours would grab a random HTTP connection and redirect it to advertising on their web site. I personally no longer trust them or their products.
    • When the article said "Bigwigs like ... Belkin", I kind of tilted my head in a quizzical manner and said "What? Since when!"

      It seems that the majority of Belkin's products consist of things like $39.99 usb cables [belkin.com]. Which Best Buy, etc. stocks right next to the $100.00 HP, Epson, etc. printers that *don't* include a USB cable. Anyone else smell some collusion?

      Oh. Here is a little hint. Add the aformentioned amazingly overpriced cable into your cart. Enter the code "12345" into the "redeem coupon" field

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