CES

After braving a nasty little cold, delayed flights, sitting on the runway waiting for the gate to clear and waiting about 45 minutes for baggage to show up in Vegas, the Geeks have made it to CES for our second annual coverage of the largest Consumer Electronics Show!

Today we slept in and woke up to my phone ringing the Austin Power’s theme song. Chief Gadgeteer having been up for 42 hours straight and Chief Gizmateer having a nasty cold basically passed out last night without regard to our full schedule starting in, oh 43 minutes from now.

The Geeks are heading out to the Venetian/Sands to pick up our Press Badge Holders and catch the State of the Industry address for the CEA. We’re also planning on attending the High Performance Audio and Home Theater followed by CES Unveiled. Luckily everything takes place back to back in the Sands/Venetian complex.

Chief Gadgeteer also just downed an Airbourne in a silly attempt not to get sick during this trip.

By the way, Jeremy over at LiveDigitally has posted How to Survive CES: 10 Practical Tips and 10 More CES Tips. If you’re going to CES you better cram using Jeremy’s tips!

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CES 2007: We’re Here!Read More »

eCoustics gives their take on the top products at CES. They include a TV (of course, since TVs were all the rage at the show this year), a digital camera, MP3 player (another ‘of course’ hot product), and one of our favs: the Slingbox.

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eCoustics’ Top Picks of CES 2006Read More »

Unfortunately I was unable to attend the last day (or half day) of CES 2006. Regardless, we ran ourselves ragged to cover this year’s CES with more indepth articles coming in the weeks ahead. I’ll try to run through some highlights from my CES experience on day three.

The third day started with a “wow” reaction while viewing LG’s 42″ 3D LCD prototype. Next we toured through Philips space to check out their latest products. The Geeks had to check out a Best in CES candidate by Jensen… an in-dash car PC! As mentioned in the Chief Gadgeteer’s post we watched the CNET awards where they mentioned the big trends this year are in home electronics and small MP3 players. Nothing earth-shattering there! Also, like the Chief Gadgeteer, I am stunned by the Creative Labs Zen Vision being awarded the Best in Show! I conducted a short interview with some of the Sony Locationfree guys. Apparently Sony sends newbs to CES whereas their main (and only?) competitior Sling Media sends the entire knowledgeable company as Sling managed to answer my questions and Sony simply said their product was cool! We checked out the Centrino Duo tablet at Toshiba coming out next month and wrapped up with a great little outfit called dreamGEAR that seems to have a lot of Gizmos for Geeks. We ended the day watching Washington beat Tampa Bay on a gorgeous Pioneer Elite Plasma Display Panel.

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CES 2006: Chief Gizmateer’s Day Three at CESRead More »

Day 3 was yet another long day at CES. Notable visits were with Dish Network, Intel, LG, Philips, Scientific Atlanta, Pioneer and to CNET’s Best of CES 2006 Awards. Starting from the end, CNET announced that the best of show product was the Creative Zen Vision, essentially a multimedia player. While we’re hardly saying that this product isn’t cool, we thought it was a little disappointing that this was the *best* of the show, given that these types of devices have been out there in the market for years. There were numerous other newer, edgier, interesting gadgets that featured more cutting-edge technologies that would have made worthy winners. But that’s just our opinion. After all, the People’s Voice Award went to the Pioneer Inno, which is an MP3 player that is XM Radio ready. You can see all of the winners at CNET’s CES site.

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CES 2006: Day ThreeRead More »

It’s already day 3, but we wanted to give you a rundown on all of the interesting products we saw and announcements we heard. This is a monster of an article that touches on a lot of different vendors, so grab some coffee and get comfortable. In the days and weeks to come, we’ll go into depth on more of these products.

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CES 2006: Day 2 ProductsRead More »