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CES2013

10 January 2013

George Rebane

The long running Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is again in full swing showing off all kinds of new technical innovations, gizmos, and ongoing projects. Absent again are the big guys like Microsoft, Apple, etc, but you can be sure that they have sent teams of attendees to see what's worth copying and buying. (The big guys are so big that they no longer want to share the stage with other companies, since they can rent and fill an auditorium anywhere, any time they want to announce a new product.)

CES continues to be the launch point for hundreds of companies who hope to interest the markets with their brain children. Of course, the major attendees are the media of all stripes including the associations and institutes for engineering professionals. IEEE has put up a nice website that lets you peruse CES2013 from the comfort of your home. Enjoy.

Posted in Happenings, Science Snippets, Web/Tech

9 responses to “CES2013”

Steve Enos

10 January 2013

The media and review coverage of the CES has shown some great and forward thinking “technical innovations, gizmos, and ongoing projects”. Some mind blowing stuff!
Add all this to the latest, amazing Mars rover project and then try to grasp why we can’t figure out some of the most basic issues we are faced with.

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George Rebane

10 January 2013

SteveE 1003am – Good point Steve, but methinks the governance issues we grapple with here are much harder to solve than any “amazing Mars rover project”. Nevertheless, I join your lament.

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Gregory

11 January 2013

I only managed to carve out an afternoon from my hectic schedule of laying around eating bon-bons to walk the floor of CES Wednesday afternoon.
Lots of neat stuff, but mostly same s**t, different year. More pixels for TV’s. Better audio. Slicker interfaces. Great gizmos, nothing causing me to rip out my checkbook and get something new.
The three things that really hit me were: Samsung is the new Sony, Coby is the new Samsung, and there are a whole bunch of far eastern manufacturers of Android tablets that want to be the new Coby.

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earlcrabb

11 January 2013

Screw Coby. I bought one of their cheap TV’s and it died after only two months of being on 24/7. Warranty sucked also.

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Steve Enos

11 January 2013

Go Samsung for “screens” and TV’s.

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Gregory

11 January 2013

Earl, interesting datapoint, doesn’t surprise me. Samsung isn’t all that great either; comparatively weak on warranty service and left me with a defective TV.
Best choice is to buy Costco and just rely on a no questions asked refund in the first few months.

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Russ Steele

11 January 2013

Gregory,
Did your check out any of the 3D printers? You can now buy them on Amazon.

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Douglas Keachie

12 January 2013

In such a festive area, Gregory is, but alack and alas, no Death Star, but a funny writeup instead that will amuse most posting here.
http://io9.com/5975381/the-white-house-will-not-build-a-death-star-tells-us-in-hilariously-geeky-fashion

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Michael Anderson

12 January 2013

Fun race to the bottom ya got here…
Seriously Greg? Costco? Ain’t that a liberal joint?

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