The only time to use the stupid Las Vegas monorail is to avoid $20 parking charges when going to a convention like CES. All the main casinos in walking distance charge fees to park. For $1 each way a local like me can park my car further up the strip and ride to CES.
The parking lot of the Las Vegas Convention Center during CES 2009. Oooh, look CNET and Engadget are there in trailers, next to the trash. Coinkeydink?
Geeks look like ants from here. I'm crushing your heads. Crush! Crush! Crush!
Want to know what a $40,000 gaming pod looks like? This.
Introducing NovelQuest's Emperor gaming pod. It's $40 grand, no need to get technical. 40 freaking grand.
The pod can rotate 360 degrees and comes complete w/a HEPA air filter. I'm guessing the air filter is made of solid gold...
What is an air filter/delivery system doing in a pod that is OPEN? Hello? Hello? 40 freaking grand?! Are you kidding me?
Geek gone. For some reason his credit card denied the purchase. I guess that air filter pushed it over his limit.
This erector set version on the other side of the booth is probably only $25 grand and comes with a boring solid silver HEPA filter. Laaame!
Yep. The name of this company is CHANG CHONG. I guess Cheech was a no show...
OMG! Zombies!!
This is what an Intel Atom processor looks like if it was a car. Meep! Meep! Same performance.
And now for CNET's Best of CES Awards 2009 edition!
LG Dare. Winner of the CNET To Hell With Miniaturization award 2009! Hernia included.
Creative still makes pretty weighty video cameras. No surprise here! Moving on...
Introducing the Panasonic Viera remote control unit. 22 buttons and weighs 22 tons. Brilliant! Brilliant! I miss when ZDTV/TechTV did the awards, they made sense then...
Hey guys, it's Becky Worley interviewing convention goers for her spot on Good Morning America! HI BECKY!
What do you mean you don't want me to take your picture w/my little digital camera lady? Notice the full blown camera and lighting crew FILMING you? Fine. *click* Nyah-nyah! BYE BECKY!
1 of the billion guitar Hero demos at CES 2009. *YAWN* CES 2009 - Guitar hero edition. Lame!
A brilliant idea. A force feedback mouse. Just what I want when I'm twitch-gaming. A mouse that vibrates and throws my aim off!
Welcome to the Microsoft booth. In case you missed our name overhead, we're showing it on our big screen too. Slightly lower and to the right.
Microsoft sued itself during the show for using it's own name so they took their name off the giant projection screen rather than pay themselves millions of $$.
From what we saw there was no theme to Microsoft being at CES this year. Perhaps "We're here, we're there, we're everywhere?"
On the front sides of the walls were Windows Vista, IE8, Microsoft Search. Behind the wall is where they put Windows 7 in a tiny space. Should have been the other way around guys!
This is the Microsoft guy showing everyone Windows 7.
This is the Microsoft guy showing everyone Windows 7 reacting as a user accidentally installs Vista on his computer.
4 22" Samsung monitors on one stand. It would have been impressive if it wasn't 8x's the price. PASS!
Winner of the Totally Impractical Award of 2009 is this aluminum polished high-tech Coke machine at the Samsung Booth.
This high tech Coke machine exemplifies why state-of-the-art tech should never be used to replace old tech. A lit up, pimped out Coke machine with a 52" LCD touch screen? Give me a break...
Hey buddy, don't hog all the free Coke!
SOLD OUT? You sonufa! Seriously, a 52" touchscreen on a coke machine? How long after it hits the streets before someone isn't the proud owner of a HUGE LCD touchscreen monitor? And by someone I mean, me, of course.
Hey look it runs Microsoft's Windows too! Sorry Linux crybabies. (Seriously when the guy had to restock the machine he had to plug in a freaking keyboard to do it!)
This is were any true geeks should hang out at - the International Pavilion at the Hilton. Forget the show floor, this is where all the innovation happens.
The International Pavilion is where companies from China, Korea, Taiwan, etc show off tomorrow's hot tech gadgets before it shows up on the CES main floor after being bought by US companies.
I always spend more time here than on the over-hyped tripefest of the CES main floor. Here is where the actual innovation happens. And it's less crowded and they give out cool weird-tasting candy too!
A combination digital photo frame and picture printer. It can edit, create and print passport photo's right from the frame! Not a bad idea!
OMG! PRE-ZOMBIE!
No, that's not Michael Jackson! There's no children around him.
OMG! MORE ZOMBIES!!
I stumbled up the NComputing booth at the International Pavilion at CES. This standard Dell PC is running 11 users!
The cost per user with their hardware and software solutions that allow 11 users to share 1 PC is, according to NComputing $70 per user. An ideal solution for schools!
This is the hardware end for each user... plug a monitor, keyboard and mouse into that tiny little box on the right. Some of the user boxes were watching DVDs, streaming video, surfing the web and using applications all at the same time off one simple Dell PC! Amazing! I was especially glad to see them using VLC (Video Lan Client) as well!
On of NComputing's workers showing off the tiny little box that is part of their hardware and software solution that makes using one computer for 11 users a reality. The company spokesman I talked to said they're big in the school systems here in the US and if the product works as advertised, I can see why!
Patrick Norton from ZDTV no, wait I meant TechTV, wait no, DL.TV no wait, Revision3. For now. Roger Chang is at the left (same deal).
Roger Chang is setting up to tape Tekzilla while my good buddy Ben smiles for my camera. Perhaps he tied Roger's shoelaces together. Again? Bad Ben! Bad!
Introducing the stars of Tekzilla... the Virgin Atlantic and Adamo Dell Laptops!! YAY! Clap! Clap! Clap! (Kidding - that's Patrick Norton and Veronica Belmont)
Veronica shows Patrick yet another reason women have no excuse to sew something. The Brother, Quattro 6000D computerized sewing machine. A steal at only 9 Grand!
Ben Franske taking pictures of Tekzilla filming at CES 2009. Me, I'm taking pics of Ben taking pics of Tekzilla at CES.
Roger Chang behind the camera filming Tekzilla at CES 2009.
Patrick shows off the Lenovo, ThinkPad W700 DS Dual Screen Notebook. A 10.6" screen pops out of the 17-inch main LCD. Wowzers! Only $3663 and weighs more than a Hummer H2? Perfect!
After the show Panda sued Patrick for sexual harassment. Ghost and Pig were witnesses at the trial.
Wow, what a Tekzilla fan! He'd rather jerkily shoot the latest Tekzilla episode being filmed w/poor audio and people walking in front of him rather than download the show the same day in HD format. Brilliant. Brilliant I say! (Hope this isn't the target viewer they're aiming for)
Jim Louderback happy. Like there's any other kind of Jim Louderback!
Hey look guys, it's CNET!
No joke, this floral arrangement won CNET's Best of CES Award...
Hey dude, you're blocking my shot! DO YOU MIND?! MOOOVE IT!
We can see the letters now! Thanks.
Alas nerds, they finally closed Star Trek: The Experience at the Hilton. What's a little geek to do now...
... hint hint hint. AROOOOGA!!
