CES is over for another year, and overall I thought it was a great show, although it did seem a little less “showy” than last year.
There were over 110,000 attendees and believe me when I say I could believe it as it was always busy!
I managed to meet up with quite a few people at CES, including our very own Tim Daleo, Home Server Show’s Dave McCabe, Christopher Lux and Jim Collison, the Media Center Show’s Ian Dixon and Garry Whittaker, and We Got Served’s Terry Walsh and Jim Clark.
Sorry that there were not as many posts from the event as we would have hoped, but the wireless connectivity there was awful. Well, awful doesn’t really even begin to cover it, so as a result, I will be doing a lot of posts this week that I couldn’t get out last week – so you are not going mad by reading CES posts this week 🙂
WHAT WAS ON SHOW AT THE SHOW?
As you would expect, there were lots of TV’s on show, including OLED, LCD and of course a whole range of new 3D TV’s.
I would say though that the biggest range on show was actually media streaming devices, including the Boxee Box and many others (I have some posts planned – so watch this space).
HOVERING THINGS AND DRONES
There were a few cool hovering things and drones on display at the show. I’ve already talked about the very cool Parrot AR Drone and shown a video.
For those Star Wars fans out there, there was also an X Wing Fighter hover drone. This was also very cool and was retailing for around $399.
And here’s a little video showing it flying.
HELLO KITTY
As you probably know, we are big Hello Kitty fans here at Using Windows Home Server. And it was no surprise to us to see a huge amount of Hello Kitty merchandise at the show (although you may be wondering just what some of the items had to do with Consumer Electronics). Anyway, some of the more weird and interesting things are shown below:
FINAL THOUGHTS
So, expect a number of posts over the next few days detailing everything I wanted to share but couldn’t!
