Well I decided to work on this blog until Thursday. This will first cover what we did on Wednesday and our last day at CES. :(
The day started off really nice, disregarding the Wisconish weather that was going on Vegas. Our first stop was the Microsoft Press tend we need to plan now what we where going to do around the floor since these past days, we have walked around so much.
I decided to go on a wild goose chase searching for Nintendo. They weren’t listed in the exhibitor’s list but hey, someone had to have some Nintendo accessories or may the hard to get Wii, hmmm…After 30 mins of searching around, we found a third party exhibitor displaying Nintendo Wii and DS accessories. Unfortunately no Wii’s, come on Nintendo, what they couldn’t afford a booth or they just weren’t interested. Seriously, that’s pretty disappointing that they didn’t bother to invest in this event.
Next we decided to go on our HD adventure. Some of the TVs that caught my attention again, of course, Sharp’s 108” LCD HD TV by we tried to get a shot of the back to see what kind of wirings were going on back there, sorry to say they chose to cover it (now that’s naughty), I guess they want to disclose that yet to the public. LG’s worlds first full HD 100”LDC, full 1080p. LG has been getting involved with a wide variety of home appliances, mobile phones, computer and commercial products, in addition TV, audio and videos. I am really curious to see what’s next for them. I fell in love with the monitors that were attached to each other; I wouldn’t mind upgrading my 19” flat to that. Somehow, we managed to get lost in HD heaven for a few hours.
After that we met up with my brother in law who was there as a buyer for the Electronics portion of CES. Now for this one, I had a nice plan. I really wanted to expose someone who is really not into video games at all, I always love doing that, brainwash new gamers. We decided to go easy on him so we introduced him to Hellgate, he really enjoyed the game, couldn’t believe how much improvement graphics have made. We did our best to get him on Halo 2 but it was too crowded, perhaps one my home visits. Then we made our ways to the Intel booth were they had the official BMW Sauber, running an F1 powered by Intel’s Core 2 using a Logitech steering wheel, only one of us got to play it. I wasn’t to thrill to hear that I need to remove my shoes to get in.
Some of the exhibitors were really touchy about not allowing pictures of their products; they had a bunch of signs that you could take pictures. At first it didn’t really make sense to not allow people to take pictures but I guess if its products that are not yet out in the market they don’t want their competitors to get a good glance at it.
We ended the day by stopping by the Venetian, were we decided to go on a nice romantic ride on the gondola. It was a bit interesting ride, unfortunately since the weather wasn’t so great; we had to settle to an indoor ride.
For Thursday, we walked the floor for a while. By that time we were out of fuel, we browse thru some booths that at first were a bit busy. We decided to check out the Logitech booth. They had some pretty cool keyboards on display, too bad all them were wireless. I guess one when I decide to retire my Eclipse, I am going to have to go wireless. We also checkout the HP booth they had all their offering kind of crammed up together. They did have some laptops running of course Vista. After that we decided to the end our day at CES and walk around Vegas.
Overall, I had a great time at CES. The food was of course overprized and really bad quality (not surprised, something about events choosing the wrong caters). I really enjoyed getting pushed around and people running into me, since half the time they were looking the opposite direction. CES is definitely in my agenda already for next year, can’t wait…