Posts Tagged with ‘CES’

Right from Google's initial launch of Android, I've been curious about what the overall plan was for the product. After all, Google sank an enormous amount of money into its development, and judging from the blogs of Java developers that I read, a pretty good amount of time as well. It seemed an awfully big project to have launched without the usual amount of Google fanfare, and it was coming fairly late in the game, with Symbian, Windows Mobile, and [...]

By now, I'm sure everyone has heard of Gizmodo's prank at CES, using a TV-B-Gone device to turn off displays at booths and during presentations. The actual offender has been banned from future CES attendance, with other ramifications possible.
The story has gotten considerable coverage, including the mainstream press, including the New York Times. Virtually every forum that the story has appeared in has seen people coming down on one side or the other, some thinking the prank was funny, while [...]

In an article by Michel Marriot I learned of an innovative and rather fantastic new toy that incorporates the most advanced technology. A robotics company called WowWee plans to release a mass produced functional ornithopter (a device that flies like a bird). The device is a radio controlled toy that mechanically flaps its Mylar wings and flies as a bird does. This is the latest and greatest in a whole line of mechanical marvels to be released this year.
The inspiration for [...]

Reuters (Switzerland) - January 27, 2007 - The Internet is set to revolutionize television within the next five years, according to Bill Gates - Chairman of Microsoft. The explosion of online video content and merging of TV and PC sets signals a new era for television.
 ”I'm stunned how people aren't seeing that with TV, in five years from now, people will laugh at what we've had,” he told business leaders and politicians at the World Economic Forum.
In the years to [...]

We bring up items like YouTube and Myspace as poster children of the Web 2.0 “movement.” Yes? No? I think it’s safe to say so. But the push to further technological advances to bring us closer together doesn’t stop at everyman’s creation of graphic-saturated profiles or uploading stuff that one would rather get exposed to millions in an online community than get a crack at the $10,000 prize on the timeless US-based television series, AFV. It’s reaching… well, a lot further. [...]