I’m about to leave for Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show, which sets the tone annually for the year in terms of what technology will hit the market. I’ll be posting updates throughout the week from CES here and at Listener Online, so keep an eye on the websites or follow my twitter feed […]
MoreIt was amazing how quickly Las Vegas emptied out over the weekend as the 160,000 visitors to the CES show headed home and relaxed holiday makers reclaimed the bars, restaurants and casinos of Sin City. The quiet tail end of the show gave me a chance to wander the halls of CES relatively unmolested – […]
MoreIt was great to see New Zealand start-up Swiftpoint honoured at the CES show here in Vegas for the novel design of its pint-sized finger-controlled computer mouse. If only we had more companies lining up to showcase world-class tech products at a show like this.I bumped into a handful of kiwis at CES – most […]
MoreLas Vegas: Some 20,000 products are being shown at CES this year. I spent a fairly chaotic day getting acquainted with a tiny fraction of them and here are my top five favourites so far… 1. The Parrot AR Drone This thing is amazing – its a carbon and plastic “quadricopter” that you can steer […]
MoreLas Vegas: One of the hottest gadgets revealed so far at CES is also one of the more unconventional – a laptop that switches laptop keyboard for a second LCD screen. Judging by the crowds milling around the Acer Iconia its a novel idea with appeal, althought as someone who has spent the last six […]
MoreI’m in Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show, the massive tech-fest that usually sets the tone for the year ahead in the world of technology and consumer electronics. Well, that’s how it used to be at CES, which this year will attract in excess of 120,000 visitors to Sin City. In recent years, the […]
MoreThe Consumer Electronic Show was a little humdrum this year, but then it also was in 2008 and 2007, the last year I attended, when the launch of the Apple iPhone at the rival MacWorld conference during the same week really took the wind out of the CES sails (and sales). In January 2007, Windows […]
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