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best of CES 2005

post #1 of 9
1/6/05 at 6:44pm
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Post your favorite gadgets/tech of CES 2005 here

High-tech coffee
Laugh if you want, but this is the biggest news coming out of the Consumer Electronics Show on this fine Las Vegas morning: the Starbucks stand in the Las Vegas Convention Center is offering a new lid, and it's got a slider that opens and closes the drink hole.



Absolute genius.

(stolen from an article by CNET http://www.cnet.com/4520-10602_1-5595094-1.html)
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post #2 of 9
1/6/05 at 6:47pm
I would've thought the best out of CES is Bill Gates getting the BSOD when showing off new buggy microsoft software!

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...019EST0249.DTL

http://games.slashdot.org/games/05/0...id=109&tid=211
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post #3 of 9
1/6/05 at 6:52pm
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yeah, that was amusing, but hardly surprising. Considering I have to practice my presentations to clients about 50 times before doing it, you'd think he would do it, too.
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post #4 of 9
1/8/05 at 10:02pm
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seagate 5gb external drive...yum

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post #5 of 9
1/8/05 at 10:19pm
Coffee did you see any pre-n wi max, beside belkin?
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post #6 of 9
1/8/05 at 10:23pm
I thought 802.11n and WiMax are completely different things?
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post #7 of 9
1/8/05 at 10:24pm
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no, i didn't make it down there (for some reason, work is more important than ces2005, go figure). just trying to find good stuff from the online reports.
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post #8 of 9
1/8/05 at 10:36pm
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pre-n is the multiple broadcast/receive technology built into belkin's pc cards and routers. Evidently, belkin's pre-n router is quite impressive. Longer broadcasts, more reliable, much faster.

wi-max is intended for a larger deployment internet access, for instance, wimax would replace DSL in a local community. You'd have a wimax broadcast tower every 5 miles or so in a town. We use a form of it here (wireless access through local broadcast).
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post #9 of 9
1/10/05 at 4:49pm
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So, everyone sees Kodak's new wifi digital camera and thinks of the possibilities....

hmmmm...

then they read the fine print:

The camera sells for $599, but will be $699 with the wi-fi option. that's not the best part, though.

Pictures from the camera can be sent directly to Kodak's website for sharing and developing - but nowhere else. Yes, that said nowhere else. Then, any friends or family wanting to see them have to purchase them, they can't just download them.

That should sell well.
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