While the geekdom and tech press clamor ravenously, pouring over spy reports, photoshopped renderings and flat out rumors, we thought we'd inject some hard fast factual truth into the fray. But then we thought it'd be more fun just to poke holes in some of the silliness that's puring out onto the web each day from the 2010 Las Vegas CES (Consumer Electronics Show, and if you needed that spelled out, just who's computer are you reading this blog on?).So here are the top news stories emerging from the gadget gluttony that is CES:
- Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer made it clear last night in his Keynote address that Microsoft is definitively and absolutely still the most boring company on the planet. Microsoft's shareholder's applauded wildly from every corner of the globe, then went back to defragging their disk drives.
- Dell announced plans for a new prototype "tablet" computer that features a 5 inch screen. Dell says the relatively small size was predicated on the core target audience most likely to be "wowed" by the comapny's "breaking" technology - toddlers and infants.
3D televisions are all the rage at the giant show, with many manufacturers showing off prototypes of soon to be released "3D ready" screens. In the meantime, Amazon, makers of the book reader called the Kindle, are taking a retro approach and have introduced a 42" flat screen using the Kindle's e-ink technology. The television boasts four shades of gray in it's picture, is difficult to see in dim light and produces an image just south of a tintype movieola. Amazon states that the by using the Kindle's e-ink screen the TV is capable of remaining on while unplugged for nearly a week. However, no one has ever wanted to watch one of the prototypes for more than a few minutes.
- Automobile manufacturers like Ford and KIA have gotten into the game at CES as well. Sporting new technologies like advanced on board communications, internet radio links and voice control, many of the new automotive electronic devices poised to arrive in late 2010 vehicle models are causing a stir. None though is more controversial than a partnership between flat screen manufacturers, internet providers and car makers, to provide a live internet web connection complete with a "movies on demand" feature that would turn the windshield of your car into a high definition LCD display. Dubbed the Driver's Digital Entertainment Advanced Display or "Driver's D.E.A.D.", the consortium formed to produce the displays claim that placing the movie directly in the field of vision of the driver and passengers allows the driver to simply "shift focus", most likely allowing just enough reaction time to avoid the tragic events about to occur just ahead of the vehicle's path of movement.
Unusual for the convention business in Las Vegas, escort services and independent "girlfriend" providers are mostly without business, some even using the week of CES as an opportune time to leave Las Vegas for vacations. It is also reported that sales of virtual goggles and tactile "game gloves" are selling out all over the city as internet sex hospitality suites have had 24 hour lines and are causing pandemonium throughout the city.
- Though eagerly anticipated each year at the annual CES, popular internet companies Google and Yahoo have again soundly refused to give their companies intelligent names.
And this just in - though Apple Inc. is not a presenter at the annual CES, a widely rumored product announcement expected on the 27th of this month in San Francisco is the talk of the town. Highly anticipated is the expected announcement of a long rumored "tablet" or "slate" computer, building on the popularity of Apple's iPhone. Today it is said to be confirmed that among names being considered for the cutting edge device, "Steve's Big 10 Inch" has been dropped as a possibility. Owners of "stevesbig10inch.com" are said to be devastated at the news. There does appear to be some growing consensus that, in an unusual display of company bravado, Apple Inc. may indeed name the new device the "iDiditagain".
the first two photos are by Mario Anzuoni/Reuters
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