CES 2010 Coverage at Technology Report

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The show is over and I’m back home in lovely rural Oregon, which is a lot like Las Vegas … if you take away the mega Casinos, lavish hotels, hundreds of national class restaurants, 24/7 dining, hundred-million-dollar theaters, zombie gamblers, throngs of people, massive convention centers, and the nasty city underbelly you find just away from the fancy venues.

For the next several days I’ll be writing up the show from the approximately 400 pictures I took of CES 2010 and Las Vegas over the past week.   That coverage will mostly be over at Technology Report

Although I tend to see things through Web 2.0 colored glasses I really think CES 2010 this year was really pushing the 3D TVs (skeptical of how well consumers will receive this) while ironically much more powerfully showcasing something something that cannot be directly sold – social networking and global device connectivity.

Tim O’Reilly and others have talked about “Web 3.0” which some see as a device-O-sphere  where our computers, cameras, phones, household appliances, cars, etc are all streaming data into online environments where that information can be used by other applications in a variety of ways.    I think we are very close to having the technical ability to do that, and soon we’ll see a lot more websites and other computerized ways to process and learn from that data stream.

Obviously there’s a downside in terms of the fact our personal drivacy is being eroded away but that ship has sailed and I’m optimistic that the Device-O-Sphere will bring us far more efficient ways to use our resources and time.

Inefficiency is massive in all sectors of the world and I think the folks who are fretting far too much about looming catastrophes from things like global warming should be spending a lot more of their valuable time helping to engineer systems that create energy and resource efficiencies by

1.  Finding the waste and 2. eliminating some of that waste.

FYI – start with your conventional water heater – for most turning it down a few degrees won’t create a noticeable change yet it will save more energy than switching off lights from now  through the climate apocalypse.

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CES Intel Web Cube – Brilliant

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CES Intel – Brilliant

Originally uploaded by JoeDuck

This is the best exhibit at the show I have seen – a touchscreen with a specialized (non public ) application that pulls in a world of info according to customizable commands from a PC screen. It showcases the power of Intel’s new processor which I understand is substantially faster and is expected to drive many of the coming generation of processing intensive applications for TVs, phone, and computers.

CES Intel Web Cube – Brilliant

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CES Intel – Brilliant

Originally uploaded by JoeDuck

This is the best exhibit at the show I have seen – a touchscreen with a specialized (non public ) application that pulls in a world of info according to customizable commands from a PC screen. It showcases the power of Intel’s new processor which I understand is substantially faster and is expected to drive many of the coming generation of processing intensive applications for TVs, phone, and computers.

Drew Carey with Joe Duck (Hunkins), Technology Report

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Drew Carey with Joe Duck (Hunkins), Technology Report

Originally uploaded by JoeDuck

Just me hanging with one of my tech buddies here at CES 2010 in Las Vegas.

Drew was very cool about taking pictures with folks before he ran a trivia contest here at the show, and also had the best CES 2010 summary so far:

The $50 gift certificates were going to be $100, but CNET had a tough year.

CES Social Media in action – Twitter feed at blogger lounge

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CES Social Media in action – Twitter feed at blogger lounge

Originally uploaded by JoeDuck

This screen, located in the blogger’s lounge at LVCC at the CES show, displays Tweets that relate to CES. This year the CES folks are experimenting even more with social media and it’ll be interesting to see how all that shakes out.

The press / blogger / buzz continuum here offers a great look into how journalism is being reshaped, though it’s really hard to generalize about what we’ll see in the future as “citizen journalists” and tech hobby folks begin to dominate the info landscape. I think some of the best innovations may come as traditional journalists figure out the best ways to leverage new media to bring quality content at lower costs. However they will need to feed their families while they figure that out, and I predict this means we’ll continue to see mainstream journalists under pressure even as blogging journalism thrives.

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CES Blogging Lounge – Thanks to sponsor Novatel Wireless’ MIFI

Originally uploaded by JoeDuck

I’m in the Las Vegas Convention Center blogging lounge at CES a nice venue as it was last year. The Venetian lounge is going to be crowded as it appears they have eliminated the press room at that venue so we’ll have both Press and bloggers sharing limited resources over at Venetian. I’m with some CEA bloggers at our Cirque du Soleil KA tour today so i’m hoping to get some insight into the blogging / press / CES continuum.

Shout out to Novatel Wireless for sponsoring these lounges which are a nice refuge from the maelstrom of exhibits here at the show.

CES Blogging Lounge

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CES Blogging Lounge – Thanks to sponsor Novatel Wireless’ MIFI

Originally uploaded by JoeDuck

I’m in the Las Vegas Convention Center blogging lounge at CES a nice venue as it was last year. The Venetian lounge is going to be crowded as it appears they have eliminated the press room at that venue so we’ll have both Press and bloggers sharing limited resources over at Venetian. I’m with some CEA bloggers at our Cirque du Soleil KA tour today so i’m hoping to get some insight into the blogging / press / CES continuum.

Shout out to Novatel Wireless for sponsoring these lounges which are a nice refuge from the maelstrom of exhibits here at the show.