A brief report of CES 2011
CES 2011 covered all halls of the Las Vegas Convention Center, North, Central, and South Halls, and spilled over to the Sands Convention Center and nearby hotels. Estimates for first day attendance range from 120,00 to 180,000 people!
A few of the early arrivals on Thursday morning next to the main entrance to Central Plaza at Central Hall....
One small section of one hall seen from a transition area above...
North Hall is almost exclusively auto-related items, so the fully-outfitted (all the bells and whistles) cars typically pop up there; cars that appear in the the main halls (Central and South) must be something special indeed...
I was at the Sony booth -- well not a booth, for its display space was the size of 3 houses! -- for ~90 minutes; ogling all the magic and wonder, sure, but also investigating in-depth their new TV, the XBR 929. Too bad its glories do not make for an equally beautiful photo (different refresh rates, etc)...
NBC was there, which included representatives of their SyFy channel and CNBC. Mario Bartiromo after an interview...
What would be a display of wonder without beauty? Only this time, make it Beauty...
Beauty and the Beast (my friend, Kenn Bates, who snapped all photos but this one)...
CES 2011 struck an odd note for me. Compared to past years, pretty much everyone was there, but the whole shebang felt... subdued. No breakout products, no truly gosh-wow moments, no feeling of "I must have that item, now!" The shadow of Apple/APPL loomed large; many items were either me-too products (tablets, smart-phones, etc) or attempting to capture Apple's Halo Effect.
All in all, I am once-again glad I attended CES; certainly I left knowing more than when I started the day, even though no items of spectacular import leaped out at me to share with you. Of interest will be announcements from Apple's MacWorld conference later this month.
-- David M Gordon / The Deipnosophist
A few of the early arrivals on Thursday morning next to the main entrance to Central Plaza at Central Hall....
One small section of one hall seen from a transition area above...
North Hall is almost exclusively auto-related items, so the fully-outfitted (all the bells and whistles) cars typically pop up there; cars that appear in the the main halls (Central and South) must be something special indeed...
I was at the Sony booth -- well not a booth, for its display space was the size of 3 houses! -- for ~90 minutes; ogling all the magic and wonder, sure, but also investigating in-depth their new TV, the XBR 929. Too bad its glories do not make for an equally beautiful photo (different refresh rates, etc)...
NBC was there, which included representatives of their SyFy channel and CNBC. Mario Bartiromo after an interview...
What would be a display of wonder without beauty? Only this time, make it Beauty...
Beauty and the Beast (my friend, Kenn Bates, who snapped all photos but this one)...
CES 2011 struck an odd note for me. Compared to past years, pretty much everyone was there, but the whole shebang felt... subdued. No breakout products, no truly gosh-wow moments, no feeling of "I must have that item, now!" The shadow of Apple/APPL loomed large; many items were either me-too products (tablets, smart-phones, etc) or attempting to capture Apple's Halo Effect.
All in all, I am once-again glad I attended CES; certainly I left knowing more than when I started the day, even though no items of spectacular import leaped out at me to share with you. Of interest will be announcements from Apple's MacWorld conference later this month.
-- David M Gordon / The Deipnosophist
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