CES 2005 - Lesser-known companies with cool products
Thursday, January 6, 2005
There were several halls totaling to about 4 football fields worth of space full of Asian manufactures that I've never heard of. They probably make most of the products we use today, but stay behind the scenes as companies like Dell and Apple put their logo on items, mark the price up 200x, and sell it was a one-of-a-kind item.
Take a tour of some cool (and not-so-cool) items that sparked my interest. There's about 150 photos here, with lots of my own commentary. Feel free to add you own comments too.
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Okay - no joke - the Robosapien crashed. Then it started bending backward and wouldn't stop. The sales guy had to call over an engineer to try to fix it and eventually they just turned it off, turned it back on, and explained to me that these problems were "normal" during this stage of development.
Dylan Greene, posted 1/18/2005 12:06:00 AM
Introducting... the incredibly curious Robosapien dinosaur! Very cool!
Dylan Greene, posted 1/18/2005 12:07:00 AM
Many versions of the original Robosapien! That chrome and black one would match perfectly in my kitchen.
Dylan Greene, posted 1/18/2005 12:09:00 AM
A Robosapien dog? This thing didn't seem very easy to control, it kept trying to walk off the platform.
Dylan Greene, posted 1/18/2005 12:10:00 AM
The Gizmonodo personal video player and game machine. It runs Windows CE, has a fast 3D graphics accelator, and lots of battery life...
Dylan Greene, posted 1/18/2005 12:11:00 AM
...but it's only as good as the software put on it. For some reason the games only wanted to display fatal application error when I tried them. This device is available now in Europe. I don't really see the point to it - it's too business-like for a gamer and too game-like for a business person. Companies need to pick an audience before trying to design a machine that does everything. Or hire Apple's marketing team.
Dylan Greene, posted 1/18/2005 12:13:00 AM
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Dennis was impressd with this laptop. It's just a big laptop to me.
Dylan Greene, posted 1/18/2005 12:14:00 AM
Linux machines can crash too, and here's the proof... This machine was giving a cool demo of how well Nvidia's hardware works in Linux until the machine stopped working!
Dylan Greene, posted 1/18/2005 12:15:00 AM
The mysterous Phantom game console!
Dylan Greene, posted 1/18/2005 12:16:00 AM
Not plugged in! Damn... This looks like the same thing shown at E3.
Dylan Greene, posted 1/18/2005 12:16:00 AM
We'll see....
Dylan Greene, posted 1/18/2005 12:17:00 AM
This laptop from Sharp had a 3D screen that didn't need special glasses.
As I've said before, this is cool in a demo, but I can't see this being used practically - you'll get a headache far before you get your work done.
Dylan Greene, posted 1/18/2005 12:18:00 AM
Another photo of the 3D screen. I'm impressed with how well the photo came out, though you can't tell it's 3D.
Dylan Greene, posted 1/18/2005 12:18:00 AM
Roomba clones! I didn't see Roomba at CES, but I did see lots of long-lost-cousins.
Dylan Greene, posted 1/18/2005 12:19:00 AM
