Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Consumer Electronic Show 2006

CES was a pretty big let down this year, but for those of you who missed it... here I present my random list of things I saw at CES:
-These guys with that thing
-something stupid called Babble
-logitech's $99 webcam had the best free software (eyebrow/mouth/eye/head position tracking so you could paste parts on your face for your next webmeeting... or just be a different character)
-Finally a use for those segways... a mickshaw!
-Philips and Sony had e-ink based things (think super low battery life... because its like a sheet of plastic paper with lots of microscopic ping pong balls that are each painted white on one side and black on the other that can be flipped over with a little electrostatic charge...)
Philips had a lab demo of flexing display (refresh is 1 frame a second at best and sorta looks like a polaroid developing)
-Lego had a next-gen mindstorm (coming this fall I think), that was pretty impressive

For more commentary, see here (and thanks to jeremy for the pictures)