I’m at McCarran airport here in Vegas about to fly back to Seattle after a day or so at CES. It was a bit lighter this year, good news in that it reduced the hordes to something almost manageable.
I stayed at the Venetian, which was weak, although it looks fancy. I was locked out of my room three times by their lame card key system. No coffee maker in the room. Bouchon is pretty nice for breakfast, though.
I’ll skip the Microsoft stuff except to say I spent time with a Dell notebook loaded up with Windows 7 and it was pretty sweet. Get that beta!
A few things that caught my eye:
- TVs. Who knew there was so much more to do with TVs? LED LCDs, OLED, super thin, 3D, wirelessly connected, connected TVs that include Yahoo widgets – geez. My 56” Samsung DLP is looking pretty long in the tooth! The LG 3D home theater was quite stunning.
- Acoustic Research had a nice easy set of wireless speaker connectors – connect the box to your stereo speaker outputs and plug the small receiver box into your speakers somewhere else in the house. Looks like a high quality way of avoiding speaker wire, but I didn't get a price. Probably pretty cheap.
- If you still want to run wire the folks at Flatwire (aptly named had some cool, very flat, speaker wire that you can paint. Buy it at www.flatwireready.com.
- Nice electric bikes from ELVMotors
- AR also had some nice wireless outdoor speakers that doubled as porch lights. Might be nice on a deck.
Looking forward to getting back.
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