Chris Leckness is a Geek

Incoherent ramblings from a redneck tech geek

CES Wrap Up / Joining the Social - Day 1

Even though I went to sleep at 3am, I woke up ready to go at 7am! Steven Hughes and Jack Cook met me at my hotel for breakfast and we jumped into Jack’s rented Mommy Van and headed for the convention center.

On the walk into the convention center, we ran into a guy buying something out of an iPod Vending machine in the Las Vegas Hilton, too cool!!!!

We’ll skip over the morning, all we did was meet with a few companies to discuss their products. At 11:30am, Steven, Jack and I headed of to Piero’s for a nicely prepared lunch with a small showing by a few companies, including Tablet Kiosk. We all split up and I headed to the Microsoft press tent for a meeting with John Starkweather. John went over some cool new devices, some I photographed, some I could not. John is the head of the Mobius group and if he doesn’t leave Microsoft for Nokia, he’ll continue to be one hell of an asset to Microsoft.

After Microsoft, I met back up with Jack to catch a cab over to the Sands for the HTC meeting. Something came up and that had to be rescheduled, so we were done for the day. Jack went back to the hotel to rest and I walked the Innovation floor. I met with Sling Media, Flybook, and some others, but for the most part… nothing really cool for me up there. 4PM, I head back to my room, work on the sites a little and waited for Steven Hughes to head over to Showstoppers. Jack met us there. Steven and I jumped over to the Tiger Direct Build your own PC race in the next conference area before he headed to the airport to go to Redmond for a day.

After the Race and Florida’s routing of Ohio State, I headed over to Pure again for the Microsoft Party. I met with Tyler Welch and Andrew Brown and had a great evening with those guys. I met some really cool Microsoft geeks that do things other than Windows Mobile as well. I had a huge disappointment at Pure too. I had heard that the Pussy Cat Dolls were supposed to play this party, they did… BUT… they weren’t “the” Pussy Cat Dolls, they were the “Las Vegas” Pussy Cat Dolls. I was going to record some video for my wife and daughter, who love the Dolls.

So, I left this party way ahead of schedule, I wanted to get some SLEEP… That didn’t happen. I ended up winning appx. $1600 in Caesar’s Casino. Lack of sleep can be replaced by cash.

I got back to the room around 1am, worked about an hour and hit the rack around 2am…

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12 January 2007 at 02:28 - Comments
  • Jim Parker
    Chris, I also attended the CES this year. I didn't do quite as well as you at the tables, but here is my overall impression of the show, it wasn't that big a deal. I didn't see any new "got to have it" item. The innovation area was kind of ho-hum. Obviously, the whole trend in consumer electronics is digital media with an emphasis on video. Its kind of like everyone thinks the entire world does nothing but watch TV and DVD all day. So, glad I went. I love Vegas. But I don't need to spend three days of my life I'll never get back trudging the convention sites for the chance to see 6,000 HD Plasma and LCD TVs, SO many huge car stereos all booming bass so loud its like listening to rolling thunder, and the chance to play a view video games. I think the CES show needs to start emphasizing productivity again. Home Office and small office products were just plain missing. Just my $.02.
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