CES Day One: Top 10

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Gizmodo has posted a Top 10 list of gadgets from the first day of the Consumer Electronics Show 2009. I kinda like this Eee keyboard, it’d be just the thing for a HTPC.

Asus took the crazy cake with their still-shadowy home theater keyboard. With an onboard processor (of some kind), a touchscreen and keyboard and wireless HDMI, it makes perfect sense as a unique home-theater machine.
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That Sony Vaio notebook looks like you'll be doing a LOT of vertical scrolling.
 
LED instead of florescent back lighting on a LCD cutting heat, allowing 1 inch thick hdtvs? I would like a 65 inch version please.
 
arghh the Windows 7 site is getting hammered

must download. now.
 
I lol'd at the portable BD player. :p But it does have HDMI so you can connect it and use it as a standalone unit.
 
Anyone else think the Sammy Blu player just looks like it's trying a little to hard to be cool? For it shape and size Samsung might have just built it into one of these TV sets.
 
I thought the camera with a web browser was a little weird until I read a bit more about it. Now, it seems like a pretty good concept.
 
The Palm Pre looks nice, the first real touchscreen competition for the iPhone. Only area it lacks in is application development (only so far you can go with HTML, CSS, and Javascript compared to a development language like Objective-C) but in every other respect it looks ace.
 
Look at the effect the Palm Pre intro is having on the stock price:

http://finance.google.com/finance?q=PALM

Up 34% basically... look at that timeline too, almost precisely after it was officially intro'ed... how cool is that. :D

I hope it does turn out to be a fantastic product for Palm. I'd hate to see 'em totally tank and disappear when I feel they do have some life left in' em.
 
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Look at the effect the Palm Pre intro is having on the stock price:

http://finance.google.com/finance?q=PALM

Up 34% basically... look at that timeline too, almost precisely after it was officially intro'ed... how cool is that. :D

I hope it does turn out to be a fantastic product for Palm. I'd hate to see 'em totally tank and disappear when I feel they do have some life left in' em.
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Its actually up almost 100% since it was announced, 34% is just from the opening price today.

I find it interesting that the put option volume and open interest for January options is through the roof right now. A lot of people out there gambling right now on a pullback in the next few days.

And yes, I think this will turn out to be the product that turns them around. For years Palm got squashed by RIMM and Apple, and now (outside of applications and limited Exchange support, no BES support obviously) they have the first product that is actually feature competitive with the best handsets out there.

People here hate on company x or company y all they want, but this is why competition is good. Without it we'd still be struggling with crummy P4s, Vista's convoluted GUI as an only option, GPUs that never got faster or cheaper, and WM phones with crummy OSes or Palm handsets with crummy hardware.
 
Shit, I have a little gambling money, should have bought some puts myself, haha.
 
about that samsung wall mounted player.

It seems like a great idea to take your product out of the rack and put it somewhere more accessible wall mount or tabletop.
Problem is if you are successful not careful all the other guys decide their stuff should also be more prominently displayed as well, with of course their own cool and unique styling, thinking THEIR product is the showpiece you will use all the time.

Best thing about a rack is that it forces them to at least conform to a form factor so everything is not completely mismatched. not to mention the wiring nightmare.

trust me i know about this. it happened to synthesizers already this lot would fit in a rack taking 1/3 the space and i would be able to reach all the controls just as easy.

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