I know, I've been a bad blogger. Also my one regular reader may have noticed the sites been down. That's what happens when you host from home, are away and 10inches of rain over the course of a storm knock out the power. Oops.
I spent last week at CES, the stupidly large Tech show in Vegas. It was my first time there and it's a crazily large, varied show. From high tech widgets to zinc fuel cells to slingbox, microsoft, 150" plasmas and every new version of phone,camera, software and hardware on the planet.
it takes up the whole of the Las Vegas Convention center, including areas outside where they host car tech zones, a couple of houses built for the show to demonstrate high tech homes and also the Sands convention center in the Venetian.
I think it would work better (and be a lot kinder on the feet) if they split in into different shows but there you go. it was fun, exhausting, informative and frankly a little overwhelming.
Also, the Adult Expo overlaps the end of the show so it's a little weird to see all the porn stars checking out the gadgets and wandering the halls. Actually, seeing the attendees of the Adult Expo wandering the halls is worse - some of those people need to understand the rules of what not to wear. Eek.
Top tech? screw all the cool new hardware and software going on, forget the little robot gizmo's and the 150" plasma (although if Panasonic want me to test it for em I'm all ears). For me it was the 1Kw indoor generator running on powdered Zinc. By end of the year they should have 3Kw (enough for an average home) with no emissions, no rules about bringing it indoors and no gasoline. They were selling Zinc batteries for charging iPods etc but frankly the thing powering their booth was far more interesting for me.
So there. I'm back. Happy New Year 