GadgetTrak scribes best press release of CES 2011
GadgetTrak is a service that, if your smartphone or laptop is stolen, will snap a picture of the perp using the webcam and identify their location within a few yards, then forward the information so...
View ArticleUser interface design at CES 2011
Chopped arugula at ShowStoppers There’s always a nice buffet at the ShowStoppers press event at CES. This year it included a beautiful arugula salad with orange slices. Trouble was, the long strands of...
View ArticleProduct wrapup from CES 2011
A product I didn’t expect to like, but impressed me, is the $449 neo-I from Optoma. it’s an iPod dock that has a sweet sound system and a picoprojector that projects a reasonable size image (say 3×5...
View ArticleCES 2011: the chef has left the building
I did not have much luck finding a convection oven with multiple zones controlled from your iPad; in fact I had quite a bit of trouble locating the simple iGrill mentioned in my previous post on remote...
View ArticleCES tightens screws on bloggers, lookie-loos.
I just finished registering for the Winter Consumer Electronics Show (CES) as an “industry attendee” vs a blogger. They’ve eliminated the blogger designation as part of a “stricter credentialing...
View ArticleMarketing Makeover at CES 2012
One of my favorite events at CES is Steven J. Leon’s Showstoppers. Tech companies large and small rent a 6-foot booth space for 4 hours so they can convince reporters and bloggers (this is a press...
View ArticlePanasonic kicks eco-butt at CES 2012
Panasonic's solar racer If you are at CES, be sure to check out the “eco ideas” section of the Panasonic exhibit. Once again, they score with irresistible concepts and catchphrases for ideas that may...
View ArticleBests of CES, 2012
Artist drawing with Samsung Note Best marketing: Samsung Note. This is the new device that’s small enough to use as a phone yet big enough to use as a tablet, soon to be announced for AT&T. (I want...
View ArticleWrapping up CES 2012
The highlight of my final day at CES 2012 was a visit to Eureka Park, the area at the Venetian dedicated to new products and startup companies. Here are a few items of particular interest. Cubelets....
View ArticleCES 2013: start the party without me
Alas, a schedule conflict will keep me from attending CES this week in Las Vegas. My annual prediction* is that this will be the year of the app-liance: a hardware mashup, possibly centered around a...
View ArticleSmart homes and smart marketing at CES 2015
What’s Oomi? Tell me why I should care.“Smart homes” is a useful topic for a marketing review because, while it’s exciting (or maybe ominous) to think about gadgets turning out the lights, managing...
View ArticleOne-of-a-kind at CES 2015
One of the pleasures of attending the Consumer Electronics Show is seeing new concepts making their debut for the benefit of prospective investors and manufacturing reps. Many of these are clustered in...
View ArticleCES, Comdex and me (plus a few survival strategies)
On the floor at CES, 1979 I first attended the Consumer Electronics Show around 1980, when it really was what its name says. I was a young account executive working on the Federated Group, an...
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