For the first time in at least 18 years, I did not head to CES in Las Vegas. Instead, I stayed home in San Francisco and kept up by reading TechnoBuffalo and many other sources. So instead of being washed in hype, drenched in alcohol, and dipped in germs I had a back-row seat to this year’s tech/media/gadget orgy. Here’s what I learned, with a healthy dollop of skepticism born from...
Trade shows are great. Or I should say used to be great. I used to be able to head to Las Vegas multiple times a year, to Berlin, Barcelona and even Singapore to see the latest products unveiled on a floor full of exhibitors. Apple used to take the stage at Macworld for product announcements. Microsoft, Samsung, HTC, Motorola, LG and others used to hold several press conferences a year...
Overview You’ve probably already read the State of the Union Addresses from my fellow Buffalos — and if you haven’t, you certainly should — but mine’s a little different. As TechnoBuffalo’s resident Brit, I’m going to be taking a look at the state of mobile devices and television here in Britain and how it compares to that of the United States. Of course, in many ways, they are both...
Has it really only been a week since the Consumer Electronics Show started winding down? I took away a lot of thoughts from it, but there was one memory that really stands out. There I was at the Skunk Juice booth, shooting Noah as he checked out the company’s unique magnetic earbud system (which can click together up to four earbuds in one line, at once). The product is a novel idea...
If you’ve never been to the Consumer Electronics Show, it can feel like a massive tech carnival — a wonderland of gear covering practically every area of life imaginable. There are rows upon rows of cars, home appliances, mobile devices, accessories, smart TVs, and myriad other machines and gadgets, all clamoring for attention. For some tech geeks, this would be heaven. Content...
3D printers and their simultaneously awesome-and-nightmare inducing capabilities aside, basically everything I’ve seen at CES this week has been iterative and evolutionary in nature. Bigger, thinner, faster smartphones. Cameraphones with garish megapixel counts. A garishly specced digital camera with an Android phone shoved inside. Thinner, lighter HDTVs. Brighter, higher pixel-count...
Snapseed has become one of the most popular photo editing applications on iOS since it hit the App Store in June of last year, recently picking up Apple’s ‘iPad App of the Year’ award for 2011. And it’ll soon be available on your Mac, with its developers Nik Software announcing at CES that it is currently making its way to the Mac App Store. Snapseed offers all sorts of fancy features...
Samsung has unveiled its latest flagship Smart TV at CES in Las Vegas today called the Samsung ES8000 LED TV which the Korean company promises is “more than just a pretty face.” The ES8000 offers a dual-core processor that provides true multitasking and seamless switching between Smart TV applications, allowing you to surf the web while you download or use other applications in the...
It’s about that time of year again, the time of year when little technophiles the world over dream of new gadgets, and electronics companies trek from places far away to descend upon the desert to display their latest wares. Yes, it’s time again for CES, but what is it, exactly? What, Where and Who The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is an annual electronics trade show...
Looks like all the drooling at CES 2012 won't just be for the gadgets being unveiled there. Seems the tech community's cashing in on what the rest of the advertising and marketing industry already knows — people love to slobber all over celebrities. Truth is, last year the attendees got a chance to eye Lady Gaga, Oliver Stone, Adrian Grenier and Olivia Wilde. So will this year's all-...