The (Lame) CES 2008 Wrap-Up

So like I said before, I haven’t been terribly impressed with the Consumer Electronic Show this year. Why? Among many other reasons:

- Yay for huge plasma/LCD/Hi-Def displays. Too bad I’m all STANDARD DEF FO LIFE, YO. Sorry, but I’ll buy in when it doesn’t make 90% of all my current media look like crap.
- Yay, faster/smaller PC laptops. Too bad I’m a Mac guy. And MacWorld is next week, giving me even more reason to not pay attention.
- Yay for Blu-ray vs HD-DVD. I stopped caring a long time ago.
- Yay for GPSs and PMPs. First off, I don’t drive and I live in New York City, so no need for directions. As for personal media players, and watching movies on a tiny screen, I think David Lynch has said all that needs to be said.
- I heard that they had Bumblebee from the Transformers live action flick on hand. Too bad that movie sucked the big one.
- I’m fairly certain that most geeks can get only so excited for USB 3.0
- Same with headphones. I like nice headphones to, but come on now.

Oh, and hardly any really cool cell phone related stuff were to be found. The only real stand-outs, aside from the ones previously mentioned, aka the “bottom of the barrel” would have to be…

- Remember me getting annoyed by how so many mp3/personal media players are starting to look like cell phones. Well check this out from noted mp3 player iRiver; they just made a phone:

Download!

- Yeah, it seems like everyone is cashing in on the iPhone. Even landline phones; check out the OpenFrame, aka “the iPhone of home phones”…

If David Lynch though watching a movie on a cell phone is stupid, I wonder what he would have to say about a phone stuck at home, where there’s probably a television set nearby. At least the screen is bigger I guess…

- Oh, and I guess the one thing that made me go “Okay, NOW I wish I was there” are these pics of the Jawbone people collecting everyone’s Bluetooth headsets in exchange for a Jawbone one. Lucky…