Posted on January 10, 2006 at 10:26 AM in bests
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There were a ton of lame products at CES, from iPod sharpeners to bluetooth paperweights to "computer machines." I've narrowed the field down to just a few.
You can't tell from the photo, but this was one of the most popular booths at the show. I tried to get an interview, but as you can see the developer of Dorit OS was busy the whole time fielding calls from the bigs on his cellphone. It was a pretty gutsy move to present such a sparse product booth at the Las Vegas Convention Center main hall.
Two more below.
The CNet Extreme Voting Machine 2000
This is the device CNet handed out at their panel discussions so that the audience could vote on things like which reason is the most valid for why people aren't buying Media Center PC's, and which new gadgets were the coolest. I'm sure it worked great and is drop- and spill-proof, but it struck a nostalgic note to me. It looks like the second cable box I had, back in the early eighties. And aren't we calling these things "wireless" now instead of "cordless"?
And finally...
Hoo boy. I've been waiting for them to invent one of these ever since someone told me about them in Boy Scouts.
Comments
Let's take that flashlight on a snipe hunt.
Posted by Tracy | January 10, 2006 12:11 PM
or perhaps...
-Use it to find a left-handed smoke-bender?
-Use it to find my 100ft. of shoreline in the dark?
-See where those damn sky-hooks got to?
Ahhh the joys of psychological hazing.
Posted by mookie b dangerous | January 12, 2006 6:26 AM
Wait, so it's not really the kind of flashlight you use to look for stuff in the dark? What's it used for then?
Posted by tania | January 13, 2006 3:46 PM
No, it is. But still.
Posted by earthling | January 13, 2006 10:25 PM
With the proper positioning of the solar cell, it can power itself!
And is that a built-in compass on the back end?
Posted by webjones | January 27, 2006 9:35 AM
Can someone like describe the flashlight 'cus it doesn't appear on my screen, you know? Is it a pretty baby blue flshlight? :-(
Posted by JB | May 14, 2006 10:18 PM