Category: Top stories
CES 2008: Uberblogger Loic Le Meur on peeing next to Bill Gates at CES
Waiting in line for a Bill Gates keynotes speech is tough. Last year, they served us food and wine. This year, err, the budget was obviously cut back a few notches. When faced with a few hours' wait without any booze, Kat got resourceful, and nabbed France's most famous blogger, Loic Le Meur, for an impromptu video interview.
CES 2008: Huge thanks to the following companies…
There are a couple of companies out there in this plugged-in world which Tech Digest and Shiny Shiny would just like to raise their foot-long margaritas to, who’ve helped with kitting us out to the max, ensuring our laptops are as light as the free beer served at CES parties, and we won’t turn an embarrassing shade of red when a Gizmodo buy walks past and spies us using a digital camera held together by duct tape. It was an emergency internal operation gone wrong after a seaside accident, I swear!
A huge thanks goes out to these…
CES 2008 Roundup: Sunday
Phew. It’s been a long day here in Las Vegas (as evidenced by me still working at 12.45am. We attended all the major press conferences, caught Bill Gates’ last ever CES keynote, and got a bunch of stories from the Digital Experience press event. See below for links to all the good stuff. Tomorrow, meanwhile, we hit the show itself…
CES 2008: Watch Bill Gates play Xbox 360 Guitar Hero III with Slash
Hurrah for Bill Gates, who capped an entertaining CES keynote by jamming on Guitar Hero with Slash. Shiny Kat and Gemma were there to capture the historic moment as it happened…
CES 2008: Sony Ericsson's W760 GPS Walkman phone
For those of you getting weary of big TVs, some comfort: Sony Ericsson has unleashed some new mobile phones at CES this afternoon. Pick of the bunch is the W760, a Walkman handset with HSDPA, motion-controlled gaming, and GPS.
CES 2008: Panasonic press conference liveblog
It’s 11am on press conference day at CES, and next up is Panasonic. I’m liveblogging it, although due to sketchy Wi-Fi access, I won’t be publishing the post until afterwards. Just so you know. Judging by the stage backdrop, Viera flat-screen TVs will be one of the core elements today. On with the show…
CES 2008 Roundup: Saturday
This year’s CES is underway, with Team Shiny having descended on the CES Unveiled press event this evening. In truth, it was a bit underwhelming, but there was some good stuff, including WowWee’s latest crop of robots. Read on for all our stories from today.
CES 2008: WowWee's Rovio is a Wi-Fi robo-webcam with micro-GPS
You can rely on WowWee to storm CES with a battalion of new robots – tonight, several were on show at the show press preview. Pick of the bunch was Rovio, which the company describes as a ‘Wi-Fi enabled robotic webcam’.
CES 2008: Top 10 celebrities appearing at this year's show
Britney is, alas, otherwise engaged, so won’t be making an appearance at this year’s CES. Thankfully, an array of other celebs ARE heading for Vegas at the beck and call of sundry consumer tech companies. Here’s the ones we’ll be checking out:
CES 2008 Roundup: Friday
We've posted a fair few CES stories today, but trust me, it's the calm before the storm. Once the press events start tomorrow, it's going to be bedlam on here. Thankfully, I'll be sorting and cataloguing all our stories at the end of every day (US-time) so you don't miss a thing. Starting with today…
