Notes from Day 2 and 3 of CES 2007

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Here are some random thoughts from my final two days at CES 2007. I will update this post soon with video clips and pictures.

• I saw tons of 12-in-1 digital cameras but no Works with YouTube signs. Any digital camera that makes movies works with YouTube. It would have been an easy marketing trick but nobody did it.
• Saw some cool stuff at the DivX booth, like digital cameras that record in DivX video. I am going to give Stage6 a try soon - it offers beautiful HDTV-quality video sharing for free. My Canon digital camera can record video at 640x480.
• CES is one of the only places in Las Vegas where the men's bathroom line is much longer than the women's. The show is very male-orientated.
• I despise rolling suitcases on crowded trade show floors.
• I had a funny experience in the IBM Emerging Technologies booth. IBM decided to bring in programmers and engineers of these new technologies to demo their wares at CES. Usually it is only sales, marketing, and customer support people. But not IBM - they were keeping it real with the geeks. Unfortunately the sales pitches were not going well. So IBM had a PR lady flying around their booth to eavesdrop on the conversations. As soon as a potential customer stepped away from the IBM geek kiosk, the nice young PR woman would rush up and begin scolding the engineer. For example, my engineer doing a Linux security demo asked if I wanted to give him my email address so that "IBM can bombard you with email messages for the rest of your life."