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Hey look, I'm on TV!

Oh, look, a small MP3 player!

Before you go on I must warn you - there were hundreds of booths with small MP3 players! HUNDREDS!

The trends:
- Color screens. Oled was popular but so was full-color screens.
- Only the players that were meant to be personal video players did video well.
- Smaller-is-better. Too small in my opinion - make the damn thing large enough that I can see the buttons!
- WMA and WMV (Window Media Audio and Video) is here to stay.
- Showing video on the screen is nearly the norm.
- Nobody used the color screen to show the album cover! :(
- Some compaines showed song lyrics on the screen.
- Not one player claimed support for iTunes' ACC format (thanks Apple).
- Nobody claimed their player was easier to use than a iPod, and from playing with many of the players, most were not as easy to use.
- Recording, FM radio, games, Outlook integration (calendar mostly) is practically the norm with many models, espeically the harddrive models.
- USB2 everywhere, Firewire still not too popular yet.
- No bluetooth sync in any MP3 players I saw.

Shure, a headphone company, had to keep putting new ear thingies on their ear plugs so people could try them without worrying about ear wax from the previous listener. What a pain! There must be a better way...

A cool looking amp. Besides the obvious unique design, I like how few buttons it has. Just one large knob for volume, a couple dials for feedback, and a nice window to see the glowing vacuum tubes inside.

...A ball-bearing base!

Dennis and Chris were amazed by this CD holder for one reason...

Smarthome (a competitor to X10), they have so much potential, but lose all my interest with junky switches. The idea is that you can wire you whole house to a computer network, so a flip of a button can darken the lights, close the shades, and start your bath. But their switches don't look like light switches, they look like a cheap plastic remote control. Well that's my opinion, maybe they'll have some new stuff soon. X10 is the same way. I stopped using them because their light switches looked like junky TV remotes instead of light switches.

These doors use your fingerprint as the key. I'd be intersted in one of these (for the cool factor mainly) but they're still too big for a normal house door.

This wand acts like a mouse. Touch the whiteboard and it sends a click. This would be cool if people weren't better off using a mouse.

Dual monitors built into one stand. I'm not sure the point. If one monitor breaks you have to throw away both of them.

This is probably the smallest personal video player that I saw. While cool, I would never buy one because, well, it's too damn small! You might as well watch videos on your cell phone... (something I'll get to later).

This is here to remind Chris that he needs to get a screen for Theatre B.
His kick-ass Rotel/B&W/InFocus setup in our basement still projects onto a old white sheet.

Finally, what we've all been asking for - a Windows-powered oven! Because setting the temperature before was *way* too simple.

Waiting in line for a cool presenation...