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CES 2005 - Lesser-known companies with cool products

Thursday, January 6, 2005

There were several halls totaling to about 4 football fields worth of space full of Asian manufactures that I've never heard of. They probably make most of the products we use today, but stay behind the scenes as companies like Dell and Apple put their logo on items, mark the price up 200x, and sell it was a one-of-a-kind item.

Take a tour of some cool (and not-so-cool) items that sparked my interest. There's about 150 photos here, with lots of my own commentary. Feel free to add you own comments too.

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With the obvious emphasis on making electronics smaller, it was nice to see somebody buck the trend with these huge calculators. That's my phone in the middle.
Dylan Greene, posted 1/18/2005 12:20:00 AM
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A nice video and mp3 player - the Digital Player MP301 from Truly. I've never heard of Truly either, but they were one hundreds of no-name MP3 player makers at CES. Hopefully a larger company will pick this up.
Dylan Greene, posted 1/18/2005 12:23:00 AM
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On the left is Fital1ty, one of the best online game players in the world. During CES they were giving away $5000 to anybody that could score 5 kills on him in 5 minutes in Unreal Tournament. Not only did nobody get 5 kills, the entire time he was only killed once.
Dylan Greene, posted 1/18/2005 12:26:00 AM
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That fan and heatsink is the Zalman 7000b-cu, which is what I have in my machine right now!
Dylan Greene, posted 1/18/2005 12:32:00 AM
I have to give credit to my brother, Jared, for recommending the Zalman fan/heat sink to me - thanks Jared!
Dylan Greene, posted 1/18/2005 12:36:00 AM
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We have a winner! I didn't beat Fital1ty, but I did win a big prize in the drawing - the Zalman VGA cooler - which was perfect because I was going to buy it anyway! I have it installed on my ATI Radeon Pro 256, and I've successfully overclocked it to 418/372 and upgraded the bios to an XT. It doesn't make a sound, and it looks cool too.
Dylan Greene, posted 1/18/2005 12:35:00 AM
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This company sold "skins" for your XBOX and other game systems. I have to say.... not for me... The skins are basically stickers, and they look much nicer in this photo than they do in real life. I'm sure there is an audience for customizing game machines, but I don't know if stickers are the right way to go about it.
Dylan Greene, posted 1/18/2005 12:37:00 AM
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Why sit on your boring sofa when you can buy one of these snazzy chairs and feel like you are *in the game*! Only $399! Distributors wanted in Japan, China, and Europe.
Dylan Greene, posted 1/18/2005 12:39:00 AM
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Even when turned off this huge plasma is impressive.
Dylan Greene, posted 1/18/2005 12:39:00 AM
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You can easily tell that this is an OLED display by how bright it is compared to normal LED displays.
Interesting form factor, but I'd rather something that fits nice in my pocket.
Dylan Greene, posted 1/18/2005 12:40:00 AM
What is this actually?
Is it just a presentation of OLED?
Anyone can give any info on this?
Freak, posted 1/22/2005 2:35:00 PM
It's an mp3 player. Click on the photo to see it in detail.
Dylan Greene, posted 1/22/2005 4:41:00 PM
i know its an mp3 player but is there any info about the specs... pufffffff
Really freaked!, posted 1/24/2005 9:17:00 PM
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Hello Kitty is still around?! Wow, somebody must be mega-rich of that one.
Dylan Greene, posted 1/18/2005 12:41:00 AM
still around?! Yes, of course! The US is finally catching on
nicci, posted 1/18/2005 12:50:00 AM
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Alexis Park... for us it was pretty much a waste of time. And it was freezing! The high-end home audio stuff was here. There were some cool items, and I'm all about the high-end home audio equipment, but the layout was a pain: Each company had their own hotel room. Now, this would be nice since they can sample their audio without bothering other booths, but the signs they had here made it too difficult to find interesting companies, and there were so many companies and it was so spread out that it was just too much work to visit each floor of each building to look at speakers or amplifiers you'll probably never see for sale in the US and even if they were, they'd cost more than your car - easily.
Dylan Greene, posted 1/18/2005 12:44:00 AM
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I'm not sure why you would want speakers this tall... So the people in the back can hear?
Dylan Greene, posted 1/18/2005 1:05:00 AM
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