Slashdot Asks: What would you like to see at CES? 102
This year's Consumer Electronics Show has nearly arrived. Later today, I'll be hurtling (or perhaps just slogging) across the West Texas desert, bound for Vegas. CES is far too big an event to see very much of, no matter what: the endless aisles (highways!) of cheap laptop bags and e-cigarettes alone take up an incredible amount of floor space, but the good stuff takes up at least as much. The categories represented aren't necessarily new, but the trends vary each time: remote-controlled helicopters, from Parrot and others, have been been getting more capable for a few years running, along with 3D televisions, action cameras, ever-bigger displays, toys for kids, toys for adults, and the newest/slimmest/priciest/cheapest laptops and handhelds. Last year I had a chance to get close-up video views at Ubuntu TV and the successfully crowdfunded TouchFire keyboard, as well as interviews with John Ryan of Pixel Qi and Raspberry Pi instigator Eben Upton. I'll be on the lookout for some of my usual obsessions (open source in consumer products, bright LED-based projectors, interesting input devices), but what would you like to see up-close from this year's crop of exhibitors (sorry, it's a long list), and why?
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What would I like to see at CES? (Score:5, Funny)
Bill Gates, Steve Balmer, and that Elop character in a dollar per throw dunk tank filled with ice water.
I know this one! (Score:5, Funny)
entertainment (Score:5, Funny)
Five hundred male feral hogs given ecstasy and let loose on the floor of the CES, after the representatives from Sony are covered in pheromones from a female feral pig.
[Don't look at me like that. You asked.]
Re:The future (Score:5, Funny)
No, that's a given. The submitter's question is actually "What would you like to see at CES, apart from flying cars and personal jet packs?" but he reasonably omitted the redundant second half of the sentence.
Re:A mini iPhone (Score:5, Funny)