CES 2006 Show Day 1 Highlights - Technology Evangelist

We're just returning from the CES 2006 trade show floor after seeing some great new products in action. We're starting to edit the HD video for the site, so while we work on that, here are a few old-fashioned text and photo highlights. Check back later today for a report in HD video.

Palm Treo 700w: The new Treo 700w phones at the Palm booth were barely set down all day. It looked like a large percentage of the people checking out the phones were current Treo users who were curious about the new features and interface. For seasoned Palm OS users, the interface didn't seem particularly intuitive. I missed the Home button present on the Treo. The Windows Icon wasn't as satisfying. The most common question asked at the Palm booth was, "When will this phone be available?" to which the Palm reps confidently replied, "It's available now!"

Belkin's soon to be released wireless USB hub using Ultra-Wideband looks very promising. This allows access multiple USB enabled products or storage devices without cluttering your desk with USB and power cables. For example, a printer, jump drive, and external hard drive could be plugged into the device while residing on a book shelf, freeing up desk space. The cable clutter is replaced with a simply USB radio drive.

Here's a working prototype. The left table has a notebook playing a movie stored on the external hard drive located on the right table. The data is wirelessly transmissed to the notebook. The black box on the right and blue radio on the right are the current clunky, but working versions. The photo above is the soon to be released model.

More photos from today are available on my Flickr account under the tag ces2006.

Comments? Questions? Let's here them!

The first video is done, edited, and FINALLY compressed to a h.264 480p stream. The lag time is in upload. With EVDO I am getting about 2KB/sec, with our room connection I'm getting about 7KB/sec, and since the file is 33MB, it's taking a while.

720p is still encoding, and 1080p won't be done for a while. It just takes a LOT of processor power to spit out HD.

Plan in place to make the process a lot faster for tomorrow (and the video should be better too... intros are lacking this round).

Thanks for the update! I understand the bandwidth woes but c'mon; here you are at the world's leading high-tech show of the year and you're stuck with dial-up speed! And I thought you had OC-3 pipes.
Oh well, better late than never. Joking aside, I (and I'm sure others) really do appreciate this awesome HDTV coverage!

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