Monday, January 15, 2007

Welcome to geek week!

As most of you nerds know, last week was the culmination of another period of ingenuity. CES and MacWorld Expo 2007. For people like me, I live and die for this kind of stuff. It's basically a week of breakthrough technology in consumer electronic products. What does that mean? Generally a couple things:

1) Bigger TV's
2) Sleeker TV's and smaller devices
3) Something really ape

Without boring you too much I just wanted to give a quick recap of some of the technology that really amazed me last week.

Sony came out with a line of Tv's using OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diodes):





























They look like normal LCD TV's from the front, but BAM!! give them a nice 90 degree swivel and they are as thin as the seat pads your fat aunt sits on during church on sunday. As far as what the OLED's are made out of and what the lifespan is I'll have to find out.

LG came out with a TV capable of displaying 3D images without using 3D glasses. Check out these yummy burgers:


Sharp came out with an 108 inch LCD-TV. Pretty slick if you have a car to sell to buy this thing:


Finally, I have to give it up to my hometown homeboy from the CPT Stevie Jobs for announcing quite possibly the slickest looking glorified ipod to date. The iphone (pending trademark battles with cisco). I'd try to explain all the features but wouldn't do it justice compared to the flash videos they have at apple.com, after all, pictures are worth 1000 words.


Ah...yes...so pretty.....I like to think of the iPhone as your life in a box. Your single connection to the world can pretty much be accessed by this puppy, a little scary, but also super convenient. Anyways, I think that's a good enough summary to get your toes wet in one of my many interests. Have a great week.

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