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CES 2008 – Mine Is Bigger Than Your

The Consumer Electronic Show is a game of oneupmanship. Every company tries to outdo the other. No where is that more evident than in the car audio and TV display halls. The car audio hall used to be especially bad because exhibitors used to get into sound off competition against each other to see who has the loudest booth. CES […]

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Gizmodo Gives Bloggers a Black Eye

2008 was suppose to be the year when blogging became legitimate. However, the prank Gizmodo pulled at the 2008 CES may have set blogging back a year or two in the eyes of major trade shows. For those who don’t know, Gizmodo went around the show floor with a high power IR transmitter and proceeded to shut down a bunch […]

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Tyler Cruz Vs. Gyutae Park

If you were are living it up at the CES like I was then you may have not heard that Tyler Cruz and Gyutae Park of Winning The Web are having a little competition to see who can get the most votes. The loser of the competition will have to pay $100 via PayPal to three lucky voters. In addition, […]

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I Am The Most Controversial Blog in 2007

The results are in! John Chow dot Com is the Most Controversial Blog in 2007, according to the Performancing Readers’ Choice Award. The way I won the award sparked quite a bit of controversy as well because my margin of victory was so great. Speaking of controversy, anyone else think this vote was rigged? Over 99% of the votes were […]

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CES 2008 – Sights and Sounds

The CES is the world’s biggest consumer electronics trade show. It takes up the entire 3.5 million square feet Las Vegas Convention Center, two hotels and parts of the Sands Expo Convention Center. That’s almost 2 million square feet of net display space. To put that into perspective, BlogWorld consumed about 100,000 square feet of total floor space (not net). […]

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CES 2008 – Dinner and Phantom of the Opera

We attended many parties at the 2008 CES. The one that stood out has to go to AOC and LiteOn. These two companies went all out and treated us to a performance of Phantom of the Opera and dinner at Zeffirino. Most people from North America won’t know who AOC is. However, most everyone has seen or used a product […]

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CES 2008 – $15,000 D-Box Racing Chair

D-Box is a Canadian based company that make motion based products for high-end home theater and ultra high-end gamers. Their motion sensing racing chair cost $15,000. The chair itself hasn’t changed much since I last saw it but the software has been updated to create an even greater sense of realism. At $15,0000 per chair, only the richest and craziest […]

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CES 2008 – Sony Online Poker Party

The Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) Poker Party is a yearly event held at CES that pits the invited guests of SOE in a tournament to see who is the best poker player. The winner of the tournament receives a fully loaded Sony Playstation 3. The runner-up gets a $500 gift card to spend on the Sony Style site. The party […]

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