Archive for the ‘CES’ Category

You don’t want THIS at your press event…

January 11, 2008

This has got to be the nightmare of all PR people – especially the folks handling the invite to the Gizmodo folks!

There’s this part in the video where this Motorola spokesperson actually is presenting about a pretty cool product and… the TV goes off! poof! It went off so fast the spokesperson didn’t even know what was going on.

Still, I think CNet’s reaction to this stunt pretty much sums it up. However, I think I can add that is probably an isolated incident in the blogging community and that the bloggers I’ve had for press events are nothing if not decent and interesting people.

Verdict? This is a one off. Good stunt for Gizmodo (more than 400 comments on the associated post) and nothing that should stop PR people from inviting bloggers again in the future.

Now, nobody get any ideas mmmkay?

What’s the coolest thing in CES?!

January 8, 2008

The coolest thing in CES so far… real life size IRON MAN suit! W00T!

For some morbid reason, I’ve always had this fascination of being encased in a impregnable iron suit that could fire Ion beams and heat-seeker missiles. Little known fact: Did you know Iron Man #1 (facsimile edition) was my first ever Marvel comic?


Looking forward to the movie later this year! Seems like Marvel might as well be a movie studio instead of comic book maker.