Back from CES!

By Marc Perton

Just returned from covering CES with Engadget (full coverage here). It was exhausting, but I have to say I’m very proud of the work we did. And judging from the comments out there, it looks like others have taken notice as well. I particularly like these, from none other than Microsoft’s Robert Scoble:

[I]f you really wanted to see the toys, watching Engadget is actually a better way to go. In fact, I was watching Engadget on my cell phone as I was walking around. Well, that and I kept running into the Engadget crew. I ran into Jason Calacanis at one party on Thursday night and he said “did you see that Toshiba Gigabeat?” I answered, no, cause it hadn’t been on Engadget yet.

Of the gear I covered, I’d have to say my personal favorite was the Dell Concept Laptop. Not because I was especially enamored of the product, but because it gave me an excuse to do some real shoe-leather reporting, since Dell whisked it off the stage after showing it briefly during a dog-and-pony, and I got a chance to check it out in Dell’s both before it subsequently disappeared from that venue as well. As far as I can tell, I’m still the only person who was able to get the specs, model number and other salient info about this toy (all gleaned, simply enough, from “My Computer”). I also snapped what look like the only non-PR shots of it available on the net. No, I’m not blowing my own horn here (well, maybe just a little). This was hardly a major scoop, and anyone who took the trouble to wander over to Dell’s booth at the right time could have done the same. But with so many reporters covering CES, it still feels good to know I got something nobody else did.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 10th, 2006 at 1:36 am