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CNET Crave goes to Vegas for CES

2007-02-15
welcome to the crave video podcast I'm Veronica Belmont and as promised i am here at CES in las vegas with me today is my co-host for the day rich demuro all the way from New York City and finally we are sitting and comfortable so tell me what did you find what I find these are the pure Matt these are wireless sound rockers and basically you can rock out to your favorite video games movies TV shows whatever you want because their speakers behind your head and an awesome subwoofers your entire chair just oh can you vibrate yo it's awesome so this is really great so we're gonna walk around the floor a little bit and see what other kind of cool stuff there is oh my geez it looks like I wants big brother colorful I guess says swing with the beats of your music so it lights up and there's scanners although i don't think i could lay an egg traffic it's a big egg but look at this is in japanese so we can't really see what it says but somehow has two gigs 1,500 130 qvga and nokia excellent well we know that much alright next now I love adorable plush pandas as much as any girl but I like robots better especially robo pandas that's right wow he's one of my favorite companies they have the best robots the best toy robots it's the new teddy ruxpin except look at this guy does everything look you could pick him up and he knows where are we going there's all kind of thing you just stand up you could sit down he can move yeah he can are we there yet are we there yet oh he said we're here here we're here at the sands are we where are we where the sands for the innovations area oh yes scary I panda all right that could keep you up at night we better go yeah let's move on to see some more stuff I think he's in feisty mode so Veronica I think this is pretty cool it's a solid drive speaker system look you hook it up down here makes your entire glass panel or any type of wall a speaker wow so you can put this on you like your shower that's what I want you can shave and watch TV this doesn't come with it but this is just a cool application of it you can use this on anything anything any kind of hard surface that's gonna vibrate the sound actually comes off of this that's unreal 500 bucks that's not bad at all I mean kind of worth it to get that kind of system going on in your house I love it so continuing on that shower theme these are LED shower heads when the water runs through it it powers it and lights it up in different colors Vegas very cool which color would you choose I think I would go with the red that's like the alfred hitchcock shower I would go with the blue nicey cooling Chris I like it definitely no batteries necessary those wires are just because they don't have the water running through a pretty cool well you sure know how to pick them and hit it I just so obviously this is all we know why don't we find now this is a roll up keyboard look it just rolls right up and you could take your music on the go turn it up turn it off oh yeah yes it is sounding a little that sounds better than anything that I could pull out of my you know whatever within chopsticks that's all I know how to do forty dollars and it's kind of like an iPod except you need to be a musical genius to play it yeah I'm like anyone we want to listen to what I know how to play well this was good that's it alright next this way so Veronica where have you brought me I feel like I'm in a time war of my bedroom from the 80s well if you were a Star Wars famine this is like your ultimate dream come true this is an r2d2 family entertainment system and he's got a projector built into him so he can actually put star wars up on your wall in your room it's all you can hook up you can hook up an ipod you can hook put a DVD in there connect your laptop and watch video from your laptop pretty much any input he's got it all he's a functional robot here it's not grainy like it was in the movie it's not the holographic it seemed clear good yeah it looks really good oh I don't know but you do have to be a successful adult to get one because these things are 2,500 bucks ouch well you know it's worth it if you're that much of a geek I guess so well we've pretty much seen every imaginable pillar thing sumer electronics gear here at CES this week and I'm plumb tuckered out but if you want to send us your other crave stuff you can do so by emailing crave at sina com or you check out the blog at krave cnet com well I think there's one more thing I want to check out before we head back to San Francisco and you go back to New York don't you think yeah might as well when in Vegas you might as well i'll see you guys next time
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