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hey guys Jonathan here with tlds want to give you guys kind of a recap of this weekend for the CES 2011 event again for those of you who don't know what CES 11 is it stands for the Consumer Electronics Show so basically it's the biggest event of the year where hundreds of companies come to unveil their new products for the 2011 years so everyone pretty much what Apple goes this was my first year going me Josh and Kevin went down there you guys know Josh from the live love music and Kevin he does a lot of the game reviews out here so we headed down there to check out CS it was our first time for all of us and basically it's like Disneyland for geeks you just walk out there and there are hundreds and hundreds of vendors it's like football fields worth of just gear and just like geek heaven so I was pretty awesome it was a little bit overwhelming the first time going there we had got down there actually thursday evening would have liked to have got there a little bit earlier but i was sick and kind of procrastinated a little bit with the business cards but nonetheless still went very well probably really couldn't have asked for to go any better than it did talk to a lot of companies would have liked to get a little more video as far as a new products but this was our first CES so definitely wanted to concentrate on getting in contact with companies to line up reviews and giveaways for the new year so as far as case companies there is docking companies lots of cool gear that you guys are going to look forward to spec was one of our favorite companies as far as cases goes they hooked us up with some few cases got in contact with a really nice rep so we can look forward to some reviews giveaways in 2011 our other favorite case company was definitely switch easy as oulton Steiner was the rep we talked to you so just that name alone ado we just plain out awesome he was throwing stuff left and right at us ipad cases we got the iWatch nana little case right there we got iphone 4 cases ipod touches lots of stuff so definitely look forward to working with them other than that we contacted with Griffin the first place we hit up there was bear dynamic headphones they're really nice and it's just kind of like overwhelming you see these headphones they range from 100 all the way to $1,500 just super high-end stuff so they're really cool looks like we were probably gonna get some of their stuff to review in the next few weeks to a month so definitely stay tuned for that beyond that we did meet up with audio technica they got a lot of new stuff including new Mike's kind of just like what you guys use for podcasting and voiceovers as well as blue we actually got some video on the new Yeti Pro and the Mikey for flip which is a little attachment that goes on to the flip video recorders you guys can check those videos at the end of this video beyond that there was probably the dumbest product at CES 2011 was the it was a hat where you put your iPhone in there they call it the TV hat and if you guys never seen the sandlot you guys know how he has that long hat that Benny wants to get rid of just a super long ridiculous bill well it was like that was a TV you put your iPhone this little placement for the tea to the iphone in there basically that's your TV in a hat so their mock marketing it as you take it to the beach but it's like we're gonna go to the beach why you want to watch TV on your iPhone so I thought that was a dumbest product of the year some people liked it but usually the companies that are like reaching out to talk to you you know their products are kind of iffy and so so there's a lot of cool things though we went with monitors in motion so they make some high-end products some stands for the imac the ipad they unveiled a new ipad stand which is a little pricey and again it's not for the everyday user but it's really high-end really heavy duty it's more geared for like the restaurant or a place where you want to show off your ipad and use it more than just for display but if you're using the ipad as a menu or checking item something that you want it really secure and you can move it around its going to look nice that's what that's for so we got in contact with them hopefully maybe get to check out some of those stuff for review in the near future definitely dug those the imax dams were actually ridiculous i know it's a little bit pricey and again more than anybody probably would need but just to be able to have your imac there at will moving it around was really awesome it was cool talking with these for the most part all these companies were really down to earth really easy to talk to however skullcandy stuck out as far as kind of a sore thumbs they kind of had like this holier-than-thou attitude just like they were better than everybody I mean it's CES so you're there to show off your products but they had it roped off and they just really wouldn't let you look at the products you kind of gotta get this like special VIP access to check out their products which I don't really get because they're not anything special I mean they're cool headphones are not anything great sounding but there consumer headphones there's lots and lots of headphones that are better than them but they just had this attitude that they were better than everybody and actually talking to one of the reps they actually don't need reviewers they have their own in-house reviewing program which didn't make sense to me you can't review your own products this doesn't work that way so skullcandy I don't know if you're watching this or whatever but you guys really kind of need to get your act together as far as that goes because you're definitely probably the most disappointing company at CES everyone else was cool really cool to talk to had a lot of fun but you guys I don't like you guys other than that there was this really cool physical little mount that goes on to the iPad you know I have the virtual keyboard it's kind of a little funny sometimes to actually touch that since there's nothing there well this you actually stick on there so it's a physical mount that goes on to the iPad you can actually game that way so we talked to them Kevin messed around said it feels pretty good it's kind of like a spring action that always puts it back into the middle so it does kind of feel an emulator controller that was pretty cool had some fun with that we were down at the madcatz gaming center checked out some new headsets Kevin and Josh were playing some street fighter Kevin beat some random guy that he ran into but josh schoch just got the better of him we wanted to go back to Zoltan have Kevin arm wrestle you simply ran out of time other than that as far as meetups go I did meet on max dude from Ukraine if some of you guys might know him as far as his youtube name he's really cool guy definitely enjoyed meeting max so we also ran into Quinn that snazzy iPhone guy he's definitely a character tall guy but he probably weighs about 80 pounds soaking wet so he was kind of a goofball walking around his microphone in his wire now we actually also met up with Michael Panetta MTP flyers and Larry Greenberg and just kind of cut the crap 8 at this high-end raw burger place down called Holsteins in the cosmopolitan which is a super sick hotel definitely would recommend checking that out but this place I mean the burgers were like 20 bucks but they were unbelievable I got some aged goat cheddar when I really love sharp cheddar cheese so that was awesome with some like garlic spread fries shake the whole nine yards and we just kind of hang out for a couple hours with Larry and Michael and it kind of just really kind of showed you how close the YouTube tech community is I mean I've known Michael for a little while haven't really talked to Larry that much maybe a couple tweets and everything but it's like you hang out with these guys me and Josh and Kevin cool and Larry and it's like you know these guys for years I mean you just kind of clicking bond you said they're talking joking so we had a really good time went down to Larry's hotel after at the Cosmopolitan just kind of hung out a little more after their watch some YouTube videos kind of just talked about ces who he met up with Larry had this super-sick view down at his hotel so you guys can see the pictures right here we're just looking down at Vegas so that was a fun time also met up with jon rettinger technobuffalo he's very cool down-to-earth guy me think this guy has honor for 3,000 subscribers he's gonna have a little bit of ego but complete opposite the guy was super nice hung out with him talked to him a little bit got a picture with him possibly might be working with John down the road so you guys never know stay tuned for that other than that had a really awesome time like i said i would like to get more videos as far as product time goods does go really quick i mean you get up seven in the morning you get down there by nine you down until six just moving and talking to companies so I did a was fortunate enough to get hands-on demo with the blackberry playbook it does look cool I don't think it's going to be an ipad 2 killer but if you guys want to check out that video and a few other videos we've got OtterBox we got some blue microphone demos and some other stuff like that you guys can check out those links right here but that pretty much wraps up CES I had a lot of fun definitely looking forward to next year it should be a lot easier as far as that goes we do have I didn't stop by monster because we do have as far as music goes we're going to see monster next week as far as ik multimedia at namm which is the same thing but for music so if you guys want to check out that check out our music channel go ahead and subscribe to that we're gonna have a lot of cool coverage on that coming next week that link actually this week I'm sorry that link is down below and go I'm gonna stop this video put some links up other videos and you guys can go and check all these out covering CES thank you guys for all the support watching this we're gonna have a fun year got a lot of companies got to send us some reviews so stay tuned for that and I will see you guys later you