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mojo know what's going on everybody I'm Noah Kravitz from TechnoBuffalo home at last happy to be back in the East Bay California after a week out in the desert in Las Vegas I'll tell you what being a tech journalists covering these shows and everything a lot of fun not the healthiest thing in the world and I didn't even go near the gambling tables didn't spend much time the casinos are the bars or anything at CES you saw the video John and I did from the casino maybe you did do a hello video from the casino in the Paris hotel but at any rate it's a great job i'm happy to have it here a little round up a little CES pro cs round up my picks for some of the most interesting some of the best things at the show first of all again you know this is my first official day on the job even though we said hello before but I here I am my name is Noah I'm the new editor-at-large at TechnoBuffalo and thank you for having me for those of you who know me from my previous job thanks for following me over here for those of you don't you know I hope you'll give me a shot on techna Buffalo I'm thrilled to be working with everybody John and Sean Winston Jack the other job everybody TechnoBuffalo great people I'm psyched to be here was not expecting it glad it happened ready to get going so enough of all that I was actually blogging CES for NVIDIA it was a job that I took before I took the job with TechnoBuffalo so a little bit of strange thing for me different experience because i was there primarily to cover and video stuff that being said nvidia had a ton of stuff at the show their ticker two chips powering a lot of stuff at the show a lot of them more high profile stuff especially in the mobile space and so I say that full disclosure so you'll know I'm not on invidious paycheck anymore but my pick for Best in Show is a product powered by Nvidia it's the Motorola Xoom tablet the first google android 3.0 honeycomb product to be shown the LG slate tablet for tmobile was also announced but we didn't actually see that in running form the zoom we did see and very interesting very impressive from what i saw a 10 inch ablett it'll be on verizon's network coming very soon 3g and Wi-Fi version quarter one upgradable to the 4g LTE and Wi-Fi version and quarter to it's got an HD screen it does 1080p video out via hdmi video capture on the back camera with video capture and then on the front you've got front facing camera for google talk with video all the video conferencing options but the big deal here i think two things one the Tegra 2 chipset dual-core powered very responsive in all the devices we saw it in that the motorola atrix smartphone the LG revolution the motorola droid bionic all kinds of stuff and then also a honeycomb and and my doors were frankly blown off by the little bit of honeycomb that I saw I was not expecting such a radical remake of Android no hands on time for it the folks from Motorola we're not letting people actually touch the thing and it's an early version of software not final but very very intrigued by what I saw a full-on tablet interface and experience from google so very psyched to see that coming out the motorola xoom with google android 30 honeycomb on verizon that's my pick for Best in Show some other things I saw that were very interesting the motorola atrix a smart phone for AT&T a 4g smartphone also android also nvidia tegra 2 power not honeycomb but android 22 that was very interesting because it's this whole docking concept with this web top application that lets you use the phone like a phone computer and the idea is that you'll have everything you need on your phone and then when your mobile you've got your phone it's got a laptop dock you can dock it into 11 inch screen with a full keyboard and trackpad and then a desktop dock you can hook it up to your big screen TV for watching movies and entertainment or you can hook it up to a full-on system with a monitor or keyboard and mouse for your continued desktop computing experience very interesting the software was very impressive the webtop application that fires up mozilla firefox browser with full flash 10.1 html5 support all that stuff i don't know if it's really going to succeed i don't know if people really want to use that i don't know why I would carry you know a laptop a smart phone and a laptop even if it's just a dock when you know and then have to dock it as opposed to just carrying a laptop that's a full-on laptop with more power native applications you know more refined I get that the idea is you'll have everything on your phone no matter what I don't know how people are going to use it very good to see you come out that being said from just a geek tastic point of view is very impressive you know we've seen stuff like this before palm folio a few other things that didn't succeed this is the most mature implementation of the combination of the the computing power of the phone itself dual core all that ram or the storage space and then obviously the maturation of Android and the webtop app looks very slick so I interested to see that it might actually be more useful as a set-top box pumping out 1080p video if you can do you know the full you I mirroring and if you can do you know Netflix and Hulu and all those apps on your phone but but output to full HD wherever you go that might be more interesting of a use case than the desktop laptop replacement even still very interesting product the casio tricks very interesting because it's a consumer digital camera with full HD video that has its really interesting fully articulating rotating display for me you know i need a camcorder that the display terms all the way around so i can frame myself for doing these kinds of videos but i would love to have a point and shoot that did better photos than my camcorder but also did HD video but was small enough like super small to keep in my pocket so so the tricks looks very interesting interesting to see it come out i also think the lady gaga line is stuff for Polaroid is interesting i'm not saying that I'm into it or not in a not not anything about Lady Gaga or so but she's interesting and she's very creative whether your lover or hater I don't care and the whole thing with you know reinventing the Polaroid digital camera and there the Polaroid camera as digital and then the glasses little screens on the bottom interesting stuff you know whatever you say speaking of glasses there's also a pair of glasses that have an active LCD screen in them so they're like like autofocus digitally enhanced bifocals I didn't get chance to try them on for myself but I heard from a few people that they're they're really slick and possibly the most innovative thing and I where you know in actual corrective lenses sends contact lenses so I'm interested to check those out monsoons volcano line of kind of slingbox / tivo replacements kind of a place shifter and a DVR very very interesting won some awards lots of 3d tech I think 3d glasses free TV or glasses-free 3d rather will be a very very important thing if anybody can get a radar decent price point so far with 3d people don't want to have to wear glasses in their living room at the movie theater it's one thing in their living room nobody wants to wear glasses to watch 3d glasses free free 3d content say that ten times fast very interesting stuff seeing a little bit of development you know on smaller screens and some bigger screens interesting to see where that goes and then of course you know every year at CES the story that tends to dominate headlines not from the show are these guys now i'm showing my 11-inch macbook air because this is not our new product but i just got one the corporate laptop took it with me use it to blog the show i'm in love with it it's so lightweight that when you're carrying around your gear bag for four days straight you're working 14-hour day is not sleeping enough breathing in recycled air get a yachtie the last thing you want to do is come home with a tweaked back from carrying all your stuff and you wouldn't think the difference between a four-pound laptop at a two-pound laptop or five and three whatever matters that much unless you know you're a blogger or even worse somebody who travels for a living and it really does the 11-inch air i'm in love with it even though it's a lower power processor than the macbook pros the speed of the sse dry SSD drive makes this thing fly and with my Elgato stick for offloading the video encoding tasks for exporting to youtube and stuff this thing is to dream come true that being said though the news out of it from apple at a CES the verizon press conference announced you know towards the end of the show on friday the buzz all around was what's going on Verizon Verizon there's a razem press conference in New York on Tuesday January 11th at 11am so it's 1 1111 I am you know whatever but all bets are on the verizon iphone being announced at long long last probably won't be you know anything new other than just an iphone that works on cdma on verizon's web network probably won't even do LTE it'll probably be cdma only but we're going to have coverage of the event on the site TechnoBuffalo and also here on the YouTube channel you know 11 a.m. tuesday morning levin a.m. eastern time and then as soon as the events over i'll be doing a live cast on the ustream channel they took a buffalo channel talking about what went down my thoughts on to answer your questions you're saying hi you know you know i hold off on the name calling for now getting at least a week to settle in but i'll be there so anyway there you go little CES recap also i got to see the tesla model s in person that is a sexy car on in love with that car you can check out my coverage it's actually on the nvidia blog if you go to blogs at nvidia com that's not a plug for them although they were great to work with you know whatever their products that that's your you know I'm not gonna saying about them so I've reviewed the products but they were great to work with so thank you a video for that opportunity now I'm full-time Buffalo but all that content i did for a video you can check out there if you're interested otherwise you know here we go stay tuned I'm psyched to be here so much common tablets for the big story obviously lots going on a mobile 3d and connected TV I've got a vizio can I lift this up have any strength left after being in the desert I got to use both hands this isn't even a big TV it's a little one little bedroom size TV vizio 22 inch LED TV with the connected apps can you see here it's got the Rhapsody in the Netflix and the Facebook and all that stuff and this is actually something I picked up over the holidays haven't had a chance to set up but I'm going to get to unboxing this and say get up and reviewing it on techna Buffalo very interested in connected TV you know streaming media from netflix and hulu and all those companies apps all that stuff what's the deal is it any good well i've been reading the stuff that Sean did about cutting the cable and now I'm going to dive into on video as well just like to do that alright so until next time my name is Noah we'll see you for the app thing will see for the reviews will see you you know for whatever we can on technobuffalo com