CES 2005: CNET's CES Backstage Crew - CNET.com: "
WHAT I DO: Flower shop manager
WHERE I LIVE: Wallingford, Pennsylvania
OUTSIDE INTERESTS: Artsy movies, gadgets, road trips, fancy restaurants, dive bars, fabulous handbags
FRIDAY, JANUARY 7
I was waiting in line outside the Atlantic City Deli at the Hilton to hear Bill Gates's keynote on Wednesday night. It was loud, and I tried to get the attention of one of the other Backstage crew guys, and a guy ahead of me in line said, 'They could hear [me] all the way back to 40th Street.' (Ha ha, you're sooooo funny, Chuckles.)
Well, after briefly chatting with pop singer and trivia question answer Deborah Gibson, now you really can hear me all the way to 40th Street. Deborah (don't call her Debbie!) is the spokesperson for Leadsinger, a company that makes karaoke machines that keep all the important bits inside the microphone. It just plugs into your TV via RCA inputs, as you would a video game console, and away you go. The base model comes with 300 songs preinstalled, and you can buy extra memory chips with different genres of songs and a wireless mic adapter so you and a friend can duet.
Aside from a new way to torture my friends at parties (and several rainforests' worth of product information sheets), the thing I'm going to take home with me from CES is that there's so much more technology out there than what you or I might ever see in the real world. It almost makes me sad, really, that these awesome cell phones and PDAs and big, sexy, flat-screen TVs will probably never make it to my house. I mean, I was talking with a CNET editor who told me about the 67-inch Samsung DLP that costs 'only $6,000.' Come on! I'm a writer! (Confidential to Samsung: If you want to send one of those babies my way, CNET has my address.)
But even if the hot technology never gets to my house, the experience of visiting CES is one of those things I'll remember for a long time. The booth babes, the lame-ish freebie"
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