Lunch@ Sponsors CES January 2005 (Audio)

http://www.patmeier.com/pieros/CES05/Jan2005Lunchat.htmThis year's Lunch@Piero's, an annual vendor showcase for working press during CES, was podCasted by former TechTV personality Chris Pirillo along with producer Jake Ludington and Russell Johnson inventor of the WorldVibrations Radio Station-in-a-Box.

Pat Meier-Johnson , the Producer of Lunch@Events, explains what was there and who Chris interviewed on his show:

Not a party (we have kept our event private and off the party lists) but a true Working Lunch with a manageable professional crowd, we gave sponsors and reporters a smart setting to run demos without pushing and to converse without shouting. I was particularly pleased with this year's sponsors and demos, giving the press a way to see what's inside the finished Take, for example, the wide variety of products using VIA's tiny Mini-ITX mainboards: PCs from Polywell, car PCs from AutoCom, home media servers from Niveus Media and media centers and software from CACMedia/Video Without Boundaries, powerful servers for massive data storage from Capricorn Technologies, and fabulous case mods from Jeffrey Stephenson.

We showcased mindblowing video quality playing on handheld displays made possible through NeoMagic's sophisticated applications chips. SigmaTel showed how their audio chips enable great sound in tiny devices featuring their technology in Oakley MP3 sunglasses among other tiny
devices.

Exhibits included VoIP and Bluetooth devices from VoIP Voice, home networking and routers from ZyXEL with buiilt-in parental control, Techie Toyz and audio and video peripherals from Mad Dog Multimedia, cooling and noise-eliminating PC hardware from Zalman, silent PCs from Hush, beautiful on-screen cable TV guides from Pioneer Digital, and control software from Portait Displays that lets users set display device preferences as easily as adjusting luxury car seat settings. Press got an early glimpse of Sun's new Java desktop and x86 Solaris running on VIA's hardware and right next to them was S3's table showing great 3D graphics technology. There were video on demand systems for thousand+ room hotel developments from Videolocity, wireless community and car systems from CastleTek, and who could forget the putting green and the TeePod solar powered golf kiosk from 4eversports (all using VIA's tiny mainboards)?

Amateur moviemakers saw great possibilities in automatic video production software from muvee. Users saw brand new vistas open up with a CardBus device from VillageTronic that lets multiple displays run off a single laptop. And how about that $498 notebook PC from Linspire?


Listen to the show while surfing the interviewees website.