Last week marked the fifteenth time I’ve attended the always-amazing Consumer Electronics Show. With 158,000 attendees and 3,100 vendors exhibiting, it’s a trade show like no other I’ve ever seen, and “massive” doesn’t begin to describe it. In fact, this year I had a pedometer in my pocket and on the day I walked the most, I took 17,000+ steps, around nine miles. One day. Walking. Read more

Just bought an Amazon Kindle Fire and it’s very slick, but I want to drop my own movies onto it, not just be trapped having to buy them – again – from the Amazon store. I already know how to rip my DVDs into “AVI” format for portability across devices, but how do I turn an AVI movie into something that the Kindle Fire can play?
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As usual Apple has created major waves as it introduces new technology.  We are talking about the iPhone 4S with the Siri voice technology application.  Forbes with a two-step back-and-forth series has helped the hype.  Perhaps Siri is a Google killer.  Perhaps Siri is not a Google killer.  Given the growing importance of the mobile Internet, there are huge implications in how this conflict plays out.
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I’m really enthused about the possibility of wireless sync on my iPhone with the release of the new version of iTunes and iOS 5 for my iPhone 4, but rather than just thrash around I am hoping you can tell me how to quickly set up this feature on my Mac? Read more

Ray Chan, Co-Founder and CEO of Singboard, and his partners arrived at 500 Startups with an idea for a photo-sharing app. After initial feedback for the app was luke warm, however, things changed drastically. Based on the fact that, according to Chan, karaoke bars in the U.S. paled in comparison to their native Hong Kong, the team regrouped, came up with a new idea and Singboard was born.

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Google has launched Flight Search, a service aimed at helping Google users to spot the most convenient flight on the occasion of flying out of town.
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Last night I was talking with a VP who works at HP on the former Palm team. He told me they have 2,000 patents for webOS, smart phones, and TouchPad.
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I’ve been hearing a lot about 3D printing lately. It’s not been wholly clear to me, though, exactly what it is (especially after I read the  Wikipedia entry). From a layman’s perspective, you tend to think about ink, paper and a printer and how on earth do you get three dimensions on that outside of augmented reality.

Then I saw 3D printing demonstrated in a video and in a way that instantly gave me the clear understanding of what it is and how it works.

(If you don’t see the video embedded above,  watch it on YouTube.)

It’s a very good demonstration and presenter Joe Titlow of  Z Corporation, manufacturer of the 3D printing equipment, knows his stuff and is able to explain it well in simple terms.

Look out for the “Holy cow!” moment by David Kaplan, the man who’s looking to have his wrench (that’s a spanner to us Brits) “printed.” He’s a  theoretical particle physicist and if he’s impressed by this technology, it must be something to pay attention to.

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Today’s latest announcement by Facebook was pretty short and sweet, and quite honestly felt a little like a knee jerk reaction to Google Plus.  I’ve recapped the three main announcements covered in the presentation below, in case you missed it.

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When Nanosys CEO Jason Hartlove pulled two iPads out of his bag and turned them on one looked like when I first saw my first Kodachrome slide while the other looked muddy and crappy in comparison (I pulled out my own iPad and saw my screen looked muddy and crappy in comparison too). The new one was clear, beautiful, stunning, with richer colors than I had ever seen on a screen before.

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