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| Thread ID: 118405 | 2011-06-03 00:10:00 | Greetings from Computex 2011 | somebody (208) | PC World Chat |
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| 1206521 | 2011-06-03 00:10:00 | I am currently in Taipei, visiting Computex 2011. First observations from the last couple of days: 1) It is HUGE. There are several exhibition halls spread out throughout the Taiwan World Trade Centre and Nangang exhibition centre. Photos can't really describe just how big the event is - there are literally thousands of exhibitors, and thousands of show staff keeping everything ticking over. 2) The Taiwanese clearly know how to run these sort of events. Everything has been very clearly signposted (with signs at the airport, in and around the venues, free shuttle buses) in English and Chinese. There are plenty of English speaking show staff around to answer questions, give directions etc. which has been very useful for a foreigner like me. On arrival, I handed in my pre-registration letter (which was emailed to me) and was given an RFID enabled badge. This badge is scanned when you enter an exhibition hall, and also used by some exhibitors to collect your contact information - i.e. they just scan it to get your contact information, rather than asking for a business card. 3) The transportation they've organised is great. They have free shuttle buses running between venues every 5 minutes, to/from the MRT station (the MRT is Taipei's light rail system), to/from most major hotels, and also to the airport. The show badge also acts as a free pass for the MRT system (it's like a Snapper card for Wellingtonians familiar with the concept), with 2 days of free rides loaded on it. You just scan it on the RFID readers just like you do with a normal card So far the highlights for me have been two rather esoteric products: 1) A product from a company called CUPP called "PunkThis", which is an add-on system-on-a-board you connect to where a hard drive should be in a netbook. It runs an ARM based system, and can apparently (combined with a Pixel Qi screen) get up to 40 hours battery life! www.engadget.com 2) Something I would best describe as a USB based KVM, but not really. It is a two-ended USB cable with some electronic smarts in it, that allows you to use one keyboard & mouse to control two computers. Their demo had two laptops side by side, with a mouse plugged into just one of them. By moving the mouse cursor off the edge of one screen, it appeared on the other (keyboard "focus" follows the mouse). What's even better is the software/drivers they provide which allow you to drag and drop files between the two computers, and share a clipboard (works with both text & graphics). They also claim that it works for Mac OSX but didn't have a demo on hand. I'm going to try and track down one of these to bring back - it does seem like quite an interesting gadget, and apparently retails for around NZ$30 to NZ$40 or so... www.youtube.com I also have a short video of a device which will make gaming enthusiasts drool - I'll try to get it up on Youtube at some point. |
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| 1206522 | 2011-06-03 01:06:00 | Oh, Im so jealous! | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1206523 | 2011-06-03 01:49:00 | Oh, Im so jealous! Hell yeah :punk |
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| 1206524 | 2011-06-03 02:04:00 | Oh, Im so jealous! Mee three |
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| 1206525 | 2011-06-03 03:04:00 | sounds very interesting. keep us posted:thumbs: |
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| 1206526 | 2011-06-03 23:27:00 | I managed to find the Pixel Qi booth yesterday and have a look at their demo units. Unfortunately I was quite disappointed, as I previously held them in quite high regard based on what I'd read online. While the screens looked pretty good with the backlight off, text on them wasn't anywhere near as crisp as I had expected. I think there is still some more work to do before this technology will be a serious contender for e-book readers. Following recommendations from a local, I went to try a famous fried chicken stall at the Shilin night market. It was a whole chicken breast, pounded flat to the size of a 10" laptop screen, seasoned, coated in a special flour mix and deep fried. It was delicious - and only cost about NZ$2.50. The night market itself was packed - lots of people shopping, buying food, and just hanging around in general. There were tons of cheap food stalls selling just about every kind of food you could think of. If I'd been hungrier I would have tried a few more things... Two photos attached... one of the fried chicken place and the other taken in one of the exhibition halls. Attached file: pf1-computex-floor1.JPG (www.imagef1.net.nz) (1.99 MB) Attached file: pf1-chicken-online.jpg (www.imagef1.net.nz) (780 KB) |
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| 1206527 | 2011-06-04 00:20:00 | Well, you can't have the best of everything in life! Good food is concerned, go to Asia -but not all Asian countries. You won't go wrong if you go to: Hongkong, Taiwan, Singapore, Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou (and other main China cities), Malaysia(?) Bangkok(?) |
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