{"id":1279,"date":"2018-01-11T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T18:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2018-01-22T20:33:17","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T02:33:17","slug":"not-the-winner-of-the-2018-ces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/?p=1279","title":{"rendered":"Not the winner of the 2018 CES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One prominent tech site chose the Sony&#8217;s Aibo as the top item of the entire 2018 CES show. Clearly they&#8217;ve been visiting the local cannabis outlets as a Sony mechanical dog isn&#8217;t new, or news. Their mechanical pets have been around since Bill Clinton was in office. Nothing the &#8220;pup&#8221; did was anything other than what you&#8217;d expect. The ladies at the booth were clearly bored with Sony&#8217;s $1500 creation as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Pup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1280\" src=\"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Pup-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"382\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Pup-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Pup-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Pup-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 382px) 100vw, 382px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Another amazing disappointment was the Samsung booth, which was unquestionably the worst I&#8217;ve ever seen in almost two decades from a major company. The entirety of the giant booth was cut into tiny glass-enclosed areas that literally showcased &#8230; nothing. That is unless you&#8217;re really, really into refrigerators. There were none of the famous phones, cameras or literally anything else except refrigerators, washing machines, dryers and some poor guys trying to get the &#8220;Alexa\/Google&#8221; clone &#8220;Bixby&#8221; to do ANYTHING. I actually don&#8217;t know what they were trying to say by such a display &#8230; They should have taken five minutes to go the LG area and its jaw-dropping curving <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/OLED\">OLED<\/a> canyon.<\/p>\n<p>Another completely uninspiring booth was Panasonic &#8230; but that&#8217;s pretty much the case every year.\u00a0 \u00a0 It&#8217;s just that this year, they must have hired the same conceptual adviser as Samsung as it was even more of a totally boring mess. After fighting for ten minutes to get through it, I stopped and tried (&amp; failed) to think of anything worth even discussing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One prominent tech site chose the Sony&#8217;s Aibo as the top item of the entire 2018 CES show. Clearly they&#8217;ve been visiting the local cannabis outlets as a Sony mechanical dog isn&#8217;t new, or news. Their mechanical pets have been around since Bill Clinton was in office. Nothing the &#8220;pup&#8221; did was anything other than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1282,"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions\/1282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}