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There’s so much weird stuff at CES, but I feel like it’s almost Darwinian. 90% of it is crap but sometimes the zany stuff works. I’d recommend people in the tec

There’s so much weird stuff at CES, but I feel like it’s almost Darwinian. 90% of it is crap but sometimes the zany stuff works. I’d recommend people in the tech world attend at least once just to see the intensity of it all. It’s free if you register far enough in advance. CES is an experience! This blog post is mostly just making fun of bad English marketing copy though. Yeah lots of international companies have trouble describing things well in English, but that isn’t really the right metric to judge them on.

dirktheman 8y ago
Some of these things are just downright silly, though... does the world REALLY need a sofa with YouTube? A humongous camera headset? Or a 'smart toilet'? I guess there's a market for mindless consumerism products, but I can't help feeling that a lot of smart people could be of better use solving real world problems...
- OkGoDoIt 8y ago
  I used to work for an ecommerce site that sold the Numi toilet (gen 1), and it's amazing how many people shell out $8000 for a creepy automated toilet. I agree it's silly, but there is apparently a market.
seapunk 8y ago
I plan to go there one day, and see it with my own eyes. A lot of cases presented are "french tech" startups which means these startups are invited with the money of the France taxpayers. It became a subject of mockery in France because institutional folks who never launched anything give business lessons to entrepreneurs and we see the result in Vegas each year.
- SyneRyder 8y ago
  I thought you were exaggerating until I got about halfway through and discovered the French Tech section. I honestly can't tell if La French Tech are being knowingly ironic. Their website [1] is a gloriously detailed coming soon page ("Our site is undergoing renovation, and will be back online with in 2019") and the idea of starting an English language local French Tech community in your own country is perplexing. I'm fascinated, thanks for mentioning it. [1] https://www.lafrenchtech.com/en/ https://www.lafrenchtech.com/en/
  - realusername 8y ago
    It's an alright community but it's targeted at business people in IT, not developers, the one in my local area does not have any tech people for example.

dirktheman 8y ago

Some of these things are just downright silly, though... does the world REALLY need a sofa with YouTube? A humongous camera headset? Or a 'smart toilet'? I guess there's a market for mindless consumerism products, but I can't help feeling that a lot of smart people could be of better use solving real world problems...

OkGoDoIt 8y ago
I used to work for an ecommerce site that sold the Numi toilet (gen 1), and it's amazing how many people shell out $8000 for a creepy automated toilet. I agree it's silly, but there is apparently a market.

seapunk 8y ago

I plan to go there one day, and see it with my own eyes. A lot of cases presented are "french tech" startups which means these startups are invited with the money of the France taxpayers. It became a subject of mockery in France because institutional folks who never launched anything give business lessons to entrepreneurs and we see the result in Vegas each year.

SyneRyder 8y ago
I thought you were exaggerating until I got about halfway through and discovered the French Tech section. I honestly can't tell if La French Tech are being knowingly ironic. Their website [1] is a gloriously detailed coming soon page ("Our site is undergoing renovation, and will be back online with in 2019") and the idea of starting an English language local French Tech community in your own country is perplexing. I'm fascinated, thanks for mentioning it. [1] https://www.lafrenchtech.com/en/ https://www.lafrenchtech.com/en/
- realusername 8y ago
  It's an alright community but it's targeted at business people in IT, not developers, the one in my local area does not have any tech people for example.