Growing up the son of a West Coast Video Manager, Sean-Paul has literally been playing video games for as long as he can remember. Starting as a wee little boy in his room with a 7” black and white TV and his Atari 2600 with Tank Plus, not much has changed, just the room and television have gotten bigger. When not gaming, Sean-Paul is usually cooking, watching anime, or riding his bike around Singapore and dreaming up his next computer build.
Have you been reading about everyone is cutting the cord these days? It seems like every tech site out there has some story about how you can take back your life and money by giving your evil cable provider the boot and saying “Sayonara!” to your cable bill. Granted, there are a massive amount of options these days for streaming video content to the television that we’re not going to get into at the moment. We get the odd feeling that most of the stories that we’ve read seem to either forget or fail to consider one thing: the solutions they provide aren’t girlfriend/wife friendly.
A few weeks ago was CE Week, a week long technology press show and conference held in NYC. Vendors come from all around the country and world to display their new products. Some decide to hold private events and one such company was the headphone manufacturer Aerial 7.
Held at the large electronics store, Data Vision in NYC, Aerial 7 had the drinks flowing, the beats pumping and the good times rolling. The event wasn’t just for CE Week, but also to celebrate their first permanent, branded in-store area. While DJ Neil Armstrong was killing it on the wheels of steel, the real reason any of us showed up was to check out the headphones. Jump after the break to see what’s new and coming up from Aerial 7.
A few weeks ago, around the end of June, the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) rolled into NYC for an event called CE Week. While the main function of this week-long event is to give manufacturers a chance to meet with the members of the press and showcase their new wares, it also serves as a time when industry pundits can speak to other interested and influencial members of the industry. The short version is that this is NYC’s version of CES.
While this year’s CE Week didn’t seem as exciting as the previous year, there were definitely some notable trends and interesting products on show for the rest of the year. Easily the biggest trend in the products that we saw was portable wireless audio. Bluetooth speakers were cheaper than a dime-a-dozen, with seemingly every other manufacturer offering some way for consumers to have the soundtrack to their lives everywhere they go. And speaking of soundtracks, headphones were another really hot trend this year. We were happy to see that circumaural (large, DJ-style) headphones seemed to be making a show-of-force at the show. We’ve always favored that style of headphones as they are much less likely to damage your hearing than earplugs and they just flat out look cooler.
Not everything was bass and beats at the show and we’re going to prove that right now by running through some of the vendors that we spoke to. Here’s a preview of what to look for between now and the holiday season.
Hey everyone, We just wanted to let you all know that GDGT Live is this coming Monday (aka today, 6/25) in NYC. If you happen to live in the area and don’t have plans Monday night, we highly suggest making it out to the event. It’s the only tech event in NYC that’s open to the public and it only happens once a year here in the city. The complete vendors list can be found over on the GDGT site and you’ll definitely want to check it out. Logitech, Boxee, Gunnar Optics, and Western Digital will all be there and that’s just a few of the companies that will be showing off their new wares. Plus there’s raffle prizes and freebies for the first few hundred people to show up. And drink tickets for the thirsty among you.
Here’s the link to register http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3596843255. If you can’t make it to the event, then make sure you follow us on twitter and stay up to date as we’ll be doing live updates during the event. If there’s anything you want to see, just ask and we’ll make sure to get you the info you need.
Also, this week is CE Week NYC. Unlike other shows like Pepcom and Showstoppers, CE Week is, as the name suggests, a week long series of events. The way we like to think of it is that it’s a miniature CES in NYC. That’s also starting up on Monday with events and panels around the city. The main event opens on Wednesday and you can rest assured that we’ll be there. Again, follow us on twitter to get our live updates and to ask us any questions.
So If you haven’t heard, there’s a new monitor making a big splash around the net. It’s the Yamakasi Catleap Q270. It’s a beautiful piece of tech, but chances are you’ve never heard of it or the company. In all honesty, we hadn’t heard of Yamakasi either until about 2 weeks ago ourselves. The monitor sounds too good to be true, so we made sure that one got sent to us and put it through the ringer. If you want to give yourself a brief overview, check out our un-boxing video right after the break.
