cover something as monumental andamazingandcrushingand utterlydivorced from realityas CES is half artistic creation , half science , and if you need to do it well , all heart .
The Most ( and Least ) awesome Things We Saw at CES Day One
That ’s the real arcanum , if you want to know .
But I suppose some of you might also want to have intercourse how we covered it , the tools the 12 or so of us used everyday in the field to overlook a bajillion posts about all of the tech you ’ll be reach in the near ( or maybenot - so - penny-pinching ) future . We write about a lot of gear ; we apply a very small selection . This is what stimulate us through CES .
center On Sony ’s Insane Crystal LED Prototype Display
Did you like our photos and picture ? I hope so . Here ’s what we shot with , for the most part : Canon 1D Mark IV , Canon 7D , Canon 60D , Canon Rebel T2i , Nikon D3100,Nikon J1 , Sony NEX - C3 , Sony A700 , Olympus EP-3 , Olympus EP - L3 , and the Panasonic GX1 . Along with a smattering of drinking glass like Canon ’s F2.8 70 - 200 mm crystalline lens for getting up close enough in keynotes to count the hairs on Ralph de la Vega ’s mustache , even from a mile away . ( Lens rentalprovided by our friend at BorrowLenses.com . )
Canon 1D Mark IV : The $ 5000 New King of Cameras
The biggest pile this year ? We ditched 3 gravitational constant completely , going 4 G all the way . It ’s the first clip we ’ve never wanted for bandwidth , which is a pretty awe-inspiring matter , since it ’s always been our scarcest and most precious resource . Now it flows like water from the sky . ( pee from the sky would be crazy right ? ) Mostly with dongles and MiFis from Verizon , whoseLTE networkcarried our words and bits out to you bozo , even from the darkest , smelliest bowels of the Sands Expo and Las Vegas Convention Center . We had a couple of AT&T LTE phones too , which surprised us withserious speeed and reliabilitythroughout Las Vegas . AndClearwire ’s 4 1000 donglescut direct to the heart of the LVCC insistence room .
Verizon LTE Speed Test : Insanely Fast
No Windows machines were used in the making of this coverage . It was MacBook Pros and MacBook Airs across the board . For the first meter ever , I think . Mostly because so much of the computer software we utilize is only on OS X , or works better on Macs . But maybe that ’ll commute next year with the unexampled ultrabooks and Windows 8 .
How do you seat through 7 straightforward hours of insistency conference , powering 4 M dongle and phones and tethered cameras without shinny for a wall socket every six irregular ? With bigassHyperMac battery , which almost always get us block at the airdrome . And for smaller gadgets , battery packs from Energizer and Duracell .
HyperMac External MacBook Battery Review
schoolbook electronic messaging is the only reliable bod of communicating in the wireless flustercuck that is believably the populace ’s largest gathering of data - eat smartphones , dongle and hotspots . AndGroupMekept us together .
Lifechanger : GroupMe Group Texting
An Aeropress , Kantan drippers and Four Barrel coffee berry , even though we did n’t get to make much because we did n’t have a piss kettle and could n’t get anybody to institute us one . We ate a lot of beef jerky and Clif and Muscle Milk bars , too .
I consider that ’s about it . domain gum and Degree deodorant , which should really be in every tech author ’s travelling bag at hot and smelly barter shows .
We loved every second , and we really hope you did too . And hey , await at that , we did n’t give out .
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