I'm heading out to CES tomorrow morning as a guest of Panasonic.
At least I hope to be heading out, the Boston Twitter Storm Report says "Snow develops across the region this evening to a wintry mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain after midnight."
Perfect, freezing rain.
Panasonic had planned to send out five bloggers, but one just had to have emergency gall bladder surgery. Get well soon Cliff.
Greg Verdino explains everything about the trip on his blog. Basically, Panasonic is covering my flight and hotel, and taking us out to dinner, letting us use their products, and showing us what they are up to.
There's no requirement for us to blog about Panasonic, just to make one post a day and one after CES. So if you see the tag LIHD on my post, that's for Panasonic and means Living in HD.
Upcoming Events I'll Be At
Panasonic Presents... A CES Tweet-Up in High Definition - Thursday January 8, 2009 from 6:30pm - 8:00pm
2009 "It Won't Stay in Vegas" Blogger Party -Friday January 9, 2009 from 5:00pm - 8:00pm. Pre-registration required.
On Thursday, sometime between 12 and 2 I'll be at the Intel booth with Sarah Austin doing a video streaming broadcast over WiMax.
Follow Me
Check out SteveGarfield.com for updates. The main page will show my most recent Qik and blip.tv videos, my Friendfeed stream and flickr photos.
You can also follow me on twitter.
What I'm Looking Forward To
People. Although there are going to be 2,700 vendors at CES, there are also going to be 120,000 people there. CES IS PEOPLE!
The last time I went to CES was in 2006.
Back then there wasn't any twitter. We had to walk five miles to school, up a hill, with no shoes.
This year there are a lot of bloggers and social media people headed to CES. So although there are going to be thousands of peope there, I think it's going to feel a lot like a mini-SXSW.
HP is sponsoring a CntrStg bloggers lounge at the Wynn January 7, 2009 - Sunday January 11, 2009 from 4:00pm - 12:00pm. I'll make sure I stop by to hang out over there. You'll need to register for that.
So I'm looking forward to seeing lots of people that I only get to see a few times a year.
I'm also looking forward to shooting some fun video projects. You'll see those when they happen!
I want to wear that Liquid Image HD contraption and shoot some video. Isn't it the perfect looking device for a videoblogger?
Vendors I'm looking forward to meeting up with include Mogulus, Qik, TiVo, Nokia, and Kodak.
I'm very interested in seeing how the Panasonic HDC-SD100 HD camcorder works. The only HD I've had a chance to work with is the Kodak Zi6.
If you are going to CES, drop a note in the comments and let me know what you are looking forward to.
If you aren't going, leave me a note about what you want me to go check out for you.