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January 9, 2008

CG’s CES Highlights: We talk to Penn Jillette and iRobot’s Colin Angle, Fondle the LimePC

John Biggs

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Some of the best posts we made this week involved real “reporting” involving “interviews” and “actually talking to humans” — go figure! Today Matt and Devin sat down with magician and atheist Penn Jillette and I spoke with iRobot’s CEO Colin Angle about the future of iRobot and personal robotics.

In hardware news, we took a gander at the LimePC, a single board computer that is about as big as an iPod nano and fits into almost any case — from ultra-mini PC to an iMac-like slab.

Oh, and LG let us take pictures of their watch phone.

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  1. Jon

    January 9th, 2008 at 8:32 pm

    CES seems like a fun place to be right about now… hopefully I can make it for next years. I enjoyed CG’s articles of the event… will we see live steaming next year with John Biggs wearing a headcam?

    Jon
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  2. giles

    January 9th, 2008 at 8:38 pm

    “magician and atheist”

    thats a weird thing to write..

    would you write “magician and Christian” if he was one?

  3. browse

    January 9th, 2008 at 9:05 pm

    introducing him as an atheist? is that really neccessary?

  4. Don Wilson

    January 9th, 2008 at 9:14 pm

    Mind linking to the Penn Gillette article or do I have to sit here and wonder what was said?

  5. Burgo

    January 9th, 2008 at 9:58 pm

    Yeah, the Penn Gillette link is pointing to itself/this post.

  6. Jack Meoff

    January 9th, 2008 at 10:04 pm

    This reply written by Jack, Christian . .

  7. Eric

    January 9th, 2008 at 10:07 pm

    Unless the phrase is “and fellow atheist” I find the superfluous description is often being added by someone who is uncomfortable with atheism.

  8. Proud Atheist

    January 9th, 2008 at 11:24 pm

    Good job, Colin. Just let the robots grow up a bit, then we will show this theistic world who is the boss.

  9. Matt Hickey

    January 10th, 2008 at 1:16 am

    @ those concerned with atheism: it’s relevant because he’s a noted, outspoken atheist, and it’s relevant. He talked about atheism, I thought it’d be good to point it out. And, yes, if he was an outspoken Christian and talked about that pointedly, I’d have mentioned that, too.

    @ Jon: Yes, live steaming video. Head cam? Not sure. We’re working on a way to bring you the Steve Jobs keynote live on Monday, at least the live audio with photographs. No promises, but it’d be cool, yes?

  10. Jon

    January 10th, 2008 at 3:25 am

    @Matt
    Photographs and audio… nah, I prefer to wait for the real keynote and be “un-surprised” by what is being offered yet again… among the dumbest moves by Apple recently, killing streaming keynotes was one of the bigger ones in my opinion. I am one of those super-duper-evil guys who switched from OSX to XP and never looked back after having a mac for 15 years of my life ;-)

    Jon
    http://buzvia.com - Share Influence

  11. natis

    January 10th, 2008 at 6:06 am

    It’s Penn Jillette.

  12. John Biggs

    January 10th, 2008 at 6:41 am

    @11 you’re right. It’s been a long week.

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