CES 2008 Hall of Shame

[Mr. Analog]

Having watched the CES coverage on G4 Tech TV for the last two days I can tell you that for every one cool thing there are 10 terrible things to behold.

Earlier today Slashdot had a rather humorous article about the worst of the worst at this year's CES.

"The CES 2008 Innovations Design and Engineering Awards Showcase honored the Atom Chip Corporation, which was exhibiting the same 100GB, 500GB, and 1TB 'quantum optical' memory chips back in 2006. We actually wandered by, but long gone are the 'SolarMemory' chips, and he didn't know anything about Duke Nuk'em Forever. A little easy digging shows that they'd been making the same extraordinary claims and exhibiting prototypes at CES during the past three years, long enough to make 'atom chip hoax' the fourth suggestion on typing 'atom chip' into Google. I'm amused that the 'preeminent' panel of judges failed their vetting and gatekeeping functions. But I fear that Atom Chip will gather investors based on their recognition at CES, and continue in the game for many years to come, while honors at CES become a Hall of Shame."

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/14/1913224