If you don't know, G is an IT guy. So we decided to go to the largest tech conference in Europe, CeBit. It was HUGE, so many companies, so many pieces of tech. I just wanted to push buttons, and I got to play with lots of new technology. I was blown away by the amount of money these companies spend on displays. Microsoft had a huge touchscreen stage thing that was probably 12 x 12 feet, and a constantly updating and moving display of their keynote speakers. IBM took over almost a whole room.
We got to play with Xbox Kinect (G kicked my butt in Boxing), a sweet netbook that has a touch screen monitor that breaks off the physical keyboard to be a tablet (me want), cool new phones, 3D tv's, holographic displays, telepresence robots, enough ipad clones to choke you, Nintendo 3DS and huge rooms of blue glowing servers with pretty wire bundles. And a very cool water fountain. It was lots of fun for a couple of geeks like ourselves.
Ahh! That's my hometown! You coming here for CeBIT is the closest I've come to meeting an Unclutterer ;)
ReplyDeleteI hope you had a good time - everybody here says this year's fair was a success in comparison to the past years.
It was quite amazing Nessie! Hannover really put on quite a show, and it was packed with geeks! :)
ReplyDeleteAhh, yikes, I didn't subscribe to the comments on this post, so I only saw your reply now.
ReplyDeleteCurrently the city is preparing for the industrial fair, but I reckon it isn't quite as attractive as the tech fair, eh?
Hehe, too bad I'm a book-geek, and not a techie one - the book fairs in Germany are too far off for me to consider going (my Mom always stresses about me travelling alone, despite the fact that I'm a legal adult by now).