Most frightening CES booth ad so far

Posted by Rob Beschizza, November 24, 2008 7:50 AM | permalink

CES, the consumer tech show held in January each year, presents a few great new products and a lot of middling ones. Western purchasing officers chat with suppliers from far away, deals are cut, and LEDs furiously blink. And there are polyester laptop bags: more of them than you can possibly imagine.

Is MacWorld the same week as CES again next year? Why, yes, it is. A cyber-oreo goes to anyone who remembers what happened the last time these planets aligned.

Product Page (website made of pure flash, of course!) [Golla]

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#1 posted by kosmonautbruce

, November 24, 2008 10:43 AM

Well, IIRC, AppleTV was announced. Oh, and MacWorld completely overshadowed CES. D'oh!

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#2 posted by Not a Doktor , November 24, 2008 11:16 AM

That woman looks like she has a variation of the RAGE virus.

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#3 posted by Tubman , November 24, 2008 12:09 PM

Robert Anton Wilson died the last time the two events overlapped. If he manages it again in 2009 I'll be very impressed.

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#4 posted by airship , November 24, 2008 12:29 PM

Meh. This came first:

www.filmsquish.com/guts/files/images/blade_runner.jpg

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#5 posted by Ogus Monk , November 24, 2008 3:40 PM

"Knocking at the walls of heartache - Bang, bang.
I am the warrior..."

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#6 posted by Jake0748 , November 24, 2008 5:12 PM

Is that "woman" (?) supposed to be attractive in some way?

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#7 posted by joflow , November 25, 2008 12:14 AM

Neither were great. I know you're implying Macworld is better, but I mean really, what's changed?

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#8 posted by OM

, November 25, 2008 7:17 AM

...Otay, I give: What *did* happen when both CES and Muckworld happened at the same time?

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#9 posted by kalvie , November 25, 2008 1:20 PM

She is Pris, the Daryl Hannah character in Blade Runner.

She was attractive, then, but with big manly hands.

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#10 posted by kalvie , November 25, 2008 1:22 PM

Oh. Duh. I didn't read or paste Airship's link until after commenting. Serves me right, then, to look like an idiot.

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#11 posted by willdaddy , November 25, 2008 2:09 PM

I thought that was when the iPhone was announced, which totally overshadowed everything at CES.
IIRC all the tech pundits could do was ask the cell vendors on hand how they would compete, vendors all replied derisively.

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#12 posted by Anonymous , November 26, 2008 7:23 PM

This ad reminds me of something I overheard when trying on clothes in a changing booth at La Senza.

One salesgirl said to another, commenting about the posters all over the store: "Seriously, this woman looks like she's gonna eat her baby".

I believe said comment applies in this case as well.

PS I've always liked the designs on Golla bags.