John Bracken

I was feeling guilty for not reporting back on CES– but neither had the NYT’s David Pogue, until tonight. (I agree with both points, although the only CES report I have right now are my Flickr phots.

…the Las Vegas show alone is exhausting. You have 33 hours over four days to explore 2,500 company exhibits; that works out to 1.26 booths per minute.

In some ways, a better name for this year’s event would have been the Video Electronics Show; the electronics industry believes that the public’s appetite for watching TV, wherever and whenever possible, is insatiable.

More CES news, from ipod Lounge:

eMagin, which makes video display products for military and industrial uses, has unveiled the EyeBud headset, a new wearable display for video iPods.

The EyeBud, which displays video in front of one eye, can provide the feeling of watching video on a 105-inch display from 12 feet away, according to the company…The EyeBud is scheduled to be available later this year for as much as $600.

I won’t be there until Friday, but the AP is previewing the biggest CES yet:

The five-day annual event in Las Vegas, the mother of all tech trade shows, is bigger than ever before. It will consume 28 football fields of space as 2,500 exhibitors ranging from Internet powerhouses like Yahoo Inc. to little-known gizmo makers cast their bets on what they hope will be the next big trends in electronics.

Yahoo and rival Google Inc. will make their CES debuts with keynote speeches, muscling their way into the high-stakes battle already begun by computing stalwarts, consumer electronics giants and telecommunications companies to push digital media deeper into homes.

With the Web poised to become an increasingly dominant distribution method for movies and television, the Internet giants, along with Microsoft Corp.’s MSN, could very well be the ABC, NBC and CBS networks of the digital age, said Tim Bajarin, an industry analyst with Creative Strategies.

“If they get it right,” Bajarin said, “Google, Yahoo and MSN will be the digital portals for video content.”