current.com - 1/19/2009
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Ben heads to Vegas to check out CES,
the biggest tech event of the year. The infoMania...
Tech Report is a weekly segment where technology guru Ben Hoffman takes a look at the newest tech products, gadgets and video games. It has been called the ...
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Tech Report: CES // Current (video)
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Video: Current's Ben Hoffman at CES
Boing Boing Gadgets —
"I'm gonna put Wild Things on while I hug my mom." Thank you, Ben Hoffman, for not making the only asshole to wander around CES haranguing people.
The Story of CES, Told Honestly [Clips]
Gizmodo —
This 5-minute clip of Current's Ben Hoffman at CES accurately sums up our day-to-day experience walking the floor, if we could only devote less time to writing and more time channeling our inner asshole. Really though, someone Hoffman manages to capture the tone of the event, the absurdity of so many of these products and the people selling them. If only the clip included 200 pans of identical digital cameras, flat screen TVs and journalists proudly toting official CES 2009 backpacks, you'd be missing nothing other than the smell and complimentary after hours booze. ...
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