Although we made the beginner’s mistake of not having a game plan for Day 1, we still took a peek at a lot of really cool things on the show floor at the 2007 International CES. We wouldn’t go so far as to say that we saw a good day’s worth of what there was to see. The fact of the matter is that nobody in the world could take a meaningful look at everything on the floor at CES. However, the “cool things to floor space” ratio at CES is absurdly high, so we didn’t have to go very far to check out a fair amount of new products. With any luck, today’s coverage will be the absolute worst of the four days of coverage you will be getting from us at this event. We spent a lot of time setting up meetings and chatting people up today. So without further adieu…

Creative, Logitech, Dell, AMD/ATI
Our primary objective for Day 1, besides getting completely lost, was to check out some of the big names in two of the South halls. If you’ve read our blog from day 1, then you know that we have been experiencing some technical difficulties that limited our coverage on day 1. As a result, our report here on the Creative, Dell, and AMD/ATI displays will be briefer than we would like.


First up is Creative. Creative’s booth was nestled well within the madness of the South hall, surrounded on at least two sides by cell phone and iPod accessory companies. One of the main focuses for Creative was their X-Fi series of products. On display were each of the now 7 flavors of X-Fi sound cards. Accompanying this display was a setup of the X-Fi Sound System Z600 and the Xmod control module, which together create a very high-end audio experience. Creative was offering “Xtreme Fidelity” experience things in a separated room in their booth, but the line was quite long so unfortunately we did not have the time to check that out. The Creative booth also had two “stages” setup. CES attendees could sit down in front of one of these stages for an X-Fi instructional briefing type of thing. We are not so sure on the details of that because we weren’t able to catch it underway. The other stage was Fatal1ty’s shootout stage.


It seems like every event we attend these days we run into our old boy Jon. Aside from Fatal1ty’s 1v1 shootout setup, he also has some duties over at the WSVG tent, but we will have to get over there sometime later in the week. Fatal1ty’s Creative product lineup was being proudly displayed near the X-Fi setup. Both of Mr. Wendel’s signature mouse products were there, as were the Fatal1ty Gaming Keyboard and the relatively new Fatal1ty Gaming Headset.