It's too dark to take a picture of anything else.
This is the dumbest product in the $300-400 range I've ever seen. Basically, it blinks, rolls around and plays music via Bluetooth. That's all.
Sony Rolly at Gizmodo meetup
October 24th, 2007 · 7 Comments
Categories: General
7 responses so far ↓
1 Carl
// Oct 25, 2007 at 1:48 am
Well that's pointless. So what other products did they have there? Was there anything your were particularly interested in?
2 Rich Pav
// Oct 25, 2007 at 11:44 am
Some people were showing their latest mobile phone gadgets or mobile apps they're developing for the Japanese market. I like the phones with slide-out keyboards, but not enough to spend the money to get one myself. I'll always go for the best 1 yen phones I can find, even if they're technologically a year or so behind the times.
It was nice to spend a few hours with like-minded people, albeit most of them were a heck of a lot more intelligent, well-off and well-connected than me. I think it's good to try to surround yourself with successful, happy people and try to learn a little from them.
3 Carl
// Oct 25, 2007 at 12:25 pm
Those are very popular right now, a lot of two-handed texting going on with those. I still have my small LG and I'm fine with that.
Well your not doing bad Rich, you have kids whom you love and vice versa. Your job is good, well I assume. Your a smart guy Rich and you take the time to share it with us.
4 Rich Pav
// Oct 25, 2007 at 4:08 pm
BTW, last night's meetup wasn't a presentation. It was just a bunch of techie and blogger-type people getting together in a restaurant to eat and drink.
5 Carl
// Oct 26, 2007 at 12:42 am
So did you enjoy the food and drink?
Was there a diverse group of people like, more than just Japanese people?
6 Rich Pav
// Oct 26, 2007 at 12:41 pm
There were about 10-12 foreigners and maybe 2 Japanese, including a video blogger (a real friendly and outgoing cute pie) named Tage, I think. But I can't find her blog.
The food was good–skewered meat. Nobody but me seemed to like the chicken cartilage (they look like nose bones) so I had them all to myself.
It took a while to settle the check, so I missed the last train home and sacked out in the office again. No big deal. I'm used to it.
7 Bryan Campbell
// Nov 4, 2007 at 1:23 pm
I saw this demonstrated at the Sony building in Ginza. You're right, It was pretty dumb.
What wasn't dumb though: The 11 inch Organic Display HDTV. I've never seen video quality that looked this good. 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio.