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..First was the Wallet MP3 player (www.wallettex.com), a credit-card thin MP3 player capable of storing up to 2GB or so of music and play for about 4 hours of charge time. It won’t hit retail shelves until June, but it is literally the size of a credit card, except for a "stub" where the USB+headphones cable attaches. Control buttons are built on the face of the card...

On the Mohney Unimpressed

By Doug Mohney: Monday January 08, 2007 10:07

"THIS CES IS is not the greatest," said Marty Winston.
Winston said this today at his "Cherry Pickers" event this morning at the Wynn hotel, with a glass of Macallen scotch in his hand that was older than the “Cherry” eye candy that prowled on stage to deliver the drink along with a good cigar that he said “Might be longer than I am." [This reporter did not attempt to measure either the cigar or Mr. Winston]
 

Marty, who’s been to lots of CESes and put on his third Cherry Picker dog-and-pony press show, was disappointed. "There are no breakthough innovations," he said, noting in previous years there had been some really cool technology. [And "cool" seems to be the de facto term for high-paid executives these days, but that’s a different story].

Fortunately, of the 62 featured products that Marty picked for the press willing to get up at 9 AM on a Sunday morning in Las Vegas, there were several that made my “gee, I’d like to find one in the goody bag" list.
 
 
First was the Wallet MP3 player (www.walletex.com), a credit-card thin MP3 player capable of storing up to 2GB or so of music and play for about 4 hours of charge time. It won’t hit retail shelves until June, but it is literally the size of a credit card, except for a "stub" where the USB+headphones cable attaches. Control buttons are built on the face of the card.
 
Eye catching technology candy #2 was the upgrade to the MoGo mouse. MoGo Mouse x54 fits into an ExpressCard/54 slot for travel, then pops out for wireless Bluetooth-mousing. Look very carefully at the picture so you don’t miss what has to be the smallest Bluetooth "dongle" I’ve seen; it’s about half the size of a U.S. dime if you bite off the USB connector and about two dimes or so thick. You can just leave it stuck in a USB port and not think about it.

If you have Bluetooth, you can also shell out $225 and get your own eClipse Bluetooth watch (www.ntrentechnologies.com). The stainless steel watch actually looks like a watch and has 2GB of onboard storage plus an MP3 player and a digital voice recorder. Of course, they build all this stuff into phones now anyway, but if you want to keep your music and surriptiously recorded conversations separate from your phone this would be the way to go.

Ritek (www.ritekusa.com) showed off a combo USB drive plus two USB 2.0 port hub in several different colors and designs. You can buy a hub to store up to 4 GB and daisy-chain up to six hubs together to get up to 24 GB of storage, so when your are bored you can take apart and rearrange your flash storage to suit your mood.

FYI, "Cherry" is actually named Trixan and does bartending and administrative work when she’s not running around in skimpy outfits to deliver scotch and cigars.