The show within the show

I attended Showstoppers yesterday evening and this show within the show was like a blast. Lots of big and small companies sharing the space with enthusiasm and showing their latest innovations and technologies. Lots of press and cool people were attending (if you look at the pic you can see Walt Mossberg walking in front of my objective).

Vuzix let me try their latest augmented reality eyewear devices, which from an optical prospective is a real piece of fine jewelry. Also Paul Travers was kind enough to share a bit of his experience with both Forte Technologies (the mythical VFX1 device) and Vuzix bringing me a lot of hope that 2009 will be the year when those eyewear devices will meet a large enough market.

Drobo convinced me that their storage solution is really what I deeply wanted.

Skype announced that they are coming to the iPhone app store this year (thanks olivier for grabbing the info).

All in all great event and highly energizing.