CES Convention

I had the good fortune to be invited to attend the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) that takes place in Las Vegas every year. There were 140,000 people in attendance from all over the world gathered to see the latest and greatest in technology advancement. It was something else. I took a few pictures, not too many. The convention was HUGE it took over two convention centers, the Luxor, Bellagio, and one other large place…

The vendor’s booths were extravagant, some were two stories high, and one was suspended from the ceiling. Many vendors invited famous people like Fifty Cent, Justin Bieber, and the 7 year old from Americas got talent to sell there product, others just gave free stuff away lol

 you know who that is...

 Huge tree complete with butterflies ^.^

 floor to celling curved 3D TV. thats right, 3D floor to celing. curved.

 2 level colorful booth

 HUGE booth (although not as big as Sony booth...)

Audi 

 I got two large bags of stuff, my favorite being a pair of ear buds made if memory foam. Why wasn’t this thought of before? They’re so comfortable! And they form to your ear and cancel out any out side noise. Another thing was a pair of ear bud headphones that blow Skull Candy and Beats brands out of the water; I put my memory foam ear buds on them... Magic. Unbelievable sound quality and comfort. The ear bud headphones will be released to the general public in two years; they will be a huge hit. The memory ear buds are already on sale and you can buy them online (link at bottom of post)

Other cool things included concept cars and the high tech gadgets and robots. there was this super HD TV that was only 4mm thin. yup, 4 millimeters. I tried to take a picture but it was so thin it didn't really come out.

There are 3 TV's in the above photo, the thick one with the lights is not a TV that is a division/mounting wall. You can barley see the screens but there are two in front of the wall and one behind. 

 concept car

 this car is not a concept car, its on the market, you can have it for an unspeakable price :0

this little car made the entire room shake it was so loud. They were only allowed to turn it on for 20 seconds every half hour.

It was fun! I hope I can do it again next year :)

buy your memory foam earbuds here 

http://www.complyfoam.com/categories/T%252dSeries/

Finished my book!

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


It was a good sequel to the first book, a lot of creativity is evident in the way the plot unfolds Collins has a great imagination. being a 'teen' book i found the writing not as high quality as i like. the story is great, the writing level not so much. but its definitely a good read, if you likes the first one i think you will really enjoy the second.

Collins does a very good job connecting the reader to the characters which i firmly believe is one of the most crucial elements in any book, and the most crucial element in a piece of fiction. when you care about the characters you care what happens to the characters and therefore become so engaged in the story you cant put the book down. this is what I felt reading Catching Fire.

Everything in this book is top notch, I rate it 4 stars because of the writing quality. i found myself having to re-read paragraphs to really understand, and with so many important characters running around (24 tributes that include the two main characters, than the mentors, family, and lovers of the main characters, and a couple others) the people get jumbled and I found that sometimes I had to flip back a few pages to remember who these people were and what districts they are from.

all in all a highly recommended read, I've already acquired the third and final book int he trilogy and cant wait to read it.

New years Homicide

I want to first wish every one a belated Merry Christmas and a very happy new year! I hope this coming year will be a great one; there are lots of things to look forward too!

2011 has been one of the best years so far, so many great things happened to me and I am extremely thankful. There were set backs too, especially with my academy applications, but obstacles were made to be overcome.  And I will overcome.

New years resolution: this WILL be the year I'm accepted >:D

On to the horrible news. Talk about an awful way to start a new year. On new years night, about 11:00 pm I herd news of a homicide in Tucson. This is horrible and my whole family felt bad, the boy was only 17 and his parents were out of town so that makes it really hard on them too, we said a prayer for the family and just went home. Then this morning when I watched the news report about it I found out the boy went to my school for one year (he was a freshmen when I was a sophomore) before he switched to a catholic school. That’s when I found out the boys name, Carlos Sandoval, and I realized, that’s my Neighbor. His family along with two other brothers lives two houses down from mine. I couldn’t believe it. I still can’t believe it. I don’t want to believe it. In my own neighborhood just two houses down a family lost their son to a homicide.  I feel awful for the family and I'm thinking of delivering flowers or something. I feel like I have to do something for the family, it must be so hard. I cant even imagine.

Just in case you are interested you can read the news article and watch the video report here:

http://www.kgun9.com/news/136511883.html