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A Video Smorgasbord From the Churchill Club's "Sixth Annual What's Hot and What's Not in Personal Technology"

Last night, Walt Mossberg and I hosted yet another annual “What’s Hot and What’s Not in Personal Technology” event for the Churchill Club.

A brief rundown of the Palo Alto gadgetfest show-and-tell: An animatronic singing Elvis freaked out my No. 1 son, Louie, who played an excellent Luke Skywalker/gadget boy for my presentation; our guest gadget geek was Twitter Co-Founder and CEO Evan Williams, who was a delight with a mini-helicopter, a flat-screen reader and a wry wit; Walt showed off the new Blackberry Storm from RIM (RIMM), the alleged Apple (AAPL) iPhone killer (maybe not so much), as well as a fuel cell and more; and our crazy gadget maven, Greg Harper, co-founder of Gadgetoff, went perfectly insane with everything from tiny projectors to a creepy probe to minicellphone towers to USB ties and eyepads.

It was a lot of fun with a packed crowd, even in this econalypse-impacting Silicon Valley.

Here is a rather longish video, which is well worth watching. Yes, BoomTown is–along with Louie and Elvis–wearing a Yahoo (YHOO) hat.

Here’s the video:

[Photo courtesy of Dan Farber of CNET.]


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  • http://www.DickCarlson.com dick carlson

    It’s amazing to see that many people showing up to see new toys — I wonder if Walt’s right and they’re not actually buying, or if maybe the economy isn’t as bad as we’re hearing.

    I just bought some new toys for myself, but I didn’t wrap them.

  • Sam Harrison

    please stop using the word “econalypse” — you overuse the word (look at your articles the past month). Every one…it was a fresh word but now sounds like lazy writing.

  • http://kara.allthingsd.com Kara Swisher

    S:

    Lighten up, Sam!

    (Plus, now what will I do, since I got it tattooed on me.)

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