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It’s so cool…it’s evil

Matt Nichols

January 5th, 2010
by Matt Nichols


Well, it wasn’t easy. Dealing with a fictitious villain.  During our tense meeting atop the Space Needle in Seattle, the opening conversation went something like this:

Dr. Evil: You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have pico projectors with frickin’ laser beams! My cycloptic colleague informs me that that cannot be done. Ah, would you remind me what I pay you people for, honestly? Throw me a bone here! What do we have?
Me: Microvision
Dr. Evil: Are they ill tempered?
Me: Absolutely.
Dr. Evil: Oh well, that’s a start.

Within a few hours, the deal was sealed. We had convinced the nemesis of a swingin’ movie spy to send his bald-headed, gray-tunicked and facially-scarred (but oddly alluring) double to Las Vegas to help represent our SHOWWX laser, yes LASER, pico projector as it vies for the title of “Last Gadget Standing” at the Consumer Electronics Show.

Unfortunately, the famous Dr. Evil could not be persuaded to make his sidekicks and henchmen part of the agreement, so that’s where you, dear Displayground readers, come in. If you’ll be in Las Vegas this week, raise your pinky finger — as well as the rest of your hand — to help Dr. Evil crown our SHOWWX the “Last Gadget Standing” on Saturday, 10:30 a.m., Jan. 9, in Room N255-257, in the Las Vegas Convention Center’s North Hall.

And if you can’t join for the “Last Gadget Standing” finale, then the Dr. will also be visiting at the Microvision booth on the show floor. You’ll find ‘him,’ and the SHOWWX team from Microvision, at Booth #3617, LVCC North Hall during show hours, Thursday-Saturday.

As the good Dr. says about the SHOWWX, “It’s so cool, it’s evil!”

Stay tuned for more posts coming from CES and Las Vegas.


This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 at 11:35 am and is filed under SHOWWX, Tradeshows.
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4 Responses to “It’s so cool…it’s evil”

  1. Seriously???

  2. Tom Bent Says:

    What will be different at this years CES compared to last year? Is the Show wx model the exact same as last year? What else does the company have to show off after another full year of being able to apply their great tech?

  3. Ryan Says:

    Good luck, you have my vote! And nice work on the how-to-connect videos!

  4. Ed Eschmann Says:

    really now, you wasted your time writing and my time reading this post, for now anyway. I hope there is something more to this particular blog post than meets the eye or something that follows it up, becasuse if not, it is just an embarrassment to Microvision to have it on their website (or am I missing something here?).