CES 2010 Wrap-up – Looking to our Future

Cooling & storage

CoolIT Systems, a leader in advanced liquid cooling technology, announced 4 new products at CES.  The pointed out how easy it was to cool the CPU, but a GPU took more work and the willingness of the end user to void the manufacturer’s warranty.  The chief advantage of liquid cooling over the highest end air coolers is that the liquid cooled systems are quieter.

Here they showed the difference between the typical do-it-yourself components and their complete kit.

Memory, harddrives, storage and PSUs

Memory and storage was featured along with power supply units.

Making the drives portable and smaller and smaller appears to be the manufacturers’ goal.

Kingston showed off their insane 24 GB of RAM installed in this PC at Pole Position – an off-CES overclocking event – and another PC with 36 GB !

What about those Red Kingston heads, the company logo?  The Kingston represetative gave me a plastic one and a story to go with it when I asked him about them and if they were in anyway connected to the Easter Island statues.  Nope.  It is evidently not the first time he heard this comparison and so he finally set the record straight.  When Kingston wanted some advertising quite a few years ago, they got someone to design a man with his head open at a hinge and memory being put in.  Well, eventually the top half of the head disappeared as Kingston branched out into hundreds of products and became a successful multi-billion dollar company.  Please note that although some recent images show the Kingston man’s eyes glowing, it is for the gamers.  Kingston still has the same open-minded red man as their logo.