High-T show

I swear that I heard KT say that "the auntie show is starting today". That was last Thursday. So on Friday, we rushed lunch and headed off to Suntec for the $229 TDK Dual 8x DVD writer promotion at the IT show.


How much is that doggie?

Even at lunchtime there was a long queue for the star event of the show. Not entirely unexpected; the drive performed favourably for several reviews and was going cheep cheep with 10 free pieces of 4x speed DVD media, which in my books already makes $25 of the $229. The drive alone is currently retailing for about $300 at Sim Lim Sq.


Everyone wants a piece of the action


And I mean everyone

The line snaked back past a stall offering the Logitech QuickCam Orbit (renamed "Sphere" for the local market.. duh) for $279. Funky-style webcam with intelligent face tracking - so you can't duck out of the way during an embarassing moment anymore. Brilliant all the same, just blooming expensive. I should have bought some back from Vegas over new year and sold at profit.


Another hapless TeeDeeKay drone

Some of the back stalls featured case mods. The guitar-PC mod in the photo below was entered in a recent competition. Didn't win, but still scores on the cool factor.


Rock on!

An SFF case from MSI caught my eye, though I think it might have been the bottom-lit platform that it was sitting on.


Won't look amiss next to dad's hi-fi

And of course, the usual flurry of lookers and lookees (and quite a number of not-so-lookers, too) that end up at these exhibitions.


Some things change, some stay the same

Grabbed a pen freebie from MobileEdge and a mug from the eBay stall. Not too bad really, I wasn't expecting much in the way of freebies this time around. But it seems to have worked out. 'Specially the 45-minute wait for the TDK.