CES Was Full of Useless Robots and Machines That Don’t Work

Re:CES Was Full of Useless Robots and Machines That Don’t Work by dkersten on Monday January 15, 2018 @05:16AM (#16149668)

He can be the nicest and most driven guy in the world, that doesn’t change whether or not his product is any good.

You wouldn’t buy, say, a car that only got half the mileage or whatever just because there’s a human story behind it. There’s a human story behind almost everything.

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Re:CES Was Full of Useless Robots and Machines That Don’t Work by tragomaskhalos on Monday January 15, 2018 @05:57AM (#16149797)

I don't know if there's an equivalent in the US, but here in the UK we have a TV programme "Dragons' Den" where people pitch their business ideas - which are usually invention-based - to a panel of potential investors.

Easily the most intriguing aspect of the show is discovering the often inordinate amount of time, energy and money that the candidates have invested in what, to the disinterested outsider, appears to be a completely mad and unworkable idea: the potentially destructive power of human determination.

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Re:CES Was Full of Useless Robots and Machines That Don’t Work by dkersten on Monday January 15, 2018 @06:03AM (#16149813)

Dragons Den exists in the US (and Canada) too, I believe. There’s also Shark Tank. I quite enjoy watching Dragons Den (and Shark Tank on youtube).

I agree with your second paragraph completely. I also totally undrestand it, having cofounded startups myself in the past. You get tunnel vision.

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Re:CES Was Full of Useless Robots and Machines That Don’t Work by SmellyGeekBoy on Monday January 15, 2018 @06:50AM (#16149947)

"Shark Tank" is what "Dragons' Den" is known as outside of the UK. It's the same show.

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Re:CES Was Full of Useless Robots and Machines That Don’t Work by dkersten on Monday January 15, 2018 @11:58AM (#16151685)

Ahhhh! Thanks for the correction.

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