Yeah, although $1500 isn’t a killer, but $1k is better, and yours is the first thing I’ve hear about their solvency issues.

I’d be paying for the size and flexibility, but no, for that price i may as well get the little sony lightweight, I guess you would be right.

Actually, right above it in my post, Redfly seems more practical, and that little Noah Pad above that was really cool too, both under $600.

You claim “it’s a non-existent product which is being used to promote a stock scam”, but you’re questioning MY credibility for merely REPORTING that I saw something I thought was cool at CES? Are you kidding me?

How do you know this potentially libelous “fact”? Or, did you just work there and get fired for something you feel was unjust, and this is all you can do to get back at them?

Call me a dreamer, but I think I’ll prefer to believe that the product I saw was “real” until some facts show me otherwise.

I do expect I’ll get a letter from them or their attorney to take this post down at some point in the future, so I’m not going to spend much more time on it, but I’m curious how you might back up your claim?

However, Seamless is not a start-up showing off a prototype. It’s a company that has a long track record of announcing products, services, acquistions and mergers which never happen. It is also a publicly traded company which increased its outstanding shares nearly 5-fold since the last CES when they debuted the S-XGEN, using ‘progress’ in the development and production as the fodder for PRs promoting the company.

They made a big deal about doing a production deal in China, and developing distributor relationships, and receiving 1000’s of pre-orders, and then never shipped anything. All the distributors they had lined up have gone away. A year later, they don’t appear to be any nearer to delivering. It’s not a product — just vapor-hardware.

I would think your credibility would be affected if you pump a non-existent product which is being used to promote a stock scam. They take your coverage (and techgage’s) and turn it into PRs which generate interest in the stock.

As far as ‘affording’ CES, they have always managed to come up with a few thousands to promote the stock. Just not the hundreds of thousands needed to complete production.

Look carefully at the technology here — the processor, the OS. Do you really think it’s $1400 cool? How about $1000 cool? How much are you going to drop on a product like this from a company with no resources to stand behind the product (tech support, warranty)?

What price did they tell you? Perhaps something like ‘pricing is still under development’.

Maybe some sort of USB device might allow you to wave your arms around and voice activation to control your desktop, like that old IBM commercial?

@Anonymous - Thanks for commenting on the Xgen - I guess. Yes I did know that it was not available for sale yet, as are many things still in the conceptual stage that are shown at CES.

I had no idea that they were “insolvent”, and I wonder how they afforded the booth at CES.

Yes I did know they showed it last year in even earlier conceptual stage, and yes I do know that they never shipped.

Personally I would rather they wait until it’s done right than ship too early, like Windows Vista or countless PC video games that need to be “patched” because they released them according to some marketing department deadline.

I’m really not clear how it hurts my credibility by reporting what I saw, and that I think it was cool, and I STILL want one when (and if) it becomes available.

You sound like you have more insight into the inner workings of the company and I’d love to hear more, if you’d care to share…

Or to the fact that the company making it is insolvent (a few hundred dollars cash in the bank and liabilities in the million$) with 3 employees?

Or to the fact that they showed the exact same unit at last year’s CES, got a fair amount of media hype, and then never shipped any products?