It's all over the news: "Toyota recalls millions of cars with faulty gas pedals which may get stuck in the acceleration position." It's been plastered nonstop on the news, talk shows, etc. and everyone's spewing this doom and gloom attitude over it. Nobody's talking about how the Pontiac Vibe has the same recall, and Honda quietly announced a recall of their own. Recalls happen all the time, and it's a very responsible action to take to make a recall of such proportions. Why is nobody talking about how noble it is that Toyota is voluntarily doing this recall, and how its dealerships are preparing to stay open late to do the repairs? I see this as normal and expected, if not overdue for Toyota. Why do I say this? I'm no fanboy of Toyota. I've owned Ford, Saturn, Honda, Dodge, and now a Scion, which is made by Toyota.

For decades, Toyota has been a beacon of high quality, reliable vehicles. In my memory, I can't remember a single recall I've heard of for Toyota products. Hence, for years I've heard people say "Yeah, those Toyota's are built right. Great quality cars!" And I have the firm belief that because people generally hold this high regard for the quality of their vehicles, the reason it's big news when they announce such a recall is because of this virtually spotless reputation they hold. We hear about recalls all the time from GM products, but does it make the news like this? No, because we expect recalls from GM because we all know they skimp on the R&D and pump out substandard products. I guarantee if this were to happen with GM, it wouldn't be such a huge deal in the news.

I was listening to NPR's Marketplace show last night, and there was a guest interviewed on there saying that generally it will take a decade for a carmaker to rebound from a recall like this, and a full generation of people to really get past it fully. I think statements like that are alarmist, and have if repeated enough, have the possibility of becoming a self-fulfilling propehcy. People are spouting this kind of information left and right, but I'm not hearing any argument FOR Toyota on this. They subcontract out most of their parts, and have been doing-so for over a decade and a half. It's worked well for them, and all of a sudden, one slipup on something very simple, according to all these pundits, spells doom and gloom for them. I've not heard a single one of those pundits say that Toytota is handling the situation in a responsible and punctual manner, which is exactly what they are doing from what I'm hearing. In my opinion, I think they are handling the situation just fine, and because of this, my trust in their products has only wavered only a tiny bit. I will still seriously consider their products when it comes time to replace my current cars.

I think what has happened here is a media blitz of undeserved and overwhelming negativity. Unfortunately, this kind of thing is not something that Toyota has any control over. They are doing exactly what they are supposed to do.

In the end, if you own a Toyota, continue driving it. You have a higher chance of getting struck by lightning on a sunny day than your gas pedal getting stuck. Pay no attention to the media blitz. They are just riding the wave of profits due to boosted ratings due to this unfortunate turn of events from this undeserving car maker's bad luck.

This is the last day for Ninjalane to stay in Vegas. So we decided to hit the town with some good old Adult entertainment. We trekked on over to the AEE for a special press day at the show. This allowed for more time to see everything, but less porn stars were on the floor. That is still okay for it was just as fun to talk to the more normal girls and get some video footage as well as pics.

This is the conclusion of the CES 2010 blog for Ninjalane. I hope you enjoyed it and you read up on all of the stuff on CES and the AEE show on the main site of Ninjalane. We enjoyed covering it and our tired bodies and blistered feet are glad it is over. Now we are just gearing up to hit CES next year. Before the CES 2011 happens Ninjalane hopes to get in on Computex 2010 coverage in as well.

This is the first day that we just woke up and said we are going straight to CES to look around CES. Plus we had a meeting with Intel, and we did not want to miss that at all. With a short shuttle ride to CES we were on the floor humping around to see it all. Going after Intel first off to have the meeting and to check out what was cooking at Intel at their huge booth.

Intel was on the ball with everything from some serious mobile gaming laptops to wireless video connection for your PC to HDTV. The coolest thing about that is the basic one button setup for that technologic marvel. Still even at Intel you could not escape the 3-D monster that was running wild at CES. Trust me it was everywhere and is a very cool experience to see as well.

After a great meeting we set out to see more of CES than the computer hardware side and looked at about everything else the show had to offer. With taking lots of photos of the sweet looking cars as we made our way through the show. Also we checked out the super thin UltraHDTVs as well with LED technology and 3-D Vision to top off the list. Very cool stuff with a price tag to make your heart jump a beat.

After hitting CES for a while we decided to make the adventure of putting on our porn press hats. The cool thing was that there is a bunch of new tech stuff at this show as well. The place was super crowded with porn stars like Ron Jeremy and Hollywood actors like Richard Dreyfuss. The show was packed with people and very tough to make your way through if not somewhat impossible. We survived it, but my picture and video taking abilities that day was limited to watching my feet. I was not happy to say the least, but I trucked on.

Here it is day 2 of CES in Las Vegas. Once again it was a day more dedicated to run from hotel to hotel than hanging in the halls of CES. Which is okay for the most part for the overall experience in meeting in the hotels is much more educational and much more intimate. There is always a twist to this though and that it eats up much of your day running from hotel to hotel. With us running into more and more editors wishing for the tech companies to pick one hotel for all of them to showcase in would make it much easier to deal with. I highly doubt that would ever happen.

First thing in the morning Ninjalane tracked across the Vegas Strip to meet up with Cooler Master in their hotel suite. The meeting took a little bit to get in for all of the miscommunications between the floor attendant, and Cooler Master. We did make it up to Cooler Master to start out the meeting. Cooler Master was able to show us the new V6 cooler with six heatpipes arranged in a V pattern to take advantage of the airflow and pressure from the fan. Then we also were able to look at the new CM690 II. The original CM690 was a very popular case that Cooler Master took notes on all of the modifications, and issues from customers as well to develop a much better case for the masses at a great price point. Plus we got to see some fun stuff that we cannot talk about.

Next up we went down stairs in the same hotel and visited OCZ Tech for an extremely brief hello. Since we had seen most of what OCZ had to offer at the party the night before the meeting was not going to fruit much new information for Ninjalane readers. We were able to see the new SSD drives and the new SSD Drives that are USB 3.0. Which these products were really most of the highlight to OCZ portfolio at the hotel suite they had.

The next hotel jump was to check out the super wild party attitude of Thermaltake. Very cool guys and some very neat products that they had on display benchmarking. They showed off a Zalman cooler against one of Thermaltakes much cheaper cooler in a head to head battle. Needless to say Thermaltake won and the Zalman got a big bad BSOD. Then we were able to take in a few new cases, and one very classic one that we all know the Level 10. They also loved showing the power and raw speed of USB 3.0 against USB 2.0 in data transfers. This was honestly a pretty amazing show of raw speed.

Then we jumped down a few floors and even got stuck in an elevator for about 20 minutes which was great for it helped eat up sometime before our Gigabyte meeting. At the Gigabyte meeting we took in the new H55 & H57 motherboard plus the USB 3.0 media blitz. The technology is awesome and deserving of the attention, but we at Ninjalane wanted more. So we even got lucky to check out a board that is not even out on the market yet. Talk about being stoked. Plus we were able to take in the new overclocked Graphic cards from them as well with some very kickass heatsinks. The amount of board and graphic cards that Gigabyte is pushing is very stunning as well, and the quality of the boards is excellent. Very cool stuff there.

We soon went across the street to check out MSI. The new Lucid Hydra chipset motherboard was very interesting to see. The lightening series video card is also very neat. Then after that we didn't get anything really new for the normal everyday Ninjalane reader.

Then after running around town checking out computer hardware it was time to play as tourist. We headed out onto the town with cameras in hand. Taking pictures of about everything that we could. Then we became very adventurous and set out to find the Fremont Street Experience. With the help of the internet, a monorail, and a cab ride we found it. Needless to say it was well worth the effort. With the neon signs from the old Vegas days and glass windows of stripper dancing on polls in front the poker tables this is truly Vegas. The light show over head in the canopy is quite the rush with KISS being shown on it and the hot lady bartenders hitting the bar tops. It took a while to wipe the smile off this happy tourist face.

The second day of the Vegas trip is the first day of CES 2010. This day was also the day for NVidia Press Conference. The show was interesting but really was geared more about the new Tegra 2 system with the relaunch of the Tablet PC with a more power chipset. More or less the Tegra 2 is making the ultimate Smart Phone and a dumb down tablet computer. For Ninjalane this is not really our market of interest so the show was neat, but we gained nothing in information. Most people were there to see the new Fermi(GF100) Graphics Cards, but was left flat on getting any real info. The technology that they were very proud of is still the 3-D gaming experience adding in the new 3-D Blu-ray Discs coming out soon as well. They were also proud to show they can have 3 monitor gaming setup much like the competition ATI. Still NVidia did push this idea one step further and added 3-D to that mix as well. It is gimmicky, and the 3-D Demo of the new game Avatar was cool to see. In the end we really came out with about nothing to seriously talk about for the show.

After the NVidia show it time to be off to go see the new dual socket EVGA classified that the net has been buzzing about. Needless to say it is real, and one monster sized motherboard. It is just for Xeon processor, but you can mix and match the processor or just run one processor. The power requirements for running this system at all is going to start at about a very respectable manufacture 1200Watt PSU. This is really a whole new area for EVGA to hit into a Server motherboard market and make an overclocking version. The interesting thing is they had no issues with getting it done. The form factor was there real concern more than anything. Lacking a lot of case that can handle this motherboard and still be under a grand is a tough situation for them. Looking about their other motherboards and video cards was neat and the Classified GTX285 is very cool for the volt modding geeks out there. EVGA has taken all of the work out of it and gives the end user a front row seat of just pushing the envelope of the GeForce GTX285. The EVBot is also a very cool toy that can hook right into a motherboard, and video cards from EVGA. The nice thing is that once you buy it you'll have it for a very long time. With easy firmware updates the EVBot is ready for all the newest motherboards and video cards to hit the market. This allows the EVBot to hold its value long into the future.

Hitting the floor at CES 2010 is fun and just shocking at how huge this show really is. We tried to stay in the South Hall for that has most of what Ninjalane and our reader interest is. The one thing to keep in mind is that this is more about consumer electronics then just computer hardware. So everything from TV's, Cell Phones, and lots of different computers equipment is on display. The one big thing I have noticed this year going from the NVidia Press Conference is 3-D is the next big push. HDTV's with new 3-D technology is everywhere. So this technology is moving on up to be in your living room someday. We found that we just did not have a ton of time to look through CES to much today. We did however stop by a few places just to check out what was going on.

A company that we do not usually talk about much here at Ninjalane that we did take some notice to at the show was CoolIT. With some new all in one cooling systems that was looking to hit back at the Corsair H50 was on display. They had a more performance driven cooler, and even an economy version for a less enthusiast crowd. The one thing that CoolIT had that did catch my attention was the video card cooler they just came out with that is geared to be a faster install not just to the graphics card, but also on just replacing the water blocks as well. This was pretty cool to see, but it still leaves some real testing in the Ninjalane labs before we can say it is worth buying.

The next place we hit was the Super Talent booth with all kinds of different memory types they sale. They had goofy USB Flash Drives that looked like about any kind of animal to some very cool SSD hard drives. The one that caught my attention was the actively cooled PCI-Express SSD Drive that looked awesome, but the price is like what we all know way to high for any normal person to spend. Still it was cool to check out. The next cool thing was the USB 3.0 SSD Hard Drive that Super Talent was very proud of. The drive is about the size of a regular SSD Drive. Something that might be tough to carry around in your pocket, but the speed should be incredible. This USB3.0 SSD drive would need to be tested at out Ninjalane labs to really give an honest review on it. Super Talent also had some RAM on display that sported that normal oversized heatsinks that look rather neat. Nothing really is earth shattering on the RAM front from Super Talent.

CES 2010 day one came to a close and it was time to hit the night life of Hardware manufactures parties. We started off by hitting the OCZ party that featured the one and only Fatal1ty. Plus lots and lots of products to show off as well with the main focus on the SSD Drives. Then we took down to a lower level and hit the Cooler Master party. This was a little more fun with some raffles going on and the Ninjalane team was the ultimate winners. Really everyone was a winner and it was a great time overall.