Adrian Grenier at CES 2011

We had a blast at the first day of CES. We started with picking up our press passes and running over to catch Adrian Grenier (Vinne Chase of Entourage) at the Blackberry booth. Adrian has made a few documentaries lately and told us about SWFT, an environmental organization and without a doubt, he was the best thing I saw at CES.

Later we ran into tech guru and one of my original mentors, Mr. John Dvorak himself at the Verizon booth. John’s current endeavor, is No Agenda Show. He doesn’t have his name on his badge so keep an eye out for him! He was with Dave of CoolHotNot.

We liked the robots, see our video – there were dancing robots, cleaning robots and pet robots.

Lately we both keep losing our Blue tooth headsets, so we really liked Peter Fish’s blue tooth bracelets and ear buds, which hang around your neck for runners, super cool. They are trying to get a deal with Walgreens and I think they’d do well there.

We checked out Earth 911’s platform of users searching for recycling centers and I loudly noted that there wasn’t much activity in Texas, hint hint.

While checking out some small scale wind turbines, we bumped into the LA leader of the Keiretsu Forum, an angel investment group which was started by my friend Randy Williams ten years ago in the Bay area.

Later we met up with Aly Saxe a former employee of LAUNCH who’s now got her own successful tech pr shop, Ubiquity PR. She represents Pat Sullivan’s “multi-touch, interactive or motion graphics content” FlyPaper and Aly tells me big things are in store.  So proud of her!

Finally we wound up with the coolest executive at Verizon, my old coworker Rachelle Zoffer at the now legendary Method party. Method is doing some exciting projects with Google and an automotive biz, we’ll be keeping an eye on them and meeting up with cofounder David this Spring at the TED Conference. Check them out and tell them launch flix sent you.

Off to Day 2!