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By Nilay Patel 
posted January 9th 2008 2:55PM
posted January 9th 2008 2:55PM
posted January 9th 2008 2:55PM
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Veronica Belmont, you are the sweetest tech reporter i've ever seen!
Best regards from Potugal!
Does Veronica's ridiculous placement on Engadget have anything to do w/ actually being the girlfriend of Ryan Block. We get it Ryan, you love your girl, but try to cover someone else at CES.
I like tomboys... With girly girls, sometimes it just seems like they're not completely genuine. You feel like there's a real person deep on the inside, but it's all covered in girliness and makeup. Its when they fall in love with you that you see what they really are, and that's when the trouble starts.
I don't mind all the Veronica posts.. But seriously, does every summary have to introduce her as "Mahalo Daily's Veronica Belmont?" Its the same audience reading every post, we know who she is already and its just gotten beyond annoying.
@Ethan - It's called advertising. :)
guys, as the other Token Female at Engadget may i present you with the astounding true fact that Veronica Belmont already had a successful tech career long before meeting Mr. Ryan Block? I suppose you could have looked it up but then, making assumptions based on gender is so much easier, isn't it?
I'm sorry barb. My maleness must be getting in the way of me understanding your statement. Did any of the posts before yours question her successful tech career? I think most of us have heard of her and none of us question her "abilities." Well, you were the only one to question it.
Look at the facts: she has a successful tech career, she is an engadget editor's boyfriend, and i cannot remember at any time in engadget history where there was such fascination (by the editors or the readers) with one teach reporter. So, it is a reasonable conclusion that she is getting all this exposure at engadget because she is someone's boyfriend. Before you get all feminist on me, I bet Veronica and her man are probably at CES together in the same hotel room. Can just anyone with a successful tech career sleep in the same room as an engadget editor?
You are worse than those heterosexual males who are hootin and hollarin over Veronica. Putting words in men's mouths so that you can make a self-serving statement. Seems like you are the only one operating under gender assumptions.
In other news, when did Giordi La Forge get boobs? Its his eyes that needed the work.
Yes Veronica is extremely cute and has a background in this thing, but I cannot say that I like her reporting of CES.
First off, she has to lose the giant microphone - its completely unnecessary and constantly gets in the way of her demonstrating gadgets, which is what this is supposed to be about - get a wireless lavalier and take out a small hand mic only when someone else needs to talk.
She is also covering stuff very superficially like a local news reporter would, not a gadget blogger. And yes the constant bylining is completely unnecessary and annoying. Finally, the casual attire is ok for the audience but please at least take off your backpack.
By covering stuff superficially, a perfect example is this post - the whole reason she is there is to get the story, not reiterate the press release. She needed to actually *put these glasses on* in the video and *tell us what she thought of them* - not just pick them up and give us pricing, specs, and availability - thats phoning it in.
@larcen007: the only people who could read your statement and conclude there are no gender assumptions in it are the people who've never had to deal with any of these issues. in the same breath you claim "it's natural to conclude a female reporter got there because she's the girlfriend, not because she knows tech" and imagine that there are no gender assumptions in that... really?
if we had brought on an "outside" male reporter to do all of our CES video this year, no one would have questioned it. no one.
LOL! Make a pair that with a camera mounted on them for night vision and infrared, and they've got a sale (if they improve the style).
That would be nice but very expensive! And it might also atract the US military dpt.
Might be dorky, but you are still hot wearing them.
Cool T-shirt though!
Come on, guys. Can we just stop commenting about Veronica and focus on the gear?
Re: "gear" - perhaps I'm still living in 2002. :-)
*falls down laughing* No wait, you said that with a straight face. *picks himself up, slaps knee* Thats a good one.
Granted. Her newscasting, the one or two segments that I bothered watching, comes across clean, but for gods sake, either you are gay, a 'best friend', or whipped beyond belief, that you won't appreciate the looks of a woman. Regardless of their position/affiliation/etc.
"You know how I know you're gay?"
Nice sweeping bang Belmont!
I think Belmont is trying to take over Engadget.
Sure she's cute but I think she's getting a little too much space now. On every pictures she dominates the product. Or is engadget on a mission to increase the number or visitors by using her as a mascot?
Its either seeing her or seeing Ryan's bald head every time. Choice is yours.
I dont care! Having tech news spoken by a prety girl is a bonus for visiting this blog.
Keep going!
Congrats to the boyfriend ^^
I think she does a pretty good job reporting, whats wrong with looking good while doing it?
She looks too good...
the hard fact is that sunglasses manufacturers have a hard enough time making normal sunglasses that don't make you look like a douche. they fail often. what chance do gadget glasses have?
I will blend with her.
Anyone still surprised that there are rather few girls in the tech blogging scene?
Your subtlety, circuitous rhetoric and registration of mild disgust are wasted on these inane comments, such as my own. Save the heady discourse for Mefi.
Sigh.
This is getting ridiculous. I can't even see the friggin glasses in the first pic. Here's an idea - zoom in or move closer to the product when you photograph it.
This pic is all boobs. How about highlighting the product and not the "reporter."
Next up, disturbing first pictures of "iPhone2" in front of Ryan's crotch.
Well? How do they look? Is the VGA crisp? Did they fix the flicker/glare issue? Sure, they are smaller than the previous generations but what ABOUT them?
PS. Anyone else notice that the pictures we are seeing are not exactly "pro-quality" photos? Someone using their non-white-balanced cellphone for CES reporting? Yeuch.
Hey! It's Geordi LaForge!!
wait. people are actually talking about the girl?
you know there are lots of girls right? Like, outside?
What is this outside that you speak of?
id really like some VGA display glasses but how to connect them to a general purpose linux computer? ideally a gumstix, but something larger would be okay. an EEE pc?
Put Yo Stuna Shades On.
Mrs. La Forge! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geordi_La_Forge)
OK, we get it.. she's hot. my wife is hotter. so now, please, will you focus on the damn gadgets instead?!
Also, for those of us who cant watch any of the videos at the moment, can you at least TRY to include some of the gadget specs in the text of the posts?
Quality > Quantitty
Try clicking on the links in the post -- we're covering all this stuff just as in-depth as always.
palehorse:"Quality > Quantitty"
Freudian?
@Decypher... what do you think? ;)
I LOVE YOU VERONICA! MARRY ME!
I agree that Veronica is attractive, but is there any reason why she keeps getting frequently posted on Engadget? Yes, she is Ryan's GF, but doesn't she have her own site? Why the need to continually cross promote?
I personally don't mind seeing Veronica in all the videos that have been posted here. Who cares if she has her own site, or who she's dating.
I enjoy a nice little video in between all the white page posts with pictures.
And the girl is trying to provide information. Don't like it? Don't click on it. Maaan... never thought I'd see the day where guys complain about an attractive girl discussing gadgets.
Veronica Belmont is such a cutie!
This Belmont character is Ryan's girlfriend.
The problem with this gear is the cheap censured look you get wearing them.
I LOVE YOU VERONICA